*Official* West Indies in New Zealand - Nov/Dec 2020

[Flem274*]

soooo i worked today and the games almost done.

i was gonna go for the full day tomorrow.

 

[Nintendo]

These last 5 overs have been utter pandemonium.

 

[trundler]

Blackwood is trying to self destruct but NZ simply won't let him

 

[Bahnz]

Unsure what Holder was trying to achieve there.

Tbf to him, what could he have achieved from there?

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Yeah we want him to play in the next test.

 

[Flem274*]

Am I allowed to feel a little aggrieved that we've batted under grey skies and NZ got cloudless Skys? Feel like that has rather ruined this match as a contest.

Not that our batting is good enough anyway, but I thought we had a chance of batting out the day at least if conditions remained the same.

Alas it wasn't meant to be. We'd probably have folded anyway.

given all the reprieves (4 alone here for holder) i think the windies should have done better but i get it, we've sat through enough abject surrenders to understand the frustration you can't direct anywhere.

id be desperately looking through the caribbean for some coachable batsmen. forget world class, you're batting adequacy away from the mid-table when you have absolute guns like jason holder to bowl for you.

I think it's really only for limited overs cricket though. Zinzan was grumpy about Southee's place in the team a few years ago, and after the WC a few of us started thinking he might be past it. But in terms of consistent results its hard to argue that Southee's been NZ's best bowler in tests for the past few seasons.

not better than wagner but yea since jamieson emerged in particular he's refound a touch of his peak.

 

[Kippax]

There is not a single universe in which Watling doesn't take that

Yes KJ could join Ben Sears in a building up a bit of collective frustration with Blundell's glovework over the next few years, probably. We'll have to watch that.

It's the way it goes sometimes for the golden ones and the clever ones. They often bear the worst consequences of any 'get lots of NZ domestic anons involved more in Tests' drive run by old hippie administrators.

 

[straw man]

WI's batting has been a fine imitation of NZ's from around 2007, with Jason Holder in the lead role as Daniel Vettori.

 

[trundler]

Wagner to Blackwood. A showdown for the ages. Charles Manson you nostradamus

 

[JOJOXI]

Anyone know at what time the scheduled close of play is/how much time was lost to weather delays?

 

[trundler]

Anyone know at what time the scheduled close of play is/how much time was lost to weather delays?

Did you stay up all night?

 

[Bahnz]

This is where having a spinner in the side is kinda handy. Lob up a couple of slow ones and wait for a miscue.

 

[JOJOXI]

Did you stay up all night?

Yes although wondering more from a perspective of sending this to a 4th day - its academic as to whether game is over today or not I guess but just intrigued if West Indies are likely to see out the day as I presume there will be an additional 30mins added with the game potentially minutes away from ending.

 

[Flem274*]

ACC trolling cricinfo has been great

 

[Days of Grace]

ACC trolling cricinfo has been great

What did they say?

 

[Flem274*]

What did they say?

Guy wrote in saying he'd had a great time at firecats before the game. This was screenshotted and future attempts encouraged. Cricinfo clicked and got grinchy. "David bain" and "scott watson" wrote in today and ofc the comms had no idea so published them.

 

[Days of Grace]

Firecats is still around? I went there once. That was enough.

 

[Gnske]

Yes KJ could join Ben Sears in a building up a bit of collective frustration with Blundell's glovework over the next few years, probably. We'll have to watch that.

It's the way it goes sometimes for the golden ones and the clever ones. They often bear the worst consequences of any 'get lots of NZ domestic anons involved more in Tests' drive run by old hippie administrators.

This might be the alcoholic brain damage speaking, but I don't get why he was mad on that first ball.

 

[Prince EWS]

This might be the alcoholic brain damage speaking, but I don't get why he was mad on that first ball.

Yeah same. Looks like Blundell caught it fine. He even plays with it and passes it on.

 

[Kippax]

He was mad with Leo Carter for pulling him off the front foot on a pretty slow one in the South Island and making his way towards a 50. Sears doesn't need anything big to have happened to become irascible. Hamish Bennett talked about this in the pre-season podcast. It's just a consequence of being about 60 IQ points above the mean in what people are egging you on to make your chosen profession, I suppose.