Its Summer! - the Fever Cricket Thread. (Part 1)

1 f**king 0. Thank you very much. Pig is back !!

wanknuggets!!! suck it ponting you ballsack! nice work styris + who would of thought bondy the heroe!! southee stupid for getting run out but could of been alot different if that was styris!!

Take that you f**king Aussie c**ts.

CYYYYUUUUUM OOOOOONNNNNN!!!!!!

f**king aye!

Well I bet Mr Johnson fell like the big man now.

f**k I hate those objectionable despicable c**ts! Welcome to an actual contest you w**kers, we aren't gonna let you walk over us! Stick it up ya you convict c**ts!

f**k I love f**king Cricket. Good performance but still plenty left in the tank, lets get into them boys!

I Love Cricket.

Awesome.

I think Vettori should be dropped for the next game if he is fit. 

fantastic effort, I must admit I lost hope when Southee got bludered out! Can't wait till the 13th hopefully another good knife edge game.

I was so pumped. Kept saying to a mate we have lost this then I would be like we have a chance haha then it would repeat.

Everton FC2010-03-04 00:16:07

Just... ummmm... f**k!

Yeah!

f**k we made that harder than we needed to!! guppy and franklin were dissapointingly slow for mine. broom was good when he was out there, batting confidantly, taking singles and taking some of the pressure of taylor, something franklin failed to do.

Styris and Johhson Fined

He dropped a shoulder in to Styris after the first four, and then (I'm guessing) Styris told him where to go after the second one and Mitchell got 'all up in his grill'.

I did lol at the Harden Up Oram sign, as he was being carried off..

 

I don't quite understand why Mitch Johnson tried to headbut someone wearing a cricket helmet? Yeah good move you stupid Aussie prick.

Haha i saw Miles Davis said Twenty20 was a cancer on the game. Tbh i have to agree.

On reflection, I have no problem with 20/20 cricket per se. My problem is the over exposure of all limited overs cricket (both 50 and 20 overs). If you take this Aussie series for example, there are 7 limited overs games and 2 tests. If you took out 2 limited overs games, we could have had a 3 test series, which to me would be a whole lot more satisfying. Some (all?) 50 over cricket needs to be reduced to make room for the amount of 20/20 being played, rather than reducing test series.
I am very afraid for the future of cricket when the ICC Future Tours programme runs out in the next couple of years.

I agree with you Mike but I think the problem with 3 test tours now with Aus is that their collective guarantees a 5-10 day break between any 2nd and 3rd test which just extends the tour to long. Already a cramped tour, first ODI yesterday and the 5th a week on Saturday.

Ouch, thats a Windies team getting back to close to full strength, Bravo and Sarwan are the only names that jump out at me as being missing.

yea if i recall taibu holds the record for a wicketkeeper having the highest innings score against without conceding a bye

Taibu is Zimbabwe's Vetorri.

Williamson scoring runs against Wellington today, thinking I might pop down to the Basin to have a look at lunchtime. Specialist number 3 in form, would you throw him to the wolves in the tests against Australia?

No.

Any particular reason? To young? Not up to it?

Too young for a start. Too inexperienced. Why can't we just have a settled test team for once anyway?

If this kid is any good perhaps give him a go against one of the lesser nations or in one of the ODIs. Straight into test cricket and against Australia too is just a disaster waiting to happen.

Ill give you the too young and probably the too inexperienced but he isn't that much younger than Guptill was when he made his ODI debut (yes the Windies in an ODI and the Aussies in a test match are very different games)

I can tell you that it is a matter of when not if for williamson, he is probably the classiest young player we have in NZ right now. He is in the same class southee was when he started but i think it's still quite debatable whether southee was thrown in to early as well. I can't wait to see williamson in the nz team but i don't think we should expose him to early, make him work for it.

alot of guys are getting picked young and having to learn their trade at international level which isnt ideal but when they have learnt all they can from our domestic cricket what else can be done.

Williamson will be a Black Cap one day, but not yet. He needs to make it hard for the selectors to ignore him by scoring alot of runs, like Taylor did before his call up.

Age doesnt really factor into it for me, Ingram forced his way into the side by getting alot of runs at first class level, despite probably being considered too old to start his international career.

Wonder if we might have this as the top/middle order in 2-3 years, Guptill, Watling, Williamson, Taylor, Ryder, Broom, Vettori.

Who could be the ???'s ideally under 25 now... any on the horizon? McKay could be ok but he's all but 30 so is far from young... what young quicks/shieks have we got coming thru?

The kid McLennagham from CD if he can overcome his injuries, the left armer that spent some time with the Black Caps earlier in the summer (real young) Wagner is the main one though. When he completes his 3 years he will be knocking on the door straight away I imagine. bopman2010-03-05 14:28:21

How old is Wags?... any turners? (As in spin, not Glenn).

20-21 I think. Williamson is a big spinner of the ball

how good is he?

Vettori and Fleming were good enough.

I can't really say that I think our batting line up is settled. Just a bit TINA and just about every other option having been tried (How, Papps, Sinclair, Bell, Vincent, Cumming, Marshall H., Marshall J., Flynn). They feel they've got to give the current lot at least as much of a chance.