**Official** New Zealand in Australia 2015

[Howsie]

this is a joke.

 

[Cabinet96]

Someone give Craig a hug.

 

[Bahnz]

You literally couldn't script it better. Everyone talks about how NZ used their reviews badly in the last test and it cost them, and they have to improve. Then next test they do the same ****ing thing. No one to blame but themselves and the umpires.

Fixed

 

[OverratedSanity]

Poor Craig

 

[TheJediBrah]

If Khawaja's playing missing and knicking Mark Craig in Perth, how's he gonna go against Ashwin and Harbhajan on a dustbowl in Mumbai?

 

[Spark]

Khawaja really is very loose - I'm not that confident about him going forward

It's more the fact that he isn't getting himself out at 30-40 (which is what he used to do) and has clearly improved his strike rotation (which he had none of before) that I like.

 

[Flem274*]

...and that's LBW too!

NZ gonna lose it here, probably in that "woe is me everything is going against me" mindset by this point. Which is kinda fair, the umpiring has been absolutely ****.

this will definitely test mccullums new "nice" thing. id have already long abandoned it because baz is a better bloke than me.

still i don't know how we've got that tag as a team when wagner, mitch m and mills love discussing every ball with the batsman.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

Hey we got a wicket cool

 

[adub]

It's more the fact that he isn't getting himself out at 30-40 (which is what he used to do) and has clearly improved his strike rotation (which he had none of before) that I like.

Yeah he's had a lot of luck today, but is doing a lot of things that will help make him lucky.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Warner's going to hole out on 99 imo

 

[Zinzan]

You literally couldn't script it better. Everyone talks about how NZ used their reviews badly in the last test and it cost them, and they have to improve. Then next test they do the same ****ing thing. No one to blame but themselves.

hard for craig. the haters already don't give him credit for england, sri lanka, UAE and west indies so he won't get much sympathy for that.

Haters aside, every bowler gets catches dropped off them. Craig was abysmal in Brisbane and was fortunate to get some cheap declaration wickets in the 2nd innings so things level out.

 

[Skyliner]

What a joke. The DRS system does not work. Why the hell can't the 3rd umpire review these decisions independently? A big nick not given is a howler, and everyone bags McCullum. What a load of rubbish. Warners one is taking all of the bail, and still the goofy DRS system has to back up the umpire, rather than the commonsense view which is that it was out. Howlers here, howlers there.
The series is a farce, stuffed by a crap system that backs rubbish umpiring.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Well played. Amazing batsman.

 

[adub]

Gravey

(y)

(same again second dig Dave)

 

[Spark]

Holy ****, did he just jump over the stumps?

 

[duffer]

David Warner, cricket's most over heel.

 

[Spark]

What a joke. The DRS system does not work. Why the hell can't the 3rd umpire review these decisions independently? A big nick not given is a howler, and everyone bags McCullum. What a load of rubbish. Warners one is taking all of the bail, and still the goofy DRS system has to back up the umpire, rather than the commonsense view which is that it was out. Howlers here, howlers there.
The series is a farce, stuffed by a crap system that backs rubbish umpiring.

 

[Cabinet96]

Second time Warner has hit three hundreds in three innings?

 

[morgieb]

What a joke. The DRS system does not work. Why the hell can't the 3rd umpire review these decisions independently? A big nick not given is a howler, and everyone bags McCullum. What a load of rubbish. Warners one is taking all of the bail, and still the goofy DRS system has to back up the umpire, rather than the commonsense view which is that it was out. Howlers here, howlers there.
The series is a farce, stuffed by a crap system that backs rubbish umpiring.

wahhhhhh

 

[Spark]

Second time Warner has hit three hundreds in three innings?

Yep. Cape Town + Abu Dhabi the last

15 centuries in 45 Tests is an astonishing conversion rate. Up there with the absolute top tier, I suspect.