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

[NZTailender]

Question: do people care in the slightest about overrates on days like this?

Not on days like this. Most of the slowness was due to Australia having to fetch the ball from the crowd so often. I mean there was nearly 450 runs in the day ffs.

 

[Gob]

Burns is like Australia's Guptill, just a bit more successful. Can look good, but major technical flaws for Test level cricket.

No one can be as bad as Gotpills come on

 

[NZTailender]

iirc Fleming got like a duck and 6 in his 100th Test. Hit 262 in the next. Expect McCullum to go big at his (new) home.

 

[NZTailender]

No one can be as bad as Gotpills come on

Did you ever see Peter Ingram or Rob Nicol?

 

[Bahnz]

Pretty good bowling there by Southee and Henry in tandem in that last hour. It'd be a real struggle facing them in swinging conditions. Supposed to be cooler and a bit cloudy tomorrow. NZ badly need a bit of wobble to get some sort of a lead. Still slightly their day though.

 

[NZTailender]

Did you ever see Peter Ingram or Rob Nicol?

And who could forget James Marshall? I'd like to.

 

[Gob]

Did you ever see Peter Ingram or Rob Nicol?

No but i'm sure Gotpills is worse than those guys 4sure

 

[Gnske]

Did you ever see Peter Ingram or Rob Nicol?

FMD, when Tait completely ****** Ingram's beans up and delivered the bird to BMAC at the other end in his follow through.

 

[Spark]

Probably the single best day of Test cricket in quite a long time tbh, certainly on Day 1. Had the lot (easy to forget just how tense that morning session was)

 

[Jord]

I'd love Baz to come out and smite a double hundred. I'll go pray on that while I hit some golf; later guys.

hah... Prayers worked I guess! Just not quite the double.

 

[Flem274*]

stop posting tweets from imbreds btw people

 

[Jord]

Ultimately here I think McCullum needs to curb naturally over aggressive instincts and focus on pressure and run rate restriction, let the pitch do the work as it should have enough in it tomorrow morning. Henry looked threatening without luck, Southee and Boult are just ghosts of christmas past compared to what they used to be and most of it is because they're trying to bowl miracle balls, rather than build pressure.

 

[Bahnz]

Yeah would throw Henry the ball first up tomorrow morning. Hit a really good line that had both batsmen playing and missing at different stages.

 

[cnerd123]

Ultimately here I think McCullum needs to curb naturally over aggressive instincts and focus on pressure and run rate restriction, let the pitch do the work as it should have enough in it tomorrow morning. Henry looked threatening without luck, Southee and Boult are just ghosts of christmas past compared to what they used to be and most of it is because they're trying to bowl miracle balls, rather than build pressure.

nah **** that, did you see his innings?

What he needs to do is go full peak meme McCullum. 6 slips 2 gullies and himself with no helmet a short leg. 2 over spells. Give Kane the new ball. The works.

 

[Jord]

Notice Radiosport was already saying they feel he might miss Craig; why does this still exist in thinking of apparently reasonable intelligent analysts? How are you going to miss a guy who doesn't build pressure, doesn't rip sides out and represents a break for the batsman?

 

[Spikey]

Question: do people care in the slightest about overrates on days like this?

a person who finds slow over rates an issue is a person i cannot take remotely seriously

 

[hendrix]

Notice Radiosport was already saying they feel he might miss Craig; why does this still exist in thinking of apparently reasonable intelligent analysts? How are you going to miss a guy who doesn't build pressure, doesn't rip sides out and represents a break for the batsman?

because he has ripped sides out in the past.

 

[hendrix]

I imagine Wagner is going to be absolutely frothing at the mouth to get a bowl.

Think the more Baz pisses him off by bowling Corey and KW before him, the better

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

a person who finds slow over rates an issue is a person i cannot take remotely seriously

Only real exception for me is I do think there needs to be some basic standards in place to ensure teams have ample opportunity to win the game. Like if you're playing for a draw on day 5, bowling 10 overs an hour definitely shouldn't be acceptable. But as an overall issue in cricket it seems so insignificant and overblown. Really dumb how much people go on about the difference between 13.5 and 15 overs an hour when test matches are getting results etc anyway.

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Notice Radiosport was already saying they feel he might miss Craig; why does this still exist in thinking of apparently reasonable intelligent analysts? How are you going to miss a guy who doesn't build pressure, doesn't rip sides out and represents a break for the batsman?

Ball was turning a bit for Lyon. If the pitch flattens out and batting becomes easy, some sort of spin option might be preferable to a 5th seamer. Doesn't necessarily mean he warrants selection but I can see the argument that he might be missed.