Magrat Garlick
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220 at the very least. As said, bottom five will outscore top five.
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Richard
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Wouldn't put it past them TBH. Obviously would need to be scored in the vast majority by these two and the next man (Vettori) but it's certainly possible. McCullum for once is playing extremely well, best I've seen him bat in a Test since 2004.
It can all change any second with just 1 ball, though.
Bahnz
Hall of Fame Member
Yeah, but even if McCullum does continue to ride his luck, Oram's looking quite dreadful at the moment, and the conditions would make things difficult for Vettori to survive the evening. I hope your right, but I'm not full of confidence.
Pup Clarke
Cricketer Of The Year
FFS, shoddy umpiring tstl, Monty has had 2 plumb lbw's turned down.
Pup Clarke
Cricketer Of The Year
But why, it's pretty obvious imo to tell whether it's bat first and both were hitting middle of middle, Monty has every right to be frustrated with these decisions, McCullum really wasn't very far forward in any of them.
AWTA
Pup Clarke
Cricketer Of The Year
Hmmm...yeah, was it Bucknor umpiring last year when WI had loads of lbw's like that?
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
A Jamaican can't Umpire against West Indies.
From memory Aleem Dar was certainly one, can't remember the other.
Pup Clarke
Cricketer Of The Year
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
Will this finally be McCullum's first Test century against a Test-class team?
If so, long overdue.
Sheeysh, well as he's hit some of them, he's had some ones fall in the gaps. That will happen occasionally, and well done to him for playing well. He can't expect this to happen again in the series (or for a while) mind.
If so, long overdue.
Sheeysh, well as he's hit some of them, he's had some ones fall in the gaps. That will happen occasionally, and well done to him for playing well. He can't expect this to happen again in the series (or for a while) mind.
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
No, he can't! Out within a hit of a century at Lord's AGAIN!
MSP gets him, somehow he's just played around a ball on his pads, which deflects onto the stumps.
sideshowtim
Banned
Is McCullum the biggest choker in world cricket?
GGG
State Captain
errr no he just plays his shots regardless.
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
Not really. Can't see that he choked here (or anywhere else TBH).
Bahnz
Hall of Fame Member
McCullum to be the next Shane Warne? (in terms of the missing out on hundreds from close range repeatedly, rather than being the greatest leg spinner of all time)
Seriously, surely at some point he must learn to play with some circumspect when he starts getting near that 100 mark.
Seriously, surely at some point he must learn to play with some circumspect when he starts getting near that 100 mark.
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Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
Can't comment on the 99 against Sri Lanka as I don't recall how he was dismissed, but he had no fault whatsoever for his previous one at Lord's, the 96, it was simply brilliant bowling from Simon Jones that could've had him any time over the previous half-hour or so. Nor was this dismissal a result of a lack of circumspection, he just missed a ball he should've hit. Was a fairly judicious stroke - the right sort of stroke - he just played it badly.