***Official*** Trans-Tasman Twenty20 Tri-Series

[Flem274*]

Allan Border comes across so mild and mellow in the comm box and then you remember his reputation as skipper and wonder if the real Border was abducted by aliens.

He has certainly aged better than many 'hard men' of sport.

 

[straw man]

Gonna be so great seeing NZ win the final of this tournament having won only one from four in the pool stage.

Or, this go-slow could hurt us and we could fail to get 175 let alone win the match, which would kinda serve us right tbh. Hit something plz. Try to actually win.

 

[The Hutt Rec]

Allan Border comes across so mild and mellow in the comm box and then you remember his reputation as skipper and wonder if the real Border was abducted by aliens.

He has certainly aged better than many 'hard men' of sport.

For a guy who almost killed Dean Jones, his dismissal of the ground size conversation was very zen-like.

 

[Bahnz]

Don't like how NZ just completely gave up on winning the game after Munro got out. They've ceded all the momentum they'd built up, and now will struggle to even make the final.

 

[Moss]

Gonna be so great seeing NZ win the final of this tournament having won only one from four in the pool stage.

Or, this go-slow could hurt us and we could fail to get 175 let alone win the match, which would kinda serve us right tbh. Hit something plz. Try to actually win.

NZ have stuffed up such situations in the past it myst be said. Ryder's comeback game against South Africa in 2012 comes to mind.

 

[Flem274*]

NZ have stuffed up such situations in the past it myst be said. Ryder's comeback game against South Africa in 2012 comes to mind.

ryder had a comeback against SA?

i dont even remember that game

 

[straw man]

I too have forgotten that game, though I did have a feeling we'd failed at something like this in the past.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

Waddup zero pressure on the spinners.

 

[The Hutt Rec]

ryder had a comeback against SA?

i dont even remember that game

Was when McMillan blasted him after the game for playing for his 50.

 

[_Ed_]

That's better.

 

[Moss]

ryder had a comeback against SA?

i dont even remember that game

He hit a fifty in double quick time (controversially rushed back by John Wright) and an inexplicable go slow came up when NZ were looking at a comfortable win. McMillan really tore into Ryder publicly after that game.

 

[_Ed_]

Chapman!

 

[BeeGee]

That's ****ed his figures.

 

[Flem274*]

Was when McMillan blasted him after the game for playing for his 50.

He hit a fifty in double quick time (controversially rushed back by John Wright) and an inexplicable go slow came up when NZ were looking at a comfortable win. McMillan really tore into Ryder publicly after that game.

i think i was living under my rocks at the time. this all sounds very juicy and i have zero memory of it

 

[The Hutt Rec]

i think i was living under my rocks at the time. this all sounds very juicy and i have zero memory of it

Cricket: Ryder cost NZ the match - McMillan - NZ Herald

Stressed Jesse Ryder to take break from cricket | Stuff.co.nz

Must say I thought it was harsh from McMillan at the time, without his innings we wouldn't have been in such a good spot to win the game in the first place.

 

[straw man]

So good having Chapman in the side, Seifert too - people who can just score quickly when needed.

 

[Bahnz]

Yeah, in the end it hasn't panned out too badly. Still a really daft little innings from KW, hasn't done himself any favours with that performance.

 

[straw man]

Don't think Taylor should've been sent in here either - don't think much of his death hitting unless you bowl in the cow-corner spot (which Curran just did)

 

[TheJediBrah]

So NZ have qualified now regardless right? They had to lose comfortably to not make the final?

 

[_Ed_]

So NZ have qualified now regardless right? They had to lose comfortably to not make the final?

Yeah, needed 175.

It was always under control, IMO.