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Your wicket, I believe :lol:
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I had worried while posting. Especially after tempting fate with the 60 average remark.
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Nicholls... 200 off 240 balls :wtf:
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A double ton for Nicholls, cementing his place in the batting order?
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and a declaration, 580 / 4
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He must have been listening to all our constructive advice.
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And Timmy declares, 580 - 4.
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Gumboot wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 4:09 am He must have been listening to all our constructive advice.
:lol:

When it comes to coaching, we go ok
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Jb1981 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 17, 2023 4:46 am A life for Nicholls. Hopefully he can cash in.
Prophetic indeed.
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Is it too soon to call Nicholls a modern day NZ great?
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Not at all. The bar is set on a sliding mount.
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Jb1981 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 4:25 am Is it too soon to call Nicholls a modern day NZ great?
No... if by modern day, you mean today.
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34-4.

It’s great seeing what Matt Henry can do given the new ball and with consistent time in the team.
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Jb1981 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 9:59 pm 34-4.

It’s great seeing what Matt Henry can do given the new ball and with consistent time in the team.
Yep.

Good start to the day.
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Jb1981 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 3:37 am Cricinfo published a comment before play started yesterday that if Sri Lanka won the toss, not even Williamson could stop them winning.

If there’s a Sri Lankan equivalent of ‘Theo’, that was a hey it moment.
What is Hey Theo? I see it mentioned a lot?
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Grandpa wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 11:24 pm
Jb1981 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 3:37 am Cricinfo published a comment before play started yesterday that if Sri Lanka won the toss, not even Williamson could stop them winning.

If there’s a Sri Lankan equivalent of ‘Theo’, that was a hey it moment.
What is Hey Theo? I see it mentioned a lot?
A Kiwi on the Other Board was super-confident NZ would thrash France in the 07 RWC and was annoyed a mild-mannered poster called Theo said France might win. So he started a long call out thread titled “Hey Theo…”

The rest is history….
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Sandstorm wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 11:38 pm
Grandpa wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 11:24 pm
Jb1981 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 3:37 am Cricinfo published a comment before play started yesterday that if Sri Lanka won the toss, not even Williamson could stop them winning.

If there’s a Sri Lankan equivalent of ‘Theo’, that was a hey it moment.
What is Hey Theo? I see it mentioned a lot?
A Kiwi on the Other Board was super-confident NZ would thrash France in the 07 RWC and was annoyed a mild-mannered poster called Theo said France might win. So he started a long call out thread titled “Hey Theo…”

The rest is history….
Thanks. Are either of them still around? Would have loved to have seen that thread after France won...

16 years ago... and still a thing... brilliant... :lolno:
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Grandpa wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 11:44 pm
Sandstorm wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 11:38 pm
Grandpa wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 11:24 pm

What is Hey Theo? I see it mentioned a lot?
A Kiwi on the Other Board was super-confident NZ would thrash France in the 07 RWC and was annoyed a mild-mannered poster called Theo said France might win. So he started a long call out thread titled “Hey Theo…”

The rest is history….
Thanks. Are either of them still around? Would have loved to have seen that thread after France won...

16 years ago... and still a thing... brilliant... :lolno:
‘Twas a thing of beauty, I can assure you.
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Kiwias wrote: ↑Sun Mar 19, 2023 2:13 am‘Twas a thing of beauty, I can assure you.
Yep.

Great to see the Crappers enforce the follow on. Michael Bracewell has been in all the action today.
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I'm on nightshift this week. Went to bed with SL overnight and 2 down. This is some sort of day to wake up in :lol:
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Gumboot wrote: ↑Sun Mar 19, 2023 2:25 am
Kiwias wrote: ↑Sun Mar 19, 2023 2:13 am‘Twas a thing of beauty, I can assure you.
Yep.

Great to see the Crappers enforce the follow on. Michael Bracewell has been in all the action today.
SL fighting a bit harder than in the 1st innings
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Kiwias wrote: ↑Sun Mar 19, 2023 2:13 am
Grandpa wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 11:44 pm
Sandstorm wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 11:38 pm

A Kiwi on the Other Board was super-confident NZ would thrash France in the 07 RWC and was annoyed a mild-mannered poster called Theo said France might win. So he started a long call out thread titled “Hey Theo…”

The rest is history….
Thanks. Are either of them still around? Would have loved to have seen that thread after France won...

16 years ago... and still a thing... brilliant... :lolno:
‘Twas a thing of beauty, I can assure you.
One of those things I will always regret missing... :grin:
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Getting a bit breezy in Wellington...

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Grandpa wrote: ↑Sun Mar 19, 2023 8:00 pm
Kiwias wrote: ↑Sun Mar 19, 2023 2:13 am
Grandpa wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 11:44 pm
Thanks. Are either of them still around? Would have loved to have seen that thread after France won...

16 years ago... and still a thing... brilliant... :lolno:
‘Twas a thing of beauty, I can assure you.
One of those things I will always regret missing... :grin:
The poster that started that thread was Gtaaf. He actually took his medicine pretty well because as you can imagine, the ribbing was prolonged and merciless. Here we are now, still discussing it.

The unsung players deserve mention here though... the throng of NZ supporters who joined in with open scorn and disbelief at the idea NZ could lose to France. It would be unfair to mention any by name as my memory doesn't provide accurate data but there were quite a few and they deserve their moment of shame along with poor old Gtaaf.

The logic they relied on was familiar... NZ had been imperious so how could they lose. It's a well trodden path that provides a sense of comfort and safety for those reliant on complacency as a core value in life. Some of us... a small number, questioned it. France had lost at home in their own world cup and would be hurting, their players were proud and capable, etc. It fell on deaf ears. Onwards into the setting sun sailed the good ship Heedless.

That thread lived on for years and deservedly so... yet some of the key players proved over time that they hadn't learnt and the same arrogance and complacency still features at times.

With all that said, it looks as if we might get a result today... last man at the crease and minutes left to play.
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Have an additional 30mins (light permitting)
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That'll do.
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Didn't need much of the additional 30mins. 2 - 0 series win is a good end to the summer.
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Kiwias wrote: ↑Mon Mar 20, 2023 5:33 am Didn't need much of the additional 30mins. 2 - 0 series win is a good end to the summer.
Yep, it's been an encouraging end to a mixed summer. Two greats of the game in Taylor and Boult gone, and others like Wagner nearing their use by dates...
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Nice to finish with three on the bounce.
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Guy Smiley wrote: ↑Mon Mar 20, 2023 5:08 am
Grandpa wrote: ↑Sun Mar 19, 2023 8:00 pm
Kiwias wrote: ↑Sun Mar 19, 2023 2:13 am

‘Twas a thing of beauty, I can assure you.
One of those things I will always regret missing... :grin:
The poster that started that thread was Gtaaf. He actually took his medicine pretty well because as you can imagine, the ribbing was prolonged and merciless. Here we are now, still discussing it.

The unsung players deserve mention here though... the throng of NZ supporters who joined in with open scorn and disbelief at the idea NZ could lose to France. It would be unfair to mention any by name as my memory doesn't provide accurate data but there were quite a few and they deserve their moment of shame along with poor old Gtaaf.

The logic they relied on was familiar... NZ had been imperious so how could they lose. It's a well trodden path that provides a sense of comfort and safety for those reliant on complacency as a core value in life. Some of us... a small number, questioned it. France had lost at home in their own world cup and would be hurting, their players were proud and capable, etc. It fell on deaf ears. Onwards into the setting sun sailed the good ship Heedless.

That thread lived on for years and deservedly so... yet some of the key players proved over time that they hadn't learnt and the same arrogance and complacency still features at times.

With all that said, it looks as if we might get a result today... last man at the crease and minutes left to play.
Thanks for the summary. I was only dipping in and out of PR at that time... so I may have even read some of the thread and had forgotten about it... It's interesting though that communities like this and PR almost develop their own sub culture... with their own language variations... Just shows how hundreds of years ago why we were so tribal... with little interaction with the outside world, only those around you do you truly trust...
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Finn Allen with an outrageously wavy mullet and Chad Bowes with the sensible type of hairstyle you would expect from someone plying their trade for Canterbury have made a tidy start vs Sri Lanka in ODI 1.
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Wickets falling but Mitchell celebrating his Cricketer of the Year award with some grand strokes.
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Dang, forgot all about this game.
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Mitchell gone now too. Plenty of starts but no one has gone on and we are in a hole at 152-5.
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Brilliant on cricinfo
Ashish: "If GP bats till 48th over or more. He will get a 100. You read it first here :p"
Phillips holed out on the boundary off the next ball. :clap: :clap:


Ravindra too has a decent start and we are 230 - 6 in 43rd over
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274 all out … feels like a lot of runs were left out there.
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Henry Shipley - the new Jamieson?
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Jb1981 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 25, 2023 3:26 am Mitchell gone now too. Plenty of starts but no one has gone on and we are in a hole at 152-5.
Not as big a hole as 37 - 5
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BCs scrape home by 198 runs
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Mad cricket match going on between SA and WI. SA chasing 256 in a T20. QDK 100 off 46 balls.
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