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*Official* World Test Championship Final 2021

Who do you think will win it?

  • Total voters
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Hurricane2

U19 Cricketer
Prince EWS said:
No worries. I really enjoyed your brief foray into the rugby league section of CricSim this season; I felt like we buried any hatchets we had there.

Welcome back. I'll try to get your accounts merged if you're okay with that (or at least swap the names so you don't have to be "Hurricane2").
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Thanks PEWS for all of your reply
Yes any optimisation you come up with for my two accounts woukd be great. :)
 
Teja.

Teja.

Global Moderator
Prince EWS said:
The Kohli interview afterwards was such a meme. "I don't think there's any technical weaknesses as such, we just need to be a little more brave."

#intent
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The presenters and analysts on hotstar have been using 'captain fearless' as their new moniker for Kohli and it's ****ing painful.
 
jcas0167

jcas0167

International Debutant
Bahnz said:
I turned off the TV last night after the Pant drop. Was sure I was going to wake up to a draw in the morning. Then when I opened my eyes and saw a text from a friend of mine who follows the game, I knew it was either a win or a heartbreaking loss. Had sweaty palms watching the highlights this morning but seemed like a fairly comfortable win in the end. So thrilled for this bunch, they’ve desperately deserved a trophy after all they’ve done over the past decade and now they’ve got it. Now hopefully Trent and KW can finally let go of the pain from 2019. I know I can. I cried after that super over. Were tears of a different sort seeing the guys jumping up and down in celebration on the balcony.

A first series win in England in 22 years and now World Champions. Not a bad 3 weeks work. Full credit to the coaching and support staff who’ve done a magnificent job of getting the boys into top shape over the past month. Left no stones unturned.

To India, well played. They’re a much improved side from the team NZ beat 18 months ago, even if the scoreline suggests a similar sort of game to the last between these two. Had the cloud cover not stopped play on day 2 they may well have put up 300 in the first innings, which would’ve been match winning. Kohli’s shown his qualities as a leader in this match. I’ve watched him and Kane butt heads since the two of them were high schoolers, such a lovely moment to see the two of them embracing on the world stage at the end of such a hard fought contest.

Finally, to everyone in the thread, thanks for creating such a funny, supportive and engaging community to talk about this match and this sport. We have our disagreements (no Athlai, Southee still shouldn’t play in the ODI side ahead of Henry) but we always have fun andI don’t know if I would’ve stuck around for the journey from easy beats to world champs without you guys.

Now let’s all get drunk!
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Same. I think a lot of people would have gone to bed at lunch grumpy about Southee dropping that catch and expecting it to be a draw. I woke up to find 156 messages on my club team's WhatsApp group. Also, messages from people who I hadn't heard from since the final of the WC. It's nice that in triumph or defeat cricket is this common thread that we share.

Well played to both sides, they did test cricket proud.
 
honestbharani

honestbharani

Whatever it takes!!!
jcas0167 said:
Well played to both sides, they did test cricket proud.
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Yeah, as bad as we were in the last day, this is one aspect of the game I am happy with. It deserved a result and I like it when both teams were setting the tone of going for the win even after so much **** weather and conditions. I think I said very early on in the game that I would rather lose than a weather affected draw and that is what it was. We did not play well enough and NZ played excellent cricket and they won. I understand draw is a legitimate test match result and I am pretty sure India's hands were forced once Virat and Puji were sniffed out early in the day but I hope we play with that attitude but with better skill and judgement going forward.

Also have this sneaking feeling that England will bear the brunt of India's disappointment from this game.
 
honestbharani

honestbharani

Whatever it takes!!!
Hi @Hurricane2 ... I think I got into arguments with you about Steve Smith, of all people. But nice to see you back and glad to see you are enjoying the win. Congrats on your team's amazing performance. Enjoy the celebrations. :)
 
TheJediBrah

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Teja. said:
He played 2 ATG 5th day knocks in Australia to get us to a historic series win. On top of that, he scored a beyond incredible 101 in Ahmedabad taking India out of trouble from 146-6 against England in very, very difficult batting conditions which included the Jimmy Anderson reverse sweep and another 91 (88) from 4-70 in Chennai coming in during a collapse.

He did this all in his last 5-6 tests. I did not even mention a bunch of cameos he played as well in those tests such as the 40 yesterday and 58* in Chennai.

He is ranked the 6th best batsman currently after the Fab 4 and Labushagne in the iCC rankings and I think that is entirely deserved. Along with keeping, that makes one of the (if not the) most valuable cricketers in the world.
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Yeah it may be a meme but "that's just the way he plays" is well and truly relevant. If a guy has the ability to what Pant does and take a game away in a session then you accept some dire ugly dismissals along the way. Now if he goes 8-10 tests without a matchwinning knock and still gets out like this then maybe start asking questions. Still think he has a bit of work to do keeping-wise though, consider the big 4 bats, Stokes, Jamieson, Jadeja, Cummins and maybe a few more to be more valuable.
 
Teja.

Teja.

Global Moderator
WTC Final XI

Conway
Rohit
Williamson (C)
Taylor
Rahane
Pant (wk)
Ashwin
Jamieson
Wagner
Southee
Shami

No.7 is too early for Ashwin/Jamieson ideally but went with the players who performed in the match.
 
Shady Slim

Shady Slim

International Coach
might i just also add, like apropos of nothing, and with the caveat that every time NZ gets a new toy people say this, but jamieson could be a gamebreaker the next time you come to australia

none of your bowlers in the past ten years have really been known for their consistently steepling bounce. as great as soult are, they aren't the type of bowlers who normally succeed here. even wagner, who's known for his bouncers (and did do fairly well when you came here) barely gets them chest height (which is why he's so funny too); yet now you've got a guy who if you took the black caps logo off his shirt and watched him bowl, you'd say, "where'd australia get another man mountain to bowl pace". could he, could he, now be the final cog for a nz win down under eh? keen as to watch
 
Zinzan

Zinzan

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Teja. said:
WTC Final XI

Conway
Rohit
Williamson (C)
Taylor
Rahane
Pant (wk)
Ashwin
Jamieson
Wagner
Southee
Shami

No.7 is too early for Ashwin/Jamieson ideally but went with the players who performed in the match.
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Looks about right even if the lower order batting looks thin
 
Howsie

Howsie

International Captain
So stoked, probably can’t add much more then what has been said today but today really did help get rid of some of the CWC 19 demons.

It’s crazy the amount of NZ fans on here that have posted for 10 plus years now. Those were some dark days around 09-10 when I joined CW, New Zealand actually had a ton of Asian tours during that period and a heap of us would be up all night watching us struggle along with no chance of winning. I’d sometimes wonder what the hell I was up to

I always believed guys like Williamson, Southee and Boult would become great international cricketers, and that was something to look forward to way back then. But never in my wildest dreams did I believe NZ would be the number 1 test side in the world.
 
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_00_deathscar

International Regular
Next morning/day and all that - bitterly disappointed but genuinely very happy for NZ and it was a seriously good game. Weird feeling - cricket is weird like that, I can't imagine waking up to a Liverpool loss in a European Cup final and thinking "yea but I'm happy for the other team and it was a great game!"
 
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