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

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Two questions:

1. Who is Chad Sayers
2. Gimme the fife

Fantastic post. A+

 

[Tangles]

It won't be.

Guess I'll hit up a pub if I have time then.

 

[Athlai]

Difficult to say for certain, since we've only had two tours in Asia since the team turned a corner back in 2012: 1-1 in SRL and 1-1 in UAE. But yeah, KW's excellence and McCullum's ability to gun it on flat surfaces against overawed bowlers, combined with the swing bowlers' ability to take the pitch out of the equation (for the first 20 overs at least) has meant that the team is reasonably suited to those conditions.

Since 2010/2011 season

in India lost 1-0 (3) (2010)
in India lost 2-0 (2) (2012)
in SL drawn 1-1 (2)
in Bangladesh drawn 0-0 (2)
in UAE drawn 1-1 (2)

Not great but not horrible. The series we lost 2-0 in 2012 had an absolute drubbing in the first match followed by a pretty even 2nd match.

In 2010 we managed to let Harbhajan score 100 when India were 6-65 to rob ourselves a rare 1-0 lead after the first match in an away tour. Chris Martin absolutely devastated them on a road in the 2nd innings and we came SO close to breaking the back. Only Zaheer, Ojha and Sreesanth to follow at that point.

2nd match had a masterclass McIntosh hundred and McCullum getting a double. Was a road, any chance we had of pushing India here was ruined when Harby scored yet another hundred.

3rd match we got rolled.


Probably the only instance where Harbhajan was the 4th highest run scorer in a Test series. #betterthanTendulkar

 

[_Ed_]

In 2010 we managed to let Harbhajan score 100 when India were 6-65 to rob ourselves a rare 1-0 lead after the first match in an away tour. Chris Martin absolutely devastated them on a road in the 2nd innings and we came SO close to breaking the back. Only Zaheer, Ojha and Sreesanth to follow at that point.

2nd match had a masterclass McIntosh hundred and McCullum getting a double. Was a road, any chance we had of pushing India here was ruined when Harby scored yet another hundred.

Still haunted by both of these.

 

[Athlai]

It was pretty much the worst.

If only we had Wagner/Boult back then.

 

[Gnske]

Phantom walloping Johnson (and Harbhajan I think) evens it out though

 

[OverratedSanity]

Lol those Harbhajan hundreds

 

[Bahnz]

Phantom walloping Johnson (and Harbhajan I think) evens it out though

Yep.

 

[_Ed_]

Oh gosh, a mere 'like' doesn't do that justice.

 

[Flem274*]

australians think they hurt nz fans last year

nah

you are nothing, nothing compared to what harbhajan singh has done to us.

you'll never guess the indian fast bowler who decimated us in the third test.

 

[vcs]

Ryder was fantastic in that series. A certain Kane Williamson made his Test debut, and scored a century as well.

 

[Loose Cannon]

Has gilly ever kept up to the stumps to Mc Grath? I bet he has. At Sayers pace though you need to be able to move the ball both ways and be accurate to be successful in test. He is a chance then of succeeding ( if he gets a game). I just get the feeling though that selectors are just like fans here and 130 k bowlers must do exceptional things early on to remain in the team, or else the minute they struggle it is because they're not fast enough. Consequently if he does make the team, unless he takes bags of wickets earlier on he won't survive.Remember Bird who is faster than Sayers but still not very fast and how quickly he wasdropped. Glad he is back though.

Copeland is probably the better comparison, but yeah they dump anyone lacking pace pretty quick. They got rid of Clark on the early side too.

Bird (now that he's shortened his run-up) or Sayers could bowl a lot of overs in suitable conditions and allow Marsh's batting to progress elsewhere, especially now that Lyon is so solid. Don't see it happening though.

Love that Gilchirst stumping posted above. My other favourite non-batting Gilchrist moment is him advertising Milo and other sponsors during a match after Nine was keeping the stump mics live longer than the players liked. It was ****ing brilliant.

 

[Shady Slim]

so is there anyone here who'd be completely opposed to henriques over marsh if fit

 

[TheJediBrah]

It's a shock because he's been around so long but Henriques is still only 28

If he can get fit sure

 

[Howe_zat]

Since 2010/2011 season

in India lost 1-0 (3) (2010)
in India lost 2-0 (2) (2012)
in SL drawn 1-1 (2)
in Bangladesh drawn 0-0 (2)
in UAE drawn 1-1 (2)

Compares favorably with Australia,

0-2 in India 2010 (2)
1-0 in SL 2011 (3)
0-4 in India 2013 (4)
0-2 in UAE 2014 (2)

The matches in 2013 and 2014 were generally thrashings too

 

[marc71178]

Fair dues. Don't know who I'm thinking of then.

Jack Russell I suspect. Now there was a keeper...

 

[Black_Warrior]

australians think they hurt nz fans last year

nah

you are nothing, nothing compared to what harbhajan singh has done to us.

you'll never guess the indian fast bowler who decimated us in the third test.

I think 2010-11 was in general a really really low point for NZ cricket, it also included 0-4 in BD (ODIs)

 

[Daemon]

Why is it being assumed that the reason there are no warm ups is because NZ declined to provide them?

 

[TheJediBrah]

Why is it being assumed that the reason there are no warm ups is because NZ declined to provide them?

I don't think it is being assumed by anyone

someone mentioned it as a joke early on

 

[Daemon]

Carry on then