Australia without Starc, Hazelwood and Cummins will be interesting!
No Bumrah for India.
@Chris-B said in ICC Champions Trophy 2025:
Australia without Starc, Hazelwood and Cummins will be interesting!
No Bumrah for India.
Glimpse of the future for Australia really as neither of those three will be around much longer I suspect. Cummins might stick around for another couple of years or so. I wouldn't be surprised if Starc & Hazelwood retire after next summer's Ashes if Australia win the series.
@1kiwi This bodes well! 
Will Young finally gets his nose ahead of Devon in the line-up - Rachin gets hit in the face, Devon gets a reprieve - and has completely out-batted Will in the warm-up games.
I see he kept vs Afghanistan.
I think Devon is locked in to play now - alongside two of Rachin, Will and Tom Latham (I expect Tom to play).
The Fergburger bowled three overs - but, will they risk him over (probably) Duffy or O'Rourke?
I'd guess Conway, Young, Williamson, Mitchell, Latham, Phillips, Bracewell, Santner, Henry, Duffy, O'Rourke for the Pakistan game.
Coach Gary Stead confirmed on Tuesday night that fast bowler Lockie Ferguson was out of the tournament with a foot injury suffered during Sunday’s warm-up match against Afghanistan.
@Bovidae said in ICC Champions Trophy 2025:
Coach Gary Stead confirmed on Tuesday night that fast bowler Lockie Ferguson was out of the tournament with a foot injury suffered during Sunday’s warm-up match against Afghanistan.
Another Kiwi quick bowler made of glass
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Just started
Pakistan:
1 Fakhar Zaman, 2 Babar Azam, 3 Saud Shakeel, 4 Mohammad Rizwan (capt & wk), 5 Salman Ali Agha, 6 Tayyab Tahir, 7 Khushdil Shah, 8 Shaheen Shah Afridi, 9 Naseem Shah, 10 Haris Rauf, 11 Abrar Ahmed
NZ:
1 Will Young, 2 Devon Conway, 3 Kane Williamson, 4 Daryl Mitchell, 5 Tom Latham (wk), 6 Glenn Phillips, 7 Michael Bracewell, 8 Mitchell Santner (capt), 9 Matt Henry, 10 Nathan Smith, 11 Will O'Rourke
Pakistan chose to bowl first
Young certainly looks unfazed by the ball gripping on the deck. Going to have to get a move on because these conditions tend to favour the second batting side.
Young should have his ton already. Poor fielding and the boundary padding moved so pretty obvious 4, unsure why it wasn't called.
Great 100 run partnership really good 100 by Young and 2nd 50 on the bounce for Latham on a difficult surface and under pressure from 3 down,these 2 have given us a shot at a decent score.
@ACT-Crusader said in ICC Champions Trophy 2025:
Latham very hit and miss for the last 3-4 overs. Not getting g the strike rotating either.
Difficult pitch
Taking spin
Holding up on the surface
Variable bounce especially at one end
Good luck scoring freely on a pitch like that
Latham has done very well to back up Young everyone else apart from these 2 so far has done fuck all.
Latham with a beauty of a 6 and then next ball completely miss times it and almost lobs one to mid off.
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.
Have mostly had it on mute, have the commentators referenced how much Pakistan are dominating, like they mentioned in the tri series?
@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
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