Its Summer! - the Fever Cricket Thread. (Part 2)

He deserves to be dropped. Been shocking for a long time now.

He's an accountant! His website should say it all. Kinda creepy.

His website is all sorts of weird.

Very much so. I have wondered in the past whomhis clients might be, after all he spends 6 months of the year travelling around the world to get on TV.

Williamson got bowled leaving one. The kid's quality, but he needs to push on to a really big score at some point. Still only has a highest test score of 135.

Neesham gets his 2nd century in his 2nd test. Top effort! He must think that this test cricket business is too easy.

Fulton is bloody hopeless. 

4/91 is not a bad return on debut for Craig. Making me eat my words about him a little bit.

Interesting call again not to enforce the follow on. With two spinners on a flat pitch I would have done it personally.

1 & 0 isn't exactly the return that Fulton would have been hoping for. Rudders for the 2nd test?

Yeah I decided not to even mention that one. Watching his dismissal in the 2nd innings is amazing. What was he thinking fishing at a wide one outside off 2nd ball of the innings?

I think that on this pitch it was the right call. It is already taking a lot of turn, we have two spinners making the most of it, and we have a propensity to cock up badly in our second innings. I'd rather not risk having to chase, especially if batting is going to get harder. It's not like the last couple of summers here where the pitches have been basically the same on day five as on day one. The way things are set up we can look to be fairly positive, put on 150 and challenge them to get 400 on a turning pitch with increasingly variable bounce.

Anyone got any humble pie? Need to eat a slice for questioning the Craig selection.

Make that two!!

Anyone seen any Bookies at the game?

Odds were far too short :)

Mark Craig smashed a six off the first ever ball that he faced in Tests. What a guy. 

Happy to take a slice of that. *Nom nom nom*

Craig absolutely bossing it. 3 wickets for 11 runs so far in the second innings...

Interesting that Sodhi isn't getting a look in. #5 bowler in both innings (assuming he comes on in the 2nd). Would have thought he would have been the first choice spinner, but pretty hard to argue with the results!

Chanderpaul gone. Huge wicket! 

This is getting a bit painful.......

Gone! Nice work kane!

Convincing win anyway and especially sweet given all the shark that's gone down recently. 

When did we last win with a day to spare? I think they just wanted to watch the start of the world cup!

Nice to have an away win.  Good job, even against a really poor Windies team.

They are I guess, but still have a number of players (e.g. Gayle, Chanderpaul) who on a given day could take apart any attack in the world. Plus we're talking about the Black Caps here... so I'm going to treasure any test win we get.

Superb result! Well done boys!!

Completely.  I was going to add that about Gayle and Chanderpaul myself but ran out of steam.  Reading back, my post seems more negative than it was meant.  I was meaning that despite the knockers (and you can't argue with them really the WI are poor) it is still really good to win away from home.

Great win but in my cynical humourous way, I wonder where were the bookies? Yes I know we won by an excellent performance but....

Take this response with the humour it was intended please.

My attitude on this (and I know you were joking) is to pretend (while I'm actually watching games) that it never happened. Otherwise you second guess everything and can't enjoy the spectacular or unexpected for fear of it not being genuine. Just like someone watching WWF, I'd rather just enjoy the spectacle, but with the added benefit that unlike WWF the vast majority is legitimate.

I know how you feel. It still hurts that the activities of some are ruining a great game for everyone else.