Its Summer! - the Fever Cricket Thread.

I am sick already of hearing about 'aggressive', of 'positive' or 'playing our natural game'.  I want to hear 'we are going to be gritty', 'fight', 'make the fielding side work', 'determination' and 'valuing our wicket'.  I think I will remain dissapointed under the current leadership.

I actually welled up a bit when I turned on the TV and saw this disgraceful, shameful spectacle. With the NZ cricket team you think it can't get worse and it always does.

The saffers should take the mickey tmr and declare at lunch...then  this could be over inside two days!!!!!!!!!!  

Really....National - DO SOMETHING!!!!!

I will be able to cope with this if McCullum comes out tonight and apologises to the fans. Admits that it was embarassing and not at all good enough. Then promises his captaincy that nothing like this will ever happen again.

Its the kind of performance that if we had away fans there the players should compensate them.

Pathetic and depressing.

I was laughed at when I said I'd take 250 as a respectable total, how much I wish for 250 now.....

We shall make 170. Big call.....

South Africa should head out for the morning session, bat 2 overs and then declare, bowl us out by Lunch ;)

Yeah we will probably get over 100, I would guess 107 all out, with Chris Martin not out again ;)

Even 45 all out in a 20/20 match would be a disgrace, let alone a test match.

Especially if you didn't complete your 20 overs :P

We don't deserve to be saved by rain.

No rain? Zombie apocalypse could come in handy right now.

Even with the way Sri Lanka have been going, at least we have that test match to watch to keep us cricket fans happy for now.

Bring on the ashes.

Yeah,might just adopt the English cricket team for the year tbh. 

Are there any NZ fans going to the test in SA that could do it as well?

I'll be taking one along to any England matches i go to here.

And the Nix-Perth match up here in a months time too.

Someone should take one along to the Lawn Bowls, we know that gets Primetime TV coverage ;)

How can we stop what happened last night from happening ever again?

Quit test cricket?

Actually, self-banning ourselves from test cricket for a while, Zimbabwe stylez, wouldn't be the worst idea in the world.

 Heard a classic today.A guy said he was disapointed SA didnt declare after they had scored 150.He reckons it could have been the first test match to be over in a day.LOL

 Not as bad as when we lost to England in the 50's ( no I don't remember)  and were bowled out for 26.

did we win the toss and decide to bat first that day as well?

I know they are 250-3, but surely at the start of a new day on a rain refreshed pitch you have to back your bowlers with more that 1 slip and a gully.  If early wickets aren't taken they will cruise to 500.  Surely you give the bowlers half a session, or even half an hour to attack and see what they can do with the fresh start. The main reason I didn't want McCullum to be captain is that in the past when he was captain he has actually been to [b] defensive [/b] with his field placings, and Taylor much more consistently aggressive.  Further evidence provided today.

As I type this, Boult has just bowled Peterson.  Hopefully this spurs McCullum into attacking.

NB: I also like Shane Bonds brutal realism in his assessment of yesterdays play (effectively pitch was fine, SA was good, we were shit), combined with a hopeful optimism of answering 'where to from here' with ' bowl them out for 350, score 500 and defend 200!

Edit: Nope, still one slip, one gully.  Aggressive (reckless) when its innapropriate, defensive when we need to attack.

5 down, Martin strikes!

So it could be a 2-day Test after all.

0/1.

It's gone from being funny, to sad, to infuriating. 

You're only now getting infuriated? I think my reaction is the reverse of yours.

Perversely I almost want to see us crushed....

It's a very confusing mix I think.