West Indies tour of NZ

@MN5 said in West Indies tour of NZ:

@African-Monkey said in West Indies tour of NZ:

@MN5 said in West Indies tour of NZ:

Courtney Walsh went alright here. I can't really see a repeat of this kind of scoreline this time round though.

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That is one awful NZ team.

It's not really, we've fielded far far worse.

Going through them I'd say Young was a pretty good opener especially by that eras standards. Jones was genuinely one of the best we've ever had. Rutherford was a better player than his record would suggest. Fleming another with class and longevity. Parore was a fine keeper and class batsman ( not that his record shows it too much ) Doull one of our better seamers and Morrison a gutsy trier who was probably past it by this stage.

None of them make my all time BC 1st XI but Jones, Fleming and Doull are contenders for my 2nd XI.

Unfortunately Lara did his thing, Adams was in a big purple patch, others chipped in and the guy I'd consider THE most underrated pace bowler of all time absolutely destroyed us.

Yes, some of them ended up having ok careers, but at the time of that test, it wasnt up to much.

It was about the same standard as our sides of the late 2000s early 2010s.

@Virgil said in West Indies tour of NZ:

The 90's was not the greatest of eras for the BC. Had some seriously good players but over relied on Canterbury and Northern Districts from memory. Our depth certainly wasnt great back then either.
Not sure if it was our coaching but our results were pretty shit.
Hell we even lost to England at home around that time and they were shit in the 90's

A lot of guys retired from the 80s era, Crowe was shot on the injury front, and the next generation weren't quite ready at the time, so we had a lot of stop gap players.

We’re underway. Strong team, loads of batting. Nice to see the Neesh back in.

Let’s give them a hiding

I love the dulcet tones of Ian Bishop in commentary.

Fantastic bowler in his day, had a few injuries though.

Jamieson's numbers in all of the shorter forms don't make for great reading, I am not sure he's that well suited to it. His FC and test record are out of this world though. We just don't play enough tests for him to be a specialist test bowler, but I am also not convinced he should be in the T20 team. He probably doesn't make the side if all our bowlers are fit though.

So Duffy is a liar then?

That was definitely out, it changed trajectory slightly after it hit his hand. It is a bullshit way to get out though.

@Crazy-Horse said in West Indies tour of NZ:

So Duffy is a liar then?

Apparently so.

Nice from Foulkes. Bowled.

No Hope for the Windies now.

The guy batting got out too.

Chasing a modest total of 165, none of our batters are finding any timing and making hard work of it.

85/4 from 12.
Need 80 from 48 balls now

Mitchell gone. Stupid shot.

Lucky we bat pretty deep, we're going to need those runs !

This is a terrible batting display.

88/6 now.

@MN5 said in West Indies tour of NZ:

we bat pretty deep

Do we?

@booboo said in West Indies tour of NZ:

@MN5 said in West Indies tour of NZ:

we bat pretty deep

Do we?

on paper.

Bracewell goes with an even dumber shot than Mitchell. Ridiculous.

This is trash to watch.
Look like a club presidents third XI trying to get bat on ball.

Neesh holes out.

Surely game over now with the run rate as it is.

102/8, and that’s bed time.

They should be bloody embarrassed with themselves.

Well a 23 run over helps just a wee bit but with 9 down it is still improbable.

Then twelve more of the next three balls as Santner going crazy

Last over. 20 needed with one in hand. Santner has been sensational.

Does Shepherd play Rugby ? certainly wouldn't look out of place in a number 8 jersey.