Australia in New Zealand (2024)

[Lone Wolf]

2 hours ago, vvvslaxman said:

 

They were trying to bounce the batsmen out by setting two fielders quare of the wicket. Rachin almost fell for it.  From little i saw that was their only tactic.

It is a decent tactic once ball gets older...  Don't think Kiwis would last long. 

Some counter attack cameo is expected from Phillips and co. 

New ball would make life tougher and Aussies would win with around 140 odd runs. 

[putrevus]

23 hours ago, New guy said:

 

 

You cannot blame an unlucky run out on his batting skills

Looks like our hero went for low score. Still two more innings. Mind you he scored three 100s in his last two tests against a 5th string SA.

[putrevus]

Wow Smith already passing Mark Waugh in catches.This guy is an amazing slip fielder.The catch he took today was one of the best slip catches.Reminding me of Dravid 's catch VS SA of Bhajji.

Edited March 2, 2024 by putrevus

[Tillu]

On PP so many posters were getting their knickers in a twist due to Pollard taking a 4 day break from PSL to attend the Ambanis wedding.

[vvvslaxman]

6 hours ago, Lone Wolf said:

It is a decent tactic once ball gets older...  Don't think Kiwis would last long. 

Some counter attack cameo is expected from Phillips and co. 

New ball would make life tougher and Aussies would win with around 140 odd runs. 

 Being tall they are able to extract natural bounce. It was even too high for Mitchell. Ball just whizzed past his face. Josh cranked up his speed unlike his high 120ks. Touched 141k.

[Vijy]

4 hours ago, putrevus said:

Wow Smith already passing Mark Waugh in catches.This guy is an amazing slip fielder.The catch he took today was one of the best slip catches.Reminding me of Dravid 's catch VS SA of Bhajji.

smith is a great batter, fielder, useful part time bowler in some portion of his career.

[Kothili]

Mitchell is awful.

[Kothili]

Kiwis are like church mice against Aussies. Total mental midgets.

Edited March 2, 2024 by Kothili

[Kothili]

Feckless batting. Kiwis deserve to go down.

[Kothili]

Ashwin can never spin the ball like Lyon.

[vvvslaxman]

How does the WTC table look like. DO we track in a thread?

[Kron]

1 hour ago, Kothili said:

Ashwin can never spin the ball like Lyon.

Never and its true

 

[Kron]

29 minutes ago, vvvslaxman said:

How does the WTC table look like. DO we track in a thread?

We are second. Nz first. But they will lose the series and nz will definitely get thrashed by us as well. Expect aus first again. Unless they lose to india. We shpuld finish second

[vvvslaxman]

Just now, Kron said:

We are second. Nz first. But they will lose the series and nz will definitely get thrashed by us as well. Expect aus first again. Unless they lose to india. We shpuld finish second

England probably will win a lot won't finish anywhere near the top due to penalty points suffered because of Stokes taking an hour between every ball to set field

[Serpico]

Newzealand has the most unpredictable pitches. Even the home team cannot read them properly 

[Serpico]

Newzealand has the most unpredictable pitches. Even the home team cannot read them properly 

[Kron]

22 minutes ago, Serpico said:

Newzealand has the most unpredictable pitches. Even the home team cannot read them properly 

Its a Rubbish pitch

Needs to be rated down

[vvvslaxman]

16 minutes ago, Serpico said:

Newzealand has the most unpredictable pitches. Even the home team cannot read them properly 

Poorly prepared pitch obviously. They generously left grass hoping they could shoot Australia out for 100 total. But once the surface started drying it started behaving differently. I don't think NZ is not capable of beating Australia on any kind of pitch. 

[Kron]

42 minutes ago, vvvslaxman said:

Poorly prepared pitch obviously. They generously left grass hoping they could shoot Australia out for 100 total. But once the surface started drying it started behaving differently. I don't think NZ is not capable of beating Australia on any kind of pitch. 

They can but wont due to mental block

[Frustrated]

23 hours ago, Frustrated said:

The way things are going at the moment, Lyon might end up picking 7-8 wickets in this inning alone.   

As expected, Lyon picks up 6 wickets in the 4th inning....LOL.  Pitch changed its colour (and nature) from being green(Day1) to brown during the course of the match.