1st ODI: New Zealand v Australia at Auckland on Jan 30, 2017

[Bazal]

why not?

they had a few contributors to their victory.

we were a one man show.

They fell apart, though. Took a brain fade for them to win it. Williamson had zero answers as a captain and their bowlers gave Stoinis far too much leeway and bowled too many extras.

But that's cricket. You can lose all momentum, play woeful cricket and still manage a win

 

[TheParraboy]

only a bottle of champers for M.O.M?

 

[Bazal]

only a bottle of champers for M.O.M?

NZ economy must be struggling

 

[mozza91]

Stoinis? Hahahaha. The Knights winning the competition this season would've been more likely than him doing that.

 

[gregstar]

They fell apart, though. Took a brain fade for them to win it. Williamson had zero answers as a captain and their bowlers gave Stoinis far too much leeway and bowled too many extras.

But that's cricket. You can lose all momentum, play woeful cricket and still manage a win

they fell apart at the end. we fell apart at the beginning.

 

[69-05-41]

Sth Africa had a policy that dictated the composition of their teams which was not necessarily based on cricket ability. Do Australia have a similar policy requiring the selection of at least one person with the surname Marsh? Is there any remotely plausible explanation for the ongoing selection of these two chronic failures?

 

[blaza88z]

I don't get this Stoinis hate, he's a good player who has had very limited opportunities as an all rounder, no he won't do that everytime but that's why he was picked as an all-rounder, he took 3 wickets and cleared the boundary with consummate ease, you'll be seeing more of him

NZ had no answers to him and Southee/Boult are no mugs, any sort of contribution from our top order and we win here, he came in at 5/50ish and did that, I don't know how you can talk it down, we weren't even in the game

 

[blaza88z]

Sth Africa had a policy that dictated the composition of their teams which was not necessarily based on cricket ability. Do Australia have a similar policy requiring the selection of at least one person with the surname Marsh? Is there any remotely plausible explanation for the ongoing selection of these two chronic failures?

I don't know but with our side and with us resting our 2 most influential batsmen, he needed to do more than what he did today

 

[JJ]

NZ 1 : Australia 0

Stoinis 1 : Forum heroes 0

 

[JJ]

they fell apart at the end. we fell apart at the beginning.

Yep, one extraordinary all round performance made the game close. I don't recall Australian fans saying they didn't deserve to win the Brisbane test.

 

[KeepingTheFaith]

Just got home and saw the result. Sorry I missed it. Hazlewood's innings looks hilarious. How do you bat 30 minutes and not face a ball and then run yourself out? lol.

Bad luck to the Stoin. Deserved MOM regardless of the result. he played the perfect Eden Park innings. Didn't get carried away with the short boundaries (suppose he had no choice initially) but once he was in and felt comfortable he showed that it wasn't a tough pitch to score rapidly on.

A lot of things for both teams to work on by the sounds of it.

 

[Iafeta]

Amazing game. Marcus Stoinis, that was epic.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Wadey would have led us to victory.

 

[JJ]

Yep can't blame the other 10 for not being focused given the catastrophic start to the day

 

[KeepingTheFaith]

Can blame Maxwell. He should have been relieved that Wade wasn't playing. No chance of him being pushed down the order that way.

 

[Twizzle]

I've never seen Cummins bowl the last over before. It was pretty terrible.

All short balls and not one yorker or at least attempted yorker. At his pace he comes off the bat pretty well if he is gonna bowl short.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Just watching the highlights and any suggestion that Hanscome should keep full time in odis or tests should be canned now. Horrible technique, not a natural keeper at all and no amount of practice will make him a test or odi class keeper.

 

[WaznTheGreat]

All last year i said Stoinis should be playing for Australia,Haynetrain wins again

Good win NZ

 

[WaznTheGreat]

Lmao Aaron Finch less than 10 runs against the Kiwi's again

 

[blaza88z]

Just watching the highlights and any suggestion that Hanscome should keep full time in odis or tests should be canned now. Horrible technique, not a natural keeper at all and no amount of practice will make him a test or odi class keeper.

Who do you reckon should replace him?