by The Dark Knight » Wed Jun 23, 2021 9:42 pm
by locky801 » Wed Jun 23, 2021 11:10 pm
by Armchair expert » Wed Jun 23, 2021 11:54 pm
by DOC » Wed Jun 23, 2021 11:58 pm
by locky801 » Thu Jun 24, 2021 12:01 am
DOC wrote:Lead by 128. Need to bat 20 more overs or they will have to bowl them out.
by DOC » Thu Jun 24, 2021 12:08 am
by Aerie » Thu Jun 24, 2021 12:17 am
Dutchy wrote:them Kiwi's eh?
by Jim05 » Thu Jun 24, 2021 12:35 am
by locky801 » Thu Jun 24, 2021 3:06 am
by The Dark Knight » Thu Jun 24, 2021 7:22 am
by stan » Thu Jun 24, 2021 8:33 am
by am Bays » Thu Jun 24, 2021 9:47 am
Jim05 wrote:Meh, still never won anything decent until today and haven’t beaten us in a test series in an eternity. I hope we get another chance to destroy them soon
by tnt » Thu Jun 24, 2021 10:31 am
by RB » Thu Jun 24, 2021 10:58 am
by batmanbegins » Thu Jun 24, 2021 11:16 am
RB wrote:Agreed. Has always been that way for some reason even though we're next door neighbours.
Most of our series against them have only involved 2 tests FFS.
But I agree we'd flog them. For some reason they always fall apart against us and England (but no-one else).
by am Bays » Thu Jun 24, 2021 12:00 pm
by RB » Thu Jun 24, 2021 12:16 pm
by whufc » Thu Jun 24, 2021 12:33 pm
am Bays wrote:Its not just NZ there is a real reticence amongst our administrators to program tests against the lesser countries.
it irks me for two reasons:
1. How are the likes of Bangladesh, Ireland, West Indies, Zimbabwe, Afghanistan and to a lesser extend Pakistan and Sri Lanka going to get better unless they play the likes of us, Eng, India and NZ more often. The fear of the bottom line is given more credence than the health of the collective test playing nations. it is very short sighted IMO.
2. it denies us "easy wins" that boosts our ranking. Only Bangladesh and Zimbabwe have played less test than us in this last "test championship period" and we cancelled/rescheduled tests against Bangladesh, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Afghanistan in that time (some due to COVID granted)
but the principle remains we play another six tests in that time period to match what NZ has done and were in that final.
People go on about our test players and their attitude but to me the attitude of our administrative leaders is far worse and sets the tone. None more so than that obscene four nil background when we won the ASHES in 2017-18
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