Its Summer! - the Fever Cricket Thread.

face it guys we suck at test cricket, we will be the new Zimbabwe and only ever get one test a year against any decent opposition and that will be an embarrassment.

Is John Wright a scary man? We need a coach who the players are afraid to piss off. Like a Wayne Bennett or Sir Alex. Some of the shots our lads were playing were just atrocious. There seems to be no repercussions to stupidity. Out lack of depth probably plays into this in that some of the lads know its highly unlikely they will get dropped no matter how poorly the play.

Lets just disguise Simon Katich as some random player we have unearthed.

f**k off, if we hadn't been so sh*te, I wouldn't have to put up with Cricket headlines & "..5 star Pattinson.." being repeated every 5 mins on Fox Sports News & every other god damned channel here for that matter.

When it should be all about our glorious win over the Roar yesterday.
Traitor2011-12-05 12:47:02

It's a f**kin tough life being a black caps fan. I still firmly believe our top five are the most talented we've had for some time which is quite frightening after their latest performances. Fingers crossed Hobart suits us better.

Australia's innings is pretty much what i feel we should be capable of most times we bat. Built around a decent hundred and two scores of 80ish.

Agreed.

I too am looking forward to Hobart. Like you i haven't a clue why either.

Its because we get so little test cricket, even getting thrashed is something we look forward to seeing.

and because all NZ cricket fans seam to always be hopeful that our guys can put one decent performance together. Always hopeful, often disappointed.

Was going to go with always/always but they do pull off the odd big result in the shorter form.

Always disappointed by our test performances.

Aussies have picked the same X1 for the 2nd Test.

Can`t see any chances to Black Caps Either....Unless Wrighty decides to open Himself

Hughes gets another chance eh. Very lucky that he's best mates with Clarke!

Averages for our senior batsmen v Aus in tests:

Brownlie 119.00 !!!

Yeah that's why I didn't add his real figures, would have skewed the no's completely from one test :) Since we have shown no ability to bat time, and get out slogging anyway after trying to bat time, I would basically tell half the team (Rosco, Jesse, Baz, Guptill) to pretend it is a one-dayer, while getting those who can bat time (Kane, Brownlie, Dan) to stick around. More likely to end in runs

I'm constantly frustrated by the stupidity of our batsmen. We don't lack talent, but we always just have batsmen throwing wickets away with retarded shot selection. Only Mark Richardson springs to mind as a specialist batsmen who actually valued his wicket in the last decade, although maybe Brownlie might be one for the future. I honeslty think the Black Caps need a sports psychologist or a hypnotherapist or something to sort out their mental issues. Taylor, McCullum, Ryder, could all be world class if they just stopped doing stupid s**t! Guptill and Williamson don't lack technique either... I just get so f**king annoyed watching those guys get out playing shots that didn't need to be played i want to throw things at my tv...



*rant over*

and yeah, if they are gonna get out in 25 balls they may as well do it with a strike rate of 150 instead of 50

I think Ryder has the potential to be one of our most under-achieved players from this era. So much talent and expectation, I just wonder if his attitude will ever change enough to become the test cricketer he has the potential to be.

Ryder is a fat McCullum.

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^^^ This

36% of all statistics are made up...

there you go, proving my point even further.

Saw Southee on the news saying how they needed to learn from their mistakes and all that. Saying they weren't good enough and had to be better.

I sat there watching and thinking how many times ive heard that before. It's actually quite painful hearing them say that, like this was the first time they had been dreadful with the bat.

Enough of the negatives though, bring on tomorrow. Cant wait. Whats the pitch looking like? Important toss to win? Ross should let dan call the toss of the coin, he had a pretty good record of winning the toss if i recall

Am watching Sehwag.

Freakin amazing.

Sehwag. Wow. 

Gameday!!

cricinfo says the pitch is pretty green and should be lively

Better win the toss and bat then!

5 down for nothing here we come.

To be fair, it's not as if we need a lively green pitch to be 5 for next to nothing at any rate.

Put into bat on a green seamer
Bowling 4th with no spinner
Lost our best performing batsman

Is Vettori injured? because he wasn't on the team sheet. He better be or John Wright must be the most stupid coach ever.

They just said at the toss he wasn't feeling right, they literally omitted him from the team 10 minutes before the toss.

We're farked btw.

Usually I don't buy into the commentators hype because they read to much into it, but HOLY HELL that thing is green. Even from the wide shot it has a green tinge, and usually from that distance it is harder to see.

Guptill done by a good ball there. Not really a lot he could do.