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

I really wonder if Christopher made a bet on that game at tea

ARGH I'm enjoying this game but SkyGo is doing all it can to ruin the experience for me.  Unknown error, I refresh the page, concurrency met, and regular stopages for no reason.

I wish Sky didn't have such a stranglehold over this content because with no competition they aren't going to make the experience good.

A great innings from Smith. I guess we will struggle to get that score.

Yup it wont be easy, so if we do it that will be that little more exciting, though ill miss most of the next innings due to the Nix.

Ugh if the Nix craps out like this because Sky forgot NZ v Aus cricket is popular I'm going to be so annoyed.

Did they?

It did once, but I can handle once.  Bugs happen, but during the cricket it was happening every 5-10 minutes at times.  So fortunately I got to watch us lose to the bottom of the table reasonably uninterupted.

Didn't the aussies bat well. sheesh.

Didnt we bowl sitters for them to hit so well?

I don't know what is more depressing the NZ cricket team or the Phoenix.

Be a laugh if Pakistan get up here

I recall the Channel 9 commentators moaning about Smith not declaring earlier and putting Pakistan in to bat. They only won by 39 runs in the end so evidently the commentators don't know shark.

Almost as big a laugh as Arsenal losing twice in a week.

McCullum back playing, scores 42 off 21 balls for Brisbane

I hope not too many ducks in the duckpond got injured!

But what a ground to watch cricket from!

Nah I think Australian cricket's arrogance and domination of their country's summer culture is definitely worth more schadenfreude or however you spell it than Arsenal not winning again...though they're having a better season this year...

ODI live on prime, gold!

Bangladesh have not been easy beats in the test match so far. 

Agree, maybe the test will go 5 days afterall

The Basin has become the place to cash in for batsmen. Green is merely a colour. 

anything specific he mentioned? I literally have never noticed anything, ever. 

Devlin, say no more.

I cant believe we could have a result after those first two innings.

Scary how much a pitch can change in days.  Hopefully Rahim is released from hospital today with no major injuries as that would be a downer on the game.   Though I saw they had almost completely ruled out major injuries so that's good.  Fast ball to the back of the head is dangerous.

What's happened to Anderson? He was a really decent batting all rounder. Neesham deosn't do enough with the ball, thought he's scored some handy runs.

weather here in Chch is terrible

Yep, he's ok as a stock bowler or a 4th bowling option.

It bugs the shark out of me that Southee has never applied himself as a batsman because he seems to have the natural talent to be a decent bowling all-rounder but instead he's just a walking wicket who slogs every ball regardless of the match situation

Fark me! Congrats NZ on the win. Can not wait for Thursday in Napier now.

#proudaussie

and slopppy in the field today too. 

Though both Guppy and Williamson dropped catches, and Williamson was poor under pressure

3rd time in 6 years that play has been abandoned in Napier.

Napier City Council need to sort McLean Park drainage out ASAP. 5.8mm of rain in an area that is in drought does not cause a cricket match to be called off!

Shambolic. Can only imagine it would get fixed straight away if a All Blacks Test or Hurricanes match was abandoned on the rare occassions the ground plays host to them.