**Official** New Zealand v Australia

[Fiery]

yeah very classy mate... doing alot for your reputation....

Aussies too good again im afraid.

Yeah you were too good. But bowling beamers is real classy

 

[Jono]

No, makes the difficult look easy - that's the definition of quality.

Very few, if any, other fieldsmen in the world would have been in the position to effect those run-outs.

Exactly. He makes it look easy.

 

[benchmark00]

Yeah you were too good. But bowling beamers is real classy

Ofcourse he meant it too....

 

[Scallywag]

Very impressed with Lee today, showed them who's boss.

Aggressive and lethal and intimidating the batsmen with great bowling.

 

[Ming]

Good on McCullum reacting that way after the beamer from Brett Lee.

Razzaq bowled a beamer to Lee in the VB series, and Lee went beserk. And when he was bowling to Razzaq later in the game, he deliberatly bowled a beamer at him, and it was quite clear it wasn't unintentional.

 

[Fiery]

Ofcourse he meant it too....

Ask the NZ players and McCullum in particular if he meant to do it. He's bowled so many in his career now that it's obvious that he gets a rush of blood to the head. This time he tried to disguise it by apologising.

 

[Scallywag]

Good on McCullum reacting that way after the beamer from Brett Lee.

Razzaq bowled a beamer to Lee in the VB series, and Lee went beserk. And when he was bowling to Razzaq later in the game, he deliberatly bowled a beamer at him, and it was quite clear it wasn't unintentional.

Razzaq bowled two beamers. Of course they were both unintentional because he's not Australian, but Lee being Australian his beamers have to be intentional dont they.

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Top performance by the Australians again. Katich, Clarke, Hussey, Lee, Gillespie and Symonds were all quite brilliant at one point or another in the match, and Kasper and Hogg did a fair job with the ball as well. Certainly looks to be a significant gap between 1 and 2 in the world now in ODIs, let's see how close England get in the tests.

 

[Scallywag]

Ask the NZ players and McCullum in particular if he meant to do it. He's bowled so many in his career now that it's obvious that he gets a rush of blood to the head. This time he tried to disguise it by apologising.

I guess now that Aus have won the series and there is nothing to blame on the umpires you will vent your spleen on Lee.

 

[Ming]

There better be changes

Only Hamish Marshall and Daniel Vettori have impressed in this ODI series so far. Cairns has been expensive with the ball, and finding no form with the bal whatsoever. The top order haven't given us good starts, and we have found ourselves in a situation like 40/2 from 15 overs too many times. McMillan has only fired once, while Sinclair offered us nothing in at 3.

Our pace bowling lineup is a major worry. Our opening bowlers offer us nothing at the top, except give Australia a ripper of start like 60/1 from 10 overs. I would replace Mills with Wilson. Tuffey has been absolute crap so far, stop this **** about calling him Mr Reliable please.

We should keep Michael Papps and James Marshall in the team, and hopefully Scott Styris is available. If he is fit, I would replace McMillan with him. Tuffey has to get the chop, and hopefully Adams is not the man to replace him.

Bring Lance Hamilton I say, he is mature at 31, and is in form, unlike Tuffey or Mills. I would open the bowling with Cairns and Hamilton. At least in Cairns, we would have someone who "can" be accurate. Man, do we miss Jacob Oram.


My ODI XI next game:

1 Stephen Fleming (c)
2 Michael Papps
3 Nathan Astle
4 Scott Styris
5 Hamish Marshall
6 James Marshall
7 Chris Cairns
8 Brendon McCullum+
9 Daniel Vettori
10 Jeff Wilson
11 Lance Hamilton

 

[shaka]

I wouldnt be surprised if we see Vincent, J marshall and H marshall fielding together on the off side for the next match, Vincent in for Papps I reckon.

 

[Fiery]

Razzaq bowled two beamers. Of course they were both unintentional because he's not Australian, but Lee being Australian his beamers have to be intentional dont they.

Razzaq's were both intentional also in my opinion. He was just making a point and doing what every international cricketer has wanted to do but been too afraid in payback for all ther beamers Lee has bowled in his career. You Aussies who dont think he has a habit of bowling beamers deliberately need to take off your eye patches.

 

[sportychic33]

ming why would you pick wilson .. i would rather have mills than wilson as mills' bowling hasn't been to bad recently

 

[Scallywag]

Razzaq's were both intentional also in my opinion. He was just making a point and doing what every international cricketer has wanted to do but been too afraid in payback for all ther beamers Lee has bowled in his career. You Aussies who dont think he has a habit of bowling beamers deliberately need to take off your eye patches.

Get over it Fiery we beat you fair and square.

 

[shaka]

IMO mcmillan did nothing wrong, bowled well, kept the runs ticking over relatively well in the batting department.

 

[Ming]

It just astounds me how we could lose 3 games in a row, in similar ways.

NZ Bowling
1-10 overs - we get ****ed with Mills and Tuffey
10-15 - Cairns starts to pull it back abit
15-35 - Aussie get ****ed as we bowl Vettori, Astle, McMillan and Styris
35-50 - we get ****ed as Cairns' good figures get destroyed and we get killed at the death with Symonds, Clarke and Hussey at the crease

Innings break - we need 230 to 300 to win

NZ Batting
1-10 - we lose Fleming, Astle, Sinclair/Papps
10-20 - H Marshall starts to rebuild the innings with McMillan/Styris
20-30 - Commentators say if Cairns' fires we win, for 3 games in a row, he doesn't
30-40 - our middle to lower order crumbles after the good work was done by H Marshall and McCullum/McMillan
40-50 - we lose

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

You honestly think bowlers don't accidentally bowl beamers? Have you ever tried to bowl fast in your life? It happens quite easily, even for cricketers of international standard. Personally I don't think I have ever seen an international cricketer bowl an intentional beamer in my life, but this one in particular from Lee was so obviously an accident I cannot believe anyone seriously believes otherwise.

 

[Ming]

This is quite hilarious.

The Aussie Channel 9 commentators keep saying they are international bowlers and shouldn't bowl beamers when talking about Razzag. And then Lee bowls one, and they all go "ohhh that just slipped...."

 

[Fiery]

Get over it Fiery we beat you fair and square.

Yes you did and you're so gracious in victory as always Scallwag. btw Why do you have to end your posts with despite the fact there is no humour in them?

 

[benchmark00]

Razzaq's were both intentional also in my opinion. He was just making a point and doing what every international cricketer has wanted to do but been too afraid in payback for all ther beamers Lee has bowled in his career. You Aussies who dont think he has a habit of bowling beamers deliberately need to take off your eye patches.

My lord, you seriously are deluded... There was absoluetly no way Lee meant to by the beamer, if you honestly think that, you need your head checked... Stop trying to find things to whinge about!!!