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

Nice save by Guptill ,spotting the no-ball in McCullums LBW.

This is pathetic 

Michael Clarke scored more on his own than our entire team.

Well maybe Sinclair would have done better.

I don't think we'll even make it to the end of today.

I hope we pull an India from a few years ago and somehow win after being forced to follow on.

Don't think they were 300 behind, or as sh*t as us.

All we have to do is survive today, the weather forecast for tomorrow is sh*t.


Then again, we're capable of being bowled out in 15 minutes, so the rain may not be of much help.

Tomorrow is only Day 4 though EG. What about Day 5?

I'm hoping for a downpour of epic proportion that will render the outfield unplayable on Day 5.

70/1

	Bollinger to Watling, OUT, full and straight and Watling looks to play the ball square on the leg side but cannot get any bat on it. Huge appeal and umpire Gould has no hesitation in raising the finger. After discussion with McIntosh, Watling asks for the decision to be reviewed. Has it pitched in line with the leg stump......just. That's out
	BJ Watling lbw b Bollinger 33 (105b 4x4 0x6) SR: 31.42

Everton FC2010-03-21 15:16:38

50 for Tim

Hes batted pretty well - 129/3

Well we made it through to stumps somehow. Cmon Welly, piss down tomorrow ffs.

Jeez we are poor.

I think we are worst than poor to be honest.

Been a frustrating couple of days at the Basin, highlight today was some great banter with Dougy and M Clarke and the slip cordon. Got called a w**ker by Doug Bollinger which will go down as a life highlight!

Thought MacIntosh and Waitling were wonderful, shame that BJ just missed a straight one. The rest of them were frustrating as usual, Guptill played a horrid shot. How Taylor was not given out straight away is mind boggling, it looked out at the ground and I wasn't sitting straight on.

Not sure where to go with changes, apparently Jesse hasn't played for Wellington? If he plays presumably it is for Ingram but then who bats 3? Or if Jesse isn't good to go is it a straight swap Sinclair for Ingram?

You can't play test match cricket if your front foot doesn't move. Especially against Australia. Ingram has to go.

I'd rather play with 10 tbh.
2ndBest2010-03-21 19:28:44

Are you drunk 2B?

Nope...just my dodgy typing.

the reason we have so many players that come in and fail is because our first class competition is sh*t, the gap to test cricket is huge. you can't blame the selectors for giving any of them a chance [or chances] because the fact is that they are the best we have right now. williamson is scoring a lot of runs but that's not enough to say it's his time. the difference is he's young, they have to be careful not to expose him to early

This mob are a complete shower.  We need discipline.  Not moody Greatbatch.  Bring back Steve Rixon.

Actually I would maybe consider John Wright. Get some decent test batting quality.

Vettori and McCullum better f*cking take it to these sh*thole aussies and show the top 4(excluding MacIntosh)how to bat, also Ingram needs to learn how to move his f*cking feet. Hes f*cking useless, sorry about my swearing im just a bit p*ssed of with our Cricket team, sorry.

pretty angry expletive filled filled outburst from such a young chap, though yea our cricket team are good at making us feel like that

See I think the reason Tom can get that angry was that he wasn't alive/can't remember the mid-90s when things were worse than this.

yea he hasnt seen how low it can go

Rain. Our best player.

McCullum and Dan to bat through the day 

my memory is sketchy, but when was the last time we didn't lose a wicket in a session? 

Rapt to see a cricket thread.  I'm new to football but a looooooooong time cricket fan.  Great to have a forum to discuss the downs, ups and downs of NZC.

I'm baking NZ to win in one of the great test victories.

f**k you and your jinx.

Your. Fault.

Not a Jynx. I said Baking.

Great one... Ban hammer.

Feck.  It was me, shouldn't have mentioned drinks.  Or stubborness.  Or anything positive.

McCullum and Guptill partnership of 300 plus at Hamilton in Feb.  Not sure how many sessions, but probably a couple for that many.  Against Bangladesh though...

I'm enjoying watching this game from home, its actually quite entertaining.