What sort of target do we think we should set?
There are 5 sessions remaining. We are 179 behind with some number of wickets remaining. We are also 1 down in a 2 match series so we can afford to take some risks in pursuit of outcome..
I think aim should be to bat sensibly through to drinks in morning session tomorrow and assess run rate from there.
If Mitch would've scored these runs in the first match, we'd have won.
Good on him for earning some redemption, but Matt Henry has to take his place.
It's like Danny Morrison's last stand!
@Chris-B said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
If Mitch would've scored these runs in the first match, we'd have won.
Good on him for earning some redemption, but Matt Henry has to take his place.
It's like Danny Morrison's last stand!
If he hadn’t sucked arse as a test bowler we might have kept them under 450.
Mitch needs to go.
Jason Gillespie got a double ton in his last test match
I think Southee, Santner and the coach should go permanently.
Southee has been great but he's done enough now.
Need fresh blood and new enthusiasm.
@Damo said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
I think Southee, Santner and the coach should go permanently.
Southee has been great but he's done enough now.
Need fresh blood and new enthusiasm.
I assume Southee is hanging around trying to get to 400 test wickets?
@MN5 said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
@Chris-B said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
If Mitch would've scored these runs in the first match, we'd have won.
Good on him for earning some redemption, but Matt Henry has to take his place.
It's like Danny Morrison's last stand!
If he hadn’t sucked arse as a test bowler we might have kept them under 450.
Mitch needs to go.
Jason Gillespie got a double ton in his last test match
If Santner gets a double ton I would give him another game.
@Damo said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
@MN5 said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
@Chris-B said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
If Mitch would've scored these runs in the first match, we'd have won.
Good on him for earning some redemption, but Matt Henry has to take his place.
It's like Danny Morrison's last stand!
If he hadn’t sucked arse as a test bowler we might have kept them under 450.
Mitch needs to go.
Jason Gillespie got a double ton in his last test match
If Santner gets a double ton I would give him another game.
only 150 to go, with one partner right?
@MN5 said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
If we’d batted like this in the first innings and bowled a shitload better we’d be on top
jesus fuck, this sounds like 'if Scarlett Johanssen something something'. If my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle (until the trans activists showed up).
reality is we're limited. We need a few things to go our way. Santner is currently looking like Bradman V1.1 after a shedload of shitty innings. Fucked it I know, I've been on the garage projet, but I think we're going to get smoked in India.
@Donsteppa said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
Santner's innings also puts Conway's 'return to form' into some perspective.
Easy to score runs when the result is a foregone conclusion.
@African-Monkey said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
@Donsteppa said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
Santner's innings also puts Conway's 'return to form' into some perspective.
Easy to score runs when the result is a foregone conclusion.
Yep, much of the second innings batting card has a vibe of aiming to score quick runs before they inevitably misread one.
@nzzp said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
@MN5 said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
If we’d batted like this in the first innings and bowled a shitload better we’d be on top
jesus fuck, this sounds like 'if Scarlett Johanssen something something'. If my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle (until the trans activists showed up).
reality is we're limited. We need a few things to go our way. Santner is currently looking like Bradman V1.1 after a shedload of shitty innings. Fucked it I know, I've been on the garage projet, but I think we're going to get smoked in India.
Off the tap ?
Sorry back to the cricket.
What changes will Stead make given he has a squad of only 15.
I’ve already picked my team, anyone else want to have a crack ?
Probably good news. Latham will be a relatively passive captain from what it has looked like in the past, but Southee is far from an automatic selection now.
Southee said himself that he didn't expect to play every test this year. Stead needs to grow some balls.
@Bovidae said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
Southee said himself that he didn't expect to play every test this year. Stead needs to grow some balls.
aged like wine!
@nzzp said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
@booboo said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
So, who is the new skipper?
Latham
Should have been promoted in the first place
@Bovidae said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
Southee said himself that he didn't expect to play every test this year. Stead needs to grow some balls.
Stead needs to follow him out the door...
Preach, Dylan Cleaver
The Black Caps have, in the space of the decade, gone from one of the most innovative and nimble high-performance programmes in the world, to one that is utterly predictable. It is also one that is unsheltered and vulnerable to the global winds of change in cricket.
@nzzp said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
Preach, Dylan Cleaver
The Black Caps have, in the space of the decade, gone from one of the most innovative and nimble high-performance programmes in the world, to one that is utterly predictable. It is also one that is unsheltered and vulnerable to the global winds of change in cricket.
Stead dined out on the best group of talent we've ever had, and did little to identify and prepare the next group to take over. Probably not helped by administration and high performance talent development in NZC. Sounds like another code I know...
@MN5 said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
Good way for Southee to retire with a test average under 30 I guess.
Ih he never plays again he's sandwiched between Beefy Botham and Malcolm Marshall on the all time wicket takers list! His average has slipped beyond Beefy's.
@Chris-B said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
@MN5 said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
Good way for Southee to retire with a test average under 30 I guess.
Ih he never plays again he's sandwiched between Beefy Botham and Malcolm Marshall on the all time wicket takers list! His average has slipped beyond Beefy's.
Still firmly in the list of very good seamers for NZ….just !
Those are a couple of great names to be in and around
@MN5 Hasn't done too much damage to his bowling average by hanging on. In reality Timmy's average only very occasionally dipped below 28 - his bowling and batting peaks unfortunately were both after his first test!
Beefy by contrast had a bowling average below 20 for quite a while and probably should have ended around Sir Paddles rather than around Tim.
Tim's place in the NZ hierarchy firmly assured - doesn't quite make the best XI of my lifetime, but probably makes the squad.
@Chris-B said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
@MN5 Hasn't done too much damage to his bowling average by hanging on. In reality Timmy's average only very occasionally dipped below 28 - his bowling and batting peaks unfortunately were both after his first test!
Beefy by contrast had a bowling average below 20 for quite a while and probably should have ended around Sir Paddles rather than around Tim.
Tim's place in the NZ hierarchy firmly assured - doesn't quite make the best XI of my lifetime, but probably makes the squad.
Summed up pretty well there.
Yeah Beefy was going at 23 and 38 respectively before finishing up about the same as Chris Cairns.
I’m also not sure if Southee sneaks into an all time XI although he is a definite chance as we didn’t have too many to compete with Sir Paddles
@MN5 said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
I’m also not sure if Southee sneaks into an all time XI although he is a definite chance as we didn’t have too many to compete with Sir Paddles
If Southee consistently batted to his potential then he'd have more of a show - Hadlee, Bond, Boult, Wagner for me. Guile, Pace, Swing, Bounce. Two RH two LH Just a more varied attack. Can't see Timmee as a 4th seamer.
@dogmeat said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
@MN5 said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
I’m also not sure if Southee sneaks into an all time XI although he is a definite chance as we didn’t have too many to compete with Sir Paddles
If Southee consistently batted to his potential then he'd have more of a show - Hadlee, Bond, Boult, Wagner for me. Guile, Pace, Swing, Bounce. Two RH two LH Just a more varied attack. Can't see Timmee as a 4th seamer.
I would be extremely comfortable with those options.
As always the question mark is whether Bond played enough to warrant selection. Even perpetually broken down Kyle Jamieson has played more tests !
@MN5 said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
@dogmeat said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
@MN5 said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
As always the question mark is whether Bond played enough to warrant selection. Even perpetually broken down Kyle Jamieson has played more tests !
Not hard to pick on what we saw, though.
Question-mark as to whether we play three seamers or four.
The batting is pretty short with four seamers plus Vettori.
With R J Hadlee, Cowie, Bond, and Boult, I'm not sure we need a spinner.
At the risk of furthering round #87 of the all time Black Caps XI thread... but is a nice distraction from the first innings disaster last week. The ten year old cricketer in the house is still bemused at one team scoring 602/5, and the other only 88 in reply.
@Donsteppa In the fine print above I've resorted to picking the best XI of my lifetime, since most people simply discount Dempster, Donnelly and Cowie (as if we were rolling in batsmen with 50+ averages and bowlers with sub-22 averages)!
@Chris-B said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
@MN5 said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
@dogmeat said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
@MN5 said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
As always the question mark is whether Bond played enough to warrant selection. Even perpetually broken down Kyle Jamieson has played more tests !
Not hard to pick on what we saw, though.
Question-mark as to whether we play three seamers or four.
The batting is pretty short with four seamers plus Vettori.
Better pick Cairns then, Paddles can hold a bat too.
@Chris-B said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
@MN5 We could have BMac at 6 and Cairnsie at 7 - desperately trying to run each other out!
An annoying part of the demise of Devon Conway is that he was looking nailed on to be an all time opener. Now he's not as good as Tom Latham.
Yep. At best we’ve just had good openers. None approaching world class.
Wright looks a shoe in for one spot given the era he played. 37 in the 80s at the very top is a decent effort
@Chris-B said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
@MN5 Probably Turner and Wright.
Wright got better and better as he got older. He averaged around 45 for the second half of his career and well over 50 for the final quarter.
Yeah, will be interesting where Latham ends up.
Perhaps the captaincy will be the making of him and he’ll have a late career surge !
