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Posted: **Sun Nov 03, 2024 7:34 am**

Holy snapping duckshit Batman

Posted: **Sun Nov 03, 2024 7:35 am**

Jethro wrote: Sun Nov 03, 2024 6:40 am
Enzedder wrote: Sun Nov 03, 2024 6:05 am I fear the bird has flown the coop. Bugger - we had Pant as well.

Such a great game - dozens of game changing moments per test.
It's not over till the Indian supporters are crying dude

Mockers God's played like a violin

Posted: **Sun Nov 03, 2024 7:35 am**

A clean sweep of India in India. Dreams come true!!!!

Posted: **Sun Nov 03, 2024 7:38 am**

Kiwias wrote: Sun Nov 03, 2024 7:35 am A clean sweep of India in India. Dreams come true!!!!

The first clean sweep of India at home (SA managed a 2-0 series 20 years back)

Posted: **Sun Nov 03, 2024 7:41 am**

Enzedder wrote: Sun Nov 03, 2024 7:35 am
Jethro wrote: Sun Nov 03, 2024 6:40 am
Enzedder wrote: Sun Nov 03, 2024 6:05 am I fear the bird has flown the coop. Bugger - we had Pant as well.

Such a great game - dozens of game changing moments per test.
It's not over till the Indian supporters are crying dude
Mockers God's played like a violin

Okay you are allowed a couple of shandies tonite, I'm off to bath in Indian fan tears - its a beautiful thing

Posted: **Sun Nov 03, 2024 7:42 am**

Guy Smiley wrote: Sun Nov 03, 2024 7:38 am
Kiwias wrote: Sun Nov 03, 2024 7:35 am A clean sweep of India in India. Dreams come true!!!!
The first clean sweep of India at home (SA managed a 2-0 series 20 years back)

Just keeps getting better and tasting sweeter

Posted: **Sun Nov 03, 2024 7:50 am**

I wonder if anybody had the foresight, and bravery, to back a NZ clean sweep at the TAB. Not to mention what odds they got...

Rarely can a change of captain have worked such wonders!

Which reminds me of the need for a big shout out to the often-maligned Gary Stead. Yes, he's kept Southee both as captain and player for too long, but it's impossible to argue with his results, and he just keeps producing them, even with what looked like a weakened team.
Now he just needs to find a way to beat Australia — the last frontier.

Posted: **Sun Nov 03, 2024 8:18 am**

BCCI having to spend a lot of money protecting Sharma for the next few weeks.

Posted: **Sun Nov 03, 2024 8:23 am**

LOL

0-3 series white wash

Posted: **Sun Nov 03, 2024 9:24 am**

Bloody brilliant BCs, superb result!!!

Posted: **Sun Nov 03, 2024 10:48 am**

It could also have marked the end of Kohli's incredible test career. Rather sad to see a great like him depart after a very poor series.

Posted: **Sun Nov 03, 2024 6:44 pm**

Does this mean that Latham really is a lucky tosser?

Posted: **Tue Nov 05, 2024 11:51 am**

Scotland took the rain with them once again yesterday. Game against Nepal abandoned in Texas.

Posted: **Fri Nov 08, 2024 8:23 am**

131/0 after 19 needing 164

No way Pakistan can lose this from here (quietly places a bet)

Posted: **Fri Nov 08, 2024 9:32 am**

Proteas 1st T20 vs India in Durban at 17h00

Posted: **Fri Nov 08, 2024 10:18 am**

OomStruisbaai wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2024 9:32 am Proteas 1st T20 vs India in Durban at 17h00

Beer o'clock tonight.

Posted: **Fri Nov 08, 2024 10:40 am**

Ian Botham saved from crocodile-infested waters by Ashes rival Merv Hughes

Our trade envoy to Oz is doing much hard work, it seems.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/ ... es-cricket

Posted: **Fri Nov 08, 2024 4:28 pm**

India running away with it

Posted: **Sun Nov 10, 2024 9:15 am**

Pakistan smash Aus again

Posted: **Sun Nov 10, 2024 2:51 pm**

2ndT20 a bit better. India 62/4 after 10

Posted: **Sun Nov 10, 2024 3:42 pm**

120/6 after 20.

Posted: **Sun Nov 10, 2024 5:02 pm**

66/6

Klassen and Miller fall together again

Posted: **Sun Nov 10, 2024 5:42 pm**

New Zealand 108
Sri Lanka (19.5/20 ov, T:109) 103
New Zealand won by 5 runs

Fergusson a hat trick and Phillips 3 wickets off 4 balls.

Posted: **Sun Nov 10, 2024 5:42 pm**

SA win!

Coetzee smashes it (19/9) and Stubbs finished it

Posted: **Sun Nov 10, 2024 10:12 pm**

Enzedder wrote: Sun Nov 10, 2024 5:42 pm New Zealand 108
Sri Lanka (19.5/20 ov, T:109) 103
New Zealand won by 5 runs

Fergusson a hat trick and Phillips 3 wickets off 4 balls.

One of the weirdest games I've ever watched. NZ batting was atrocious, though to be honest the Lankian bowling was up to the task. Then some very improbable wickets for the NZ attack interspersed with some fine line and length. Bemused is what I take from the match, happy with the result however, series alive!

Posted: **Sun Nov 10, 2024 10:13 pm**

Insane_Homer wrote: Sun Nov 10, 2024 9:15 am Pakistan smash Aus again

There's some reputations left in tatters out there. Looks at the Heat line-up, hello selectors stop jizzing over the non-performing Victorians.

Posted: **Thu Nov 14, 2024 10:45 pm**

Tim Southee has announced his retirement...

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/360488037 ... st-england

either after the home series against England, or maybe after one last test against Sri Lanka... unless NZ qualify for the Test Championship final. After one of those, then.

At this stage.

He announced on Friday that the upcoming three-match test series against England, starting on November 28 in Christchurch, would be his last, with the full squad to be named later this afternoon.

If the Black Caps qualify for next year’s World Test Championship final, he will remain available for selection for that match.

Southee will decide after the England series whether he would like a white-ball swansong against Sri Lanka after Christmas.

He will have been an international cricketer for almost 17 years by the time he does hang up his bowling boots, with his 36th birthday falling between the second and third tests.

He made his debut as an 19-year-old against England at home in early 2008 and has so far played 104 tests, 161 one-day internationals and 126 Twenty20 internationals.

In tests, he has taken 385 wickets – second only to Sir Richard Hadlee amongst New Zealanders – in ODIs, he has taken 221, and in T20s he has taken 164. His total of 770 international wickets is the 10th-best of all time.

He has played in four ODI World Cups and seven T20 World Cups and was a member of the Black Caps squad that won the inaugural World Test Championship final in 2021.

He captained the Black Caps 14 times in test cricket, taking on the role full time from 2022 to earlier this year, once in ODIs and 29 times in T20s.

Posted: **Fri Nov 15, 2024 4:20 pm**

India carnage in Johannesburg,

216/1 after 14.4 - crr 14.72, last 5 overs 19.00
Varma 75 from 26
Samson 91 from 44

300 on the cards.

Posted: **Fri Nov 15, 2024 5:15 pm**

And they blow the last bits and only post 283

Posted: **Fri Nov 15, 2024 5:40 pm**

Remarkable chase from SA, this going to the wire

17/4

Posted: **Fri Nov 15, 2024 6:14 pm**

Insane_Homer wrote: Fri Nov 15, 2024 5:40 pm Remarkable chase from SA, this going to the wire

17/4

SA were given a tennis ball when they bowled. Zero swing or turn.

I think India’s ball was made in the sidewinder missle factory. It’s like not even the same type of ball.

Posted: **Fri Nov 15, 2024 6:19 pm**

Miller finally hits “that ball” out of the ground in the 11th over and they have to bring on another one.

Posted: **Fri Nov 15, 2024 6:21 pm**

Sandstorm wrote: Fri Nov 15, 2024 6:19 pm Miller finally hits “that ball” out of the ground in the 11th over and they have to bring on another one.

And hits one out again the very next ball.

Posted: **Wed Nov 27, 2024 7:45 am**

Proteas vs Sri Lanka, first test Durban. Proteas batting
Playing XIs

South Africa: 1 Aiden Markram, 2 Tony de Zorzi, 3 Tristan Stubbs, 4 Temba Bavuma (capt.), 5 David Bedingham, 6 Kyle Verreynne (wk), 7 Marco Jansen, 8 Wiaan Mulder, 9 Gerald Coetzee, 9 Keshav Maharaj, 11 Kagiso Rabada

Sri Lanka: 1 Dimuth Karunaratne, 2 Pathum Nissanka, 3 Dinesh Chandimal, 4 Angelo Mathews, 5 Kamindu Mendis, 6 Dhananjaya de Silva (capt), 7 Kusal Mendis (wk), 8 Prabath Jayasuriya, 9 Lahiru Kumara, 10 Asitha Fernando, 11 Vishwa Fernando

Posted: **Wed Nov 27, 2024 9:22 am**

Bavuma give us some life. 74/4

Posted: **Thu Nov 28, 2024 12:04 pm**

SA 191 all out, Bavuma 70
SL 42 all out in 13.5 overs. Jansen gets 7

Posted: **Thu Nov 28, 2024 12:09 pm**

Insane_Homer wrote: Thu Nov 28, 2024 12:04 pm SA 191 all out, Bavuma 70
SL 42 all out in 13.5 overs. Jansen gets 7

Wow.

Spicy pitch, I presume?

Posted: **Thu Nov 28, 2024 1:13 pm**

inactionman wrote: Thu Nov 28, 2024 12:09 pm
Insane_Homer wrote: Thu Nov 28, 2024 12:04 pm SA 191 all out, Bavuma 70
SL 42 all out in 13.5 overs. Jansen gets 7
Wow.

Spicy pitch, I presume?

Green mamba. Sri Lanka probably caught the wrong side of the tide.

Posted: **Fri Nov 29, 2024 11:48 am**

Bavuma and Stubbs both get centuries as Proteas turn the screws on Sri Lanka on Day 3 in 2nd innings.
Lead is 454 runs

Posted: **Thu Dec 05, 2024 10:36 pm**

Fucking hell, there are three test matches on at the same time. World's gone mad.

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