6th Match - New Zealand v Scotland

[jonbrooks]

LOL, and not the most convincing way of winning the game either. Went just over first slips head.

 

[Grasshopper]

Flush the dunny and move on.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Irish batting and Scottish bowling would be a decent side.

 

[smash84]

wow....nice finish from scotland

 

[anil1405]

The pitch didn't seem to be as batsman friendly as it was predicted to be.

 

[Zinzan]

Not ideal in terms of the number of wickets lost, but in NZ's defense, the points table cares about run-rate & not number of wickets lost.

They obviously wanted to finish it as quickly as possible rather than a slow 8 wicket win.

 

[Dick Rockett]

Rubbish batting from NZ. What was all that about not being complacent again?

 

[_Ed_]

The pitch didn't seem to be as batsman friendly as it was predicted to be.

For sure. I always love games on a juicy pitch. A few more of those in this tournament, please.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

Rubbish batting from NZ. What was all that about not being complacent again?

They were playing for NRR, probably a little bit too much. Different to complacency imo.

 

[Zinzan]

Rubbish batting from NZ. What was all that about not being complacent again?

Nah chill, it's not the first time a good sporting side loses concentration a tad against a slightly lesser team when faced with an easy task. Even the All Blacks do it at times.

And as I just mentioned, it was more important to compromise wickets a little to get the NRR up, even if it was 3-4 worse than ideal.

 

[_Ed_]

So now it's almost exactly 24 hours until the next game starts! That's ages. I want more now. Now, now, now.

World Cup addiction has set in.

 

[hendrix]

Isa Guha

what's up gurl?

 

[Prince EWS]

Irish batting and Scottish bowling would be a decent side.

Should go the CricSim route and form a Celtic Nations side obviously.

 

[anil1405]

Cricinfo shows fixed venues for QF but NZ would be playing their QF at home irrespective of where they finish right?

 

[bill8164]

Cricinfo shows fixed venues for QF but NZ would be playing their QF at home irrespective of where they finish right?

Absolutely, if NZ makes the quarter finals, they will be at Wellington. Just like if Australia makes it, they will be at Adelaide.

 

[_Ed_]

Yeah, and if NZ reach the semis they'll play in Auckland.

 

[Hurricane]

All credit for this victory goes to hesson. If he had rested any of our top bowlers we may have lost this game net run rate explanation notwithstanding

 

[OverratedSanity]

Isa Guha

what's up gurl?

Gawd I love her

 

[Hurricane]

Should go the CricSim route and form a Celtic Nations side obviously.

This is my pet theory - it works for the West Indies or used to anyway before their decline. As well as the Celtic nations I would join several other countries together. It sounds fanciful and the logistics would have to be worked on but it the expansion to bangers and zimbos as individual nations hasn't worked so we should explore other options to grow the game globally.

I would expand test cricket to 12 teams as follows

Top eight teams
Ireland/Scotland
Bangladesh/Afghanistan
Zimbos/Kenya (if Kenya have anyone decent left)
Usa/Canada (most players would come from Canada and this would be the weakest team but we need to grow cricket in North america)

 

[Burgey]

What about Netherlands & Denmark joining with Scotland and Ireland to make a Western Europe-type team?