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

    He definitely is the most effective with a new ball - he swings it both ways at a good clip. Although I did hear/read someone saying he'd made a concerted effort to be better with the older ball with a view that it would help him at the selection table. He's a really fit guy, who they think...
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    **Official** England in New Zealand 28 Nov-18 Dec 2024 - 3 Tests

    Flem: Anderson is awful on a non greentop whereas Mills, whilst not super quick, can bowl on most surfaces, has more accuracy and is just heaps better than James Anderson. Now yes I'm an NZ fan but if you think James Andersons one hit wonder 5-fer at Wellington was better than Mills'...
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    **Official** England in New Zealand 28 Nov-18 Dec 2024 - 3 Tests

    I was at every day of this Test, apart from day 5 when I figured it wasn't worth watching us try to haul in 500. So completely missed Southee's blitzkrieg. Tim had made NZ U19 runs and was batting top 4-5 for King's College, so to think 17 years later he'd be averaging 15 (and even that seems...
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    *Unofficial* New Zealand Black Caps Thread

    If I was to estimate the amount of players who take things on a recreational, sometimes/one-off/special occasion basis (at least when I was around) it wouldn't have been much south of 50%. Probably the difference being most of them knew to be smarter about when they were taking it. Doug...
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    *Official* New Zealand vs Sri Lanka- White Ball Tour of SL- November, 2024

    Here it comes... One of my favourite things in cricket is the lower order player who gets stars in his eyes, and tries to win it off his own bat when the other guy is the one to leave it to. They know they won't get the chance too often...and that last shot is why.
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    *Official* New Zealand vs Sri Lanka- White Ball Tour of SL- November, 2024

    Up at 4am to show my undying love of ODIs is not lip service We should win this
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    **Official** England in New Zealand 28 Nov-18 Dec 2024 - 3 Tests

    I absolutely feel the same way. Shame it came so late but we all know he's done his best work when in the gun selection wise. Yep I do think he'll play all 3. If Sears wasn't injured I wouldn't be sure, but he's definitely in their best 3 seamers who will all play before Xmas. It's whether they...
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    **Official** England in New Zealand 28 Nov-18 Dec 2024 - 3 Tests

    I thought he'd try to go on to the Aussie tour in two summers, so that's a relief in a way. I actually feel like I can sit back and enjoy the final days of his career now, especially after his epic knock in the first Test in India
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    *Official* New Zealand vs Sri Lanka- White Ball Tour of SL- November, 2024

    Yep, completely agree with all this. GP hasn't had enough opportunities in Tests, and it's a disaster having to bat with our gung-ho tail a lot of the time
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    *Official* New Zealand vs Sri Lanka- White Ball Tour of SL- November, 2024

    5-23 since I woke up. Deadly work from my alarm
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    Mundane sightings of high-profile cricketers

    I need to hear more about this
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    New Zealand doom and gloom thread

    Agreed - the Lord's Test still pisses me off to this day. I think this was the first time I realised our tail enders were a bunch of pea hearts and had no desire to bat with the team's best interests (although this may have happened before) Bearing in mind, of course, that we would likely have...
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    New Zealand doom and gloom thread

    I mean, there's some relevance that two of those series' were against Australia. A solid 2-0 home win over Sri Lanka (which I cannot remember a single bit of) and the other was England in England, 1-all which to be fair to your point, was absolutely blown in the first Test from a position of...
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    2024–25 NZ domestic season

    Absolutely. He used to swing it big, too, with the white ball but couldn't control it. That's what baffled me about Bumrah in the 2nd Test last month, he started over to Conway after having him on toast before that. I don't know a LH top order bat who likes the shape of anyone moving it away...
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    New Zealand doom and gloom thread

    Well, at least I now know that my computer is operational when I puke on it.
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    New Zealand doom and gloom thread

    SUCKED IN TH. Haha, I don't actually mean this. That's cool if Wags said that, but TH has very skillfully laid down an argument that it doesn't marry up with the evidence of how much he did - or didn't - play under Baz. It is almost like Baz had the idea, but initially wasn't bold enough to...
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    2024–25 NZ domestic season

    Has massively remodelled his action. If he's the one who gives Finn a massive spray after the worst **** in domestic history to get out, then he's my hero, too.
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    *Official* New Zealand vs Sri Lanka- White Ball Tour of SL- November, 2024

    Wowee, what a cricketer Glenn is
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    Mundane sightings of high-profile cricketers

    Seeing we're including umpires as mundane sightings, drove past Tony Hill walking his dog yesterday. Looks like he has two dicky knees from standing all day. Expected him to lean slightly forward and project his index finger up and forward with it, as he did back in the day
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    *Official* New Zealand in Sri Lanka

    I will say, the playing strip is probably up there as my favourite of all time. Or at least the only one I've ever seen that I think I'd genuinely wear in public. Classy. Good to see SteveNZ XI member Z Foulkes do well, not much else to write home about

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