Australian Tour of New Zealand 2024

[Bornadog]

Re: Australian Tour of New Zealand 2024

Did you see the dismissal?

Missed it.

Now Marnus gone for 2

[GVGjr]

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Southee with a Richie Benaud special. 3 overs, 2 maidens 2 for 2.

[GVGjr]

Re: Australian Tour of New Zealand 2024

Missed it.

Now Marnus gone for 2

You won't be overly surprised.

[Bornadog]

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Lyon dropped on last ball of the day.

[GVGjr]

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Test cricket is unreal, on the day that Cam Green played a brilliant innings and took an average score for the team into a very good one if it wasn't for the use of a night watchman he could have easily batted again today.
2 for 13 at stumps. We need a score from Ussie tomorrow.

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

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I really hope that is the coming of age innings for Green. If he nails his spot in the side, we really have a lot of flexibility in our team setup for the best part of 10 years.
Really mature batting form him today.

[Bornadog]

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Some very poor batting in the second innings with Lyon the highest scorer with 41.

All out for 164, but a lead of 368

[ledge]

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Kiwis are their own worst enemy , take a few simple catches and they probably had the upper hand in this game. If I was NZ I would be racing out to find the best fielding coach there is.

[GVGjr]

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Some very poor batting in the second innings with Lyon the highest scorer with 41.

All out for 164, but a lead of 368

It's a day 3 minefield and you can't expect our top order to 'apply themselves' to the the task at hand.
Phillips did okay with the ball but a few batsman surrendered their wicket today

[whythelongface]

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It's a day 3 minefield and you can't expect our top order to 'apply themselves' to the the task at hand.
Phillips did okay with the ball but a few batsman surrendered their wicket today

You are being generous to our batters. They were putrid and had it not been for Green we would be in serious trouble.

[GVGjr]

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You are being generous to our batters. They were putrid and had it not been for Green we would be in serious trouble.

I should have added a bit more sarcasm to my thoughts. Exceptionally poor performance but we have to accept that our batsman won't pay a price for their lack of application.

[whythelongface]

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I should have added a bit more sarcasm to my thoughts. Exceptionally poor performance but we have to accept that our batsman won't pay a price for their lack of application.

Ah ok. My bad - didn?t read the room. In my defence sarcasm ain?t always easy to pick up in the written format 🥴

[Bornadog]

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Lyon cleaned up NZ with 6 wickets in first session today
Green man of the match

[GVGjr]

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Lyon cleaned up NZ with 6 wickets in first session today
Green man of the match

I get a lot of people view a win as a win no matter what but our batsman outside of Green weren't impressive again.
At some point we will come up against a stronger side and it could get ugly.

[Bulldog Joe]

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I get a lot of people view a win as a win no matter what but our batsman outside of Green weren't impressive again.
At some point we will come up against a stronger side and it could get ugly.

But there isn't much else in the test arena.

New Zealand currently sit 2nd on the World Test Table with only India ahead.

I know we are being carried by the bowlers but beating the 2nd ranked team away is a pretty good effort.

The only stronger team we could come up against is currently India.