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**Official** New Zealand in Australia 2015

Tangles

Tangles

International Vice-Captain
Expected to wake up to a heavy scoreboard but damn. Kiwis rekt. How many drops were there other than the BJ Uzi one?
 
Meridio

Meridio

International Regular
Tangles said:
Expected to wake up to a heavy scoreboard but damn. Kiwis rekt. How many drops were there other than the BJ Uzi one?
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One that I saw - Bracewell at fine leg off Warner IIRC. Was a top-edged hook, if Bracewell was right on the boundary he should have been able to catch it above head height and keep his balance; as it was he was a couple of metres in and had to jump to try and reach it, got both hands to it but palmed it over the boundary for six.
 
Spark

Spark

Global Moderator
Meridio said:
One that I saw - Bracewell at fine leg off Warner IIRC. Was a top-edged hook, if Bracewell was right on the boundary he should have been able to catch it above head height and keep his balance; as it was he was a couple of metres in and had to jump to try and reach it, got both hands to it but palmed it over the boundary for six.
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He didn't even palm it, it went straight between his hands, barely clipping his thumbs along the way. Was awful.
 
S

SteveNZ

Cricketer Of The Year
Niall said:
Yeah someone here said if it wasn't Boult he would not be in contention for the 2nd test last week and I agree. I understand why you gamble on him, but they got the call wrong and this is what management are paid good money to do is to get it right. He is an absolute passenger at the moment,
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I hear the sentiment, but we knew we couldn't go to Australia without him and win. I don't blame management one bit for selecting him. He got through overs for ND, took 5 (didn't he?) although as Kip said, got boofed by Wellington's lower order. As that quote said in the media, he'd never had 3 months off for injury before, he'd never had a back injury. He didn't know how it would feel over time. I bet he thought it would be fine in Australia and he'd charge in. It hasn't, he's been nervous. No blame necessary for mine, just bad timing.

I'm not at all happy with how we've bowled but sometimes you get on a flat one and great batsmen chew you up. Hopefully we'll learn how to bowl in these situations and be ready for Australia later in the summer.
 
S

SteveNZ

Cricketer Of The Year
Spark said:
They're being less obviously buffoonish thus far, no pizza discussions thus far and more actual cricket. Healy and Slater are still annoying as ****, though.
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IF there's ever an Usman Khawaja Test tons DVDs, this one will be ruined by Healy's god awful calling of it. There's a theory that Paul McCartney died and they replaced him with someone who looked like him, and that must've happened with Healy. No way the guy talking played 100 Tests.

I honestly don't get it. Brayshaw is about the best caller I've ever heard when he does AFL. Then he wanders into the CH9 box and becomes a jingoistic moron. Even Ian Smith today, it was like Brad McNamara jolted him with a cattle prod and told him to be Australian for 10 minutes.
 
Howsie

Howsie

International Captain
SteveNZ said:
I hear the sentiment, but we knew we couldn't go to Australia without him and win. I don't blame management one bit for selecting him. He got through overs for ND, took 5 (didn't he?) although as Kip said, got boofed by Wellington's lower order. As that quote said in the media, he'd never had 3 months off for injury before, he'd never had a back injury. He didn't know how it would feel over time. I bet he thought it would be fine in Australia and he'd charge in. It hasn't, he's been nervous. No blame necessary for mine, just bad timing.

I'm not at all happy with how we've bowled but sometimes you get on a flat one and great batsmen chew you up. Hopefully we'll learn how to bowl in these situations and be ready for Australia later in the summer.
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He broke his back when he was 19 mate, was out of the game for nigh on two years.
 
Gob

Gob

International Coach
interesting comparing Warner's and Smith's innings/100's ratio to some of the best

Warner-5.60
Smith-5.90

Tendulkar-6.45
Lara-6.82
Sangakkara-6.13
Kallis-6.22
Ponting-7

Early doors but could see both breaking some records in years to come. Kane travels at 7 btw
 
Tangles

Tangles

International Vice-Captain
Wtb a sporting pitch. Oh for the rose colored days of my youth where Brisbane seamed/swung, Perth was fast and bouncy and the SCG turned.
 
J

jonbrooks

International Debutant
Man, what sort of records could fall today? It's going to be epic for Warner that's for sure.

My predictions for Warner:
1) 310* at lunch
2) World record at tea time
3) Oz to declare at 650 odd with Warner finishing on 402*
 
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