20th Match - New Zealand v Australia

[Spark]

i would have made kane MOM. the award is usually too batsman biased but without that 45* we died, simple as that

without boult blocking the hattrick ball you died!

 

[OverratedSanity]

Is this the first Aus-NZ game since Hobart? Because that was pretty incredible too. Why can't they play more ffs?

Was that the Bracewell match?

 

[Spark]

Was that the Bracewell match?

yep

 

[Cabinet96]

Was that the Bracewell match?

Yup. Doubt there's been a test match as close since.

 

[Dan]

Was that the Bracewell match?

Yeah, literally the only time Bracewell has done anything of note.

 

[jonbrooks]

He sometimes looks very floaty and aimless. He hasn't quite worked how he's going to get set Test batsmen out if "massive inswinger" stops working, and he sometimes doesn't look nearly as quick as the speedgun suggests.

He did look better in the fourth Test when Smith got him to bowl in a manner more akin to Johnson than how he'd been bowling before.

I can't see how Starc could be floaty and aimless. He was hitting the deck hard, swinging the ball and bowling with genuine pace. Thunderbolt yorkers at 150 klicks. That ain't nothing to joke about.

 

[Spark]

so, again, if we meet in a semi-final, where do we play? because that could end up deciding the wc.

 

[Grasshopper]

some seriously sour puss posting from some of the neutrals in this thread. come on that was a great game of ODI bowling with a couple of batsmen showing their stuff.

what joke should i make first though? maybe to ask where the eden park short boundary haters are at? where they at???

Yeah, that was a seriously entertaining ODI.

 

[Flem274*]

without boult blocking the hattrick ball you died!

true

and the leave. southee may have had a crack at it...

 

[Spark]

I can't see how Starc could be floaty and aimless. He was hitting the deck hard, swinging the ball and bowling with genuine pace. Thunderbolt yorkers at 150 klicks. That ain't nothing to joke about.

You have to watch him in Tests to understand. I've commented many times that he can sometimes look the floatiest 150kmh bowler I've ever seen.

 

[jonbrooks]

Is this the first Aus-NZ game since Hobart? Because that was pretty incredible too. Why can't they play more ffs?

I think there was a champions trophy game in there somewhere but it was washed out.

 

[Flem274*]

Yeah, literally the only time Bracewell has done anything of note.

saved us from an embarrassing loss to zimbabwe on debut. they had that almost in the bag.

 

[Antihippy]

BTW this just reinforces my view that while a balance of bat and ball is the best, ball dominating the bat >>>>>>>> bat dominating the ball.

 

[Flem274*]

You have to watch him in Tests to understand. I've commented many times that he can sometimes look the floatiest 150kmh bowler I've ever seen.

yeah he takes the crown from watto's 140 clicks days

the areas he often bowls don't help either.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Yeah, literally the only time Bracewell has done anything of note.

Bowled a good spell in the test against SL recently

 

[Mike5181]

I was so close to tears there. Williamson you beast.

 

[jonbrooks]

so, again, if we meet in a semi-final, where do we play? because that could end up deciding the wc.

With the way the pools are placed is it likely NZ could meet Oz in a semi?

The equation for NZ to win the WC is for Aus to lose to someone else. I can't see us beating Oz in Australia.

 

[Athlai]

Fmd. Still feeling anxious.

 

[OverratedSanity]

BTW this just reinforces my view that while a balance of bat and ball is the best, ball dominating the bat >>>>>>>> bat dominating the ball.

Whenever someone says something like this I just feel it's because ball dominating the bat is rarer. Not necessarily because it's great to watch. I swear if we regularly got 150 vs 150 games, and suddenly one day we got a 350-350 thriller, we'd all be saying "See, bat dominating the ball is better.... needs to happen more". We just get desentisized to the norm, that's all.

 

[BackFootPunch]

so, again, if we meet in a semi-final, where do we play? because that could end up deciding the wc.

Whoever finishes higher in the group stage gets home ground advantage iirc. So should be NZ tbf.