*Official* Sri Lanka in New Zealand, 2024–25 (ODIs / T20Is)

[SteveNZ]

This is SteveNZ, the T20 fan who enjoys the music loudly piped in between the utterance of ‘straight’ and ‘up’. The pause being just long enough to fit in an advert for DLF’s new hot air balloon company with the ‘up’ segueing nicely into the ‘up and away’ suffix of the advert, yes?

You're acting facetious like this isn't the future of the game...

Funnily enough I went to the Breakers last night and there's a noise spectacle to make you think a T20I is a meditative experience in comparison. And my daughter and I loved it. Clearly it's just the affront to my love of the game and its intricacies. I don't know **** about basketball

 

[Zinzan]

You've got to listen out for "who's under it?"
For SS, my favorite lineup is Stevenson, Martin & Elliott.

Eww (in bold)

 

[RMBolton]

Eww (in bold)

For me, they're mostly there for the laughs. A line that was burned into my memory from Elliott was "penetrate these Wellington Blaze players" back in the '22-3 Super Smash. I'm pretty sure he meant to penetrate their lineup, but that was just a terrible image.

Martin can provide big laughs, but she can provide some insightful chat as well, particularly around wicketkeeping; I liked her today talking about adapting to different bowlers & (with Mackay being next to her) how she adapted to Mackay's style of offspin being different to other offspinners she'd kept to.

 

[SteveNZ]

Yeah I don't disagree, in Super Smash you can have a bit of fun and try to provide a product for the new casual fan. That's when you talk about pizza toppings and obscure cartoon references.

I just can't cop Sumo and co in Tests. That's a hallowed product that needs the right people to compliment it.

And yeah, Grunt Elliott has been incredibly disappointing on comms.

I wonder if the ability to get guys long term is affected by the fact they have to work with the people who are in that box. Not everyone would find that ideal.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Fine I'll do comms