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Ymx wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 8:26 am Just fried some bacon and eggs and checked again.

For 3 already !!!
4 now.

Will NZ make it to 50?
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Ymx wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 8:26 am Just fried some bacon and eggs and checked again.

For 3 already !!!
Try and keep up, please.

27/4
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Ouch
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Nichols bowled by Ashwin’s first ball.

31/5
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Someone check the bookie’s phone
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Follow on so far away
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D’ya reckon Kohli will enforce it?
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When Somerville was retained for this match, I wondered if it was to bat at 3, after showing good technique in the first test and Williamson being absent. Yet he's been sent in behind Southee who continues to have as much clue about batting as Grant Robertson does about economics.
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Well that is pretty pathetic. Just come home boys - this has been an awful tour.
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Patel deserves a rest and Latham should remember he has other bowlers out there.
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Can NZ just declare in their second innings and go home?
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Kiwias wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 11:01 am Patel deserves a rest and Latham should remember he has other bowlers out there.
Can you provide any evidence of this. Combined they bowled more overs than Patel and ...?

I picked this would happen - our brain was already on holiday and then had the added distraction of Ajaz's feat.

Finally, I blame Anon over the road who wrote that we didn't deserve the Crappers tag. Mockers bait for sure
I drink and I forget things.
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This Indian team was skittled for 36 by Australia not so long ago, folks. The BCs have not suddenly become a poor team because of one innings.
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Surely being skittled by a relatively mediocre Indian team just makes it worse
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JM2K6 wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 11:55 pm Surely being skittled by a relatively mediocre Indian team just makes it worse
The relatively mediocre team that went on to win the series in Aus and make the final of WTC? The point was that every team can have a horrific innings but that does not mean they suddenly become a lousy team, but I am sure you knew that already because I mentioned it in my post.
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So the plan is obviously to lull India into a false sense of security by allowing them to score quickly and declare at the first drinks break 400+ runs ahead, allowing us to bat out the remaining 8.5 sessions at 0.00032 rpo for the draw and a massive moral victory.

Brilliant!



Anyway, first ball of the day about to be bowled...
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Gumboot wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 4:00 am So the plan is obviously to lull India into a false sense of security by allowing them to score quickly and declare at the first drinks break 400+ runs ahead, allowing us to bat out the remaining 8.5 sessions at 0.00032 rpo for the draw and a massive moral victory.

Brilliant!



Anyway, first ball of the day about to be bowled...
A target of less than 50 runs per session is eminently achievable. Go for it, BCs!!
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India dragging it out.
To give their batsmen a bit of practice.
And for the sponsors and for those advertisers who paid for the TV spaces ... all over in two days would have been a financial calamity for both.
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TMO desperately trying to find a way to deny the catch
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Why don’t they just declare and get this over with
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Ymx wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 6:00 am Why don’t they just declare and get this over with
Maybe they're nervous about declaring again but failing to finish the job again?
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Gumboot wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 6:12 am
Ymx wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 6:00 am Why don’t they just declare and get this over with
Maybe they're nervous about declaring again but failing to finish the job again?
:lol: :lol:
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Ravindra gets his first test wicket to break Patel’s monopoly.
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Ravindra selfishly denies Patel the chance to take all 20 Indian wickets.
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Shreyas has obviously been told to smash the shit out of our bowlers
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Gumboot wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 7:31 am Ravindra selfishly denies Patel the chance to take all 20 Indian wickets.
And immediately Patel replaces him. :grin:
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Patel takes another !
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Good stumping.

India just 476 ahead with only 6 wickets remaining...
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Gumboot wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 7:46 am Good stumping.

India just 476 ahead with only 6 wickets remaining...
We have them exactly where we want them
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Kohli drags one on and looks at the umpire as if demanding he be given not out. Shades of WG there.
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Kiwias wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 7:48 am
Gumboot wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 7:46 am Good stumping.

India just 476 ahead with only 6 wickets remaining...
We have them exactly where we want them
Love it when a plan comes together.
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:clap:
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There’s plenty of time left to get the 528 runs.
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Ymx wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 8:16 am There’s plenty of time left to get the 528 runs.
You need 540 to win, so that probably a better target to aim at.
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Patel picks up 14 wickets in all. What an effort.
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BCs do have the second highest 4th innings total in test history but even that would not be enough.
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539 required. Two and a half days to do it in. Easy.
And are there two g’s in Bugger Off?
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Biffer wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 8:26 am 539 required. Two and a half days to do it in. Easy.
539 to tie, 540 to win. An absolute doddle
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Spider Cam stops play. :lol:
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Gumboot wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 8:51 am Spider Cam stops play. :lol:
Not before Latham wastes a review and is gone
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