***Official*** Australia vs New Zealand ODIs 2016/17

[Spark]

Have this lot forgotten every time they've watched Steve Smith before?

 

[jcas0167]

NZ totally blowing this.

 

[Spikey]

Have this lot forgotten every time they've watched Steve Smith before?

i think they should attack the stumps

 

[TheJediBrah]

Have this lot forgotten every time they've watched Steve Smith before?

tbf where are you supposed to bowl to him?

 

[Burgey]

Is it more bad luck than any other mode of dismissal?

**** yes.

 

[Spark]

tbf where are you supposed to bowl to him?

Not halfway down.

 

[Moss]

Williamson should stop ringing in the changes and focus on getting 2-3 tight overs in. Just too many freebies.

 

[Spikey]

the team australia is picked is fine. probably one of the more logical they've picked. there's really only one issue, the finch problem, but of course that wasn't gonna be resolved today. otherwise, the bowling attack is as it should be. marsh over faulkner is right. head over maxwell is fine in that they already made that call during the winter and it would have been a bit weird to drop head before he gets a chance in australia. marsh and hard should have been swapped in the batting order.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Williamson should stop ringing in the changes and focus on getting 2-3 tight overs in. Just too many freebies.

This is a but contradictory. He's ringing the changes because his bowlers are have been unable to get 2-3 tight overs in

 

[TheJediBrah]

the team australia is picked is fine. probably one of the more logical they've picked. there's really only one issue, the finch problem, but of course that wasn't gonna be resolved today. otherwise, the bowling attack is as it should be. marsh over faulkner is right. head over maxwell is fine in that they already made that call during the winter and it would have been a bit weird to drop head before he gets a chance in australia. marsh and hard should have been swapped in the batting order.

I don't get how people underrate Faulkner so much

He's a better bowler and batter than Mitch Marsh for starters, he'd be in ahead of Cummins and Hazlewood as a player easily, maybe even purely as a bowler he'd still be ahead of them in ODIs.

 

[Moss]

This is a but contradictory. He's ringing the changes because his bowlers are have been unable to get 2-3 tight overs in

Yeah fair enough. But think bringing in Henry after one Feguson over was a bit knee jerk

 

[straw man]

With less sloppiness and another 1-2 wickets, NZ would have had a good chance of restricting Australia to something below par, maybe 250-270.

And given NZ's weak/inexperienced batting from number 4 down, it's hard to see them chasing much more than that.

 

[Spark]

Ferguson not exactly charging in here.

 

[Starfighter]

Ferguson getting slower with each spell.

 

[Spark]

Ferguson getting slower with each spell.

He was sort of ambling up to the crease there

 

[ajdude]

i'd probably do the same if i had to bowl on a free hit tbh.

 

[The Hutt Rec]

New NZ fast bowler ... and dowwwwn he goes.

 

[Bahnz]

Yeah, looks like he's punched himself out in that first 3 over burst of his.

 

[Starfighter]

This over sure going well. Seems like an NZ pacer.

 

[Athlai]

Rollercoaster of emotion with Ferguson. Looks like we have ourselves a T20 specialist.