*Unofficial* New Zealand Black Caps Thread

[thundaboult]

Our bowling is putting on a decent show. 4 down. Aus should still comfortably chase this down but i like how our boys aren't just laying down

 

[thundaboult]

5 and 6 down! Aus in a bit of a bother at 154/6. Even if they go on to win this, our bowling has really impressed! Motivating stuff

 

[kaetor]

Carey gone too! The updates are very slow but the game is looking surprisingly good considering how many of our top squad we're missing!

 

[thundaboult]

Reality sinks in again, our total is just too small to defend. NCN swinging it back to Aus.

 

[thundaboult]

Spoke too soon! Henry's bowled Pat cummins and Aus are still searching for it at 197/8

 

[thundaboult]

Astle has NCN! 9 down and Aus still need 11 here. Jesus christ this match needed to be televised...what a cracker. Extremely envious of the crowd getting to watch this live. Our bowlers have really turned it up a notch

 

[The Hutt Rec]

Pity a few more of these players didn’t actually get tried out before the squad was selected.

 

[thundaboult]

Big shout for lbw by astle but aus have now scraped through. They win by 1 wicket but what a match

 

[Zinzan]

Most depressing thing for me is seeing Bennett's return of 1-31 off 10 (including 3 maidens). Clearly should have made the WC side, had he not slept with Larsen's wife, and would have been well suited to any English wickets offering anything at all.

 

[Bahnz]

Young helping himself to 60 off 69 while Nicholls gets a golden blob opening the batting doesn't exactly leave me thrilled either.

 

[The Hutt Rec]

Bennett and Young are the two I was referring to that should have been given a chance.

Good to see Blundell deliver, at least.

Would have been a pretty embarrassing loss for Australia is we’d got there ... real shame these matches aren’t being streamed.

 

[Athlai]

Should've probably won that after getting them 9 down.

 

[NZTailender]

Surprised it was that close tbh

 

[kaetor]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/crick...-miss-rest-of-2019-for-major-shoulder-surgery

Sad news for those of us hoping to see Will Young get his call up sometime soon

 

[The Hutt Rec]

He's just notched a tonne in game two.

Should get home pretty easily and win this one, 207/2 in the 38th over trying to get to 278.

I know it's just warm ups, Aus would have to be worried about this.

 

[straw man]

Congrats to Will Young - it may be just a warmup but it's against a top-level Aus bowling attack. Gutting that he's going to miss the rest of the year for surgery.

 

[thundaboult]

Here I was wishing someone in dehli would perhaps cause a certain munro to work some extra miles and hopefully mess up a hamstring so will young can come in, and here i'm hearing young is going to miss the rest of 2019 from injury. Fantastic.

Btw, george worker...not bad. Let's not forget him either.

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Congrats to Will Young - it may be just a warmup but it's against a top-level Aus bowling attack. Gutting that he's going to miss the rest of the year for surgery.

Not really

EDIT: this was my 2000th post. Pretty boring really

 

[straw man]

Not really

has Starc

Admittedly I didn't notice Cummins was sitting this one out.

 

[GoodAreasShane]

has Starc

Admittedly I didn't notice Cummins was sitting this one out.

Starc is a beast, but is just coming back off injury anyway. Rest of the pace attack looks a bit one dimensional tbh