***Official*** Australia in New Zealand 2016

[Spark]

this is more or less what happened in the first three odis against india too. weird that the bowling becomes so much more focussed and purposeful in the back-end of an innings, but i guess i'll take it

 

[Skyliner]

Last 5 ovs 8/2 RR 1.60

 

[Gnske]

So this is the engine room

 

[Bahnz]

Well this is crushingly familiar. With Taylor out, Elliot's form trailing off this season and Corey still to find his feet since his return from injury, our middle order really is horrendously weak.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

**** yeah a run!

 

[wellAlbidarned]

okay santa "regrouping" does not mean 1(12)

 

[wellAlbidarned]

Well this is crushingly familiar. With Taylor out, Elliot's form trailing off this season and Corey still to find his feet since his return from injury, our middle order really is horrendously weak.

it's especially infuriating since we basically have our greatest ever top three and in previous years we had the inverse problem

 

[mr_mister]

NZ what a team

 

[Immenso]

Corey is going to take over the Baz mantle of infuriating kiwi fans when he retires.

Might click by age 30. We can add him to the underperforming, late maturing pantheon of Flem, Baz, I was going to say Cairns but I don't think he ever grew up.

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Man this is pretty bad. One of the worst middle periods of an innings I can remember, at least when compared to the start.

 

[Bahnz]

Jesus these two go way beyond rusty. It's like they've corroded so much that they've sucked up all the oxygen in the atmosphere around Eden Park. They're the batting equivalent of the surface of Mars.

 

[ajdude]

so how far up the pecking order is hastings? you'd think fully fit starc cummins pattinson and hazlewood would be selected ahead of him but he's been real solid since coming back into the team last year.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

Jesus these two go way beyond rusty. It's like they've corroded so much that they've sucked up all the oxygen in the atmosphere around Eden Park. They're the batting equivalent of the surface of Mars.

was so unbearable the fielder basically let him have that boundary

 

[Flem274*]

you can't take this bloke to the T20 thing if he doesn't score runs here. you pick some shunt who can catch and hide him below the ten million allrounders nz seem to have picked

 

[Athlai]

Launch you shunts.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

marsh pulled out of that appeal because he realised it's better for aus not to get ronchi out

 

[Skyliner]

you can't take this bloke to the T20 thing if he doesn't score runs here. you pick some shunt who can catch and hide him below the ten million allrounders nz seem to have picked

You couldn't do that with Ronchi(?)

 

[Flem274*]

Northern Districts you suck

 

[Spark]

yeah ok this is impressively inept from nz

 

[straw man]

Launch you shunts.

Yes. Milne and Henry aren't so terrible that these two can't afford to get out, especially now it's the 43rd over.