Time for the spineless lemons to be told to swim home.
Splitting hairs probably, but I’ve often found the idea of a night watchman a bit weird.
Someone is in the team as a specialist batsman, in some situations he will find himself needing to bat for a few niggly overs at the end of the day. I think it’s rough they get a guy who has bowled 41 thankless overs padded up and sent out to “protect” him.
Jason Gillespie will definitely disagree with this though.
Though it's not clear to me that there's any difference between our top order batsmen and our night watchmen...
@Donsteppa said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
Though it's not clear to me that there's any difference between our top order batsmen and our night watchmen...
Haha, was just thinking that.
Flipside of that is that they could have gotten Latham, Conway etc to send down lots of innocuous pies for the Sri Lankans to rack up a cheeky six hundy for five declared…..
Back to the match…..
66/8. Mitchell ( Daryl, not Santner ) gone.
Debut hundred from Southee would be nice late in his career.
@MN5 said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
Back to the match…..
66/8. Mitchell ( Daryl, not Santner ) gone.
Debut hundred from Southee would be nice late in his career.
Bugger, falls just 98 runs short.
Am struggling to remember a more utterly worthless and spineless NZ cricket performance in our lifetimes. 1995 v the West Indies was up there.
At least 26 all out was in the days of uncovered pitches.
@Donsteppa said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
Am struggling to remember a more utterly worthless and spineless NZ cricket performance in our lifetimes. 1995 v the West Indies was up there.
At least 26 all out was in the days of uncovered pitches.
This match ?
Walsh went ok, shit he is underrated for whatever reason. Fantastic bowler.
@Donsteppa said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
My memory of the scores was out, I just remember the second innings being like men v boys.
Yeah shameful performance at home.
I sat on the bank and Curtly Ambrose did a lap of the ground to thunderous applause from all of us ( he had a lot of time to fuck around and have fun while the Windies were batting to be fair )
All those middle order left handers just took the piss against our attack from memory. The one who actually looked the best that day wasn’t Lara, it was Keith Arthurton, I was always surprised he had such an average career compared to the “Prince”
Santner justifying his spot by more than doubling the next best batsman’s score.
…..and this “fighting” innings will be enough to keep him in the team for the next ten tests at least.
…….and that’s that.
Sri Lanka may as well enforce the follow on and try and wrap it up before the end of the day.
@Damo said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
Even I have got nothing.
I was hoping for a cheeky 900-3 declared after the wicket settles down then Santner gets 8-42 and we win by 114 runs.
Has someone hacked your account ?
@nzzp said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
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The team that got rolled for 26 are all resting a bit easier in their graves now.
@MN5 said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
@Damo said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
Even I have got nothing.
I was hoping for a cheeky 900-3 declared after the wicket settles down then Santner gets 8-42 and we win by 114 runs.
Has someone hacked your account ?
900/3 is unrealistic. I always keep my comments grounded in reality, as you know.
@Damo said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
@MN5 said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
@Damo said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
Even I have got nothing.
I was hoping for a cheeky 900-3 declared after the wicket settles down then Santner gets 8-42 and we win by 114 runs.
Has someone hacked your account ?
900/3 is unrealistic. I always keep my comments grounded in reality, as you know.
750/4 will do.
It’s high time KW had a crack at Laras record.
@booboo said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
What's the weather doing?
No sudden typhoon pending?
Just an avalanche……
…..of New Zealand wickets.
Remember the very recent past where we’d get annoyed that Sri Lanka toured New Zealand every summer ( or so it seemed ) and got routinely beaten ?
The tables have turned like a mother fucker and then some.
I’m calling it now.
Will be some decent scores in the second innings but we’ll lose by an innings and 132 runs.
Go to the TAB now.
Conway sneaks his average back over 40.
Kane works his way past Inzaman and Miandad on the top all time test run scorers list.
Wonder how much this is as a result of SL actually playing a test series in England just before. Play test cricket, get better at test cricket etc. these days, all the other cricket these guys play is so far from the concept of test cricket and valuing your wicket etc that it takes time to get used to it again.
I’m desperate for the survival of test cricket and finding some superstars in the nations outside of the Rich 3 would incentivise that I reckon
Williamson now four runs ahead of Virat on the all time top test run scorers.
@Donsteppa said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
Most of these guys can't bat at Test match level. India is going to be horrendous.
Well, no thats not true.
Latham and Conway average 40 each.
KW speaks for himself.
The jury is out on Ravindra as to how good he’ll be.
Mitchell has had a fantastic start but is probably petering out to his level.
Blundell is in bad form.
It’s a far cry from the days where the ONLY hundreds in the team belonged to numbers 7 and 8 ( McCullum and Vettori ) back when How, Fulton, Papps etc were in the top order.
I think it’s a perfect storm of guys being a bit past it, being found out or not being good enough.
So um yeah, I agree, India will be horrendous.
@Donsteppa said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
Williamson now four runs ahead of Virat on the all time top test run scorers.
That’s pretty handy. In quite a few less tests too.
Of course the fuck you bloody crowd will mention his amazing ODI record but fuck that, Test cricket is the ultimate and KW is better at that !
I'm not feeling completely contradicted: on that writeup - 'KW, and two guys averaging 40' about to visit Jasprit in home conditions. 
Now fractionally rounded to 40 in Conway's case.
Mitchell's start to test cricket was the stuff of dreams, but there feels like a regression in the mix. Always had slight CdG vibes of 'how long will this last'.
@Donsteppa said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
I'm not feeling completely contradicted: on that writeup - 'KW, and two guys averaging 40' about to visit Jasprit in home conditions.
Mitchell's start to test cricket was the stuff of dreams, but there feels like a regression in the mix. Always had slight CdG vibes of 'how long will this last'.
I hear ya.
There is also the definite prospect of KW declining in a Tendulkar/Dravid/Ponting fashion too…….they all went from late to mid to early 50s in terms of batting averages too.
