9th Match - New Zealand v England

[Bahnz]

Cracking day, beautiful weather, brilliant bowling, good times. Only slightly spoilt by the mindlessly bureaucratic decision to go off for the tea break with 12 needed.

 

[Zinzan]

Interesting to hear Morgan say that's the best attack England have faced since starting their Southern Hemisphere tour.

 

[Zinzan]

Cracking day, beautiful weather, brilliant bowling, good times. Only slightly spoilt by the mindlessly bureaucratic decision to go off for the tea break with 12 needed.

Yeah, common sense had to prevail then.

 

[Bahnz]

I remember watching a video of Hadlee running in to bowl with 10,000 people chanting his name at the Basin. I've always thought that the same thing would happen with Southee one day, and was thrilled to be there to experience it.

 

[hendrix]

Yeah, maybe. They've looked good, but possibly in a similar boat to us in that they've been flattered by mediocre opposition. One way to find out...

I'm just seeing a lot of sloggers in their batting lineup. You could say the same thing about us but most of our hitters have performed at Test level whereas I'm not convinced Finch, Bailey and Watson will be able to stand up to good bowling.

The proviso is that Warner was picked out of t20 abilities and is genuine quality so it's possible that Finch et al could perform well but for now it's a question mark.

 

[Antihippy]

Why would you judge test performance with odi performance?

 

[Niall]

I'm just seeing a lot of sloggers in their batting lineup. You could say the same thing about us but most of our hitters have performed at Test level whereas I'm not convinced Finch, Bailey and Watson will be able to stand up to good bowling.


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Watson will probably be binned when Clarke is back, and for Finch do runs against South Africa not count?

 

[Antihippy]

Hell I would even argue that warner is not our best odi opener.

 

[Zinzan]

Loving this picture just quietly...

 

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Loving this picture just quietly...

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Yeah, awesome. But England and Pakistan have had a bad time of it!

 

[Zinzan]

Classic listening to Geoffrey Boycott dissing Morgan's post match comment about the ball swinging more than they expected.

"Ah It were swinging a tiny bit, that's all. Nothing compared to when we played on uncovered damp pitches back in the day etc....."

 

[theegyptian]

Watching the replay with my dad and tens of thousands of people chanting Southee's name brings chills.

The swing was the centre piece live but on a rewatch it's the lines and his use of the crease you notice. The English have no idea whether he's bowling on or just outside off stump and then they miss it anyway (or edge it).

Yes it was just like the day they were chanting Ravi Bopara's name at the oval. One of the great moments.

 

[Adders]

 

[Furball]

What the actual ****

 

[vic_orthdox]

Loving this picture just quietly...

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10 of South Africa's to just two players...

 

[Antihippy]

10 of South Africa's to just two players...

To be fair to south africa faf du plessis can be pretty good too.

 

[vic_orthdox]

Only got his first ton in Zimbabwe earlier this year, didn't he?

De Kock got three very quickly too.

More a remark on how good Amla and De Villiers are than anything else. I mean, its only 14 months worth, and Amla has 7 tons in that time...

 

[Antihippy]

Yeah, seriously, if not for age I would put amla ahead of kohli in the stakes for being the ATG ODI batsman.

 

[Furball]

Lol at the Indian fans queuing up to put the boot in.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

Only slightly spoilt by the mindlessly bureaucratic decision to go off for the tea break with 12 needed.

the likely answer to this is pretty simple - food and beverage supplier contracts. They're probably guaranteed a certain structure of play with a guaranteed amount of lunch/dinner break time for people to spend money on terrible overpriced food and drink. It's frustrating for fans but I understand the reasoning behind it.

If this isn't the case then I agree it was completely ********.