ICC Champions Trophy 2025

Brilliant knocks from Young 107 off 113
Latham 118 off 104
And great 60 off 39 by Phillips
Real chance with that score to start off with a win.

I ahhhh....I....nope.

Have mostly had it on mute, have the commentators referenced how much Pakistan are dominating, like they mentioned in the tri series?

Great result.

Amazing that warm up games may make a difference, who knew?

Good continuation of "under fire" batsmen scoring big runs.

@Chris said in ICC Champions Trophy 2025:

Great stuff Latham 6 then a 4 putting some pressure back on the Pakis

I can hear Bob Cunis' voice saying Pakis in commentary and being met with silence

@canefan said in ICC Champions Trophy 2025:

@Chris said in ICC Champions Trophy 2025:

Great stuff Latham 6 then a 4 putting some pressure back on the Pakis

I can hear Bob Cunis' voice saying Pakis in commentary and being met with silence

Just as well Great Britain don't often get called the Brits. Imagine the furor!

Great effort after losing three quick wickets including Kane and Mitchell. Well done Young for keeping it together and then Latham for taking it deep. Given how hard it was to score, Phillip’s cameo was incredibly impressive to get the run rate moving too

That's a seriously impressive win first up. @Chris is right that pitch was not easy to bat on but we kept the runs flowing throughout. It feels so weird to say, but we are one of the best teams against spin in the world these days.

Pleased to be proven wrong by Latham. Given the lack of games in champions trophy format each individual game becomes so important so that's a huge century by him.

Excellent for Will Young to get a big score too.

Glenn Phillips doing Glenn Phillips things.

There is quite a large gap between games so hopefully can keep the momentum going.

@canefan said in ICC Champions Trophy 2025:

@Chris said in ICC Champions Trophy 2025:

Great stuff Latham 6 then a 4 putting some pressure back on the Pakis

I can hear Bob Cunis' voice saying Pakis in commentary and being met with silence

Poor old Bob was on the receiving end of "This is Cunis at the Vauxhall End. Cunis, a funny sort of name: neither one thing nor the other."

Obviously, a huge win - beat Bangladesh and we're 9/10ths of the way into the semis, with a free swing against India. And already our fifth win on the trot.

Despite the prognostications of doom, we haven't fallen apart as our golden generation have departed.

We won this game with only three of the team that won the WTC - and Little Kane only contributed one run. Rachin, Sears and Ferguson on the injured list - but, we're able to send home for Big Kyle!

This sort of result would have been unimaginable in the low points of the Young Guns (early-mid-90s), late-90s, Dan Vettori as captain/coach/bus driver.

To the extent that it all traces back to Hesson replacing Rossco with BMac as captain - that's probably the greatest decision in NZ cricket history. (I think I was critical of it, because I thought BMac was a moron!)

@Chris-B said in ICC Champions Trophy 2025:

This sort of result would have been unimaginable in the low points of the Young Guns (early-mid-90s), late-90s, Dan Vettori as captain/coach/bus driver.

Lol I remember listening onthe radio to the Aussie commentators as Vettori came onto the field to bat and they were talking about his run scoring record and ability to hold the tail together as our top order (yet again) failed.

One of them said "He should come out to bat on a white horse". That lines stuck in my mind forever

Ah yes the batting of Vettori - he laid down a challenge to any bowler - no matter what delivery you come up with, fast or slow, full or short, I will find a way to wangle it down to third man.

@KiwiMurph said in ICC Champions Trophy 2025:

Pleased to be proven wrong by Latham. Given the lack of games in champions trophy format each individual game becomes so important so that's a huge century by him.

Don't think anyone really proven wrong, he had an extreme run of poor form across formats, but could not have found this form at a better time, certainly happy for him and NZ

@Chris-B said in ICC Champions Trophy 2025:

To the extent that it all traces back to Hesson replacing Rossco with BMac as captain - that's probably the greatest decision in NZ cricket history. (I think I was critical of it, because I thought BMac was a moron!)

I agree - one of the great appointments. The 'how' was utter shit though and could have been handled a lot better.

@Chris-B said in ICC Champions Trophy 2025:

I think I was critical of it, because I thought BMac was a moron!

this. i was furious for this exact reason.

fuck i love when i am that wrong.

@nzzp said in ICC Champions Trophy 2025:

@Chris-B said in ICC Champions Trophy 2025:

To the extent that it all traces back to Hesson replacing Rossco with BMac as captain - that's probably the greatest decision in NZ cricket history. (I think I was critical of it, because I thought BMac was a moron!)

I agree - one of the great appointments. The 'how' was utter shit though and could have been handled a lot better.

Even the tastiest omelettes are made by breaking a few eggs. Lucky for us Rosco took the high road and stayed on

@canefan Ross is still one of my favourite Black Caps - just seems a thoroughly decent human being

@nzzp said in ICC Champions Trophy 2025:

@canefan Ross is still one of my favourite Black Caps - just seems a thoroughly decent human being

Had a great last phase of his career, capped off with the WTC win