So we start bowling with pace and Henry takes wicket first ball lol… wtf do I know
SL's lowest ever powerplay in T20 world cups.
Bloody impressive so far, who's going to be the one to go for 30 off their over? RR?
Incredible effort this, even we can’t lose from here. Amazing comeback. McConchie selection delivered in spades.
Pressure on Pakistan and their net run rate if we lose to England. Beat England and we’re in anyway, well done lads
That first ball from Henry was an absolute peach/jaffa
and to take out one of SL's key batsmen too, no wonder it went downhill for them from there
A real captain's performance.
I will have to watch some highlights with these shitty match times.
We will need to lose badly to England and Pakistan to thrash SL for us to miss out on the semi's
Looks like Pak win/NZ lose by around 70 runs or 6 - 7 overs to allow Pakistan to overcome our superior net run rate.
Excellent result.
Ravindra making me eat humble pie for saying he shouldnt be in the T20 side. What a big game performance.
Captaincy certainly seems to suit Santner. Wonderful cricketer.
@KiwiMurph said in T20 World Cup:
Excellent result.
Ravindra making me eat humble pie for saying he shouldnt be in the T20 side. What a big game performance.
Captaincy certainly seems to suit Santner. Wonderful cricketer.
Ravindra took awhile to find his feet at test level as well to be fair. Time will tell whether or not he bothers with shorter forms as he gets older.
Things tracking well but always dangerous commenting on NZ Cricket when things are going ok so I'll leave it at that.
Thought we'd definitely blown that, when Phillips, Rachin, Chapman and Mitch Jr all perished in short order (and just when we seemed to be getting on track for a decent score). And then Satnav and McConchie could barely get the ball off the square (I think we had a 30 ball spell where we were something like 15/4).
Quite incredible comeback by Satnav and McConchie and then SL was never in it with the bat, from ball one where Henry spiked their biggest gun.
I guess the only thing that slightly concerns me is that England will get a free swing at us - with no pressure.
But it's England - all we need to do is send out a few hot chicks to lure them into a nightclub and get them plastered.
@KiwiMurph said in T20 World Cup:
Excellent result.
Ravindra making me eat humble pie for saying he shouldnt be in the T20 side. What a big game performance.
Captaincy certainly seems to suit Santner. Wonderful cricketer.
Is there another cricketer who has had such a dramatic change? When we look back at Mitch, I regard him in the first half of his career as a decent ODI player, tidy with ball without being a wicket taker, handy with the bat but not always consistent. Certainly not good enough to play tests and take wickets. Since that Indian series he has done a huge turnaround. So much better in all forms, including the ability to take wickets in tests. Extraordinary
Something I learned today - Tim Southee has the second most T20 wickets (of anyone - and not that surprising). But, Ish Sodhi is third on the all-time list. Who knew!!!
And Ish has a flipper - he still texts Warnie videos of it, in case Warnie has cell phone coverage where he's gone.
I spent 3 weeks in SL last month. I was surprised that cricket isn't as big as I expected it to be - volleyball is apparently the national sport! Although our driver was mad keen on cricket and knew a few of the country's greats.
He was dismissive of their chances at the WC. Said they had chosen the wrong team because of politics and that even more than usual they reled on 2-3 to construct a win. If they fail the team has no chance
@Old-Alleynians said in T20 World Cup:
Chris - are involved with OBC for ckt?
Old Boys-Collegians?
No - I played a bit of lower grade cricket for St Albans many many years ago.
I only asked as you mentioned Ish - who I think is hugely overlooked in NZ ckt and I know he is at OBC (my son is doing winter nets/pre season while
at university) - so I thought some club loyalty.
For good order - my boy is a leggie and has met Ish a few times - Ish was so good and patient. NZckt gets it right mostly with public persona.
England will be a tough opponent and given the nature how they play just all out, a massive win or loss could be on the cards. They haven’t been playing at this venue which does help.
For me Jofra and Overton the pick of their bowlers. But Rashid likely to have a field day on this deck.
Satner believed last night best way of attack is not blast from ball one, but let’s see, can’t see either side not doing that.
@OomPB said in T20 World Cup:
The Proteas choke getting bigger by the day.
huh?
they crushed the Windies pretty easily
Zimbabwe unfortunately couldnt continue their upsetting ways and were pretty well beaten by India
@bayimports said in T20 World Cup:
Satner believed last night best way of attack is not blast from ball one, but let’s see, can’t see either side not doing that.
Was watching (on Cricinfo) a bit of the Windies last night and I think they've probably got the tactics we need to employ (assuming we make the semis).
They were going hard and just kept going hard regardless that wickets fell. Against SA and India, I think we probably have to do that - just roll the dice on the day - because a mediocre score won't be enough.
Might be able to refine that if we play WI. A bit different vs England, because we obviously don't want to get thrashed.
If we make the finals we're going to need more from Seifert and Allen than we've got in the past several games.
@OomPB said in T20 World Cup:
@Virgil T20 is always gamble.
SA are the form team but it's T20, there's really no such thing as a choke, every game is a bit of a crap shoot where one player coming off can win the whole game. Would be cool for you guys to get the WTC and T20 cups at the same time, we JUST missed out on having all three at one point, "losing" to England in the ODI final then losing to Mitch Marsh in the T20 final after winning the WTC.
@No-Quarter said in T20 World Cup:
@OomPB said in T20 World Cup:
@Virgil T20 is always gamble.
SA are the form team but it's T20, there's really no such thing as a choke, every game is a bit of a crap shoot where one player coming off can win the whole game. Would be cool for you guys to get the WTC and T20 cups at the same time, we JUST missed out on having all three at one point, "losing" to England in the ODI final then losing to Mitch Marsh in the T20 final after winning the WTC.
Accurate post.
Whoever wins the whole thing ( apart from maybe Zimbabwe ) it's not like it will be a huge surprise or upset.
If NZ won it i would consider it both a huge surprise and an upset
Making the semis or even final? No shock. Lifting the trophy? WTF?
@mariner4life said in T20 World Cup:
If NZ won it i would consider it both a huge surprise and an upset
Making the semis or even final? No shock. Lifting the trophy? WTF?
Yeah fair enough if you put it like that but with Australia out of the running it's probably less of a WTF moment. Mind you the BCs have stumbled so many times in the past.
Better give NZ the same odds as Zimbabwe to be safe.
@No-Quarter said in T20 World Cup:
. Would be cool for you guys to get the WTC and T20 cups at the same time.
Those greedy feckers have got more than enough cups!
If they win another Cup in the next 10 years it will be too soon! 
@Chris-B. said in T20 World Cup:
@bayimports said in T20 World Cup:
Satner believed last night best way of attack is not blast from ball one, but let’s see, can’t see either side not doing that.
Was watching (on Cricinfo) a bit of the Windies last night and I think they've probably got the tactics we need to employ (assuming we make the semis).
They were going hard and just kept going hard regardless that wickets fell. Against SA and India, I think we probably have to do that - just roll the dice on the day - because a mediocre score won't be enough.
Might be able to refine that if we play WI. A bit different vs England, because we obviously don't want to get thrashed.
If we make the finals we're going to need more from Seifert and Allen than we've got in the past several games.
For a start the game against England is in Sri Lanka and the pitch might as well be on a different world, it plays significantly different.
If we make the semis they will be in India and going hard makes sense
@mariner4life said in T20 World Cup:
If NZ won it i would consider it both a huge surprise and an upset
Making the semis or even final? No shock. Lifting the trophy? WTF?
Well at least we won’t have to play Australia
@bayimports Actually, I wasn't disagreeing with you - just triggered my thought from last night that the Windies have probably got the right recipe for teams that are not favourites.
@Chris-B. Actually think we also had right mix when we were in Chennai. South Africa for me rightly favourites, their fielding alone is a level above the remaining teams.
Probably for me that’s the key difference. Batting and bowling any of the remaining teams on their day could ice it.
Flying back to Sydney later so I’m going to join the rest of you not watching in local hours …sigh
@bayimports After our effort vs Sri Lanka, I wonder whether it's a pity we're not staying in Colombo.
Pitch seemed to suit our host of part time spinners!
Be a shock for sure., yet we have been in 2 ODI WC finals, all but won 2019s edition.
Made the final of the last Champions Trophy and won the first Test Championship, winning that final
While I don’t think T20 is our best format still feels slightly unfair to write us off as no chance to win anything
@Chris-B. said in T20 World Cup:
@No-Quarter said in T20 World Cup:
. Would be cool for you guys to get the WTC and T20 cups at the same time.
Those greedy feckers have got more than enough cups!
If they win another Cup in the next 10 years it will be too soon!
Cricket need to catch up on rugby.
@OomPB said in T20 World Cup:
@Chris-B. said in T20 World Cup:
@No-Quarter said in T20 World Cup:
. Would be cool for you guys to get the WTC and T20 cups at the same time.
Those greedy feckers have got more than enough cups!
If they win another Cup in the next 10 years it will be too soon!
Cricket need to catch up on rugby.
In the spirit of helpfulness, I'm sure we can find a few good reasons why you should turn over at least a couple of those RWCs to us!