***Official*** Australia in New Zealand 2016

[Athlai]

Quoted from the 1st morning of the 4th ashes test.



I mean...it's actually not far from a verbatim quote.

#rekt

NZ with the early wicket. Good to see.

 

[TheJediBrah]

#rekt

NZ with the early wicket. Good to see.

lol keep telling yourself that

was already a poor attempt to take the thread off topic tbh

 

[Bahnz]

Haha! luvz me some salt!

 

[TheJediBrah]

random banter is great, but don't pretend that your irrelevant, off-topic and largely false claims are anything but a poor attempt at distraction from the legitimate (and actually on-topic) observations made on first page of the thread (re. NZ fans claiming favourites and complaints over your games in previous thread).

I honestly wasn't trying to have a go at you guys, didn't realise you'd take it so personally. Apologies, never mean to upset anyone.

 

[Bahnz]

Never change man.

 

[TheJediBrah]

I couldn't if I wanted to

 

[vcs]

No chance for Kiwis to win unless Boult is back to his best. He didn't bowl that well against Sri Lanka also.

 

[cnerd123]

Never change man.

I couldn't if I wanted to

I stand corrected, this is going to be a lot of fun

 

[Fuller Pilch]

No practice match? Disgusting effort by Cricket NZ frankly, at least we had the good will to roll out practice matches for our neighbours.

We are letting your lot play a Sheffield Shield game in our country

Australian Sheffield Shield match to be played at Lincoln in test series lead-up | Stuff.co.nz

Also some pretty good facilities (by NZ standards) there

 

[Spark]

We are letting your lot play a Sheffield Shield game in our country

Australian Sheffield Shield match to be played at Lincoln in test series lead-up | Stuff.co.nz

Not exactly going to be a great help for all the players who are in the ODI side...

 

[Fuller Pilch]

I wouldn't be surprised if they do prepare greentops to even the odds, though NZ don't really have a history of advantageous pitch-manipulation as some other sides do, as far as I'm aware.

They've prepared greentops in the last couple of BR tests and then McCullum has subsequently lost the toss, we've been inserted and the Indian and Sri Lankan seamers have rolled us on the 1st day, before McCullum-Watling then Williamson-Watling have put on monster partnerships as the pitches have flattened out later on in the tests.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Not exactly going to be a great help for all the players who are in the ODI side...

Well they'll still be playing cricket in NZ and most of the NZ team will be coming from white ball stuff too. Last year when we toured England half our team went into the 1st test straight from the IPL

 

[Bahnz]

Bit hard to find time for warmups when this series is wedged between Oz's odi series v India and SA. The first ODI comes 3 days after the last Aus v India T20. And the SA tour starts 4th of March

 

[Spikey]

 

[Spark]

Yeah indeed. I mean, it probably won't be that big an issue because this lot have already been playing cricket for three months as opposed to the NZ guys who looked rusty in the extreme, but it's nonetheless a long way short of ideal.

 

[91Jmay]

Honestly, sounds like CA have prioritised the ODIs over a proper warm up rather than the Kiwi's withholding them.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Honestly, sounds like CA have prioritised the ODIs over a proper warm up rather than the Kiwi's withholding them.

not sure if srs

 

[Dan]

Yeah, exactly. This isn't of NZC's doing.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

It is good with the 'Mondayising' of Waitangi - holiday on the 8th for 2nd ODI

 

[91Jmay]

not sure if srs

Well you wouldn't be, as you've aptly demonstrated in other threads you don't understand the basic economics of world cricket.