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    ***Official*** South Africa in New Zealand 2012

    Nice bit of reverse jinxing...:ph34r:
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    ***Official*** South Africa in New Zealand 2012

    I'll put on my pessimistic NZ cricket follower hat.... when do we think South Africa will declare, particularly given the forecast for Sunday looks a bit dodgy?
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    ***Official*** South Africa in New Zealand 2012

    The ball that got Bracewell might have been a sign that he's got some of his mojo back. Was a thing of beauty (even for someone supporting NZ..).
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    ***Official*** South Africa in New Zealand 2012

    Yep, only job for the groundsmen might be trying to dry up a heavy dew. Perfect day to be a test batsman on a flat deck.
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    Biggest six

    I agree it doesn't. But of all the folk who watched, played, and wrote about cricket from the 50's onwards, I don't know of any who said that bowling speeds went up in general. (They may have written something like it about specific bowlers, like when Lillee and Thommo were bowling together...
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    Biggest six

    But the argument is that modern bowlers "must" be quicker because Usain Bolt is quicker than Maurice Green or Carl Lewis or Hazely Crawford or whoever. I'm just saying that there's no similar progression in bowling speeds which to my mind refutes the whole argument. I've watched cricket for...
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    ***Official*** South Africa in New Zealand 2012

    it keeps suggesting it will improve and then closes back in again. At this rate by the time it dries out enough to play they'd be off for bad light.
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    ***Official*** South Africa in New Zealand 2012

    Dec-Jan were fantastic, but the last 6 weeks have been terrible. I judge these things based on how often I take my little lad to the paddling pool in Woodhaugh Gardens or the beach - we went nearly every day over the Christmas holidays, but have been just once since. It is brightening and...
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    ***Official*** South Africa in New Zealand 2012

    I think the weather forecast is wildly optimistic... can't even see down the end of the street it's so clouded in. Think Scotland in November... I see the forecast for the next three days is fairly good, but if it turns out true it will be the first time for about 6 weeks we've had three...
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    Biggest six

    My point is that people in this thread keep comparing fast bowlers to other athletes. But while the 100m record comes down year after year after year, fast bowlers don't get quicker every year. There is no-one bowling now who bowls quicker than two or three blokes did over a decade ago. (I...
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    ***Official*** South Africa in New Zealand 2012

    8.00 and not looking like we'll have any play today... England fans can breathe easy - you'll still be number one at the end of the series as this miserable summer down here in Dunedin means we won't get more than a couple of days play. South Africa won't have the chance to win more than 2-0...
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    Biggest six

    Right, so Shoaib and Lee circa 2000 weren't faster than... Pattinson and Roach (??) circa 2012?
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    ***Official*** South Africa in New Zealand 2012

    Anyone know why Taylor didn't bat in CD's innings?
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    ***Official*** South Africa in New Zealand 2012

    Good news for the kiwi test prospects - Chris Martin is in top batting form. (Made 6 n.o for Auckland in his latest innings...)
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    Biggest six

    This is true. Similarly George Best would probably not last 15 minutes in modern football such is the pace of the modern game (and if he tried having a pre-game pint and fag, he might not even make it onto the field). I'm less convinced that this argument applies to cricket, and in particular...
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    ***Official*** South Africa in New Zealand 2012

    The funny thing about Nicol is that he probably went up to open because he figured that's where the gaps in NZ's line-ups usually are and if he wanted to make the step up, he'd probably have to do it as an opener. So he produces some fairly... mediocre numbers as an opener and ends up in the...
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    Sporcle Cricket Quiz

    That was chastening. 82/100. Missed out Hammond... and Lillee... oops. On others, I am not in agreement with the learned CMJ. Pietersen at 60? WTF? Flintoff??
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    Sporcle Cricket Quiz

    This is great! Stats geek like me, heaven. Got all 25 of the top run scorers though I probably needed about 30 names (kept putting modern players like Clarke, Sehwag, Pietersen and Younis in there...). And I admit I would never have picked Mark Waugh if it hadn't filled it in automatically...
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    ***Official*** South Africa in New Zealand 2012

    Those are scary numbers. Even scarier thought - imagine if Ross Taylor hasn't quite got over his injury and damages himself again in his next match. I would have added Franklin to the playing 11 and put Vettori back to 8 for the Dunedin test at least. Dunedin has had a miserable last 5-6...
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    ***Official*** South Africa in New Zealand 2012

    Anyone think they might pick van Wyk - either as a batsman, or as keeper with Watling going up the order? He (van Wyk) did make a couple of critical scores in a low-scoring match vs Otago last week.

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