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Just keeps getting better and tasting sweeterGuy Smiley wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2024 7:38 amThe first clean sweep of India at home (SA managed a 2-0 series 20 years back)
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I wonder if anybody had the foresight, and bravery, to back a NZ clean sweep at the TAB. Not to mention what odds they got...
Rarely can a change of captain have worked such wonders!
Which reminds me of the need for a big shout out to the often-maligned Gary Stead. Yes, he's kept Southee both as captain and player for too long, but it's impossible to argue with his results, and he just keeps producing them, even with what looked like a weakened team.
Now he just needs to find a way to beat Australia — the last frontier.
Rarely can a change of captain have worked such wonders!
Which reminds me of the need for a big shout out to the often-maligned Gary Stead. Yes, he's kept Southee both as captain and player for too long, but it's impossible to argue with his results, and he just keeps producing them, even with what looked like a weakened team.
Now he just needs to find a way to beat Australia — the last frontier.
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LOL
0-3 series white wash
0-3 series white wash
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131/0 after 19 needing 164
No way Pakistan can lose this from here (quietly places a bet)
No way Pakistan can lose this from here (quietly places a bet)
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Proteas 1st T20 vs India in Durban at 17h00
Beer o'clock tonight.
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Our trade envoy to Oz is doing much hard work, it seems.Ian Botham saved from crocodile-infested waters by Ashes rival Merv Hughes
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/ ... es-cricket
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India running away with it
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Pakistan smash Aus again
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2ndT20 a bit better. India 62/4 after 10
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120/6 after 20.
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66/6
Klassen and Miller fall together again
Klassen and Miller fall together again
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SA win!
Coetzee smashes it (19/9) and Stubbs finished it
Coetzee smashes it (19/9) and Stubbs finished it
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One of the weirdest games I've ever watched. NZ batting was atrocious, though to be honest the Lankian bowling was up to the task. Then some very improbable wickets for the NZ attack interspersed with some fine line and length. Bemused is what I take from the match, happy with the result however, series alive!
There's some reputations left in tatters out there. Looks at the Heat line-up, hello selectors stop jizzing over the non-performing Victorians.
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Tim Southee has announced his retirement...
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/360488037 ... st-england
either after the home series against England, or maybe after one last test against Sri Lanka... unless NZ qualify for the Test Championship final. After one of those, then.
At this stage.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/360488037 ... st-england
either after the home series against England, or maybe after one last test against Sri Lanka... unless NZ qualify for the Test Championship final. After one of those, then.
At this stage.
He announced on Friday that the upcoming three-match test series against England, starting on November 28 in Christchurch, would be his last, with the full squad to be named later this afternoon.
If the Black Caps qualify for next year’s World Test Championship final, he will remain available for selection for that match.
Southee will decide after the England series whether he would like a white-ball swansong against Sri Lanka after Christmas.
He will have been an international cricketer for almost 17 years by the time he does hang up his bowling boots, with his 36th birthday falling between the second and third tests.
He made his debut as an 19-year-old against England at home in early 2008 and has so far played 104 tests, 161 one-day internationals and 126 Twenty20 internationals.
In tests, he has taken 385 wickets – second only to Sir Richard Hadlee amongst New Zealanders – in ODIs, he has taken 221, and in T20s he has taken 164. His total of 770 international wickets is the 10th-best of all time.
He has played in four ODI World Cups and seven T20 World Cups and was a member of the Black Caps squad that won the inaugural World Test Championship final in 2021.
He captained the Black Caps 14 times in test cricket, taking on the role full time from 2022 to earlier this year, once in ODIs and 29 times in T20s.
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India carnage in Johannesburg,
216/1 after 14.4 - crr 14.72, last 5 overs 19.00
Varma 75 from 26
Samson 91 from 44
300 on the cards.
216/1 after 14.4 - crr 14.72, last 5 overs 19.00
Varma 75 from 26
Samson 91 from 44
300 on the cards.
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And they blow the last bits and only post 283
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Remarkable chase from SA, this going to the wire
17/4
17/4
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SA were given a tennis ball when they bowled. Zero swing or turn.
I think India’s ball was made in the sidewinder missle factory. It’s like not even the same type of ball.
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Proteas vs Sri Lanka, first test Durban. Proteas batting
Playing XIs
South Africa: 1 Aiden Markram, 2 Tony de Zorzi, 3 Tristan Stubbs, 4 Temba Bavuma (capt.), 5 David Bedingham, 6 Kyle Verreynne (wk), 7 Marco Jansen, 8 Wiaan Mulder, 9 Gerald Coetzee, 9 Keshav Maharaj, 11 Kagiso Rabada
Sri Lanka: 1 Dimuth Karunaratne, 2 Pathum Nissanka, 3 Dinesh Chandimal, 4 Angelo Mathews, 5 Kamindu Mendis, 6 Dhananjaya de Silva (capt), 7 Kusal Mendis (wk), 8 Prabath Jayasuriya, 9 Lahiru Kumara, 10 Asitha Fernando, 11 Vishwa Fernando
Playing XIs
South Africa: 1 Aiden Markram, 2 Tony de Zorzi, 3 Tristan Stubbs, 4 Temba Bavuma (capt.), 5 David Bedingham, 6 Kyle Verreynne (wk), 7 Marco Jansen, 8 Wiaan Mulder, 9 Gerald Coetzee, 9 Keshav Maharaj, 11 Kagiso Rabada
Sri Lanka: 1 Dimuth Karunaratne, 2 Pathum Nissanka, 3 Dinesh Chandimal, 4 Angelo Mathews, 5 Kamindu Mendis, 6 Dhananjaya de Silva (capt), 7 Kusal Mendis (wk), 8 Prabath Jayasuriya, 9 Lahiru Kumara, 10 Asitha Fernando, 11 Vishwa Fernando
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Bavuma give us some life. 74/4
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SA 191 all out, Bavuma 70
SL 42 all out in 13.5 overs. Jansen gets 7
SL 42 all out in 13.5 overs. Jansen gets 7
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Wow.Insane_Homer wrote: ↑Thu Nov 28, 2024 12:04 pm SA 191 all out, Bavuma 70
SL 42 all out in 13.5 overs. Jansen gets 7
Spicy pitch, I presume?
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Green mamba. Sri Lanka probably caught the wrong side of the tide.inactionman wrote: ↑Thu Nov 28, 2024 12:09 pmWow.Insane_Homer wrote: ↑Thu Nov 28, 2024 12:04 pm SA 191 all out, Bavuma 70
SL 42 all out in 13.5 overs. Jansen gets 7
Spicy pitch, I presume?