Zinzan
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All the more reason we should be trying to schedule more day/night Tests at home. Surely that makes it more attractive in dealing with the time zone.
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NZ rise to 2nd in Test rankings for first time
- Thread starter Athlai
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Howsie
International Captain
Haha
But seriously, pretty cool. Best side in my living memory.
Borges
International Regular
Dispense with the limited overs stuff and play more test matches when India tour NZ early next year; #1 vs #2 deserves to be a five test series.
The Hutt Rec
International Vice-Captain
When you hit submit on this post, a tear inexplicably rolled down David White’s face.
Slifer
International Captain
Blame your NZ board for that.
Bahnz
Hall of Fame Member
The NZ timezone is bad, but that doesn't explain why we've had so few tours of other countries. No test tours of WI or SA scheduled until at least 2023, next year's tour of SL is the first since 2012. And the one country that actually has a decent timezone for cricket in NZ - Australia - aren't playing tests here until 2023 either. The time zone doesn't help, but that's only a small part of the equation.
Victor Ian
International Coach
When big brothers go off the boil it's so good when little brothers step up and start decking people. It seems New Zealand genuinely perform when Australia loses the plot.
Victor Ian
International Coach
In hindsight, it's even more woeful Australia lost to India. New Zealand might be sitting top of the tree now.
stephen
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
It really ****s me that Australia won't play many tests over the next few years. I'd love to see a home and away series against New Zealand. It'd provably be the most competitive series since the Hadlee days.
vcs
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NZ never seem to play well against Australia and SA for some reason. Matchup issues I guess. Those two do everything that NZ do, a little better. Also, they can't invite those two on early season NZ wickets when the ball moves around. It's always SL/Pakistan/WI taking up that slot.
Bahnz
Hall of Fame Member
Tbf, the 2017 NZ v SA series was at least evenly matched - SA won 1-0, but that was only after they were facing a heavy defeat in the 3rd test before rain intervened (NZ also probably had the better of the 1st test before the 5th day was washed out). I do agree that we'd have a better shot of beating Australia if we played them in November/December but that will never happen. The NZ v England series scheduled for November this year should be really interesting.
NZTailender
I can't believe I ate the whole thing
We always miss teams when they hit a low. By the time we tour SA again Amla will probably be gone, de Kock, Faf and Markram will probably hit god mode with the bat and the new seamers will have a bit more experience and destroy us.
Similarly, Aus will have Smith and Warner when they return. And lets face it, all they need is those two plus Starc, Hazlwood and Cummins to fire (and they often do), and we're toast.
Basically now's the best time to play em. Edit: to make it clear, I want us to beat a full strength Aus and SA in their respective homes. England and India too. tbf I don't think we'eve ever beat Sri Lanka at home either?
Similarly, Aus will have Smith and Warner when they return. And lets face it, all they need is those two plus Starc, Hazlwood and Cummins to fire (and they often do), and we're toast.
Basically now's the best time to play em. Edit: to make it clear, I want us to beat a full strength Aus and SA in their respective homes. England and India too. tbf I don't think we'eve ever beat Sri Lanka at home either?
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srbhkshk
International Captain
imo, in the end it's just extremely hard to beat a full strength team at home, the advantage is too big, you have to catch them when they have some soft spots and cash on them.
Zinzan
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Don't worry, to a large extent I do.
Pup Clarke
Cricketer Of The Year
YES! There needs to be a tangible explanation to describe how points are accumulated.
New Zealand are a quality test side, but they play so much less than both England and India that'd I'd find it hard where to place them. Also, we the cricketing public, are being somewhat deprived of watching KW, in his best format, coming up to (hopefully) his peak years
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quincywagstaff
International Debutant
NZ just seem psyched out whenever they play Oz, even in recent years when Oz aren't the side they were. Thought NZ we were especially disappointing on their last tour here.
And if anything their performances in home Oz series are even worse. Last time they got moderately close to winning way 1st Test of 99/00 series.
And if anything their performances in home Oz series are even worse. Last time they got moderately close to winning way 1st Test of 99/00 series.