Phlegm's Half Arsed NZ Story Volume II

[Flem274*]

12 man squad for the second test is:

Peter Fulton
Mathew Sinclair
Stephen Fleming
Peter Ingram
Jesse Ryder
Jacob Oram
Brendon McCullum
Daniel Vettori
James Franklin
Shane Bond
Gareth Shaw
Bruce Martin

 

[Flem274*]

Decided to bat first on a bowler friendly pitch. Very cloudy and average bounce.

131/4 at lunch. Strike rate wasn't an issue but were found out by the English when they put the ball in the right place. Morning session characterised by Ryder cruising to 33 from 27 before having his middle stump uprooted.

Ingram still there on 33*, and this is about the time he gets out. Oram is with him on 16*. Simon Jones has 2/16.

 

[Flem274*]

England in New Zealand: 2nd Test

New Zealand 173 all out

Peter Ingram 45
Jesse Ryder 33

Mathew Hoggard 4/49
Stephen Harmison 3/48

Bugger.

England 410 all out

Alistair Cook 150
Ian Bell 133

Jacob Oram 4/48
Daniel Vettori 3/38 (tail)
Jesse Ryder 3/42

**** off. Bastards were 330/2 at one stage, with Bell and Cook sharing a 228 run stand. Then I brought Oram and Ryder on (who took the first two wickets) and Oram dealt with Cook while Ryder yorked Bell. Collapse followed, with England losing 7/77.

New Zealand 497/9 dec.

Sent them out to block the poms for three days. What was awesome is we did it (thank you rain). Mathew Sinclair and Stephen Fleming take a bow, with McCullum gritting his teeth down the order. Bond too. Everyone bar Vettori and Oram lasted at least 90 balls, and that's what did it. I could have declared on the morning of day five, but I wasn't far enough ahead for my liking. Declared when McCullum got out to spite them. They weren't gonna bowl us out with that h4x attack (they're got some insane stats).

Stephen Fleming 122 (360)
Mathew Sinclair 91 (204)
Brendon McCullum 59 (239)

Stephen Jones 4/138
Mathew Hoggard 3/150

England 41/1

Andrew Strauss 26*
Kevin Pietersen 8*

Shane Bond 1/14

Match Drawn.

New Zealand defeat England 1-0.

 

[Athlai]

Pretty huge effort from Oram to restrict England to 410 there, would've lost even with that huge batting effort if not for that.

 

[Flem274*]

New Zealand in the West Indies 2008

Tour Squad

Shane Bond
Tama Canning
Jarrod Englefield
Stephen Fleming
James Franklin
Peter Fulton
Peter Ingram
Tim Lythe
Hamish Marshall
Bruce Martin
Brendon McCullum
Kyle Mills
Jacob Oram
Jesse Ryder
Mathew Sinclair
Gareth Shaw
Daryl Tuffey
Daniel Vettori

New Zealand vs Barbados

Barbados 297 all out

Patrick Browne 66
Martin Nurse 52

Tama Canning 3/53
Gareth Shaw 3/58

New Zealand 415/7 dec.

Brendon McCullum 127
Jarrod Englefield 102
Peter Ingram 58
Kyle Mills 53*

Ryan Nurse 2/98
Ryan Hinds 1/36

Barbados 116/3

Patrick Browne 58
Alcindo Holder 28

Tim Lythe 2/36
Gareth Shaw 1/19

Match Drawn.

Cheers Ed for the Englefield recommendation!

Likely NZ side for 1st Test

Peter Fulton
Mathew Sinclair
Stephen Fleming
Peter Ingram (last chance)
Jesse Ryder
Jacob Oram
Brendon McCullum
Tama Canning
Daniel Vettori
James Franklin
Shane Bond

 

[Flem274*]

New Zealand in the West Indies: 1st Test Match

New Zealand 277 all out

Daniel Vettori 62
Tama Canning 51

Dave Mohammed 5/62
Jerome Taylor 3/87

Lower order saved me from embarassment.

West Indies 160 all out

Ramnaresh Sarwan 58
Ryan Hinds 25

Shane Bond 5/37
Jesse Ryder 2/9

New Zealand 365/5 dec.

Mathew Sinclair 130
Stephen Fleming 118

Dave Mohammed 5/73

West Indies 238 all out

Ramnaresh Sarwan 59
Shivnarine Chanderpaul 43

Daniel Vettori 7/71
James Franklin 2/51

New Zealand win by 244 runs.

Digital WindieWeathers commits suicide.

 

[_Ed_]

Vettori with second-innings wickets?!

Awesome win, though.

 

[Athlai]

Fair thrashing there.

 

[Flem274*]

So many things right with that scorecard.

-lower order rescuing NZ
-Dave Mohammed taking a 10fer
-West Indies throwing it away
-Bond with a 5fer
-Fleming with a ton
-Skippy Sinclair with a ton
-Dan the Man with a 7fer (9 for the match)

 

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New Zealand in the West Indies: 2nd Test Match

West Indies 355 all out

Shivnarine Chanderpaul 91
Wavell Hinds 90
Chris Gayle 51

Shane Bond 4/88
James Franklin 3/83

New Zealand 407 all out

Mathew Sinclair 168
Daniel Vettori 64

Jerome Taylor 4/130
Reon King 2/62

Skippy!

West Indies 234 all out

Shivnarine Chanderpaul 123*
Chris Gayle 24

James Franklin 4/61
Jacob Oram 2/31

Chanders whaddaplaya!

New Zealand 183/3

Mathew Sinclair 69
Peter Fulton 44

New Zealand win by 7 wickets

New Zealand win 2-0.

 

[Prince EWS]

SKIPPEH!!!!

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[_Ed_]

Pretty impressive stuff.

 

[NZTailender]

Gun but needs more Lou.

 

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New Zealand in Pakistan 2008

Tour Squad

Peter Fulton
Stephen Fleming
Jarrod Englefield
Tim Lythe
Peter Ingram
Peter Howell
Mathew Sinclair
Brendon McCullum
Jesse Ryder
Jacob Oram
Tama Canning
Daniel Vettori
James Franklin
Scott Styris
Shane Bond
Mark Gillespie
Gareth Shaw
Bruce Martin

First Tour Match: Rawalpindi vs New Zealand Three Day friendly

Peter Fulton
Mathew Sinclair
Peter Howell
Jarrod Englefield
Tim Lythe
Scott Styris
Brendon McCullum
James Franklin
Shane Bond
Bruce Martin
Mark Gillespie

New Zealand 315/5 dec.

Peter Howell 101
Mathew Sinclair 49

Shoaib Akhtar 2/60
Alamgir Khan 2/78

Rawalpindi 98

Mohammad Wasim 35
Mohammad Ibrahim 10

Mark Gillespie 4/18
James Franklin 3/31

Rawalpindi follow on

Rawalpindi 67

Yasim Murtaza 17
Usman Saeed 10

James Franklin 5/25
Shane Bond 4/29

New Zealand win by an innings and 150 runs

Bruce Martin didn't even get a bowl.

 

[Somerset]

Great series victory over the Windies, and an equally impressive start to your tour of Pakistan!

 

[Flem274*]

Pakistan are going to smash me tbh. YK, MoYo and Inzi are averaging around 50 with the bat and their bowling attack is amazing. Waqar Ahmed averages just 17 with the ball. They just became the number 1 team in the world as well.

 

[Prince EWS]

Pakistan are going to smash me tbh. YK, MoYo and Inzi are averaging around 50 with the bat and their bowling attack is amazing. Waqar Ahmed averages just 17 with the ball. They just became the number 1 team in the world as well.

Maybe they will throw the series.

 

[Flem274*]

They didn't pick Waqar Ahmed! Must be injured or something. Now the bowling is just world class instead of invincible.

They also seemed to have dropped Bajiid Khan, who was doing decentish, in favour of Imran Farhart. He just edged a rank Franklin full toss to second slip.

 

[Athlai]

Pfft Franklin was bowling a beauty and you know it.

 

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New Zealand in Pakistan: 1st Test Match

Pakistan 408

Taufeeq Umar 97
Hasan Raza 75
Inzamam ul-Haq 72
Younis Khan 69

James Franklin 5/123
Bruce Martin 3/72
Shane Bond 2/102

New Zealand 226

Peter Fulton 50
Mathew Sinclair 38

Yasir Arafat 4/63
Mohammad Asif 3/44

Pakistan 260

Mohammad Yousuf 75
Hasan Raza 55

James Franklin 3/53
Bruce Martin 3/72
Shane Bond 2/36
Jesse Ryder 1/46

New Zealand 310/9

Jacob Oram 86 (289)
Mathew Sinclair 73 (238)
Jesse Ryder 63 (143)

Yasir Arafat 6/106
Samiullah Khan 2/51

Match Drawn.

Phew, batted five sessions for that. Things got very worrying when Oram departed with three overs left then Shane Bond got out in the last over. Bruce Martin lasted four balls to save us.

Brendon McCullum holed out yet again for hardly anything. He's been brainless for quite a few tests now, and he dropped an important catch in the first innings. Very tempting to give Sinclair the gloves and move him down to six. I'll give McCullum another test.