Warm ups for World Cup

[Blakey]

Why are the warm-up matches in Aus televised by not the ones in NZ?

 

[Athlai]

Why are the warm-up matches in Aus televised by not the ones in NZ?

Sky isn't filming the World Cup. So star-espn clearly couldn't be stuffed.

 

[hendrix]

Because about 40 people will watch a warmup match between NZ and SA.

whereas about 40 million people will watch Kohli brushing his teeth.

 

[hendrix]

I will take a Guptill 26 (36) any day of the week, especially vs SA.

 

[Mike5181]

Yeah, much better start

 

[Athlai]

I will take a Guptill 26 (36) any day of the week, especially vs SA.

Yeah it's what you want from a Guptill start if he doesn't go on. Hopefully the hundred and this innings will see him in a better state of mind come the WC proper.

Baz with a 50. I'm very much in the camp of Baz scoring big this World Cup so this is good to see. I think he'll bring a lot more focus to the big pressure games.

 

[Athlai]

And I jinxed Baz. Darn.

 

[hendrix]

And I jinxed Baz. Darn.

is he out? how are you following this?

 

[Athlai]

is he out? how are you following this?

ICC Match Centre

Twitter is a bit faster than that for wickets and milestones though

https://twitter.com/blackcaps

Cricinfo is hopeless for this.

 

[Mike5181]

Cricinfo's like four overs behind

 

[hendrix]

How easy is cricket for Kane Williamson right now?

 

[Athlai]

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And another 50 for Kane Williamson, this one off 41 balls. It really is painful how easy he makes it look #nzvsa ^CE


Kane

So annoyed that this isn't on TV. Easily the most interesting warm up scheduled.

 

[Blakey]

"Wicket. McCullum goes to cut but it's too close and he's bowled."

Seen that before haven't we.

 

[hendrix]

Why is steyn not bowling?

 

[Blakey]

Why is steyn not bowling?

NZ management request for him not to?

 

[Athlai]

Kane gone after smashing Philander for three fours in a row.

We need Ronchi-Elliott-Taylor to be there till the 45th to get a really big one here.

 

[hendrix]

really important to put Philander off his length I reckon.

 

[Greenlite]

How fast are these 8 SA bowlers today? At this rate their keeper will have a bowl.

As long as our boys get some quickies without getting hurt then that's good preparation.

 

[hendrix]

400 on the cards

 

[Zinzan]

I will take a Guptill 26 (36) any day of the week, especially vs SA.

Not disagreeing, but quite a sad reality check that we're rapt for our opener to average 26 with a SR of 72... Wonder if any other of the top 8 sides would take their opener scoring 26 off 36 any day of the week....