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    **Official** England in New Zealand 28 Nov-18 Dec 2024 - 3 Tests

    Oh I couldn't agree more. It's a horrible message. But its long term effects are minimal.
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    **Official** England in New Zealand 28 Nov-18 Dec 2024 - 3 Tests

    This is a fair point, although it's the injustice of it all. But yeah you make a good point. Will Nathan Smith be a much better Test player for one outing before our next v Zim in mid 2025? No. Will Gary Stead be in charge next time? **** me let's hope not. So you are right, we're probably...
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    **Official** England in New Zealand 28 Nov-18 Dec 2024 - 3 Tests

    I'm gonna sit at the Tim Southee end on Sunday and stay there well after play until they kick me out. It's not my job to decide when my time is done
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    *Unofficial* New Zealand Black Caps Thread

    Women's team, I think? Or is that what you were referring to, as Oram worked in that environment. Interestingly, it doesn't make any mention of it on his Linkedin page. https://www.nzc.nz/news-items/archive/andre-adams-returns-to-the-white-ferns/...
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    *Unofficial* New Zealand Black Caps Thread

    To me, that's about him as a person. Malan wasn't a bowler in his playing days. But he obviously created a great working relationship with KJ and was smart enough to upskill himself and find a way to make him world-class. That speaks volumes to me, as did KJ's endorsement of him. I keep saying...
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    *Unofficial* New Zealand Black Caps Thread

    I do not like your dark humour.
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    *Unofficial* New Zealand Black Caps Thread

    Oram strikes me as one of those lifers who hangs around the environment for years, if not decades on end, doing enough to keep a job but not enough to offer anything outside the box or insightful to move it forward. He's been in that set-up for a long time, whether it's as a player, it's at...
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    *Unofficial* New Zealand Black Caps Thread

    I know absolutely nothing, or very little about international coaches. Who would come at a high price and needs 'the cheque book' thrown at them? Or is it as I expect, and the coaches you might want, don't really want $ at all (unless, obviously, it is mega bucks) but they want to be home 9-10...
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    *Unofficial* New Zealand Black Caps Thread

    As NZ fans, and now getting a better sense than Scott Weenink seems to be a boardroom Gary Stead clone, are we underestimating the potential that Gary Raymond could be reappointed? I mean, his CV is going to likely be as strong, if not more than any applicant...this organisation seems to value...
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    **Official** England in New Zealand 28 Nov-18 Dec 2024 - 3 Tests

    I think this is an important consideration for the next coach (PLEASE LET THERE BE A NEXT COACH). You can be as sure as sure can be that it won't happen this week - to be fair, I don't want Rachin opening, he's looked like a cat on a hot tin roof in this series - but it definitely should be...
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    The Basin Reserve over the years

    The great man is now coach of the Howick Pak premier men. I wish youtube had videos of him batting in the HRV Cup, with the late great Martin Crowe talking up how big his bat was and calling him the Viking.
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    The Basin Reserve over the years

    Morgs is one of my favourite cricketers of all time. Incredibly coachable, in fact way too coachable. He took on every piece of advice he was given. In that photo, he'd been told to stay in his action longer...so when he was bowling, he'd follow through so hard his head would come out from under...
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    The Basin Reserve over the years

    Love this, I was at the 2009 Indian Test and 2008 England Test at the Basin. Would I be right in remembering we got hosed in the England one, but were saved by rain from another hosing v India. And was the India game, if not the series, where the term Gambhiring came from - G.Gambhir scoring a...
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    *Unofficial* New Zealand Black Caps Thread

    Speaking of good articles, I absolutely loved this one on Lou Vincent: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2024/12/10/lou-vincent-match-fixing-shame-turned-my-family-against-me/ Absolutely captures the person that Lou is. Couldn't meet a better bloke, who made a big mistake in his life but...
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    *Unofficial* New Zealand Black Caps Thread

    I read a really good article about the fast bowlers, written by Steven Finn: https://www.bbc.com/sport/cricket/articles/cwydel7r9xyo He seems to think there's method to the madness
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    **Official** England in New Zealand 28 Nov-18 Dec 2024 - 3 Tests

    Average of 5.4 overs, that is diabolical. 2007, that would have been the likes of James Marshall, Aaron Redmond, Jamie How and co? What a crazy indictment. Daily reminder that Gary Stead is our coach, and was a former opening bat for NZ. Yet our performance in that very department is as poor...
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    2024–25 NZ domestic season

    Don't ruin this guy for me... All of a sudden he'll grabbing a mic and be calling for two deep third men to a spinner, then reference some obscure 80s TV show in the pursuit of a lame pun about someone in the crowd.
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    **Official** England in New Zealand 28 Nov-18 Dec 2024 - 3 Tests

    Consistency of selection is one consideration. Absolutely, you don't want to be chopping and changing, and guys who have performed in situations like Nicholls did, and Blundell did as well deserve some level of leniency at the selection table. But nor do you want these guys to believe they can...
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    2024–25 NZ domestic season

    A Westie almost scoring the slowest FC ton of all time...that's a disappointed boner @thierry henry must have right now, but a boner nonetheless
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    New Zealand doom and gloom thread

    I rate Dylan higher than any writer in this country in any code, from when I used to read the paper over my Dad's shoulder, but I don't completely buy the 'dead runs' and also the * of being dropped on zero. Test runs are Test runs for the most part, and he still had to score 100 against an...

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