Re: Cricket 🏏: Black Caps vs Proteas
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2022 8:58 am
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Cricket 🏏: Black Caps vs Proteas
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Re: Cricket 🏏: Black Caps vs Proteas
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2022 9:11 am
After watching CSA T20 series I am very positive about our cricket. Lots of talent coming through. Boland won the final yesterday with three spinners, Shamsi the top wicket taker. Batsmen like the Malans, Baby AB and young Tristan Stubbs, ext.
Re: Cricket 🏏: Black Caps vs Proteas
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2022 10:34 pm
Under 300 runs to get now.
Re: Cricket 🏏: Black Caps vs Proteas
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2022 11:40 pm
Conway plays all round a straight ball from Sipamla and is gooooooonne for 92
Re: Cricket 🏏: Black Caps vs Proteas
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2022 12:54 am
Definitely not the cleverest shot by Blundell. BCs 187 - 6
Re: Cricket 🏏: Black Caps vs Proteas
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2022 1:24 am
Jamieson goes swinging hard after being dropped in a comedy of errors .
Re: Cricket 🏏: Black Caps vs Proteas
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2022 1:51 am
Blundell, Jamieson, and now Southee all go to relatively similar shots. 222 - 9 now.
Re: Cricket 🏏: Black Caps vs Proteas
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2022 1:53 am
Look ahhhh….
Lovely day outside here in the Bay. Lovely day.
Lovely day outside here in the Bay. Lovely day.
Re: Cricket 🏏: Black Caps vs Proteas
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2022 2:17 am
Raining here
Raining in ChCh
Ahhhhh
Raining in ChCh
Ahhhhh
Re: Cricket 🏏: Black Caps vs Proteas
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2022 2:26 am
https://www.metservice.com/overlay/loca ... =real-time
Not much rain about but it is centred right on the village of the damned
Not much rain about but it is centred right on the village of the damned
Re: Cricket 🏏: Black Caps vs Proteas
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2022 2:44 am
SO we have to wait longer for our first series victory over the Proteas, after a superb rebound by the visitors. Well done, lads.
Re: Cricket 🏏: Black Caps vs Proteas
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2022 2:44 am
Sans lube the bastards.
Easy fix - more cowbell
Easy fix - more cowbell
Re: Cricket 🏏: Black Caps vs Proteas
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2022 4:54 am
4 more years?
Just joking
Test cricket is always about fight back after a loss. England don't had it in the Ashes, Proteas did this against India aswell.
Long live Boucher and Graeme Smith.
Just joking
Test cricket is always about fight back after a loss. England don't had it in the Ashes, Proteas did this against India aswell.
Long live Boucher and Graeme Smith.
Re: Cricket 🏏: Black Caps vs Proteas
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2022 5:01 am
Well played, Saffers.
Turned out to be an inspired call on winning the toss, and then a brilliant performance on the field.
Turned out to be an inspired call on winning the toss, and then a brilliant performance on the field.
Re: Cricket 🏏: Black Caps vs Proteas
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2022 5:44 am
The folly of NZ's fixation with an all-seam attack exposed again. It works fine if the wicket is a true green seamer, but if not then everything turns to custard. Yet because of years of neglect, the selectors currently have little alternative: they either (i) pick a decent spinner (Patel) who can't bat, thus making an already lengthy tail potentially even longer or (ii) pick a spinner who can bat but not bowl, e.g., Ravindra, Santner, or (iii) neither. No wonder the last seems like the best option. Of course, for years they had the obvious solution (Astle) staring them in the face, but they only decided they wanted to play him after he'd decided they'd waited too long.
Rather than relying on curators to provide green seamers for all tests, they should be instructed to provide true cricket wickets that break up and necessitate the playing of at least one spinner. That will create a virtuous circle in which spinners are encouraged and viable options will emerge. And the Craps will be competitive on more than just one type of surface.
It will also help the batting. Some of the current top-6 — most notable Nicholls but also Blundell — are pretty decent against seam attacks, but have repeatedly looked clueless against spinners when there's just a bit of help on offer. Unsurprising, when they never come up against that sort of threat except in overseas tests.
Rather than relying on curators to provide green seamers for all tests, they should be instructed to provide true cricket wickets that break up and necessitate the playing of at least one spinner. That will create a virtuous circle in which spinners are encouraged and viable options will emerge. And the Craps will be competitive on more than just one type of surface.
It will also help the batting. Some of the current top-6 — most notable Nicholls but also Blundell — are pretty decent against seam attacks, but have repeatedly looked clueless against spinners when there's just a bit of help on offer. Unsurprising, when they never come up against that sort of threat except in overseas tests.
Re: Cricket 🏏: Black Caps vs Proteas
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2022 7:50 am
happy to bounced back so well and closed that one out.
Really needed a 3rd test to sort this one out.
Really needed a 3rd test to sort this one out.
Re: Cricket 🏏: Black Caps vs Proteas
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2022 8:11 am
Congrats to the Saffers.
I’m thinking correctly there’s no 3rd test?
I’m thinking correctly there’s no 3rd test?
Re: Cricket 🏏: Black Caps vs Proteas
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2022 8:20 am
You are thinking correctly. It is a bloody shame as a 3rd test would have been a cracker.Ymx wrote: Tue Mar 01, 2022 8:11 am Congrats to the Saffers.
I’m thinking correctly there’s no 3rd test?
Re: Cricket 🏏: Black Caps vs Proteas
Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2022 8:34 pm
Wagner vs Jansen
This time, he let his bat do the talking against some provocative Wagner taunts and short-pitched bowling meant to intimidate the 21-year-old.
Wagner apparently told Jansen, "Just don't break. You're that skinny, you'll break" after hitting the beanpole on the arm with a bouncer.
That was just the fuel Jansen needed to put Wagner to the sword. Jansen hit two fours off Wagner in one over and two boundaries off his next.
Maharaj got in on the fun and hit three fours from the Wagner over after that, which cost 14 runs.
Maharaj had joined the fray when Wagner dismissed Kagiso Rabada and the pair put on a precious 62-run partnership from 79 deliveries.
"Wagner, as always, came hard, especially with the short balls," said Jansen after stumps, when the Proteas led New Zealand by 207 runs.
"Me and Kesh decided to take the positive option and we're not going to [backtrack]. If it's in our area, we're going to try and capitalise on it.
"Obviously, not playing recklessly but, if it's in our area, we decided we're going to have a full go and it got quite … not that heated but there were a few words said.
"It was just two guys going at each other being very competitive."
Jansen credited his capability with the willow to Cricket South Africa's head of High-Performance Batting and former Proteas opener Neil McKenzie, whom he worked with briefly during the SA' A' versus India' A' series in South Africa last year.
He also said Proteas batting coach Justin Sammon had a lot to do with how he mentally approached his batting side and his technique, which helped him grow into what's becoming a handy all-rounder role for the team.
"Last year, I was included in the SA 'A' squad and had the privilege of working with Neil McKenzie, who helped me a lot, not just mentally but strategically, working on my game plans and those kinds of things," said Jansen.
"When I got to the Proteas, I worked a lot with 'Sammo' (Sammon), our batting coach, just tweaking my technique a bit and trying to tighten it up.
"We focused more on my mental approach. That's basically what we've been working on in the last few months."