West Indies tour of NZ

@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.

What ? how was that bouncer not a wide ????

Huge six.

14 from three now.

Extremely tough chance shelled. They ran two.

12 needed from a couple now......

Bugger. Dot ball. Good effort Windies, always competitive in this form of the game as @Virgil says.

Honestly, we're a terrible T20 side at this point. We're not aggressive enough and also not that good.

Batting first tonight.

45/0 from 5.

I’ve liked the look of Robinson in his short time in the team. Seems to have the power of Finn Allen, but plays more genuine cricket strokes with less risk, rather than being an out and out hell for leather hitter.

With Conway 14* off 19 in that start too

Conway looks to be really out of form. Playing and missing or finding the edge a lot, hitting to the fielders when he does get one.

They've done us a favour getting Conway out.

Conway misses one too many, stumps knocked over.

Probably best for the team, coz there’s been way to many dot balls with him there.

59/1
Just 14 runs from the last 18 balls

59/2

2/14 from the last 20 balls.

Finally a boundary, the first in almost 5 overs.

30 runs from the last 6 overs, where’s the intent and urgency?

Are our batters all out of form or do we just suck at T20… both I suspect.

Finally. 6, 6, 4 from Chapman.
Where has this been?

Edit make that 6, 6, 4, 6

Ravindra trying to join in, and gone.

He had to go big or go out though to be fair… wasted 15 balls for his 11.

Tim Seifert is a big loss in the batting order. You might as well open with Hay given Conway's form.

Wow Chapman has raced to 50 from just 19 balls.
He really seemed to struggle for his first 12-15 runs, gone nuts since.

@Gunner said in West Indies tour of NZ:

Wow Chapman has raced to 50 from just 18 balls.
He really seemed to struggle for his first 12-15 runs, gone nuts since.

Think he went from something like 12 off 11 then notched up 50 in 19 balls!

Chapman goes with a game changing 78 from 28.

Need one of the middle order to cash in and put the icing on it.

207/5, a good total in the end.

I think we were 70 or so after 10, so bloody impressive to score 130+ in the last 10.

Mitchell & Santner finished the innings well after Chapmans fireworks.