New zealand vs South africa, 2nd Test, Christchurch, Feb 25 - Mar 1

[vvvslaxman]

42 minutes ago, R!TTER said:

Kiwi chumps, the most overrated "world champs" ever 

 

In their defence they have lost quiet a lot of players recently.  Watling retired. Taylor retired. Bould not playing, Williamson not playing. His captaincy is such a big plus. If Williamson and Taylor had not played even we would have won the ICC TC final.

[R!TTER]

We - what did we win?

[Lone Wolf]

Brilliant from SA..  Kudos to Elgar for playing Maharaj here. He has struck when it mattered.   NZ prepared flat bed & now it's coming back to bite them.  Proper Phainta incoming & there goes WTC final for them. 

[Jay]

Just now, Lone Wolf said:

Brilliant from SA..  Kudos to Elgar for playing Maharaj here. He has struck when it mattered.   NZ prepared flat bed & now it's coming back to bite them.  Proper Phainta incoming & there goes WTC final for them. 

* n.z. can't stand those smug twits. 

Will never forgive lolhi for costing us series wins in nz and s.afric with his bizarre selections. Not to mention him captaining us itself was detrimental to us. For this reason alone, the louda needs to be thrown out of our team in all formats. 

[rollingstoned]

57 minutes ago, Lone Wolf said:

Brilliant from SA..  Kudos to Elgar for playing Maharaj here. He has struck when it mattered.   NZ prepared flat bed & now it's coming back to bite them.  Proper Phainta incoming & there goes WTC final for them. 

Nzl hae the same problem England have, on dead pitches they don't have the bowling attack to make inroads and force mistakes because all their bowlers are quite similar and just bowl around 130 kph if not slower. Not picking Patel is a big mistake imo like Maharaj is showing especially after the series he had in india. 

[R!TTER]

On flat pitches, this isn't a dead pitch by any means. To be more specific when it doesn't swing, especially conventional swing, they have basically a 0D attack! Bhai is useful but he rarely plays even in NZ.

[Majestic]

NZ rely a lot on Williamson and actually more than his batting, his presence in the team due to his leadership quality.

 

NZ are more likely to become an average team given his regular injury issues.

[vvvslaxman]

Blundell's resistance ended. 1.5 session 4 wickets left. CDG/KJ batting. I don't see KJ lasting against Jansen. Even in the first innings he gave him a thorough working over.

[vvvslaxman]

That is the final nail. CDG.   Soon it will be 1-1. Good come back by SA.  Total team effort. Most of them made meaningful contribution.

[Vijy]

5 minutes ago, vvvslaxman said:

Blundell's resistance ended. 1.5 session 4 wickets left. CDG/KJ batting. I don't see KJ lasting against Jansen. Even in the first innings he gave him a thorough working over.

CdG also gone. just keep bowling short and attack those smug kiwis. give them a taste of their own wagner medicine. I want to see Hazel, Cummins, Boland, Starc/Jhye Richardson obliterate these flightless kiwis in Perth someday

[vvvslaxman]

Just now, Vijy said:

CdG also gone. just keep bowling short and attack those smug kiwis. give them a taste of their own wagner medicine. I want to see Hazel, Cummins, Boland, Starc/Jhye Richardson obliterate these flightless kiwis in Perth someday

 

With his height, and pace of 139 kph he can extract bounce anywhere outside subcontinent.

[Vijy]

2 minutes ago, vvvslaxman said:

 

With his height, and pace of 139 kph he can extract bounce anywhere outside subcontinent.

and he should keep bowling short into their ribcages. kiwis are not capable of handling bounce. they rely too much on either flat pitches or green pitches, not bouncy ones. knock their smug smiles off

[Vijy]

22 hours ago, R!TTER said:

Kiwi chumps, the most overrated "world champs" ever 

chumps or chimps? some of them have these annoying smug grins.

[Jay]

8 minutes ago, Vijy said:

and he should keep bowling short into their ribcages. kiwis are not capable of handling bounce. they rely too much on either flat pitches or green pitches, not bouncy ones. knock their smug smiles off

* them in the buthole. We made a huge mistake. Prasidh bumrah siraj would have won us the series In kiwi land and sa

[Vijy]

glad to see SA using short ball against kiwis. need to dish it out full time vs Wagner. Bouncer-yorker combo will be eben better. crush his toes, smack his ribcage and face.

[Jay]

20 minutes ago, Vijy said:

glad to see SA using short ball against kiwis. need to dish it out full time vs Wagner. Bouncer-yorker combo will be eben better. crush his toes, smack his ribcage and face.

Yes. Break his face. He is a trundler who bowls 125-130 with bounce. He is good don't get me wrong but if you take him on he wilts. He is not bloody bumrah or Cummins or even rabada. 

 

What a blunder by us. Ffs so pissed off. Although Kane captaincy may have let Kiwis down this time not sure. Still no excuse to fold at home vs bangla toygers etc. 

 

All we needed to do was pick in form siraj shami and prasidh vs Kiwis as bumrah just came back from injury at the time. And ofcourse thakur. 

We would have won. 

 

Even in s.africa prasidh alone would have made a difference and we could have *ing won. * kohli. *ing inbred 

[Vijy]

SA just 1 wkt away from well-deserved victory.

 

I just don't like any team (not just Kiwis) that rely excessively on green pitches and/or short ball barrage (as Wagner does) to keep winning.

[Jay]

5 minutes ago, Vijy said:

SA just 1 wkt away from well-deserved victory.

 

I just don't like any team (not just Kiwis) that rely excessively on green pitches and/or short ball barrage (as Wagner does) to keep winning.

Also we have the worst middle order in the world with this phattu pensioner glad we kicked then out nomlw. Only kphli left. 

[Jay]

The way saffers batted showed me how poor our middle order and rahul plus mayank were against moving ball in SA. Very ppor technique. If our bowlers bpwled to our clowns we wouldnt cross 200. 

 

Look hpw effortlessly bavuma and van der dussen pull. Also that other midget who played well vs but got lucky with wrong lbws and droppef catches. Again due to pensioners. 

 

We lost golden opporunties to win in kiwi land and sa. I think kiwi will be weaker next time but SA will be strong as *. Good thing is india would be powerful too given the direction we are moving in. Finally choosing some players on merit. Hopefully this continues. 

 

Good luck to aussies vs these hungry tigers from SA. 

Remember ngidi dint even play vs n.z lel. Chaddi got undressed. 

 

Wait till aussies face jansen, nortje, rabada and ngidi. Van der dussen peterson bavuma markram elgar and even erwee play short ball well. Will be a good series. Only team apart from india capable of beating aussies away from home. 

[GeeGaw]

And of course it starts raining with SA still needing one wicket.