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  1. thierry henry

    *Official * Pakistan vs New Zealand 2023

    Southee btw has taken 20 wickets @23 in his last 11 games. Prior to that he did not play an ODI for over 2 years. I have no idea what the justification was for picking him again last year but those results do lend themselves worryingly to Athlai’s theory
  2. thierry henry

    *Official * Pakistan vs New Zealand 2023

    I wanted to say that y’all are being too harsh on Neesham because he’s hardly had the chance to play ODIs (his best format imo despite being a T20 mercenary) since gunning it in 2018/19 and the 2019 World Cup. However, his record in the 14 ODIs he has played since then is abysmal, and his...
  3. thierry henry

    *Unofficial* New Zealand Black Caps Thread

    I was vaguely thinking of going to India to watch some of the World Cup, but in a very rich white tourist who doesn’t care about ‘authenticity’ and just wants to have a cruisey time kinda way. These last few posts are not encouraging.
  4. thierry henry

    *Official * Pakistan vs New Zealand 2023

    I know "if you can't bat, just BazBall" is a thing, but I still say that no top order option is worse than Allen when it comes to ability to keep out decent bowling.
  5. thierry henry

    *Official * Pakistan vs New Zealand 2023

    Tommy Blunder has to do better there
  6. thierry henry

    *Official * Pakistan vs New Zealand 2023

    tbf that one might’ve juuuuuust been out
  7. thierry henry

    *Official * Pakistan vs New Zealand 2023

    I’m very drunk, and I’d love to see the justification for giving that last stumping out (I assume it’s the usual incoherent obsession with giving things out?)
  8. thierry henry

    ** Official Cricketweb Horseracing thread **

    Just need to get @_Ed_ in on one, if only he wasn’t such a thoroughbred-loving elitist
  9. thierry henry

    *Official * Pakistan vs New Zealand 2023

    People watch the IPL for Danny Morrison’s commentary iirc
  10. thierry henry

    Over-rates yawn

    I genuinely don’t understand what you mean by this though? Like, bad light and rain are real things and when they reach a certain level you can’t reasonably play cricket. I’m all for improving facilities to reduce the impact of these things but as it stands, they’re real. When the players are...
  11. thierry henry

    Over-rates yawn

    Feels like one of the fundamental differences of opinion here comes down to a lot of people simply not perceiving that the fielding team are going about their business extremely slowly for no reason at all. I just think it’s really obvious that they are. I watched cricket a long time ago when...
  12. thierry henry

    *Official * Pakistan vs New Zealand 2023

    We’ve played 32 ODIs in 4 years and Pakistan have played 24, or something like that. The JA makes no sense, if anything they’re MODIs now.
  13. thierry henry

    ** Official Cricketweb Horseracing thread **

    At least I remembered to have a punt on it this time Also, I hear we may how have the first true CW horse who’ll actually get to the races with all 3 renowned posting legends in the ownership group…
  14. thierry henry

    *Official * Pakistan vs New Zealand 2023

    Looks like we should’ve made 320+ but got no acceleration from the middle/lower order Obvious solution would be to drop Chapman
  15. thierry henry

    *Official * Pakistan vs New Zealand 2023

    This is probably a lazy analysis but it does feel like Chapman has done pretty well in middle of the night JAM tours but failed to fire (or somewhat fired but failed to get the team over the line) in clutch situations in home JAM - a bad mix for public perception. I have always been a fan albeit...
  16. thierry henry

    *Official * Pakistan vs New Zealand 2023

    That was an actually fun A team v B team series, although I was probably way more into it because we were in total lockdown at the time (more conducive to being drunk at 3am watching **** cricket)
  17. thierry henry

    *Official * Pakistan vs New Zealand 2023

    Ah well at least Rachin seems to have bowled quite well. I guess this tour is also confirming some things we already sort of knew like: Chapman is ok, Rachin isn’t much use slogging down the order, Neesham is pretty iffy with bat and ball these days, Lister isn’t really up to it and Henry, while...
  18. thierry henry

    *Unofficial* New Zealand Black Caps Thread

    Mark Bailey played one ODI and did not bat, a thriller where we beat Zimbabwe on the last ball 5 wickets down. Funnily enough he was demoted to number 8 (or possibly lower I guess) in the chase despite being a specialist bat. The aforementioned Alex Tait was promoted above him (which seems...
  19. thierry henry

    *Unofficial* New Zealand Black Caps Thread

    I was 9, so….yes
  20. thierry henry

    *Unofficial* New Zealand Black Caps Thread

    I am stunned to find that Mark Douglas played 6 ODIs, I would’ve said I could remember every NZ international of the last 30 years but honestly I wasn’t sure he had played internationals. For some reason the 1994/95 season is a bit of a blank in my mind while I remember the seasons either side...

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