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January 2, 2013 8:00am by Kokila Patel

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Viking2

Naaska. Cold shit arriving overnight as well by the look of the pics from the satelite.
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January 2, 2013 10:06pm
Pauleastbay

That Philander is quite good isn’t he? 3 for none
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January 2, 2013 10:07pm
Viking2

The Balck Caps winning is about as relaistic as this.

http://screencast.com/t/ktXqHHOHv2N1
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January 2, 2013 10:08pm
Pauleastbay

4 down and then Morkel comes on to replace Steyn excellent
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January 2, 2013 10:12pm
Pauleastbay

Chris Martin will halt any batting collapse should NZ suffer one
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January 2, 2013 10:14pm
Pauleastbay

Fucking 5 down
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January 2, 2013 10:15pm
noskire

31/6. Good grief.
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January 2, 2013 10:38pm
noskire

Make that 31/7.
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January 2, 2013 10:41pm
Pauleastbay

Not very often an entire test innings lasts as long as it takes to drink a cup of tea and eat a piece of fruit cake aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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January 2, 2013 10:48pm
nickb

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5 for for philander in around 40 minutes of play… unbelievable
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January 2, 2013 10:56pm
thedavincimode

Don’t panick. Just a couple of things that didn’t quite go our way.

CORRECTION: 7 things. Justin Vaughan, John Buchanan, the hockey coach (whoever the fuck he is), David White, Chris Moller, Mike Hesson and finally, the appointment as captain of a man who has a brain that is almost as big as an undersized peanut that is the smallest peanut at the school for undersized peanuts.

Buggar, why didn’t I type quicker. 8 things.
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January 2, 2013 10:58pm
thedavincimode

Oh yes, the 8th thing. Now even the bloody jappee commentators are feeling sorry for us.
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January 2, 2013 11:01pm
Pauleastbay

New Zealand may look like its on the back foot on the first day of the first test , first session, first innings but Mike from Otago will have plan, I’m sure of this
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January 2, 2013 11:03pm
Pauleastbay

one more and extras will second highest score
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January 2, 2013 11:04pm
nickb

the appointment as captain of a man who has a brain that is almost as big as an undersized peanut that is the smallest peanut at the school for undersized peanuts.

Lol. I like how McCullum’s positive brand of cricket is going
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January 2, 2013 11:07pm
Pauleastbay

Positivey shite
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January 2, 2013 11:08pm
F E Smith

At least it wasn’t 25
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January 2, 2013 11:13pm
Pauleastbay

Now there are some of you negative bastards who’ll say 45 isn’t that flash and I will admit it leaves us with a bit of work to do but take the positives Chris Martin was not out and after some sleep I’m sure I’ll think of some more.

FFS , this is test series White and Moller and the rest of you wankers, not senior fucking B. New Zealand cricket is disgrace, its run disgracefully and the players are playing bloody disgracefully. And there will be some fuckwit in the paper in the morning saying,,”well we did win one of the 20/20’s
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January 2, 2013 11:17pm
bhudson

Oh the shame to be stripped of Test playing status
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January 2, 2013 11:20pm
Viking2

So the move to Aickland must ne to take up the Balck Caps coach position then? 🙄
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January 2, 2013 11:20pm
Dean Papa

oh look, the fanbois have turned feral. No suprises there!!
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January 2, 2013 11:21pm
Tauhei Notts

That cricket is so bad that I chose to watch some feminist crap on BBC, rather than the torture of Newlands.
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January 2, 2013 11:25pm
Griff

NZ Cricket
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January 2, 2013 11:34pm
Dean Papa

what beautiful bowling by Philander. That was a privilege to watch.
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January 2, 2013 11:36pm
SPC

It just goes to show that it was the South Africans who bought tickets for the 3rd day who were the optimists.
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January 3, 2013 12:13am
SPC

The lowest Test score since 1974 by any team.

The real story is that we won the toss and chose to bat first. A bit like a boxer starting a fight with his hands down and asking what sort of punch the world chanmpion had.

Before the game the story was that the South African administrators insisted the grass be cut so that the contest might go to the later days/rounds – ticket sales for the 4th day were non existent let alone the fifth.

It’s always a bit interesting on a first day at Newlands, so they must have been pleased that we won the toss and thus could bat later when the pitch had tamed down. But no one counted on a novice test match captain who wanted to show how decisive he was (compared to Taylor) and take the game to the South Africans – by leading with his chin. This is why even the Hesson regime wanted to keep Taylor as test match captain.
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January 3, 2013 12:51am
SPC

Newlands has a bit of a reputation.

November 2011.

First Test, Cape Town (day two):

Australia 284 & 47 v South Africa 96 & 81-1.

23 wickets fell on the second day.
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January 3, 2013 1:27am
Longknives

But wait- Wasn’t this the same team that were talking up an absolute storm after one rather flukey T20 ‘Hit and Giggle’ victory over South Africa last week?? Hadn’t the Black Caps ‘turned the corner’?

As a cricket purist watching these clowns laughing,smiling and attempting to slog the ball out of the park when you are 6 for 36 on Day 1 of a Test match makes my fucking skin crawl.
McCullum (the self-professed ‘Master Blaster’) and his trash talking mate Bracewell can fuck off back to NZ club cricket. Their arrogant,cocky, trash talking attitudes (and lack of actual ability) has once again blown up in their faces..

It sickens me to see New Zealand players using a Test match as a bloody T20 ‘trial’….RIP New Zealand Cricket.
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January 3, 2013 3:51am
mikenmild

With SA 252/3, I guess that a good NZ bowling performance on the second day will only hasten the end of the match.

Much as I love test cricket, I am very glad this is only a two-match series, something to get out of the way before the ODIs. Unfortunately, that’s how some of the players seem to view it.

NZ Cricket has 11 weeks to have a team ready to face England three home tests. By then, we should select a test batting order based on performance in our first class competition. Only the merest handful of our players have shown that they can play first-class cricket as well as the one-day formats. I believe that only Guptill, Williamson, Brownlie and Flynn warrant consideration for the home tests. To be considered for the England tests, batsmen players should have appeared in at least three of the final four rounds of the Plunket Shield. Hopefully Taytlor and Ryder will be available for selection. Here are the top run scorers so far in the Plunket Shield:
1 Aaron Redmond 640
2 Colin Munro 623
3 Carl Cachopa 611
4 Jesse Ryder 558
5 Michael Papps 548
6 Peter Fulton 504
7 Joseph Yovich 464
8 Luke Ronchi 441
9 Dean Brownlie 415
I haven’t got the averages handy. But pick the six batsmen with the best records in February and March, add Ronchi as wicket keeper and Bracewell, Boult, Southee, and the only selection decision is Wagner or a spinner (Patel or Vettori).

Fire the Australian lawn bowls selector – I’ve just done his job for him.
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January 3, 2013 6:53am
Dean Papa

“23 wickets fell on the second day.”

better hope that doesn’t happen this time!!
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January 3, 2013 8:03am
Dean Papa

Mike, as Drooly correctly pointed, the best available players are there. The ones not availiable are Taylor, Ryder, Southee and Vettori. Don’t blame the selectors!
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January 3, 2013 8:06am
big bruv

The fact that we were dismissed for 45 is embarrassing enough, however what made it all the more worse was the gutless way we went about it.
At least three of our batsmen backed away from the bowlers, when the top order has failed the very least you expect from your middle and lower order is to show some guts.

As bad as that display was the thing that really gets me is that as far as NZC (and the majority of the players) are concerned it does not really matter, to them test cricket is nothing more than a pain in the arse. Yes NZC will make all the right noises about test cricket being the highest level of the game but their (NZC) actions show this to be a lie. The the simple truth is that as far as NZC and most of the players are concerned if NZ did not play test cricket they would not lose a wink of sleep.

One wonders just how long the ICC will continue to allow NZ to play the elite level of the game. The prospect of a tour by NZ is not something that other countries want, to them it means huge financial losses. Test cricket in NZ is doomed….and NZC could not care less.
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January 3, 2013 8:26am
SPC

Aaraon Redmond has played test cricket, as I recall he scored 50 before lunch in a test in Australia – then was dropped for not taking test cricket seriously. And they would not pick him even for one day cricket either.
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