Spark
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Everyone's beaten the batsmen a lot in this Test. When you're defending a small total and the bats are visibly nervous, your first requirement is not to give away freebies.
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**Official** New Zealand in Australia 2015
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Prince EWS
Global Moderator
Yeah the whole spell was just a touch short really. Every so often he dropped even shorter and Voges punished him, but he just never really found his length.
NZTailender
I can't believe I ate the whole thing
Flem274*
123/5
that doesn't mean he's not unlucky to get a wicket this innings, and his first spell this afternoon was tight.
TheJediBrah
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no ****
it doesn't take that long
this too
very little common sense displayed far too often
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wellAlbidarned
International Coach
why must today be the day smarsh remembers how to bat
ajdude
International Coach
the iPhone's got me before on the ffs/Fifa autocorrect, I know your pain
Prince EWS
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I made a Facebook comment all about the 'state asparagus' instead of the 'state apparatus' the other day thanks to Android. Been copping it from the people in that group about the evils of government vegetables ever since then.
Zinzan
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Lol I had spotted it & ran with it.
straw man
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Yes McCullum's always struggled to find the right balance between attack and defense with the bat. Would get carried away, flay at the wrong ball, maybe get lucky and then edge one behind while trying to play a conscientious forward defense. Then he struck the right balance around 24 months ago with much better defense and a real focus on choosing the right balls to attack.
I thought he would churn out a lot more runs after that. Instead, it's not exaggerating to say he's spent his last few test series and especially since the World Cup, playing ODI/T20 innings. His defense and shot selection have regressed significantly so that when he does need to lower the tempo from hyper-McCullum to a more regular pace... well he's just had so little practice playing that way this year. Thrusting bat and pad forward together hopefully as he did against Hazelwood here is not the way he was defending 18 months ago
... and has captaincy has followed exactly the same path.
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Hurricane
Hall of Fame Member
Ross did, but he doesn't get a vote for some reason.
Fuller Pilch
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Unless the pink ball really goes crazy this has been a very disappointing tour for NZ. Is it too early to start thinking about changes to the team for the SL series and return Aus series?
I'm thinking
TL
Brownlie
KW
RT
BMac
Santa
BJ
Braces
Wagner
TIm
Trent
I'm thinking
TL
Brownlie
KW
RT
BMac
Santa
BJ
Braces
Wagner
TIm
Trent