1st Test: New Zealand v Australia at Wellington on Feb 12-16, 2016

[chigurh]

Bring back the West Indies! (someone had to say it..)

 

[Twatface Magee]

Congratulations Australia. Too good!! No excuses.

A kiwi showing some common sense?
There's something you don't see every day.

 

[Pete Cash]

People haven't given a lot of credit to how well Australia set plans this test. The way we have bowled to Williamson since Perth has been top notch.

 

[WaznTheGreat]

This is why you only get 2 tests a series Kiwi's,2-0 better than 5-0 i suppose.

 

[Pete Cash]

Also and this is just a pet peeve because what does it matter. Its only 500 bucks and Australian cricketers are paid very well but surely Khawaja was the man of the match.

I know the way its handed out is just give the guy who top scored from the winning team the award unless a bowler did extremely well but Khawaja (and Smith) got us really out of the shit. Voges cashed in like a mother f**ker on his luck but Khawaja came in at 1/0 and it was very quickly 2/close to 0.

 

[WaznTheGreat]

Kiwi's be like why don't get get 4-5 tests a series bro's

Nek minnit

Loses by an innings to a team with Siddle/Bird in the bowling lineup and Marsh batting in the top 6

 

[El Diablo]

This is why you only get 2 tests a series Kiwi's,2-0 better than 5-0 i suppose.

also why they don't get boxing day

 

[Pete Cash]

NZ really need to get Shane Bond back as a bowling coach.

 

[hineyrulz]

Kiwi's be like why don't get get 4-5 tests a series bro's

Nek minnit

Loses by an innings to a team with Siddle/Bird in the bowling lineup and Marsh batting in the top 6

Yep doesn't say much does it, the Wazn Aussies got a good break at the 1000m and plodded away from the NZ Rawnaqs who didn't have our turn of plod and were gone at the 600m.

 

[ANTiLAG]

What happened in the ODI series was worse, never before have I seen an umpire decide to review a play based off of the reaction of the crowd and guess what, that was a decider.
:

But it was the right decision. Marsh was out.

Australia played well. Your bowlers got more reverse than our supposed swing bowlers got natural swing. Your bowling department showed plans and executed. The NZ bowling department and gone backwards from previous seasons.

Lyon is a gun and Smith set good fields. Khawaja and Voges put on a clinic.

Bmac remains a liability for NZ. Watling cannot always be expected to save him and Anderson.

But clearly wrong decisions piss me off. As they do a lot of people.

 

[_snafu_]

NZ went about as well as Modern Tango in Race 6 Lion Dairy Products Trotters Handicap at Globe Derby Park.

 

[ANTiLAG]

NZ really need to get Shane Bond back as a bowling coach.

We want him, but it will not happen.

He has a lucrative IPL deal, far better paid than we can offer, and that is only two months a year to boot. He has further subsidized it with a BBL deal and his participation in the Masters' League.

We will not see him for a while, if at all, again.

Fortunately he has a few kiwi bowlers in his IPL stable. So we can some benefit from him still.

It would be nice if we worked around his schedule to offer some assistance, but we will never have him again as the bowling analyst setting plans for the opposition, which is a huge loss.

 

[Ibleedblue]

Awesome

 

[The Charlatan]

Also and this is just a pet peeve because what does it matter. Its only 500 bucks and Australian cricketers are paid very well but surely Khawaja was the man of the match.

I know the way its handed out is just give the guy who top scored from the winning team the award unless a bowler did extremely well but Khawaja (and Smith) got us really out of the shit. Voges cashed in like a mother f**ker on his luck but Khawaja came in at 1/0 and it was very quickly 2/close to 0.

I agree with this. Give it to the bloke who stabilised the innings. For mine, Uzi would have been #1 choice for chucking a Dravid and pulling the innings together after Burns and Warner went cheap.

 

[Twatface Magee]

This is the difference between NZ and the good Test cricket nations.
Australia, India, England or South Africa cop a bad decision and the move on with it and try to leave the result out of the umpire's hands.
New Zealand get a bad decision and they roll over and die.

 

[Twizzle]

Dom Voges deserved MOM.

 

[Pete Cash]

You dont see us crying about the four runs we should have got after the no ball. Lets just say we were both ripped off by the umpires in that play lol

 

[ANTiLAG]

You dont see us crying about the four runs we should have got after the no ball. Lets just say we were both ripped off by the umpires in that play lol

Bahahahaha.

Fair play, it was Ian Smith who brought it to your attention.

 

[ANTiLAG]

This is the difference between NZ and the good Test cricket nations.
Australia, India, England or South Africa cop a bad decision and the move on with it and try to leave the result out of the umpire's hands.
New Zealand get a bad decision and they roll over and die.

You have a valid point to a degree, I'm not sure whether it is in fact the case.

But I am fed up with our bowling plans post Bond (they have been consistently rubbish) and carrying both McCullum at 5 and an allrounder at 6, when there is some batting talent in FC not in the team. Wagner's continued omission for the likes of Henry and Bracewell is a mistake, in my view. But Henry deserved a shot, and Bracewell sucked everyone in that he was a new and improved cricket with better batting and economical bowling.

Hesson is an ace for limited overs, but its starting to look like Bond was the ace for test cricket and NZ got runs on the board from Taylor, KW, Watling and in 2014 from BMac for the bowlers to utilize.

BMac is a passenger in this test series, after his mental explosion in the 2nd Sri Lankan test, any other batsman in the NZ team would have been dropped. The Australian bowling department must laugh when thinking of bowling plans for him in tests (Just bowl it straight, he will be lbw or miss it and be bowled).

 

[Pete Cash]

Williamson is where Smith was in England. In such a purple patch he is going for shots he would never go near. Smith in the second innings at Trent bridge smoked a ball straight to a fieldsmen that he would otherwise have left.

I'm sure Williamson will rein it in a bit but our plans against him are very good at the moment.