*Official* Match 8 - Australia v New Zealand

[Prince EWS]

22 (45). lbw Watto.

He's on 22 (46) atm. Need to bring Watto on.

 

[Jono]

Out imo

 

[benchmark00]

Must be out.

 

[Himannv]

Is it just me who thinks Taylor is dire?

Never seen what all the fuss was about him.

 

[Prince EWS]

Haha I'm claiming that. 22 (47) and lbw is pretty ****ing close.

 

[salman85]

Thats 100% out.

Why waste a review.

 

[Nate]

Decent innings by How in the circumstance tbh.

Steve Smith, you champion. Atherton (?) been talking about how you bowl garbage all the time, prove him wrong asap.

 

[vcs]

22 (45). lbw Watto.

Gun.

 

[robinjr]

that's the flipper

 

[Nate]

The pitch doesn't look great for spin, but far out Krejza has bowled some unthreatening garbage.

 

[Jono]

Yeah not been impressed by Krezja today.

 

[Prince EWS]

Have seen two different people across the interwebs complain about NZ's scoring rate.

The World Cup is one of those events that bring out the part-time experts in droves.

 

[salman85]

Is it just me or does Smith have a similar action to Warne?

 

[Howsie]

Decent innings by How given he's averaged about 10 since his recall tbh.

 

[Prince EWS]

The pitch doesn't look great for spin, but far out Krejza has bowled some unthreatening garbage.

Yeah, he's bowled pretty accurately, but he's been dire. If Ponting wanted someone to bowl flat predictable crap outside off, he would've just brought Dussey on. He's on the team based on how he bowls for Tasmania in one day cricket and how he bowled for Australia and Australia A in India in both forms of the game; he needs to go back to that or he'll be completely ineffective here for the rest of the tournament. Disappointing.

 

[vcs]

Is it just me or does Smith have a similar action to Warne?

Just you TBH. They both bowl legspin, the similarities end there.

 

[Prince EWS]

Just you TBH. They both bowl legspin, the similarities end there.

Nah, his action actually is somewhat similar tbh.

 

[salman85]

Do players actually put some thought into if their action 'looks good'?Or is it all about if its effective or not?

That just hit me because both Smith and Tait don't have graceful actions.Lee has a cool action.Johnson's action is ok too.

 

[smash84]

Nah, his action actually is somewhat similar tbh.

The quality is as dissimilar as possible

 

[BoyBrumby]

The quality is as dissimilar as possible

Hardly. Warne was slightly more round armed, but they aren't a million miles away from each other.