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*Official* 2022 New Zealand Tour of England, Ireland, Scotland & Netherlands
- Thread starter Kippax
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SillyCowCorner1
Moooo
A debutant getting his maiden test wicket, that of his fellow countryman.
This has never happened in the history of this game, no?
This has never happened in the history of this game, no?
Magrat Garlick
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did you expect anything else from stokes under mccullum
Lillian Thomson
Hall of Fame Member
I know I might be old, 
but that was a piss poor Test innings.
but that was a piss poor Test innings.
ashley bach
Cricketer Of The Year
Around 140 you reckon?
139.39
would of been 140 the ball before he got out, nice estimating.
Bijed
International Regular
Feels like we could have lost the game right there, a partnership between those two had a good chance of minimising the chances of a loss, but giving it away like that means that NZ just batting and declaring is pratically unavoidable, and we may well crumble trying to bat it out.
I mean that partnership could easily have had us pretty close to parity by close.
Need Root there at close
grecian
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Hmm, it was fun, but **** knows how this is going, but I genuinely think there is results in play, I mean Foakes should just play his natural game, which is quite dull
Sure if you are going with this tiresome avenue there's probably been quite a few South Africans, and hey Cowdrey and Jardine were born in India.
Aritro
International Regular
Hmm, maybe Stokes was actually genuinely trying to generate a win instead of settling for a draw.
A big hundred would have done that rather than a cameo
Bijed
International Regular
I find it more annoying in this case because basically everyone has scored pretty quickly anyway so far. There was no need to take risks like that to keep the runs flowing
Yep. I sort of wanted to say this in the comparison threads when they started debating strike rates, but didn't because it was a bit tangential to to the actual examples being discussed. But as much as people (rightly) point out that scoring quickly has sometimes big, advantages the logic seems to spill over into saying that scoring runs quickly is always/usually better than scoring more runs, but more slowly, whereas in the majority of situations volume of runs is more important.
Lillian Thomson
Hall of Fame Member
Stokes and Root seem to have been watching KP videos the way they started. Root was very fortunate early in his innings.
Furball
Evil Scotsman
You do that by batting out another day and putting New Zealand in the position batting 3rd where it's almost impossible for them to force a win but very possible for them to lose by collapsing in a heap and leaving you about 150 to win.
You don't do it by brainlessly slogging at everything when you're still 150 behind with more than 2 days to go.
Red_Ink_Squid
Global Moderator
Haha I'm definitely claiming that!