O'Rourke with a beauty of an LBW. Not sure what the on field Umpire was seeing there, as that was dead set plumb.
@Darren said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
England's lowest score is 122, looks like they will get past that at least, maybe just
117/8
Bowling England out in half a day for 122 would be pretty epic...
What a dog of a cricket wicket and disgusting weather too.
Home of Cricket? Bollocks to that.
@Bones said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
Yeah, well, fuck cricket.
Who wants to watch this shit?
Cricket seems to have a death wish.
@sparky said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
@Bones said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
Yeah, well, fuck cricket.
Who wants to watch this shit?
Cricket seems to have a death wish.
An especially bad day for trying to ask the English OH's dad if there's any cricket on at 5pm, when usually you're getting bombarded if the black craps are crapping.
@Bones said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
At least we avoided the follow on. Amazing batting.
And we didn't beat our own record for lowest ever Test score.
"Kiwi! Kiwi! Kiwi!"
@sparky said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
@Bones said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
At least we avoided the follow on. Amazing batting.
And we didn't beat our own record for lowest ever Test score.
"Kiwi! Kiwi! Kiwi!"
Mitchell and Phillips hitting 5 figures is something else.
What the fuckety fuck is going on ?
61/6 ?
Are the top order jet lagged from the flight from Ireland ?
Well done Jamieson on a terrific Michelle.
@MN5 said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
What the fuckety fuck is going on ?
61/6 ?
Are the top order jet lagged from the flight from Ireland ?
Well done Jamieson on a terrific Michelle.
How many does Kylo need to make the honours board? 10?
@canefan said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
@MN5 said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
What the fuckety fuck is going on ?
61/6 ?
Are the top order jet lagged from the flight from Ireland ?
Well done Jamieson on a terrific Michelle.
How many does Kylo need to make the honours board? 10?
Five. HE's on it now. A century or 5 in an innings I believe.
@nzzp said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
@canefan said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
@MN5 said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
What the fuckety fuck is going on ?
61/6 ?
Are the top order jet lagged from the flight from Ireland ?
Well done Jamieson on a terrific Michelle.
How many does Kylo need to make the honours board? 10?
Five. HE's on it now. A century or 5 in an innings I believe.
another five and a 50 and he could do a Dion Nash !
He only needs three wickets to beat Shane Bond and assuming he doesn't concede a million runs whilst getting them he'll beat Bonds outstanding average too......Jamieson continues to be an absolute test superstar when he isn't broken. Why do our truly elite fast bowlers always break ? this shit never happened across the ditch with Glenn Mcgrath, Pat Cummins etc.
I also hope ( in what looks to be a low scoring game ) Henry has some angry pills from not getting a wicket in the first innings.
Losing Henry was a big blow, very likely we would have rolled them for less given the conditions if he could bowl more overs. In Glen Phillips we trust.
@canefan said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
@barky1 said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
Simon Doull lashed county cricket a few minutes ago. Circa 11.17pm for those who are recording
Nasser just ignored him
What did he have to say?
@African-Monkey said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
@canefan said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
@barky1 said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
Simon Doull lashed county cricket a few minutes ago. Circa 11.17pm for those who are recording
Nasser just ignored him
What did he have to say?
Just ignored the line of discussion. They were talking about England's lack of toughness in recent times. Doull was wondering if county cricket wasn't cutthroat enough because the comp is so big. Compared Oz and NZ domestic comps, said these were tougher because the numbers were smaller and guys were desperate to show out with less opportunities. Nasser just looked into the distance then went on about how they performed so badly in Australia last season
@frugby said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
Henry starting to pick up a lot of injuries.
Harder being the main man than the bit player
Here we go blaming the pitch. How about blaming some terrible shot choices? Williamson's dismissal was really the only one where the bowler actually got him out the other dismissals were just poor decisions.
Play with a straight bat and maybe let a few balls go through to the keeper. No need to try and smack every ball to the boundary its test cricket after all. This T20 shit has stuffed players abilities to play genuine cricket shots when it's needed.
@1kiwi said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
Here we go blaming the pitch. How about blaming some terrible shot choices?
It can be both.
@canefan said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
@frugby said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
Henry starting to pick up a lot of injuries.
Harder being the main man than the bit player
bugger, didn't realise he was injured. Everyone else certainly played their part though.
@canefan said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
Just watched the highlights. Our top order have to take a good look at themselves
Yours and ours 
@canefan said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
@frugby said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
Henry starting to pick up a lot of injuries.
Harder being the main man than the bit player
He's always been injury prone. Had about three or four seasons mainly injury free and showed what he can do.
@canefan said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
Just watched the highlights. Our top order have to take a good look at themselves
And dare I say it, Kane is starting on the slippery slope that begins once they reach the career phase of picking and choosing when they'll play.
Hopefully he'll still have a few legendary innings to go, but I fear they'll be fewer and further between...
@Donsteppa said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
@canefan said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
Just watched the highlights. Our top order have to take a good look at themselves
And dare I say it, Kane is starting on the slippery slope that begins once they reach the career phase of picking and choosing when they'll play.
Hopefully he'll still have a few legendary innings to go, but I fear they'll be fewer and further between...
I was thinking along the same lines. Hopefully he doesn't harm his legacy
Just seen the highlights again.
Not much wrong with the pitch. Five of the Black Caps top order (and our specialist keeper) either couldn't read or play for inswing. And Kane had little idea in his dismissal.
This time a batter playing well inside the line, but too far inside the line of the stumps...