New Zealand A vs England Lions, 2nd "Thing"

Big_Bad_Bob wrote:

JKLever wrote:Lions 86-1 lead by 189

Blobby Key not exactly doing his prospects much good - scores of 4 & 38 in this game...

Aye. He's still behind Bops and MPV in the pecking order whatever he does mind you.

Where are you getting your info from BTW?

Live scorecard link in the first post Bob

D'oh!

Fat Sam just ran out of puff at 16.

Getting that far ain't bad when you're 22 and a bit stone.


Or did you mean age?

Luke Wright! GET HIM IN THE TEAM!

More cheaping of A team tests!

NZ 'A' 152-3 chasing 457 to win.

Plunkett with a couple of wickets.

'Sh!t for brains' Saj 0-54 off 13 to go with 2-77 off 16

Roughing them up at one end so his bowling partner can cash in at the other.

Classic fast bowling.

Good on you, Saj.

England a good shot at winning this against a "strong" NZ A.

Selfless Saj. Give that man a medal.

Saj in the W column now.

I guess the thing with text-only cricket watching is you're never sure how someone is really bowling.

Mahmood seems to be getting well tonked 18 overs, 1-70, but he's bowled much more than anyone else - which you wouldn't expect if he was having a stinker - and at a better economy than the uber-economical Mark Davies.

So I'm deducing that he's having a Test-class stormer but without luck.

Scratch that. 19 - 4 - 70 - 2

Like I said, stormer.

NZA 217/5

Stormer Saj.

Not sad Saj.

The super fit Batty Boy gets Fulton.

Augustus wrote:there's something about following a tour match via the internet until 3am that's old skool though, i loves it.

JKLever wrote:Pftt! Old school is watching a test on Ceefax or Oracle.

DJ_Smerk wrote:Old School is listening to it on the radio.

Old school is listening to a simulated broadcast, with a bloke reading the commentary off a news ticker and tapping his pencil on the desk to make a sound like the ball being hit, and crowd sound effects.

Old school is reading about it in the newspaper three weeks later.

NZ cheated a draw. Nine wickets down. Before they set out to bat to save the game, one of their bowlers was called up by the senior NZ side and they were allowed to replace him.

They replaced him with a specialist batsman who averages over 40 in FC cricket.

He saved them with an unbeaten hundred.

What a sheep-bothering disgrace.

Dello wrote:NZ cheated a draw. Nine wickets down. Before they set out to bat to save the game, one of their bowlers was called up by the senior NZ side and they were allowed to replace him.

They replaced him with a specialist batsman who averages over 40 in FC cricket.

He saved them with an unbeaten hundred.

What a sheep-bothering disgrace.

Baaaaastewards....

Kiwunts.

Huzzah, Keysie sees the light:

“Sajid Mahmood has also been great. He has a role to play (for England). He’s been bowling quick, rattling a few cages and he’s had some very good batsmen jumping around.

“The next step for him is with England and to become their ‘go-to man’.”

Bobby also bigged-up Luke Wright, but I'm not going to mention that lest it undermine the impression that he knows what he's talking about.

http://www.ecb.co.uk/news/england/england-lions/key-and-co-eye-senior-call,304465,EN.html

Just Saj propaganda....

Just the truth.

You can't handle the truth.

That's bizarre, apparently he bowled 13 no-balls and 2 wides in 16 first innings overs, but none at all in 28 overs in the second... did the scorers just give up bothering to record them?

Anyway, despite the dodgy supersub, there's no excuse for having 8 balls at Chris Martin and not getting him out. I see there's another Martin in the NZ A side, is that his brother? Wouldn't surprise me, as he got a pair!

beamer wrote:That's bizarre, apparently he bowled 13 no-balls and 2 wides in 16 first innings overs, but none at all in 28 overs in the second... did the scorers just give up bothering to record them?

Probably a bit rusty first out - he missed the opening "Test" with a back twinge - settled into his sweet, sweet groove by the time the second innings came around.

Or he worked out how to use the tape-measure the right way around and marked his run up out properly.

He was bowling very well in county cricket last year. I'm not adverse to his selection but he's got to be told to stop thinking and to wang it down as fast as possible and try for a few induckers like he did on debut...

Maybe the fact he was so crap as a number 8 is clouding my judgement.

Get nasty, none of this 3 slower balls drifting down legside bollocks...

Heh - I love it when our stocks are so low that people are prepared to agree on giving anything a go, just for the sake of trying something else.

I remember during the horrible 2003 home series against SA - the series that honestly saw an England attack featuring James Kirtley, Martin Bicknell and Kabir Ali - floating the idea that maybe we should give Steve Kirby a whirl...

Bad times.