Cricket Thread

[Speakman]

games not over yet

if we can take a couple of wickets early, we'll be sitting ok

[SteddieEddie]

Well, they succeeded my expectations by making it this far.

Sri Lanka are a great side, so no shame in losing

[kilabee]

Oh well.Nevermind.

[mattnz]

Yeah, sucks. Really needed more from the middle order.

We do alright though, we are the smallest country in the cup by a decent margin, after all.

[Speakman]

with the run we were on before the cup, we've really turned around with the new coach


quite a few of our guys had a pretty good run as well

[kilabee]

Positives for me were
- overachieving by making it to the semis
- Fielding by the whole team but Guptil in particular must be in the top five in the game
- Southee stepping up
- Oram and Styris performing although rumor has it both are set to retire
- Guptil , Taylor with the bat although still a bit light on runs.

Negatives

- Tournament format what a yawn
- not enough runs
- McCullum scoring no runs in any of the big matches.
- Still a lack of anyone who can turn it in the sub continent
- not making a historic final.
- Muralitharan still being allowed to blatantly throw the ball.
- Losing Vettori as captian
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[toofast]

I think mccullum not scoring runs is a positive. It will lead to his return to the middle order. There is no doubt he is the best keeper in this country, but we really dont need him at the top of the order.

[SteddieEddie]

Looking forward to this final tonight, shame I have work at 8am

With the extra hours sleep tonight, should be able to see a lot of it though

[Scunner]

Nine test debutants this year for Australia including three today (possibly ten with four today, but unlikely). Probable Australian side:

1 David Warner, 2 Phillip Hughes, 3 Usman Khawaja, 4 Ricky Ponting, 5 Michael Clarke (capt), 6 Michael Hussey, 7 Brad Haddin (wk), 8 Peter Siddle, 9 James Pattinson, 10 Nathan Lyon, 11 Mitchell Starc / Ben Cutting.

I can not remember seeing a more unrecognisable Australian bowling line up or even a more unremarkable Australian team.

[Zarkov]

Usual NZ start.

[kilabee]

All cheap shit wickets except maybe Guptill but he didn't move his feet either. Ryder,McCullum and Taylor should all lose their match fees for dumb ass 'strokes'.

[toofast]

I was laughing pretty hard at all the media hype behind the BC. I read one article which mentioned how assured the top of NZ batting was compared to Aus opening bowling pair.

[Spork]

NZ started out well, until they lost the first wicket, then seemed to crumble.

[Scunner]

Good Guy Vettori.

Sees Australia can't bowl him out. Runs himself out for them.

[Zarkov]

Good effort though: 96.

Brownlie also, never heard of him.

[kilabee]

Fuck Southee throwing away his wicket with Martin to come in next.If I was Brownlie on 70 odd I would be giving him a massive spray in the sheds.Listening to the commentary I just said 'idiot' out loud for the 5th time this innings.

[SteddieEddie]

Here we go again, another spectacular top order display from the Kiwis.

Instead of expressing themselves, why don't the just apply themselves

[Dr Woomanchu]

It's teh NZ cricket team. This is their default mode , has been for the 30+ years I have been following them.

I agree with a comment I saw thats aid in most other countries in the world McCullum would be dropped for being too inconsistent, but he knows he'll never get dropped in the NZ team, so he keeps on failing.

[TofuEater]

Jeez you guys are buggers for punishment. I gave up caring about them years ago.

[Dr Woomanchu]

I'd never be so tragic as to only support my team because it was winning.

[kilabee]

I spent the whole week wondering where the NZ media buys their optimism pills from.

[Zarkov]

Tofu hates his teams.

Win or lose.

[pyro]

Jeez you guys are buggers for punishment. I gave up caring about them years ago.

Yea guys exactly, why watch a sport you enjoy, if your teams losing screw them, never watch them play again and bag them out every chance you get......

[Scunner]

I don't know what you're talking about. I enjoyed that game.

I'd love to see Hughes dropped from the Aussie side when Watson is back, rather than Warner. How you end up on one knee after playing a cut shot is a mystery to me.

[TofuEater]

The night of the fight, you may feel a slight sting. That's pride fucking wit' choo. Fuck pride! Pride only hurts, it never helps..