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

I'm a huge fan of Franklin, but more so at test level as a 4th seamer and no. 6/7. As a ODI player there is no point picking him and batting him at 8. He will never be an economical one day bowler as he struggles to swing the white ball and puts it on a hittable length.

I hope Ingram still gets a run in the test - he won't have to go trying to push the run rate, so won't have to try and create runs when the ball isn't in his (limited) scoring zone. First class level is where he has amassed the majority of his runs for the last few seasons.

Stupid c**ts.  FFS.

McCullum gone -bugger

Now 130/4 around the halfway mark. f**k me.

FFS! More soft dismissals.

We do it to ourselves all the time.

FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRK

f**king sh*tc**ts.

LOLZ. Switching off in 3...2...1...

And now Franklin just got bowled by a wide. We seem to be trying desperately hard to manufacture soft ways to get out.

We're so sh*t it's unbelievable?

Nah it's pretty believable actually. Seen it all before, for about the last 15 years.

If Tuffey is going to hit like this we need to take the power play now, or he will hole out. (Not criticising him, as it is fantastic hitting and we have nothing to lose!)

Lolz Tuffey hits 22 off a Hauritz over.

Tuffey - New Zealand's best batsman.

And there it is.

and back to reality.

WHY DO WE ALWAYS LOSE WICKETS AT THE BEGINING OF THE BATTING POWERPLAY!?

And once again we won't bat out our 50.

And there you go.

All out in 44 overs after being 120+/1

238 all out in the 45th over. Dear oh dear.

We don't have a hope in hell now.

Fark, poor poor stuff. Oh well, you never know with the Chappell Hadlee..

Rain, rain go away, come again another day please stay and save us !!

Revised total to get within 34 hours is 200.

come on guys we can do this!

this is rubbish

can we please find some "lost" kiwi cricketers overseas

f**k off Ponting you were already out for f**k all. Again. And yet again you get another chance and make us pay. f**k cricket makes me angry some times.

We've been royally screwed by some umpiring on this tour.

Asad Rauf stuffs it up, we finally get Ponting, though it seems the damage is already done..

This sucks! Wish the rain had saved us

Well f**k this. f**k you Aussie. f**k you bent umpires. f**k you useless middle order.

That Ponting Decision = the match decided. We didn't bat 50 overs which is why we lost. Do I go on Saturday, most likely no because of the nix timings.

Well what a load of crap

yeh. did swear a bit at the point.

though we didn't deserve really to have a shot at the match. The D/L put us in with a shot we didn't really have IMO.

This.

I honestly think this is not that good of an Australian side, we have made them look better than they are. A couple of instances have shown they don't really like it when the pressure goes on but then because of our own stupidity we let the foot off the gas. Also frustrating are the injuries, in a perfect world our best ODI team at current is:

yea thats a very good side and hopefully with them all fit we can have a little competition for some places with some promising young guys coming through

Agree, in fact if'd only had enough common sense to bat 50 overs in the last two games we would have got scores of 280+ (perhaps even 300+) and would have really had them in a bind.

But no, it's a crime for a NZ batsman to score more than 70 in an ODI. You get lynched on the street the next day if you do that.