NPR

ScarfaceClaw wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 4:13 am Yeah, it’s not happening.

ScarfaceClaw wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 6:00 am What happens if it is a draw? Do NZ claim a moral victory when the ICC bow to pressure from BCCI and award it to India?

Ymx wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 4:28 am Woke up at stupid o clock this morning. Bloody birds wake up early in British summer. So thought I’d set it up for gumboot.

ScarfaceClaw wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 6:00 am What happens if it is a draw? Do NZ claim a moral victory when the ICC bow to pressure from BCCI and award it to India?

Thor Sedan wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 8:27 am Good article about the rise of NZ cricket.

https://www.thecricketmonthly.com/story ... to-the-top

Mature Bazz is pretty impressive Bazz.

Asked once what it was like to bat with McCullum during one of McCullum's most explosive innings, he replied: "I kinda felt like I was the library in a theme park."

Eventually, NZC began to understand the inadequacy of their first-class surfaces and relaid most of them. It was almost as if only upon finding Williamson that it occurred to them that it might be helpful to have more like him

Ymx wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 10:10 am

To be honest it sounds like one of the key differences to now, was in replacing the pitches.

Eventually, NZC began to understand the inadequacy of their first-class surfaces and relaid most of them. It was almost as if only upon finding Williamson that it occurred to them that it might be helpful to have more like him

duke wrote: Fri Jun 18, 2021 5:28 am Scheduled to pour down all day up the road in Salisbury so you’ll have to thrash them in 4 days max

Speaking 24 hours out from the game in Southampton, in which India take on New Zealand after a two-year cycle that was nearly derailed by the pandemic, Kohli was asked whether this was the biggest Test match of a career already assured of its place in history.

“No, for me this is another Test match that has to be played,” Kohli replied. “I think these things are very exciting from the outside, where there is so much importance and so much extra stuff attached to one game. It sort of becomes do or die.

“But for us as a team, we have been on a quest for excellence for a while now and we will continue to be on that path regardless of what happens in this game. It is no different for us, no more important for us than the first Test we played together as a young group of players. The mindset remains the same.”

Ymx wrote: Fri Jun 18, 2021 6:15 am

Speaking 24 hours out from the game in Southampton, in which India take on New Zealand after a two-year cycle that was nearly derailed by the pandemic, Kohli was asked whether this was the biggest Test match of a career already assured of its place in history.

“No, for me this is another Test match that has to be played,” Kohli replied. “I think these things are very exciting from the outside, where there is so much importance and so much extra stuff attached to one game. It sort of becomes do or die.

“But for us as a team, we have been on a quest for excellence for a while now and we will continue to be on that path regardless of what happens in this game. It is no different for us, no more important for us than the first Test we played together as a young group of players. The mindset remains the same.”

What.a.cock

Stupid question mind.

Ymx wrote: Fri Jun 18, 2021 6:08 am

duke wrote: Fri Jun 18, 2021 5:28 am Scheduled to pour down all day up the road in Salisbury so you’ll have to thrash them in 4 days max

Have the one extra day. So even if today is a washout, there will be 5 more (days of rain)

Monkey Magic wrote: Fri Jun 18, 2021 7:17 am Simple, knock india off in the 30min of cricket available in the next 2 days - at the same time removing NZ from the lowest test total record - open with cdg slogging for an hour. Bowl them out in the last 20min of the sixth day.

Total match time 1hr 40min, images of kohli pulling angry facials 3820.

Jb1981 wrote: Fri Jun 18, 2021 7:44 am

Monkey Magic wrote: Fri Jun 18, 2021 7:17 am Simple, knock india off in the 30min of cricket available in the next 2 days - at the same time removing NZ from the lowest test total record - open with cdg slogging for an hour. Bowl them out in the last 20min of the sixth day.

Total match time 1hr 40min, images of kohli pulling angry facials 3820.

I could imagine this as the haunted face of a captain (too shocked to have removed his pads and helmet) who has just seen his side bowled out for 25.

Gumboot wrote: Fri Jun 18, 2021 9:08 am First session washed out so the toss has been delayed. Looks like the whole day's a goneburger. As my wise old uncle used to say, never trust an English summer.

Bugger.

On the bright side, there will still be five days of play scheduled after this.

ScarfaceClaw wrote: Fri Jun 18, 2021 9:16 am

Gumboot wrote: Fri Jun 18, 2021 9:08 am First session washed out so the toss has been delayed. Looks like the whole day's a goneburger. As my wise old uncle used to say, never trust an English summer.

Bugger.

On the bright side, there will still be five days of play scheduled after this.

Which is why they’ve also scheduled six days of rain.