Its Summer! - the Fever Cricket Thread.

F*ck I hate Haddin, Johnson, Ponting and Siddle. All c*cks. The only player i can handle from Aus is Michael Hussey, great player, not a c*cky little cheating, whinging b**tard. Oh and Michael Clarke I can handle. Actually like him. Well England have blown it. They need some energy, some spark! C'Mon England!! (just my 2pence worth hah)

over in less than an hour.

Will be interesting to see if the Poms have the bottle to come back from this hiding.

ouch, aussies are always more dangerous when unde3r pressue...the pommes just weren't thinking.

They will. Just like they did at The Oval in 09.

That was home soil.

They did it in South Africa too, against a better side.

*awaits 'that was home soil too' jokes*

Time will tell.

50th test hundred for Tendulkar. Probably the greatest batsmen ever to grace the game. What an achievement.

Jamie How.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/4477717/John-Wright-to-coach-Black-Caps

Wright in Greatbatch out.

I think it is a fantastic accomplishment. He is a great player, but again it comes down to an opinion.
The stats still say Don Bradman was the best.
Even I'm to young to remember.

I wonder if we have 50 test match centuries between  the last 50 test players

I think Bradman had 29, but he only played about a third that Tendulkar has,

Bradman only ever played England though didn't he? Tendulkar has done it repeatedly for 20+ years across the world against every team home and away.

I think I heard or read somewhere that occasionally Bradman refused to play on pitches he deemed 'unsuitable' - or something along those lines. Not sure if this is a yarn or not, anyone heard anything along these lines?

But I'm with Buffy - Tendulkar's played in a much more competetive age, against teams with different bowling strengths and in vastly different conditions. And in this more challenging era he stands head and shoulders above everyone else.

Series averages Series Mat Inns NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 0 Start Date
Winner
The Ashes (England in Australia), 1928/29
4 8 1 468 123 66.85 2 2 0 30 Nov 1928
England The Ashes (Australia in England), 1930
5 7 0 974 334 139.14 4 0 0 13 Jun 1930
Australia West Indies in Australia Test Series, 1930/31
5 6 0 447 223 74.50 2 0 1 12 Dec 1930
Australia South Africa in Australia Test Series, 1931/32
5 5 1 806 299* 201.50 4 0 0 27 Nov 1931
Australia The Ashes (England in Australia), 1932/33
4 8 1 396 103* 56.57 1 3 1 30 Dec 1932
England The Ashes (Australia in England), 1934
5 8 0 758 304 94.75 2 1 0 8 Jun 1934
Australia The Ashes (England in Australia), 1936/37
5 9 0 810 270 90.00 3 1 2 4 Dec 1936
Australia The Ashes (Australia in England), 1938
4 6 2 434 144* 108.50 3 1 0 10 Jun 1938
drawn The Ashes (England in Australia), 1946/47
5 8 1 680 234 97.14 2 3 1 29 Nov 1946
Australia India in Australia Test Series, 1947/48
5 6 2 715 201 178.75 4 1 0 28 Nov 1947
Australia The Ashes (Australia in England), 1948
5 9 2 508 173* 72.57 2 1 2 10 Jun 1948
Australia

Try bringing that logic to this very same argument with an Australian.

Nzcricket website doesn't have live scoring of the Northern Knights v Wellington Firebirds game in Hamilton but does have live scoring of Wellington Womens Development v Northern Districts Womens Development and Canterbury U18 v Otago U18. WTF? I have money on the ND v WGTN game and can't follow it.

Forget that. It's just come up.

Reece Young makes test side.

Luke Woodcock, Adam Milne, and Dean Brownlie make T20 side.

Woody

I'm not too sure about Woodcock, sure his bowling is good at domestic level but international batsmen will crush him. And he's not the biggest hitter around. And Milne's being chucked in too early without doing anything of note other than bowling fast.

I'm just stoked for Woody because he works so hard at his game and is a very passionate cricketer. He's been around in the NZ'A' team for awhile and has had a very good HRV Cup with the ball.

In regards to Milne, they did the same thing with Trent Boult a couple of seasons ago, put him in there for a taste so he gets a feel for what it's like. He's probably still awhile off a proper place in the team.

Don't know much about Brownlie.

Brownlie's good, but I reckon guys like Flynn and De Grandomme are better though. Still, will be a competitive team I reckon, and the test team looks ok. We'll have to see how Woodcock goes, and whether he gets many games

McCullum is dropped, has a cry, Mr anonymous tells Justin Vaughan, JV folds, McCullum back in team.

It isn't quite like that though is it.

Yeah why didn't they consult him first? Stephen Flemming is his agent so he would have done the 'negotiating' with NZC.
Baz is a massive draw card for crowds so I don't see why it wasn't in NZC's best interest to try their chances with him in the first place.

I don't know. And I think McCullum is a good player so am not against including him at all.

I think the fact that they didn't include him without consulting either him or a doctor,or runniung a fitness test was interesting.

They obviously value the test matches more than the 20/20's, but if McCullum thinks he's fit then they should pick him

C'mon you Poms!!

Bugger, Watson been dropped twice off Anderson's first two overs.

Third time lucky!

And hughes gone too, to Bresnan.

37-3!!!! Ponting gone

Southee T20 Hat Trick good work son

Yeah saw that in McDonalds haha