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Gumboot
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Surprise surprise, Nicholls goes cheaply again.
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Guy Smiley
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Gumboot wrote: ↑Mon Mar 13, 2023 3:57 am Surprise surprise, Nicholls goes cheaply again.
This is the first session I've watched. As a rookie viewer then, I thought going for a sweep shot every ball was normal for a high stakes scenario like this.
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Kiwias
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Gumboot wrote: ↑Mon Mar 13, 2023 3:57 am Surprise surprise, Nicholls goes cheaply again.
I fear it will prove not to have been his last chance.
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20 overs left, 132 runs needed. An easy chase in T20.
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Kiwias wrote: ↑Mon Mar 13, 2023 4:52 am 20 overs left, 132 runs needed. An easy chase in T20.
It's an intriguing chase and I am reluctant to leave the Streaming Machine to cook.
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Kiwias
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We know that KW is perfectly capable of scoring very quickly when the mood takes him, while Mitchell, Blundell, Bracewell, and Southee all have a monster-mode. And Henry as he showed in the first innings.
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All of them also have a Damp Squib mode....
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Gumboot
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Didn't think we'd see any action today, but now... game on!
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Kiwias
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Guy Smiley wrote: ↑Mon Mar 13, 2023 5:03 am All of them also have a Damp Squib mode....
Goes without saying but we don't need all of them to fire
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Kiwias wrote: ↑Mon Mar 13, 2023 5:05 am
Guy Smiley wrote: ↑Mon Mar 13, 2023 5:03 am All of them also have a Damp Squib mode....
Goes without saying but we don't need all of them to fire
:lol: :thumbup:
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Gumboot
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Another 50 to Mitchell. The guy's a machine.
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Guy Smiley
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Gumboot wrote: ↑Mon Mar 13, 2023 5:24 am Another 50 to Mitchell. The guy's a machine.
Yes he is... a Tub Thumping Tonking Machine :lol:
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Brilliant running between the wickets by these two.
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Kiwias
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Bowl a shitty ball and Mitchell drags it on.
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Guy Smiley
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Bloody Mitchell.
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Kiwias
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Hard to blame Blundell -- that was a superb yorker
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Game still on :lol:
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Gumboot
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So under the new rule, the batters can't cross while the ball's in the air.
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8 runs needed off one over. Kane on strike.
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Gumboot
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Second great finish in a row. Gotta love test cricket.
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Gumboot wrote: ↑Mon Mar 13, 2023 6:33 am Second great finish in a row. Gotta love test cricket.
Oh yes.
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Kiwias
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Umpires must be tempted to check the light meters
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Kiwias
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Following the England match, what an absolute stunner.
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Gumboot
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That'll do.












Holy shit!!!
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Guy Smiley
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Gumboot wrote: ↑Mon Mar 13, 2023 6:33 am Second great finish in a row. Gotta love test cricket.
Amen to that
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I want to have Kane’s children
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I am amazed that Wagner could even run with the injuries he is suffering
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Can't imagine Kane's ever played such a great test innings in front of such a tiny crowd before.
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Kiwias wrote: ↑Mon Mar 13, 2023 6:45 am I want to have Kane’s children
:lol:
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Gumboot wrote: ↑Mon Mar 13, 2023 6:52 am Can't imagine Kane's ever played such a great test innings in front of such a tiny crowd before.
You know he is in fine form when he doesn't look flustered or under any pressure at all, then comes up with the match-winning boundary (effectively) with a field set to prevent it.
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Two consecutive last innings chases won...

surely, the Black Caps are changing the face of cricket.
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Guy Smiley wrote: ↑Mon Mar 13, 2023 7:58 am Two consecutive last innings chases won...

surely, the Black Caps are changing the face of cricket.
We stopped England's chase one run short after they made us follow on.

Has that ever happened before - winning by one run, then winning on the last ball in the very next test? Aren't those the two closest possible victories for a bowling and a batting side?
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Gumboot wrote: ↑Mon Mar 13, 2023 8:40 am
Guy Smiley wrote: ↑Mon Mar 13, 2023 7:58 am Two consecutive last innings chases won...

surely, the Black Caps are changing the face of cricket.
We stopped England's chase one run short after they made us follow on.

Has that ever happened before - winning by one run, then winning on the last ball in the very next test? Aren't those the two closest possible victories for a bowling and a batting side?
No idea whether a team has managed that before, I’d be very surprised if it has been done… and yes. The two narrowest possible margins😂
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Guy Smiley wrote: ↑Mon Mar 13, 2023 8:47 am
Gumboot wrote: ↑Mon Mar 13, 2023 8:40 am
Guy Smiley wrote: ↑Mon Mar 13, 2023 7:58 am Two consecutive last innings chases won...

surely, the Black Caps are changing the face of cricket.
We stopped England's chase one run short after they made us follow on.

Has that ever happened before - winning by one run, then winning on the last ball in the very next test? Aren't those the two closest possible victories for a bowling and a batting side?
No idea whether a team has managed that before, I’d be very surprised if it has been done… and yes. The two narrowest possible margins😂
It's incredible really. Yes, we "won by 2 wickets" today, but if you add up both teams' overall totals, the difference is a single run, just like last time.
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Kiwias
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And they said test cricket is boring.
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Gumboot
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NZ 692 - Eng 691
NZ 658 - SL 657
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Big Congrats to the Bangers - T20 series 3-0 whitewash of England :thumbup:
“Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true.”
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Not sure we care too much about T20s right now, given the ODI world cup focus. This is a split tour to begin with and we had very few options for batsmen. Such is life.
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Kiwias wrote: ↑Mon Mar 13, 2023 7:25 am
Gumboot wrote: ↑Mon Mar 13, 2023 6:52 am Can't imagine Kane's ever played such a great test innings in front of such a tiny crowd before.
You know he is in fine form when he doesn't look flustered or under any pressure at all, then comes up with the match-winning boundary (effectively) with a field set to prevent it.
My all time favourite boundary with a field set remains a 1st class game between Warwickshire and Durham. Lara was batting late in the day on 497* and Keith Piper walked down from the other end to ask a very tired Brian Lara if he in fact knew this was the last over and he had but a couple of balls to make it to 500, Lara hadn't realised and was taking a breather thinking he had a few overs to make the final push. And still with a defensive field in place he just smashed the ball to the boundary, field be damned.

Pretty sure that was also the match he put on 300 in a stand with Trevor Penney and Penney scored something like 30 of them
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