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

Normal service resumed.

Draw on the cards unless we snatch a loss from the jaws of a draw.

Pretty much my thoughts.  As long as we don't crumble we should be able to take a draw.  With the way Aus is batting a win is extremely unlikely.

Aus is being stubborn and not choosing to fall apart at the seams.  

Classic Aussie cricketer reaction to being caught on the stump mic swearing about the umpire: "there shouldn't be stump mics".

I can't think of another sports team which so consistently manages to be pricks. It's like being an arrogant, petulant, unsporting fudgetard is the first thing the selectors look for. 

Yea I chuckled when I read Johnson's tweet.

The swearing about an umpire isn't the issue, the recording device that caught him is the issue.

Johnson also said that they would be criticised no matter how they reacted.... Not sure who would criticise them for just taking it on the chin and not saying anything. Other Aussie cricketers maybe?

Well that was a let down. Where to now?

Steve Smith pinged for dissent too.

that was breaking news but the Nix new licence wasnt.  F**KING stuff.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/opinion/77249758/Pete...

Well summed up by Peter Fitzsimons, as per usual.

Brilliant start to the WT20 for the BC's.

Now I may even watch the game on Friday night!

Upset result, wonder what the indian bookies were offering for it and of course what are they now offering for India to win the comp. Well done NZ but anything to do with cricket and India/Pakistan always makes me suspicious.

About to select the MVP for our cricket team...thoughts?

Player #1 - 347 runs, 21 wickets, 5 catches

Player #2 - 437 runs, 10 catches

Player #3 - 200 runs, 24 wickets, 6 catches

Aside from the stats can you point to any of the performances being match winning/saving?

i.e. was player 3's 5 wicket haul match winning? Did player 2 save the match with a disciplined 2nd innings 50 in testing conditions?

I think it sometimes needs more than just the numbers - context can be useful.

Based on the numbers though, looks like a close race. 

Get over it.

On stats alone, I would say player 1, especially if there aren't many players between 1 & 2 in the runs department.

Still banging that drum Lonegunman? Fudge you are tiresome.

Leighbo i would go player 1 but it's hard to say without any context behind it.

You can bet on it! :)

Australia will be an interesting game. I think NZ can take it too. Aussie are still trying to find the right formular playerwise.

We can take it, but when teams are trying to find the formula they can be the least predictable and could turn around and spank us, especially if players think their job is on the line.

Think about Guptil's test average without Zimbabwe.

Kane's hundred(s?) in India are worth more than a big score against Zimbabwe.

That said it is possible you are just showing off about how awesome your team is! 3 way split?

Indian cricketers are some of the highest paid sportspeople on the planet. A planet that you're not on at times.

Who? Me or Mike? 

I don't particularly give a shark about T20, but these two results have been pretty sweet

Job done against the Aussies, good stuff.

Went with player #1 - wickets were generally important ones, and picked up 22 in the end and all while being the 5th or 6th choice bowler, often doing a partnership breaking job.

Runs from #2 won us a few games that looked shaky for a while but ultimately I worked out that a wicket is worth about 17 runs so #1 wins. 

So...NZ cricket huh...Men winning, women winning. #winning. 

Caught the Bangladesh India highlights.  Holy crap I wouldn't have thought that was Bangas vs India if they were in whites and there wasnt a scoreboard.  Painfully close to the upset, credit to Bandladesh on that one.

some weird batting stroke decisions. Some on Facebook are questioning it.

Still haven't seen you comment on all the match fixing I linked to in western european (let alone eastern european, asian and african) football.  

At least one of India and Aus will be out in the groups. A shame Bangladesh choked otherwise it could have pontentially been both.

Would probably have seen a revamp of the format for next time as happened after the 2007 world cup when India and Pakistan missed out.

Wow that was bad. I felt pretty good at the ten over mark but from there it was all downhill. England strangled us pretty well at the end of the innings but our bowling was just pathetic. Shame it had to end on such a limp note. 

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That was awesome as an England fan, big win against probably the best team of the tournament so far. Didn't expect to go through after the loss to West Indies let alone make the final.

Just shows how quickly things can change in this form of the game. With Munro and Williamson NZ looked on for close to 200 but only just made 150 once we got them. Worried about a traditional England collapse for a minute after Roy and Morgan went but we have a strong batting lineup here.

Always enjoy seeing McClenaghan (who I went to school with) get belted too.

I love semi finals!

not sure who this Roy fella is but I'm not a fan.

Williamson looked bereft of a plan when things started going a bit haywire and the bowlers failed to hit their lengths on a regular basis. 

Having played most of the competition on low, slow pitches they were unable to adapt to this surface quickly enough and not enough risks were taken with the bat, relying on those coming in to get into their work from ball one.

Overall, a good performance from England and our first out and out bad performance came at the worst time possible but a ODI WC final, a T20 semi...we can't give them too much of a hard time. This NZ Cricket team is still the best we've had since the early 80s. 

Not Roy Krishna then

So let me see if I got this right (& I stand to be corrected) NZ played 5 games in 5 different cities / grounds and England played 5 at the same venue? Not an excuse but fair shake of the ol sausage Tony.