*Official* New Zealand in Australia 2019/20

[straw man]

that's why i think he should go the gillespie route. he's 6 foot so he's tall enough. when he bowls his natural length 135kph is too slow to catch batsmen out consistently.

he gets natural variation to jag the ball in so if he's bowling 140+ consistently he's in the game.

it's that or he finds a way to hit the bat hard when he pitches it up.

Mr Darcy go the sweaty and red faced Mark Gillespie route? How uncouth.

Would be nice though.

 

[jcas0167]

lol at edging for the double hundred. What can you do as a bowler but shake your head.

A very good and well organised batsman though, obviously.

Is it standard to discard with slips when a guy is obviously under a bit of self imposed pressure approaching a century? Just watched the highlights of that great Boxing Day test in '87. Crowe was out for 76 and 80, while Wright was dismissed for 99. All caught in the slips.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

A good old fashioned Caught and bowled.

 

[Starfighter]

Typical leg spinner's dismissal.

 

[Gnske]

This is so sweetly setup for the tail to add 100+

 

[thierry henry]

This is so sweetly setup for the tail to add 100+

If they don’t, basically all 3 first innings of this series have been exactly the same

 

[Flem274*]

there he goes. surprised it didn't happen sooner, he's looked pretty tired for a while and was getting increasingly tinny. massive knock, he knows how to crush a team.

what seperates world class players from good players is ruthlessness and labuskugnee has it.

 

[straw man]

Is it standard to discard with slips when a guy is obviously under a bit of self imposed pressure approaching a century? Just watched the highlights of that great Boxing Day test in '87. Crowe was out for 76 and 80, while Wright was dismissed for 99. All caught in the slips.

dunno, though Taylor was parked at first slip almost the entirety of the first two tests and it didn't seem to help much.

Pleased for Astle to get a wicket.

 

[Hicheal Michael]

The body language post-dismissal from Labuschagne could do some work. Been average all series.

 

[Flem274*]

The body language post-dismissal from Labuschagne could do some work. Been average all series.

who gives a ****? he scored runs, lots of them. i wish we'd score some runs and take some wickets instead of winning spirit of cricket awards. rossco should have knocked marais erasmus tf out in that wc final where england fluked a tie.

 

[Prince EWS]

Is it standard to discard with slips when a guy is obviously under a bit of self imposed pressure approaching a century?

I think the plan was to ring-field him to make it hard for him to pick up a single. Unless they thought he was going to run himself out or try to chip one over cover this was always only going to delay the inevitable though IMO.

 

[Gnske]

who gives a ****? he scored runs, lots of them. i wish we'd score some runs and take some wickets instead of winning spirit of cricket awards. rossco should have knocked marais erasmus tf out in that wc final where england fluked a tie.

Wait what? Every source I've read has recorded that as an England victory.

 

[The Hutt Rec]

The race to two spinning wickets in this series is really heating up!!!

Raval: 1
Santner: 1
Somerville: 1
Astle: 1

 

[Starfighter]

I reckon Astle's just lost his line now he's bowling to the tail.

The body language post-dismissal from Labuschagne could do some work. Been average all series.

Stupid comment.

 

[Hicheal Michael]

who gives a ****? he scored runs, lots of them. i wish we'd score some runs and take some wickets instead of winning spirit of cricket awards. rossco should have knocked marais erasmus tf out in that wc final where england fluked a tie.

I'm joking bro.

I just think of the poor sod on a zero hour contract who has to pick up his gum every dismissal.

 

[thierry henry]

Astle deciding to bowl some nuts now

 

[NotMcKenzie]

Oh dear

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Oh dear, what a body blow

 

[Gnske]

That counts as a short ball, don't @ me.

If only they were zing bails.

 

[Starfighter]

If they were Zing bails they wouldn't have come off.