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    *Official* New Zealand in Sri Lanka

    Not a single in game post, is that a record?
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    *Official* Pakistan in Australia 2024 (white ball tour)

    Geez, that's hitting a lot of the stumps, isn't it?
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    *Official* Pakistan in Australia 2024 (white ball tour)

    Yeah and obviously that's tempered by the fact those guys have played F all ODI cricket, but it's not what you're used to from a team who wins World Cups as regularly as my post morning-coffee bowel movement
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    *Official* Pakistan in Australia 2024 (white ball tour)

    That's fair, I haven't watched a lot of him outside of ODIs/T20Is against us and England, and Big Bash stuff. This is probably lazy, nostalgic stuff by me but you expect Australian No.4s and Australia WK/bats to have something about them...just don't feel like Josh Inglis is ever going to hurt you.
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    *Official* Pakistan in Australia 2024 (white ball tour)

    Josh Inglis is another, we're just not used to Australia picking guys who are clearly not up to the level. Averaging 24 with a high score of 65 and batting at 4 for Australia is something I never thought I'd see.
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    *Official* Pakistan in Australia 2024 (white ball tour)

    Been told they're amazing all their lives, all about the adulation on social media, don't want to work hard enough to produce achievements of any real substance. Finn Allen is our version, and he's in a different league than Jake 'I average under 23 in four of the five formats I play, and 30 in...
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    *Official* Pakistan in Australia 2024 (white ball tour)

    Good summation. And yeah of course it's on the selectors. I think he'd even get the 'too much intent' tag from Baz McCullum
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    *Official* Pakistan in Australia 2024 (white ball tour)

    Michael Vaughan forming an opinion on Mohammad Rizwan ('he looks like a real character') - a guy who has played 200 international games.
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    *Official* Pakistan in Australia 2024 (white ball tour)

    He's clearly immature and/or unintelligent. I can't remember an international cricketer I enjoyed watching less. He is the embodiment of the entitled generation. His averages in every form of the game are absolutely diabolical. Makes Finn Allen look like Don Bradman
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    Would this be the greatest test series win of all time if NZ win?

    In helpful conditions, you'd have to say it's up there. Our batting order had a multitude of LHers - Conway, Latham, Rachin, Santner, Patel for the first two Tests - yet he managed 6 wickets in four innings in those Tests. And scored runs at an average of 8.
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    Thank You James Anderson- Farewell Thread

    Fair enough, I might have got it wrong. I admire the guy, as a bowler. I guess it's just the fruity way it was told. No doubt everyone's going to be disappointed they're told it's over. And I've said this about champion bowlers before, they often don't know when the end is nigh, because they've...
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    Thank You James Anderson- Farewell Thread

    Sweet as. I don't understand why a guy who played up to 42 years old and 188 Tests would put such a carry-on in his book. It's seemed to a lot of people outside England that this guy has had so many successes in his life, but carried a boulder-sized chip on his shoulder up to his final days.
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    Thank You James Anderson- Farewell Thread

    So why is he carrying on like he's been taking out, execution style? It reads laughably. I like him as a bowler but far out, what a diva.
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    Thank You James Anderson- Farewell Thread

    You're saying they put that sort of language/description in the book to sell a few? That'll work. Not that he's selling his soul, but I personally wouldn't want such tripe in my book to earn a few more quid. That sits there for the rest of your days as a reminder you seemed all a bit bitter and...
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    Thank You James Anderson- Farewell Thread

    There'd be arguments for #1. Was dropped for the Windies series in 2022, then back for Baz's first series in charge mid that year. I admit my wording doesn't do it justice, but in saying that - not every coach appointed to that role would have brought back a 40-year-old Jimmy, then played him...
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    Thank You James Anderson- Farewell Thread

    https://www.theroar.com.au/2024/11/05/you-f-kers-jimmy-anderson-details-brutal-england-test-execution-feel-like-joe-pesci-in-goodfellas/ “As I walk towards them, it hits me cold. This isn’t a team appraisal, is it?” Anderson wrote. “With each footstep towards the far side of the bar, each of...
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    **Official** England in New Zealand 28 Nov-18 Dec 2024 - 3 Tests

    I dunno, that third innings seems a bit Bazball-ish at over 3s an over and attempting to win the game with an overnight 4th day declaration. I think he would have loved the chase though, chasing 329 (how's my maths) and not got anywhere near it, only six down.
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    **Official** England in New Zealand 28 Nov-18 Dec 2024 - 3 Tests

    Metservice predicting a long, hot summer at least Say what you want about Bazball but it is nice going into a 3-match series thinking we're a red hot chance of seeing 3 results, if the weather plays ball (and even if it doesn't for periods of time). I wish Sears was available, I'd really...
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    *Official* New Zealand tour of India 2024

    Dude looks like Gary Stead on downers. I can't imagine he's any fun or engaging to play for
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    WTC 2025 Final : Qualifying scenario

    There's never been a way for us to compete 😭

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