**Official** New Zealand in South Africa

[ajdude]

"Us NZ fans should be cheerful," starts Jono. "We've finally reached the bottom, after 4-5 years of being thereabouts, and it can only get better from here. Surely?"

****in jono stick to the one side you ****

 

[Spikey]

Look at the **** Haddin got though.

#intent

 

[SilentOne]

Have they shown McCullum or Hesson at all since this masterful batting display? I bet they are squirming in their ****ing seats.

 

[Flem274*]

Look at the **** Haddin got though.

Haddin isn't a bowler. You've mixed him up with Wade.

 

[Athlai]

I left the room and we didn't lose a wicket. Positive sign.

 

[Zinzan]

Yeah, but we led by about 150 odd on the first innings when they did it to us.

Terrible for NZ here. Had hopes for a good match here.

I genuinely didn't and have found it damn hard to get motivated for this series. When an average to poor side like NZ loses arguably their 4 best Test players in Taylor, Ryder, Southee & Vettori against a rampaging no 1 side in the world in their own backyard, it was always going to be a non-contest.

Not sure why you had high hopes tbh, did you not see the side?

 

[NZTailender]

I left the room and we didn't lose a wicket. Positive sign.

Please keep leaving.

 

[Burgey]

Lovely bit of gold from cricinfo....

Won't be laughing when NZ leads on the first innings....

 

[straw man]

Looking forward to the end-of-day interview when New Zealand identifies lack of positive intent as the cause for failure today.

 

[uvelocity]

jesus

 

[benchmark00]

I genuinely didn't and have found it damn hard to get motivated for this series. When an average to poor side like NZ loses arguably their 4 best Test players in Taylor, Ryder, Southee & Vettori against a rampaging no 1 side in the world in their own backyard, it was always going to be a non-contest.

Not sure why you had high hopes tbh, did you not see the side?

Yeah burgeys just saying words, surely no one had high hopes for this match.

 

[morgieb]

NZ...jesus christ.

 

[Athlai]

This is so hard to watch.

 

[NZTailender]

I genuinely didn't and have found it damn hard to get motivated for this series. When an average to poor side like NZ loses arguably their 4 best Test players in Taylor, Ryder, Southee & Vettori against a rampaging no 1 side in the world in their own backyard, it was always going to be a non-contest.

Not sure why you had high hopes tbh, did you not see the side?

Neither, but I thought even without Taylor, Southee, Ryder and the other injured who may or may not have played, that we'd still show something better than this.

Still, it's not over. I mean, we're not going to win, but back in the day the bulk of our runs came from 6 and below, so some semblance of dignity may get reclaimed.

 

[Pothas]

Glad I decided to wake up for this.

I know this was supposed to happen but didn't think it woul quite this dramatically.

 

[Mike5181]

Start filtering out NZ on statsguru fellas.

 

[straw man]

jesus

nah don't think he'd have much of a chance vs Philander here

 

[benchmark00]

Great way to bring it up.

 

[Flem274*]

So who picked Dougeh to be Steyn's 300th?

 

[KiWiNiNjA]