*Official* Match 8 - Australia v New Zealand

[flibbertyjibber]

Done very well to get to 200, if Vettori can get it to 230ish then we may still have a decent game.

 

[salman85]

He doesn't have style,but he's mighty effective.230 very much on the cards now.Hell,they could even get to 250 if Vettori bats till the end.

 

[slugger]

prediction time

NZ 239/8 50 overs

 

[Burgey]

Smith and Krejza have bowled way too many overs given what's happened throughout the game. And I know it's probably due to the over-rates, but that makes it even worse.

If you're behind on the over-rates, hustle between balls and overs. If you do it early enough then it should be fine, and if you're still behind at the end then you just cop the **** for it and have a look at why it happened in the post-game review session. The over-rate rule wasn't brought in to dictate the captain's bowling plans; I'm sure the spectators would rather watch 45 overs of proper cricket than 50 overs of contrived crap. It's such a stupid way to get around it; it really grinds my gears. I'd rather see the whole team get life bans than see the captain panic and cheat his way through it with dishonest bowling changes.

Do you not think he'd have told them to do that? They've been through this that many times it's bloody ridiculous.

 

[benchmark00]

Cricket can be a very predictable beast at times.

 

[Flem274*]

Here comes the Southee slog with Vettori gone.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

Cheers for the jinxing guys.

 

[salman85]

There goes Vettori.And there goes a total of 230.

This will still be a good match IMO.I have a feeling Australia might struggle a bit if Watson goes early.

 

[Spark]

Looks like Clarke is captaining Ponting.

How so? (Not actually watching)

 

[Chewie]

There goes Vettori.And there goes a total of 230.

This will still be a good match IMO.I have a feeling Australia might struggle a bit if Watson goes early.

And here comes 250 with Southee getting 40 (20)

 

[Chewie]

or not.

 

[Nate]

And the pacemen finish it off. Can only assume Ponting wanted to give the spinners some time in the middle.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

Hate anticlimactic endings. Credit to the Oz bowlers, credit to Mccullum and Dan for pushing us to 200. It's not enough with our bowling though.

 

[smash84]

206...........this is worse than WI's 222 against SL

 

[flibbertyjibber]

From 73-6 you'd have ripped someones arm off for 206 but to lose 2 wickets like that at the end with 5 overs left then they may feel they have underperformed. If they had just batted out picking up 5 an over then they would have had a decent total, as it is Australia should win this easily on a decent batting track.

 

[Spark]

Should've finished them off way earlier.

 

[salman85]

How so? (Not actually watching)

They had the Camera on them for a bit.Ponting looked out at sea and Clarke was doing all the animated talking.

And here comes 250 with Southee getting 40 (20)

There's always 2015

 

[TumTum]

Typical from NZ, collapsing early and later resurrecting the innings.

 

[salman85]

Maybe Australia will get lost in the awfulness of how awful Benett's action is and accept defeat because the awfulness is a bit too much.

 

[M0rphin3]

Nah I'd definitely play him anyway, but that might just be because I'm massively biased towards him. He bowled well against Zimbabwe IMO. Just needs to get his head right and appreciate his role better.

Yeah. Surely is a massive turner of the ball and can do well in SL etc hopefully.