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**Official** New Zealand in Australia 2015

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It's funny how australia is considered by many(including myself for a long time) to be a place that provides alot of assistance for seamers, but after watching the india series and this one, im no longer sure that australia is that much better than the subcontinent.
 
Spikey

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Skyliner said:
Crap like "earning the right to be aggressive" and "playing our style of cricket" is pretty puke making. Just buzz words and fey claptrap. There's only two styles of cricket: winning and losing.
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theres actually three it's called being prepared to lose to win it
 
OverratedSanity

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test cricketer said:
It's funny how australia is considered by many(including myself for a long time) to be a place that provides alot of assistance for seamers, but after watching the india series and this one, im no longer sure that australia is that much better than the subcontinent.
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It's far far worse and has been for a while.
 
Jono

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test cricketer said:
It's funny how australia is considered by many(including myself for a long time) to be a place that provides alot of assistance for seamers, but after watching the india series and this one, im no longer sure that australia is that much better than the subcontinent.
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Been a myth for yonks
 
Spark

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test cricketer said:
It's funny how australia is considered by many(including myself for a long time) to be a place that provides alot of assistance for seamers, but after watching the india series and this one, im no longer sure that australia is that much better than the subcontinent.
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Australia has always been flat. It's just that certain bowlers can rely on the bounce alone to enhance their natural attributes to get cricket.

That, and Australian teams are generally good at bowling.
 
Spark

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Mohandas Menon @mohanstatsman
Most runs on 1st day in Tests
309 D Bradman in 1930
244 Bradman in 1934
244 D Warner today��
228 H Gibbs in 2003
228 V Sehwag in 2004
#AusvNZ
 
Cabinet96

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test cricketer said:
It's funny how australia is considered by many(including myself for a long time) to be a place that provides alot of assistance for seamers, but after watching the india series and this one, im no longer sure that australia is that much better than the subcontinent.
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In the last four seasons the only bowling side that really has had consistent success was the 13/14 Australian one. South Africa, England, New Zealand and slightly worse Australian attacks have all really struggled at times.
 
Compton

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Smith should take Waugh's example and just let Warner bat for as long as he can. See if he can reach Hayden's best and Aus stick 700+ on the board.

You may as well be the team scoring the runs while the deck is offering nothing.
 
flibbertyjibber

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Well played Warner. If he can get through the opening half hour in the morning by the time I get up tomorrow we may have a new record score in test cricket. Hope he does it.

Dismal day for NZ, one they will want to forget about very quickly.
 
Skyliner

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Even if Australia set us 800 to win off 30 overs, you'll hear crap about how the BC's are confident they can chase it down, then our last 4 will throw their wickets away playing loosely with the end of the day in sight.
 
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Spark

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Compton said:
Smith should take Waugh's example and just let Warner bat for as long as he can. See if he can reach Hayden's best and Aus stick 700+ on the board.

You may as well be the team scoring the runs while the deck is offering nothing.
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Yep. Really need to get rid of this stupidity wrt early 1st innings declarations.

Cabinet96 said:
People had a massive waaaahhh about the recent Abu Dhabi test, but at least sides could build some pressure on that. At times the quicker nature of the Aus pitches just kills the bowling attack rather than helping it.
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Bounce and pace just accentuates everything though. Bowl **** and you'll get even worse results, bowl better and you're much more likely to get wickets.
 
Jono

Jono

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Skyliner said:
Even if Australia set us 800 to win off 30 overs, you'll hear crap about how the BC's are confident they can chase it down, then our last 4 will throw their wickets away playing loosely with the end of the 5th day in sight.
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Don't think you're getting to day 5 tbh
 
ajdude

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why the **** did they start this test on a Friday? gonna pray for a washout tomorrow, I wanna watch The Davey Train
 
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