**Official** New Zealand in Australia 2015

[OverratedSanity]

This is one of the best wicketless spells I've seen in a long time. Scary.

Edit: Dammit Riggins

 

[Cabinet96]

Someone should definitely do a that's how he plays drinking game. I would but it would mean I'd get drunk before 9am and I have a ton of work to do today.

 

[Athlai]

This is why they need to sort out these Australian balls. Whatever they use in NZ and England is what we need.

srs?

 

[Spark]

This is why they need to sort out these Australian balls. Whatever they use in NZ and England is what we need.

You mean... the same balls?

Definitely in favour of looking at a switch to the Duke ball, though.

 

[Riggins]

When are we going to have a serious discussion about reducing the 80 overs between new balls.

This is great cricket right now

Thats a really good point I haven't seen mentioned before

 

[wellAlbidarned]

There are two other spells that come to mind:

1) Lee at the waca in 2001/02. Bowled a ball to Parore that hit his bat about halfway through his backswing.

2) Akhtar in 2003/04 when he skittled us for 90 on the roadiest road you'll ever see.

lee at eden park against papps?

 

[Daemon]

I really doubt it's related but we ordered two batches of kookaburra regulation this season for training and the seam fell apart for the first 2 we used after about 10 overs. Stopped using them after that and sent some pictures back to the retailer and he hasn't got back to us (probably won't ever) so we just assumed we were scammed and these were fakes made in Pakistan or something.

 

[OverratedSanity]

There are two other spells that come to mind:

1) Lee at the waca in 2001/02. Bowled a ball to Parore that hit his bat about halfway through his backswing.

2) Akhtar in 2003/04 when he skittled us for 90 on the roadiest road you'll ever see.

Akhtar vs Aus in Colombo.

 

[Spikey]

Thats a really good point I haven't seen mentioned before

i'm so pumped up i cant tell if riggins is being sarcastic here

 

[Spark]

Really can't see anyone batting out a full 5th day if those cracks open up.

 

[mr_mister]

I just know Warner woulda snatched up both chances dropped off Starcy

 

[Bahnz]

it's the difference in pace between say josh hazlewood right now and craig mcmillan

Nah, Macca could whip it down at 125 in his prime more like Hazlewood v Astle.

 

[Spark]

I really doubt it's related but we ordered two batches of kookaburra regulation this season for training and the seam fell apart for the first 2 we used after about 10 overs. Stopped using them after that and sent some pictures back to the retailer and he hasn't got back to us (probably won't ever) so we just assumed we were scammed and these were fakes made in Pakistan or something.

Warner was saying just yesterday that the balls over the last year have been really poor quality

 

[jonbrooks]

When are we going to have a serious discussion about reducing the 80 overs between new balls.

This is great cricket right now

Well, I'm not sure about reducing the overs between deliveries. Typically we'd have the new ball swing for the first 20 overs. Then the batsmen would accumulate for another 30. The final 30 overs would see the ball reverse swing. Basically we're not seeing either the conventional swing or the reverse swing happening in Oz to any great degree. Hazelwood got it to tail a little bit but nothing that troubled the batsmen too much.

 

[jonbrooks]

Interesting delivery by Starc. That swung out late!

 

[SteveNZ]

180 behind, but yes if we lose another here things could unravel very quickly.

Woops, but my point stands. 100 behind becomes 400+ just before stumps on day four on a pitch with some noticeable cracking.

 

[jonbrooks]

What time is Tea?

 

[harsh.ag]

Beautiful session. Starceh bringing some magic to a dull match. Gimme them 160s.

 

[Daemon]

Warner was saying just yesterday that the balls over the last year have been really poor quality

Just read it. Interesting that Ashwin complained about the SG ball very recently and said he preferred the Kookaburras used in the Duleep trophy.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/india-v-south-africa-2015-16/content/story/940837.html

 

[Flem274*]

Ross is love. Ross is life.