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*Official* Sri Lanka Tour of New Zealand 2018/19

Grasshopper

State Vice-Captain
Are both the TV and radio commentators contractually obliged to mention ********* WASP a certain number of times per innings? I can't think of any other good reason why they would - especially the more sensible radio blokes. Bloody annoying, imo.
 

thundaboult

International Debutant
Southee will never be dropped. A part of me is thinking maybe losing all the world cup games, with southee being main culprit, giving away a 100 runs every match, mayyy....may just be enough to convince the selectors that he is past it. I don't even know anymore. Today this **** will get another run with the new ball, while lockie is left ruing another chance in a role he deserves a crack at. Feel sorry for Kuggelejin, Bracewell, even Jamieson. Southee is holding them all up. And likely always will.
 

Athlai

Not Terrible
Southee > Bracewell

I do still rate Southee as one of our best ODI bowlers. But man, he seems to have a serious issue with shifting from red ball to white ball cricket these days. I'm sure come the India series Southee will probably look much more the part, but it definitely makes him a liability for a world cup.
 

Jezroy

State Captain
Are both the TV and radio commentators contractually obliged to mention ********* WASP a certain number of times per innings? I can't think of any other good reason why they would - especially the more sensible radio blokes. Bloody annoying, imo.
Just think of the amount of times a noob has said to you "who's winning?".

WASP is the closest thing to saying "NZ are - 68% to 32" and shutting them up.
 

Jezroy

State Captain
Oh don’t get me wrong Bracewell was good/promising once upon a time, but that feels like an age ago now. I’m with you though, he’s nothing more then bits n pieces these days, no way good enough with either bat or ball.

I was just having a laugh because Smithy basically implied last game Bracewell was as good as any option we currently had.
Pretty sure the chat Smithy had about him at around 11:05am "He shouldn't just be in the best squad, he should be in the best 11", he had no pants on.

He loves Doug more than Hess loved Baz.
 

TheJammyTurtle

U19 Cricketer
Southee will never be dropped. A part of me is thinking maybe losing all the world cup games, with southee being main culprit, giving away a 100 runs every match, mayyy....may just be enough to convince the selectors that he is past it. I don't even know anymore. Today this **** will get another run with the new ball, while lockie is left ruing another chance in a role he deserves a crack at. Feel sorry for Kuggelejin, Bracewell, even Jamieson. Southee is holding them all up. And likely always will.
Thought for a while myself he should have been dropped,but never looked at the stats.Just checked there,17 wickets at 43 in 2017,and 10 wickets at 53 last year.Crazy stuff
 

Jezroy

State Captain
i.e. pointless fluff.
It's pointless for you and 99.9% of people on this forum (according to WASP).

But it's not us that it's aimed at. They'll be using it to be inclusive to the people that think it's helpful (ie. they probably think T20 is the best kind)
 

Grasshopper

State Vice-Captain
It's pointless for you and 99.9% of people on this forum (according to WASP).

But it's not us that it's aimed at. They'll be using it to be inclusive to the people that think it's helpful (ie. they probably think T20 is the best kind)
Yeah, I get that. Still can't really see much point in it though coz it's usually all over the place like a mad woman's sh!t.
 

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