rickyp said:
well new zealand are certainly living up to all the expectations of this series
rumours are that we are resting all of our team next match - were gonna send the vics over so we dont win by as much
angryangy said:
To NZ: lol noobs!
gotta try harder if you want McGrath to play.
Don't worry. We are yet to lose to Bangladesh!
I don't know if you were just joking or being plain arrogant there.
Seriously now though that was pretty terrible. We bowled way better then I thought without Bond. Franklin sucks, get rid of him (although I guess you can't do much when your best bowler gets a hamstring injury the day before the match). Cairns was fantastic with the bat. As soon as he strolled out I instantly knew this was the old Cairns back. Thats all I really care about. Vettori bowled absoutly fantastic. Best ODI spinner in the world.
Brett Lee, what can I say. On his own he demolished us. He only got 3 of the wickets but he caused all 10 of them. The first 6 were either out to brilliant Lee deliverys or shocking deliverys from the other end caught at point. It was weird how J Marshall didn't pick up Lee. I am glad he didn't get hurt though, like Papps. Braken looks like easy pickings, Clark bowled pretty damn well though. We were TOTALLY beaten by Lee's pace though
Can't wait for the third game. With Fleming back and Bond too hopefully it will be a better contest. Our batting need sto improved ten fold and fast though.
The streakers and rubbish was embarrising. But they wouldn;t of done it had the game been more even I am sure. They were probably just making entertainment.
Vettori did a good job as captain. I don't exactly agree with us fielding first though, that confused me. I think we really missed our rock at Number 1.
We lost fair end square. No excuses really. I can admit that. We even won the toss (NEWSFLASH: supersub rules are still stupid). However we were missing our best batsman and best pace bowler. Both are so important when you have a team with average tier players.
Cairns, the batsmen we know who has been working hard on his play. Is it a coincidence he performs the best. We NEED to put in some hard work and aim to win the second and/or third match. I think we still can. I may sound mad but we have the talent and our bowling efforts were great.
ZexyZahid said:
This is pretty bad result for New Zealand, especially since three people aren't here: Hayden, Langer, Warne and McGrath.
Like I said above. We had people out as well. Perhaps more vital cogs also considering you have a team full of stars. Warne doesn't play ODI's Don't use him as an excuse. You did forget Martyn though.
But if our opening bowler or opening batsmen or both get injured then we don't have a huge player pool to just grab someone who has 10000 first class runs and years of experiance or hundreds of first class wickets and years of experiance.
