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  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 14,203
    The batters are getting a bit bored and our now starting to dance down the pitch
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 14,203
    edited 3:55PM
    Steven81 said:
    Tbh a big hammering might finally force them to get rid of those two arrogant plebs key and mccullum but very doubtful.
    They'll have a meeting, some sort of inquiry where lessons will be learned and they will be back where they are with their feet up on the balcony. 
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 19,486
    Steven81 said:
    Tbh a big hammering might finally force them to get rid of those two arrogant plebs key and mccullum but very doubtful.
    A few million reasons Mccullum won’t go but no excuse to not get rid of Key
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,788
    record NZ partnership for any wicket v England
  • Miserableoldgit
    Miserableoldgit Posts: 21,734
    301~0.
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 24,452
    golfaddick said:
    I fail to believe that Bashir is the BEST spinner we have. If he is, then God help us !
    Rew kept wicket in the last game. 
    The stupidity of the selectors at times leave me speechless 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 42,355
    The highest first-wicket partnership against England in Test history was the 338 made by South Africa openers Graeme Smith and Herschelle Gibbs in July 2003 at Edgbaston. NZ need another 26 to beat that. 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 42,355
    WICKET !!!!!!

    Lazy cut from Latham and he's caught by Smith off Stokes for 151 (214)

    317-1 
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 14,203
    YES
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 72,240
    Bashir is the sort of spinner you should only pick on a complete turner in India, as on any surface not offering much assistance, he's way too inconsistent. Hence he wasn't played in the Ashes, and today has gone for 97 runs.

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  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 42,355
    BANG BANG!!!!

    Conway caught in the deep by Fisher off the bowling of Root for 157 (224)

    319-2
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 72,240
    One brings two.

    Other cricket clichés are available.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 27,816
    practically into their tail
  • Steven81
    Steven81 Posts: 1,462
    edited 4:46PM
    killerandflash said:
    Bashir is the sort of spinner you should only pick on a complete turner in India, as on any surface not offering much assistance, he's way too inconsistent. Hence he wasn't played in the Ashes, and today has gone for 97 runs.
    Which makes no sense why we didn't go with the leggy atleast he would have been more threatening and can bat
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 19,486
    Those two definitely left some runs out there 
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 14,203
    Since they put test cricket behind a pay wall (about 20 years ago) I have rarely seen our players live. Seen them when I have had the privilege to go to the matches or just via a highlights programme but rarely live on TV. So important to have TMS. Similar to Kent but there is their quite awful stream they put out on YouTube. 
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 14,203
    edited 5:29PM
    Late wicket. The great spinner Bashir gets congratulated for some earlier fielding.. Atkinson with Ravindra wicket. Smith with the catch. 361/3 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 72,240
    Wow, 2 in 2 balls. 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 42,355
    Another BANG BANG!!!

    361-4 (84.1) at close
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 14,203
    Get another wicket.. sun is shining, still most of an over to go.. oh that's stumps.. pathetic.. 

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  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 24,452
    New Zealand day by a distance. 
    But those late wickets give us hope 
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 36,013
    Addick Addict said:
    golfaddick said:
    I fail to believe that Bashir is the BEST spinner we have. If he is, then God help us !
    The England management, in picking him for the duration of the two years leading up to the Ashes, were "pot committed" to selecting him for that tour. The realisation that he wasn't ready because he'd been playing next to zero cricket anywhere hit them and they were forced to leave him out of the actual team. He's centrally contracted, been their so called "number one" and having not bowled him for a year, they had to now play him in order to justify that contract and assertion.
    Or you could just hold your hands up & admit you got it wrong. 
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 36,013
    Karim_myBagheri said:
    Get another wicket.. sun is shining, still most of an over to go.. oh that's stumps.. pathetic.. 
    Yes, it was ok for No.5 to come out to face the final 6 balls.....but when he's out first ball it's too late for the No 6 to come out face the final 5 balls.

    Just really doesn't make any sense. 
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 19,486
    Thankfully that rule is changing soon 
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 14,203
    fenaddick said:
    Thankfully that rule is changing soon 
    It's only taken them 500 years so what's a few months. 

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