***Official*** Bangladesh in NZ 2021-22

[Daemon]

Someone please screenshot Kyle Jamieson when he stands next to Mominul/Liton

It’ll be like the GoT Mountain/Cersei picture

 

[straw man]

Mominul now has 560 runs at 70 vs NZ.

 

[Aritro]

Since he was on TV, and especially since he became a mouthpiece on morning TV, yep. He did a stint on radio when he was still playing for Auckland, and was outstanding. Got on TV, then just started spouting whatever contradictory nonsense he could find. Read also: M.Vaughan. Very similar commentary personas.

He's a lot less comfortable and ergo a lot better behaved when he works in Oz IMO. Behaves like a guest, which reigns in his more annoying tendencies and offers pretty good insight on cricket.

His Twitter is a **** show at the best of times mind you.

 

[NZTailender]

Yes as everyone knows our seam attack is actually very bad

why are you and pews replying seriously to obvioustrolliner

 

[NZTailender]

Incidentally, it is quite funny to see NZ posters suddenly decry us as rubbish. It's a flat deck, we've bowled a bit of rubbish, they've been quite arsey at times but also batted very well at times. Might need to relax a bit on the epitaph for NZ in the new WTC window.

Not even sure Patel would've made a massive difference, it's a very slow deck. I know their spinners took wickets but that was our average approach to batting moreso - which felt embarrassingly like 'oh well it's Bangladesh, we'll roll them'

We've been caught on the hop without having played much cricket by a fairly disciplined Bangladeshi bowling and batting outfit, but apparently it's the end of times and we're back to being number 8 in the world and not 2.

 

[thierry henry]

Richardson has basically gone from a guy who played 4 years of test cricket and then started out as a cricket commentator, to a major mainstream radio and TV host/star. He’s achieved this despite a general absence of charm, charisma or good looks - deploying a sort of villainous, contrarian snark instead. It’s all very savvy of him really, but he has basically been inhabiting a media persona for years now so his commentary needs to be seen in light of that.

 

[Skyliner]

They are going to have to bowl Rachin a bit more to give the seamers a rest and to provide a point of difference. Give him a decent spell of bowling. At the moment he is just getting one or two overs at the end of sessions.

 

[thierry henry]

why are you and pews replying seriously to obvioustrolliner

But it wasn’t serious. I think our seam attack is good.

 

[thierry henry]

why are you and pews replying seriously to obvioustrolliner

Also why did you reply seriously when I said we were bad now ?

 

[Prince EWS]

why are you and pews replying seriously to obvioustrolliner

No AM tweets for a whole hour. I was bored.

 

[thierry henry]

There was no need to get away from bowling line and length with a full cordon to Mominul. At no point has he looked comfortable against or even really tried to attack good bowling.

 

[Immenso]

Also **** me, I'd forgotten how small your grounds are lads. This is basically a velodrome.

Oooft... that is not a good spot to be hit by a cricket ball.

Bay Oval is normal size. Nothing small about it. It's not one of our postage stamps.

 

[Aritro]

Blundell making some of the same noises in response to Ravindra's bowling as he does when he gets pegged

 

[thierry henry]

Bay Oval is normal size. Nothing small about it. It's not one of our postage stamps.

Yeah I figured he was referring to the actual ‘stadium’/small grass embankment? Because it’s an above-average sized ground. I think maybe confusion between the size of the playing area and the surrounds might explain a lot of erroneous talk about small NZ grounds?

 

[wellAlbidarned]

Blundell making some of the same noises in response to Ravindra's bowling as he does when he gets pegged

We only need one gnske and that's debatable

 

[thierry henry]

We are massively overdue a rash of chop ons and edges that carry and wickets where we haven’t overstepped by 0mm

 

[Aritro]

Yeah I figured he was referring to the actual ‘stadium’/small grass embankment? Because it’s an above-average sized ground. I think maybe confusion between the size of the playing area and the surrounds might explain a lot of erroneous talk about small NZ grounds?

Dunno, it just looked small compared to the grounds the last two tests I watched were played on. Namely Centurion and the MCG. Fair enough if it's actually above-average sized.

 

[vandem]

Incidentally, it is quite funny to see NZ posters suddenly decry us as rubbish. It's a flat deck, we've bowled a bit of rubbish, they've been quite arsey at times but also batted very well at times. Might need to relax a bit on the epitaph for NZ in the new WTC window.

Not even sure Patel would've made a massive difference, it's a very slow deck. I know their spinners took wickets but that was our average approach to batting moreso - which felt embarrassingly like 'oh well it's Bangladesh, we'll roll them'

Agree about NZ batting, should have been 400+.

I am still not a fan of the Mount pitch for test cricket. I watched Watling nudge and nurdle for 2 days against England, didn't make for good watching, and took some dumb England play for them to lose the game.

Seems strange that we give Bangladesh the flatest pitch of the summer, and host the South African quicks at the Basin and Hagley. Perhaps Mount 4th and 5th day crowd numbers matter more than WTC points?

 

[Aritro]

Agree about NZ batting, should have been 400+.

I am still not a fan of the Mount pitch for test cricket. I watched Watling nudge and nurdle for 2 days against England, didn't make for good watching, and took some dumb England play for them to lose the game.

Seems strange that we give Bangladesh the flatest pitch of the summer, and host the South African quicks at the Basin and Hagley. Perhaps crowd numbers matter more than WTC points?

Yeah I figure they just wanted the match to last more than two and a half days, having determined, accurately, that you'll still win no matter what the wicket's like.

 

[thierry henry]

All exaggerated predictions of doom and general joking aside, this test match right now is going very badly for us FTR