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New Zealand v England, 3rd Test, Napier, 22-26 March
Well?
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Expect a slow, low nothing pitch
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Flattest of the flat.
Anderson will go for a ton.
Anderson will go for a ton.
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Anderson will go for a ton.
And none of England's top six will score one.
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Just a thought ... Swann for Anderson or Broad?
Would make it a bit more interesting having 2 spinners wheeling away ...
Now we know that our top six bats can each achieve the 40 run mark ... 350 first dig ought to be getable.
Then turn Monty and Swanney loose on the NZudders ....
Would make it a bit more interesting having 2 spinners wheeling away ...
Now we know that our top six bats can each achieve the 40 run mark ... 350 first dig ought to be getable.
Then turn Monty and Swanney loose on the NZudders ....
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Never going to happen.
They didn't even play two spinners on the Sri Lankan dust bowls.
They didn't even play two spinners on the Sri Lankan dust bowls.
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Yeah .... sadly ....
Would've been a nice sight though.
Ah ... perhaps with Miller in charge now ... who knows !!!
Would've been a nice sight though.
Ah ... perhaps with Miller in charge now ... who knows !!!
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Odds
Draw 2.1
Eng 2.96
NZ are 5.0 to beat us on their own turf!! Punters have forgotten all about Hamilton already...
Draw 2.1
Eng 2.96
NZ are 5.0 to beat us on their own turf!! Punters have forgotten all about Hamilton already...
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Well they'd just be bloody daft if they prepared another pitch with things like pace and bounce in it. Whatever happens it's going to be interesting but essentially wrong and unsatisfying like a BBC2 documentary on the racist attitudes of old white working class people.
How cr*p was Matthew Bell btw? Makes you appreciate our own Bell no end.
How cr*p was Matthew Bell btw? Makes you appreciate our own Bell no end.
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Maybe the Bells are the new Lewises (see other thread...)Eric Air Emu wrote:How cr*p was Matthew Bell btw? Makes you appreciate our own Bell no end.
I'm not as anti-Ian Bell as a lot of people on here but am rapidly losing patience with him now - I'd still keep him over the Kiwi version any day though!
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beamer wrote:Maybe the Bells are the new Lewises (see other thread...)Eric Air Emu wrote:How cr*p was Matthew Bell btw? Makes you appreciate our own Bell no end.
I'm not as anti-Ian Bell as a lot of people on here but am rapidly losing patience with him now - I'd still keep him over the Kiwi version any day though!
I agree with this. I think he's very talented but he needs to perform now. Interesting discussion in the studio after the match ended - saying he looks all dreamy but hits the fielders with his shots too often instead of piercing the field.
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How cr*p was Matthew Bell btw? Makes you appreciate our own Bell no end.
No it doesn't.
Watching the resurrection of Bradman bagging six consequitive king pairs wouldn't.
Watching Anderson getting carted for 36 in an over wouldn't.
Watching Monty nutmegged a dozen times in one session causing 48 runs worth of damage wouldn't.
Nothing would.
Nothing.
Absolutely nothing.
The End.
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Ramps was also a master at finding the fielders with his shots. You can be too technically correct.
If Ian Bell was killed in a tragic sex accident tomorrow we'd all suddenly appreciate him then.
If Ian Bell was killed in a tragic sex accident tomorrow we'd all suddenly appreciate him then.
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A sex accident?
Ian Dinga Bell?
He can barely find the boundary in two hours out in the middle, doesn't know what to do with a bat in his hand and you expect him to find his todger, know what to do with it, create a 'sex accident' and then snuff it as a consequence?
Bloody hell - you really do give the lad shed loads of credit.
Ian Dinga Bell?
He can barely find the boundary in two hours out in the middle, doesn't know what to do with a bat in his hand and you expect him to find his todger, know what to do with it, create a 'sex accident' and then snuff it as a consequence?
Bloody hell - you really do give the lad shed loads of credit.
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Matthew Bell wouldn't even get a game for Derbyshire second XI.
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Dello wrote:Well?
OMG Dello is actually Robin
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Dello wrote:Matthew Bell wouldn't even get a game for Derbyshire second XI.
You're absolutely right, he wouldn't.
He'd be a permanent fixture in their 1st XI.
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taipan wrote:Dello wrote:Well?
OMG Dello is actually Robin
'twas an homage.
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Interest in this series has died quickly.
Not to worry, Paul Collingwood's got a spring in his step...
Always comes back to the records - if you can scrape together a 40 average for England, you're set for life. Good times.
Not to worry, Paul Collingwood's got a spring in his step...
Of the top six, only Alastair Cook has managed three figures this winter, and that innings came in a dead rubber at Galle before Christmas. Collingwood himself hasn't made a Test hundred since June, while Kevin Pietersen - normally so dominant - has gone 10 consecutive innings without so much as a fifty. "We're just one big ton away from opening the floodgates again," said Collingwood...
[He] denied that the players were stuck in the comfort zone.
"With the records they have, they've proved they can play against different bowlers and in different conditions," said Collingwood. "We've come up against some good bowling, certainly in the India series [in July and August] when they were swinging it both ways, and in Sri Lanka, which is a difficult place to score hundreds. I wouldn't put it down to desire or concentration or anything like that. We believe we are better players than that."
http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/engvnz/content/current/story/343122.html
Always comes back to the records - if you can scrape together a 40 average for England, you're set for life. Good times.
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I saw that earlier today and sniggered.
Hell, at least he isn't telling the Kiwis how crap they are.... did we ever hear from Chris Martin after the end of the test? Bloody fairweather sledger...
Hell, at least he isn't telling the Kiwis how crap they are.... did we ever hear from Chris Martin after the end of the test? Bloody fairweather sledger...
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In Chris Martin's defence, he doesn't get the chance to lord it over people much in his life - he's this terminally ill-looking, runty, bald, piece of crap bowler who doesn't look like he could beat a two-year-old girl in a fist fight, playing for a struggling side.
Got to cash in while you can.
Got to cash in while you can.
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Dello wrote:In Chris Martin's defence, he doesn't get the chance to lord it over people much in his life - he's this terminally ill-looking, runty, bald, piece of crap bowler who doesn't look like he could beat a two-year-old girl in a fist fight, .
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Sort of describes the whole country
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G.Wood wrote:Dello wrote:In Chris Martin's defence, he doesn't get the chance to lord it over people much in his life - he's this terminally ill-looking, runty, bald, piece of crap bowler who doesn't look like he could beat a two-year-old girl in a fist fight, .
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Sort of describes the whole country
Except those what play rugby (when not involved in a world cup semi)
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tac wrote:G.Wood wrote:Dello wrote:In Chris Martin's defence, he doesn't get the chance to lord it over people much in his life - he's this terminally ill-looking, runty, bald, piece of crap bowler who doesn't look like he could beat a two-year-old girl in a fist fight, .
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Sort of describes the whole country
Except those what play rugby (when not involved in a world cup semi)
Some countries didn't make it as far as that IIRC
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