The Cricket Thread

[neels]

It's a fair call from the umpires though. Not reasonable to keep playing under those circumstances - dangerous for the bowlers and stuff.

Agreed, but ......fuck fuck fuck, 33 from 36 to win the series, Guptill playing a blinder, Ricky Ponting losing his rag, bastard rain

[crazychris]

hell yea, too wet, but we were dropping faster than a hooker in the river. We might have made it, but I doubted it once we'd lost the 5th, and at 6 down, we were unlikely to get the 27ish we needed. Maybe... but based on the history of NZ, probably not.

[propster]

hell yea, too wet, but we were dropping faster than a hooker in the river. We might have made it, but I doubted it once we'd lost the 5th, and at 6 down, we were unlikely to get the 27ish we needed. Maybe... but based on the history of NZ, probably not.

We were going alright with diamanti in to support Guptill. And with vettori and Southee left as well, i reckon we definately would've got it, Considering we had a powerplay as well.

20/Twenty FTW

[propster]

It's a fair call from the umpires though. Not reasonable to keep playing under those circumstances - dangerous for the bowlers and stuff.

Agreed, but ......fuck fuck fuck, 33 from 36 to win the series, Guptill playing a blinder, Ricky Ponting losing his rag, bastard rain

RICKY "FUCK FUCK FUCK" There's a midlife crisis if ever there was one mr ponting

[happybaboon]

Yeah. At least that psycho douchebag isn't our Captain. Vettori is a much nicer, calmer fellow.

[STPStudmuffin]

I smell something... smells like crickets

[happybaboon]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4847905a1823.html
I'm glad Diamanti gets to stay as cover for Mills. He did great yesterday.

[crazychris]

if we play the twenty20 like last night, we may be in with a chance, but we haven't had much luck in the 20-overs version of late have we? Following our boys in the cricket is likeing riding a roller coaster - massive highs, extreeme lows, and plenty of unexpected turns along the way. I still don't understand why they can play so damned well one day, and so poorly the next, when it's the same team and same opposition and sometimes the same ground. Sigh, like loving a hooker even after you throw her in the Avon.

[propster]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4847905a1823.html
I'm glad Diamanti gets to stay as cover for Mills. He did great yesterday.

I'd quite like to see Ian Butler back in, He can hit the ball. And bowl. And Nathan McCullum. If they've been flown over just so they don't get to play for Otago and don't get to play in the NZ 11, then i'll be pretty annoyed.

[happybaboon]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4863749a1823.html

I reckon Nathan McCullum deserves a go at ODI's. He kept his shit together really well in the T20 games. Possibly a better choice than Oram

[crazychris]

what the!!!!

New Zealand 61/6 (25.3 ov)

[happybaboon]

w00t for Ryder and Vettori. Especially Vettori - he's all class

[happybaboon]

India following-on... How often does that happen?

[pb]

Good work NZ. Will be tough day tomorrow for the bowlers, will need to keep nagging all day to get them.

[happybaboon]

Nah they just need to come out fired up. And they need to let Jesse bowl - He'll get 5 wickets, at least! And he'll bowl while eating a burger - just to make it interesting.