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Tony Kennedy

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:41:55 +1300

We'll win anyway

reece palmer

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:09:41 +1300

If we chase, we'll win. If we don't we wont.

noizyboy

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:10:46 +1300

predictions for the england game, anyone?

reece palmer

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:54:29 +1300

Well it would appear that the bipolar caps are back, bangladesh FFS!

If anyone is keen There's a virtual world cup comp available here

the public league I've entered has a reference number 336630
so sign up for the PA cup with a prize of whatever the losers feel like…

reece palmer

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 23:12:33 +1300

So so good, thrice in a row.
truly magic cake mr bracewell

noizyboy

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 23:04:02 +1300

jesus christ. amazing.

Doddery Oldfart

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:52:35 +1300

Damn couch is soaked with sweat ....

How tense was that !

I can feel a bout of Flu coming on around World Cup time...

Muriel Lockheed

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:44:05 +1300

I thought the Wellington game was great, then I thought Eden Park was fantastic........but tonight................holy cow!!!

Russell Brown

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:43:18 +1300

On the ABC website tonight:
"Set 347 to win, the home side was struggling at 5 for 116 in the 17th over"
Do you think the Aussies would have been feeling cautiously optimistic at this point?

They were probably really rating their chances when they had us 4 for 41…

Deborah

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:40:05 +1300

On the ABC website tonight:

Set 347 to win, the home side was struggling at 5 for 116 in the 17th over

Do you think the Aussies would have been feeling cautiously optimistic at this point?

Russell Brown

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:26:34 +1300

Apart from anything else, how was Gillespie?!

I think most of us were thinking it had slipped away when he came to the wicket – and the guy clouts 28 off 15 balls!

The over from Watson where he edged it all over the place and then finished off by…

reece palmer

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:20:49 +1300

so D.O.F. how thick is that icing over piopio?

reece palmer

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:19:51 +1300

that is the stuff of legend, we've got backbone again!

Felix Marwick

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:14:30 +1300

OMFG!!

This is hereby an open apology to Messrs John Bracewell and Craig McMillan.

Gentlemen,
in recent months (if not years) I have given the pair of you a fair amount of stick (in my capacity as a cricket fan, not as a reporter) for your efforts in the cricketing…

Doddery Oldfart

Sun, 18 Feb 2007 22:06:36 +1300

A nice Hamilton drubbing would be the icing on the caketin ...

reece palmer

Sun, 18 Feb 2007 20:08:46 +1300

A month is a very long time in professional sport, things can change real quick. I think we're all due a slice of bracewells humble pie in some form or another. I know I for one wasn't too complimentary. But as Hannibal from the A team says, "I love it…

Deborah

Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:59:20 +1300

About a month ago I posted this:

So looking at our last three performances, and the current one, there's only one thing to say:
Bracewell must go!
It's a case study in how to take a group of talented players, working together as a reasonably cohesive unit, and turn them…

reece palmer

Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:49:35 +1300

Well what a performance, there can be no detracting from this effort, chasing 337 to win and getting it with balls to spare and wickets in hand. Peter Fulton showed he can accelerate his strike rate when he is 'in' and and grand fifty for McMillan in double quick time…

tim kong

Sat, 17 Feb 2007 10:48:03 +1300

cracker of a match – windy and cold – but brilliant to be a part of a little slice of Kiwi and cricket history.

course – there's a record broken at almost every cricket match if you look hard enough! But it was class nonetheless.

Bond's caught and bowled in…

Yamis

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 22:23:44 +1300

Can't complain about a pants round your ankle spanking of the Aussies.

They've played over 600 ODIs before losing by 10 wickets.

Felix Marwick

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 22:04:16 +1300

Yeah but againsts a second string Aussie side on a typical Kiwi greentop.

While I'm happy at the win I'd feel a lot better if it'd been against a full strength Aussie outfit on a more batter friendly wicket.

reece palmer

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 20:40:56 +1300

Now that was sublime.

They have been overdue for that game for quite some time.

Kyle Matthews

Fri, 09 Feb 2007 09:57:28 +1300

Except for that... y'know, world cup thinger.

Does anyone know who's showing coverage of that by the way? Anyone apart from sky? Or am I going to be stuck with websites and radio again?

reece palmer

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 19:59:18 +1300

So any way, it's rugby season and the pain will soon subside.

Yamis

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:17:24 +1300

The most damaging (to his own team) one day hundred of all time? ;)

106 off 149 deliveries. Factor in the 15 wides and it meant that the other batsmen had to score 150 off 151 deliveries. If a guy who has his eye in and is steady at the…

mike.riversdale

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:08:27 +1300

noizy, stop talking to yourself :-)

noizyboy

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 13:46:28 +1300

and I've calmed down now, so well done fleming, on a decent knock.

could've hit out, when the time came though, eh?

noizyboy

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 10:55:57 +1300

Collingwood I mean.

Actually, Coddington? Damn her too.

noizyboy

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 10:55:08 +1300

and coddington. damn him too!

and fleming, while we're at it.

noizyboy

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 11:25:35 +1300

ricky ponting on the other hand...

damn him!

Felix Marwick

Sun, 04 Feb 2007 17:28:24 +1300

101 not out

Which is more than one can say for our esteemed Black Caps Captain

reece palmer

Sat, 03 Feb 2007 11:22:21 +1300

and there we go, the 100 up for the thread that will not die...

the offere still stands RB, or should I just send you something?

Yamis

Sat, 03 Feb 2007 10:01:38 +1300

I think most sides manage to tie things up in the middle stages quite well for two reasons.

Firstly because sides look to score big runs in the first 15 overs and the last 10 overs. The only reason they don't is if they have lost a lot of wickets…

reece palmer

Sat, 03 Feb 2007 01:46:07 +1300

And then in their very next game, their very next game, they manage to bowl australia out inside 40 overs. I smell a set up.

LegBreak

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 08:56:33 +1300

In all my years of wtching professional sport, I am sure I have nver seen a more dispirited performance than England on Tuesday night.

What a shambles.

reece palmer

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:26:17 +1300

NZ make 318/7 england bowl 37 extras, england are toast, very very burnt toast.

LegBreak

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:56:16 +1300

Yes they do; that's why I think they were better suited to bowling in the Power Plays (possibly buying a wicket in the process) than the medium pacers on a flat deck.

reece palmer

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:45:51 +1300

ps; we do well by taking the pace off the ball making the batsmen play shots and frustrating them.

reece palmer

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:44:16 +1300

they did innovate sort of with the power plays and that was effective though wasn't it. We are good at tying the innings down in the mid stages most of the time. we did well with the part timers keeping it tight. astle used to be excellent for that as…

LegBreak

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:35:20 +1300

Lol; well spotted Reece.

I’ll rephrase. Fleming’s handling of the bowlers has been as good as ever; except for the fact he bends to the wishes of the vice-captain too much.

reece palmer

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:28:10 +1300

I'll challenge you on the Fleming captaincy issue. While his batting is obviously well short of where it needs to be, I think his handling of the bowlers in this tournament has been as good as ever.

LegBreak

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:21:13 +1300

Jessie Ryder’s not in the enlarged World Cup squad of 30, so they’re not allowed to take him to the Windies.

Anyway, apparently he doesn’t meet (meat?) the fitness criteria, so that’s why he’s on the outer. In other words, he’s too fat.

One thing that I posted on at…

reece palmer

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:09:38 +1300

All fair comment of course, as it is we would have recognised batsmen to 7 guys who can bat a bit at 8 and 9 and our current sharp end in 10 and 11 more than enough bowling to cover any eventuality. Oram produced again last night, Mcmillan didn't. Styris…

Kyle Matthews

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:12:21 +1300

1 Lou Vincent
2 Peter Fulton
3 Stephen Fleming
4 Ross Taylor
5 Scott Styris
6 Jacob Oram
7 Brendan McCullum
8 Daniel Vettori (c)
9 James Franklin
10 Mark Gillespie
11 Shane Bond
12 Andre Adams

Also, given that Oram and Styris can both potentially bowl 10 overs, you've…

reece palmer

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:39:47 +1300

those dropped catches kind of matter now don't they?

Brendan Cameron

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:17:59 +1300

OMG that was quite a thrilling game!! I thought we really had a chance, even after the rain came and stopped play. Oh well they mostly played well and that was a terribly high total they had to chase so all in all a great game :)

reece palmer

Sun, 28 Jan 2007 22:29:50 +1300

well they made 343 so we're up against it, but you naver know.

WH

Sun, 28 Jan 2007 14:25:02 +1300

Mostly agree with your personnel Reece, but think Fleming should open and captain the side. And I'd have Kyle Mills at 9 instead of Franklin or Patel, depending on conditions. I'm no fan of Bracewell, but it looks as if we are playing something approaching our best team at the…

reece palmer

Sun, 28 Jan 2007 11:39:08 +1300

Like I said in the mindless tradition...

LegBreak

Sun, 28 Jan 2007 10:51:14 +1300

Pretty sure Styris isn't over there yet, and Adams has come home, AND FULTON IS NOT AN OPENER.

When will we learn that until people have had a few years in that position they won't cut it????

Anyway, with that hobby-horse out of the way, I'll challenge you on the…

reece palmer

Sun, 28 Jan 2007 10:38:38 +1300

I think its a combination of several of those things and others too. A while back he was publicly keen to go past the world cup, I like the abbreviation 'cos on current form thats where the black caps will end up, down the WC. It's not too late the…

LegBreak

Sun, 28 Jan 2007 08:31:37 +1300

And so what are the Astle theories then?

1. He just totally lost patience with Comical.

2. He's been told that on current form he was not in the frame for the WC; Sneddon came over to organise the graceful exit.

3. He just lost passion in the game (the…

Felix Marwick

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:43:41 +1300

I still say the English cricket team and john Bracewell are made for each other

noizyboy

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:22:29 +1300

a team with a more fragile batting line-up than us! thank the gods.

Deborah

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 23:19:41 +1300

How... how.. how... how the hell did that happen?!!

reece palmer

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 23:16:59 +1300

All right nz! a win by 90 runs plus the bonus point too!

About Bloody Time

reece palmer

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 22:18:01 +1300

Given the effect of my last post on the performance of batsmen who promptly got out I'll shut up now.

Felix Marwick

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 22:13:29 +1300

I still believe.
210 will be enough.

Well you've got more faith than I have. If the Poms can't get 211 then they deserve to have Bracewell as their next coach.

I'm gutted about Astle's form slump though. It's a great pity to see a guy who I used to…

reece palmer

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 20:03:40 +1300

I still believe.
210 will be enough.

Deborah

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 19:55:04 +1300

So looking at our last three performances, and the current one, there's only one thing to say:

Bracewell must go!

It's a case study in how to take a group of talented players, working together as a reasonably cohesive unit, and turn them into a rabble.

noizyboy

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 19:51:04 +1300

indeed. let's just get past the psychological 200 barrier, eh?

reece palmer

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 19:39:13 +1300

and I had to put the knocker on them...

reece palmer

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 19:37:38 +1300

still on for 220 if these two stay together 100+ for oram 50 for mc

cmon nz

noizyboy

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 19:32:36 +1300

be happy if they got 200+, at this point...

reece palmer

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:34:20 +1300

yes it was but going on current selection policy that one innings should see him in the team til about 2010.

a nice little partnership developing between oram and mccullum, good to see him back at 7 where he belongs.

Felix Marwick

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:23:05 +1300

75/5 – care to revise the 250+ prediction.

Oh and the McMillan renaiisance was very shortlived

reece palmer

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:44:22 +1300

55 for 3 after 18 overs,

only one real failure so far (astle out for 1) others into 20's at least so far.

giving our wickets away though.

reece palmer

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:28:42 +1300

you can listen here too...

http://stanjames.teamtalk.com/StanJames/Ashes_Popup

noizyboy

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:27:57 +1300

bah! there's my prediction out the door in the second over.

or maybe not...

reece palmer

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:27:16 +1300

and so it begins,

astle out for 1
follow the 'action' here

http://www.cricbuzz.com/component/option,com_livetoday/Itemid,136/

reece palmer

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:25:16 +1300

This is without a doubt the strongest team put forward this summer, if they cant do it we're well and truly screwed. But they can, oh yes they can.

I think we will underperform in batting again, about 220-230, but our fielding/bowling will see us home.

noizyboy

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:20:07 +1300

ok, quick prediction:

nz: 253 in their 50.
england: 189, bowled out in the 47th over...

reece palmer

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:15:44 +1300

Here is todays team vs england, we won the toss and elected to bat, we will win today.

New Zealand 1 Stephen Fleming (capt), 2 Nathan Astle, 3 Ross Taylor, 4 Peter Fulton, 5 Craig McMillan, 6 Jacob Oram, 7 Brendon McCullum (wk), 8 Daniel Vettori, 9 Shane Bond, 10…

Richard Llewellyn

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:50:59 +1300

Did anyone else catch Comical Braces in his press conference last night?

Pure comedy gold. He is in complete denial.

reece palmer

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:19:56 +1300

I really think that aside from the obvious mistakes during play that we did ourselves by selecting an out of form batsmen where we could have had an allrounder there to shield Astle from bowling at the death and getting pasted (we know you're struggling and there's a lot of…

Felix Marwick

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:20:56 +1300

Ok there are days when we can't bat. There are days when we can't bowl. Now it seems there are days when we can't field.

Bugger!

Anyone care to place a bet on how long it'll be before the Blackcaps manage to achieve all three of the above in the…

reece palmer

Sat, 20 Jan 2007 13:22:55 +1300

ok then, in that case I pick phil evans of the Grafton United Fat boys one day 6b side, that boy can do just about anything on a cricket pitch.

Felix Marwick

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:28:37 +1300

Sorry Reece Rigor doesn't count. He's been retired a while now but given current form he could probably make a comeback.

I note other than Taylor and Astle no-ones expressing much confidence in our top order.

Funny that

Damian White

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 12:12:55 +1300

> If you had to pick a Black Cap who had to bat for your life who
> would you choose?

. . . Astle.

Sure he might be a little out of touch at the moment . . . but whilst the new, younger batsmen may have their futures…

Kyle Matthews

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:42:08 +1300

Does that count his performances versus Sri Lanka? I get his average as 40.09? Anyway I love Astle. He was one of our best batsmen. I have his 200 on tape and love watching it. But he can't see the ball anymore. I guess I don't know if he will…

Richard Llewellyn

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:51:58 +1300

To bat for my life? – I'd pick Dan Vettori at the moment, but its a good question

I wish I could say Mike Hussey. I find it interesting that cricket, unlike most of the international football codes, does not have a tradition of nationality hopping (with the notable exception…

reece palmer

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 01:04:40 +1300

I'd pick rigor every time, not just to bat for me, but as my runner too, heh.

Felix Marwick

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:15:03 +1300

Here's a question.

If you had to pick a Black Cap who had to bat for your life who would you choose?

It'd be a brave (or foolish) person who chose Craig McMillan – in fact you'd be better off picking James Franklin!

I honestly don't know who I'd pick…

the E

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:54:18 +1300

for those of us near monitor not transister:

http://www.cricinfo.com/

gillespie out on last ball but good strike rate!

reverse grid a great wheeze.

reece palmer

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 14:58:08 +1300

the tail wags on...

what odds a 'reverse grid' approach to our batting order? Whaddaya reckon braces? c'mon you never know.

Paul Rowe

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 14:42:13 +1300

146/7!

fcuking hell!

reece palmer

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 14:28:49 +1300

drinks in tassy, the top order is as usual out for sfa, english have advantage 150/5 have a listen at this url;

http://www.cricbuzz.com/staticcontent/audio/2007_CWBS/wm-player.html

Emma Hart

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:39:46 +1300

Heh, we invented this game where we all had invisible controllers that could administer an electric shock to a commentator every time they said something particularly stupid. If it had been real, we'd have killed Murray Mexted first game out.

The only person who annoyed me more was Martin Crowe…

Richard Llewellyn

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:35:11 +1300

And Big Mer, like his Australian counterpart Mr Bray, while not always actively cheerleading, too frequently falls into the mind-set of describing the game as a function of one team only.

So for Gordo a Bledisloe Cup game is all about Australia either defending well or attacking well. Likewise Muzza…

Span .

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:28:25 +1300

RB, Mexted is one of the reasons I get so frustrated watching rugger these days – he's frequently just wrong, and/or doesn't know what is going on. Grrrrr.

Grant Fox I like though. Even though I am NOT an Auckland fan.

Russell Brown

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:06:17 +1300

Agree totally about Aussie comentators, I always turn the commentary off if they are on, but we're hardly blameless in being one-eyed...might I mention Mexted?

Don't get me started. Mexted seems incapable of understanding the laws of the game, yet feels able to prattle on about the referees' decisions. Richard…

Bart Janssen

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:15:17 +1300

While Astle is in absolutely atrocious form at the moment, it is worth bearing in mind that he was the best ODI batsman in the world in the 2006 Calendar year (limited to those who had played 5 or more games). He averaged 58.60 with a strike rate of 81.16.…

Jen

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 11:50:59 +1300

Gilchrist didn't catch it. He is a charlatan. He's honest enough to know he's dishonest.
Our top order failed again. McCullum as an opener?
Why do so many of our batsmen have poor technique?
Can we please pick our team on current form?
Can we rest our injured players properly…

Paul Rowe

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 11:34:31 +1300

I don't think anyone this side of the ditch is really on the firm moral high horse when it comes to psychotically partisan sports punditry

In particular the testosterone-heavy rubbish that our rugby and (especially) our rugby league commentators indulge in. An embarrassing parade of uninformative drivel for the most…

Richard Llewellyn

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:53:26 +1300

Saint Gilly, aka "The Man who Walks"

Interesting guy, by many inside accounts a very nice and level-headed bloke, and beloved by Aussie cricket media because he usually has an interesting opinion and he is willing to share it rather than trot out the usual cliches.

But there is a…

FletcherB

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:07:47 +1300

and I'm waiting for the day L-Ron comes out and says "Zing! Fooled you all!".

Hmmm.... if he can do that, I'll become an instant beleiver... he is dead, after-all *

*The book "The Barefaced Messiah" claims scientologists deny he is dead.... but the only one I've had a chance…

dc_red

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 08:11:50 +1300

Frankly I'm over the bullshit. NZ does have good players out there playing state cricket, they just never get a chance to step up because Bracewell (and Fleming) can't bring themselve to dump the non-performers. IMO Astle must go, the Marshall twins should be playing state cricket for at least…

Ian Hickling

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 03:12:14 +1300

Agree totally about Aussie comentators, I always turn the commentary off if they are on, but we're hardly blameless in being one-eyed...might I mention Mexted?

81stcolumn

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 01:24:37 +1300

Sport is partisan get over it and get with the commentary.....try being Welsh

Personally I would far rather see the black caps beat the Aussies anyday but.....

Wickets....wickets....wickets...and a shocking system for keeping and developing talent will keep NZ cricket down.

Craig Ranapia

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:52:05 +1300

Span wrote:
Whaleoil (and others) seem to be unaware of the fact that the drinks were initially organised by a National blogger (David Farrar) along with Labour blogger Jordan Carter. But for some the hatred of anything Labour is too strong.

Well, to be fair Span, there's some left-wing nuts…

David Ritchie

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:40:10 +1300

you have to wonder how long it's going to take for the novelty of annoymous shit peddling to wear thin

Whale Oil's not *that* anonymous. WHOIS is a good start; showing off the pictures of Daddy meeting GWB is another.

WH

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:34:18 +1300

I have tended to compare Stephen Fleming with Mark Richardson, a man with half the talent and twice the record, whose sheer determination brought him tremendous success. But now I tend to think Flem has had to carry a heavy burden as captain, and have resolved to give him the…

Eric Dutton

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 20:30:39 +1300

Basic problem with sport and gambling.
Cricket has had a match fixing problem for 30 years. Not just, but especially in one day internationals.
In New Zealand we do not associate cricket intimately with gambling, but nor did South Africa and Hanse is dead.
We have to face reality. The…

Rich of Observationz

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 20:11:30 +1300

It does strike me that the various politicians in the Aussie government were probably quite keen to criticise "Australia's laws" when they were out of office. How come naturalized citizens don't get this right?

rodgerd

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:43:35 +1300

Gilly's one cunning little man, isn't he?
He's made such a song and dance about being honest and a walker, that he can get away with anything now, and umpires don't go the 3rd umpire for anything when he's involved. Talk about using a brand to good effet.

I read…

Span .

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:14:50 +1300

I'm guilty of cleaning for the cleaner too. Although really it's more like tidying than cleaning. Few cleaning products are harmed in the manufacture of the "cleanliness".

Re blogger drinks – there's a difference between a) not going because you are not interested, and b) using the fact that you…

Hamish

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 17:15:36 +1300

edit: through should be throwing.. :D

Hamish

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 17:14:36 +1300

On the whole Hawke-eye thing – I was in Australia during the Ashes and they had some very nifty technology at work, the best being an infra-red camera that would pick up the heat from the ball hitting bat/pad/ground/glove – you could see exactly where it had been by the…

Nais

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 17:09:01 +1300

"Ohmigod, I have to clean the house because the cleaner is coming tomorrow & it's so dirty it's embarrassing!

Guilty as charged though in my humble defence, your Honour, it's usually trying to get my 17yr old SON to pick his wardrobe up off the floor, pick up the towels in…

andrew llewellyn

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 16:47:36 +1300

That's like the omigod I have to clean the entire house because some people are coming for lunch thing that seizes women.

How about:

"Ohmigod, I have to clean the house because the cleaner is coming tomorrow & it's so dirty it's embarrassing!

Bart Janssen

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 16:32:55 +1300

I too watched the cricket yesterday :(.

Setting aside aussie comentators, which have pretty much always been like that...

and setting aside lbw decisions that favour the home team – yes I thought White was out but that is cricket for you, it happens here too ...

and setting aside…

LegBreak

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:27:33 +1300

DC; Fleming’s captaincy (and batting for that matter) has been at its best when he’s had more control over things than he is at the moment (the 3-4 years before Comical B took over).

I thought he handled things OK yesterday (bringing on Patel early for example) especially given he…

JP Hansen

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:16:42 +1300

Just took a look at the pdf on the Hawk Eye tech requirements. Thanks for the link Russell.

So it uses 6 cameras to track the ball and plot its estimated trajectory, fair enough, though I do wonder how accurate the plotted trajectory is if the ball has a lot…

dc_red

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:12:00 +1300

Re the cricket: at the moment we field and bowl reasonably well most of the time. So if only we could bat, we'd be competitive. Which raises the question of how we got to this state of affairs. The injury to Styris sure hasn't helped, but you'd think that adequate…

Span .

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:23:57 +1300

Well now that both the Black Caps and the English have been thoroughly thumped by the Aussies it will at least be interesting to see who is the better loser tomorrow.

(Yeah, that's the best I can do. I'm not into cricket and unfortunately the house has been saturated in…

LegBreak

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:21:15 +1300

I agree re Gillespie, Taylor and Fulton Weston, but the big issue as far as I can see is that the team, the batting order, and the tactics just seem to be so dysfunctional.

Compare that to the days where Fleming was basically running the shw, when the total effort…

WH

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:11:27 +1300

How about that Shane Bond – when he is not going for 22 in a 9 ball over (which is, like, almost never) he is a champion. Despite the result, I thought Gillespie, Taylor and Fulton acquited themselves really well.

The look on Symonds' face when Taylor thumped him into…

Russell Brown

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 13:56:37 +1300

If Hawk-Eye *is* actually radar-based — i.e. the graphically rendered trajectory based on a quantitative measurement — then it deserves reference. Cricket is such a 'particular' game that it deserves that degree of accuracy and precision, IMHO . . . Gilchrist's catch was controversal, but radar showing Vettori's ball being…

Russell Brown

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 13:45:38 +1300

It's more the piles of books and newspapers on every surface (you can't actually dine off the dining room table)

I regard that as as a form of high-availability file storage.

Craig Ranapia

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 13:40:42 +1300

If only it was that simple. It's more the piles of books and newspapers on every surface (you can't actually dine off the dining room table), the dust, and the cat that seems able to shed hair half way up the wall. It's all charmingly bohemian, until you realise someone…

Juha Saarinen

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 13:33:52 +1300

The worst thing about the cricket is... every single Australian you talk to feels obliged to gloat about the win. Every single one. :::grumble:::

Damian White

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 13:32:03 +1300

. . . yip, we deserved to lose that game fair n' square; may the McCullum-as-opener experiment soon lose it's flavour. He's a superb middle-order batsman, both as an end-of-innings high strike-rate hitter and a we're-in-the-poo night-watchman type. Let him develop in that role — at least for a few…

Russell Brown

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 13:02:01 +1300

Um, yes... Sadly, I can't attend (for the non-partisan reason that the better half and I are off to Australia next week, and I've got to make the house fit for human habitation before the housesitter arrives) ...

Tee hee. That's like the __omigod I have to clean the entire…

Craig Ranapia

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:53:05 +1300

In another post, Mr Oil trumpets his refusal to attend blogger drinks with "the enemy", providing further proof, if any were needed, that he is not someone any sane person would wish to sit next to in a pub.

Um, yes... Sadly, I can't attend (for the non-partisan reason that…

Craig Ranapia

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:47:52 +1300

Damien:

Perhaps... but I don't think anyone this side of the ditch is really on the firm moral high horse when it comes to psychotically partisan sports punditry. Is it really so hard to acknowledge that Kiwi sportsmen lose because... well, the other team was better, and (yes Virginia) umpires…

JP Hansen

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:00:38 +1300

^ Sorry – 2nd paragraph relates to McCullums dubious dismissal.

JP Hansen

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:55:43 +1300

The sad thing is that the radio commentary on Radio Sport is a direct from Australia too (the ABC?) and is just as infuriating to listen to. I couldn't believe what Greig & the others were saying about that Gilchrist "catch". Was at the in-laws, and I hope they were all…

LegBreak

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:53:29 +1300

Gilly's one cunning little man, isn't he?

He's made such a song and dance about being honest and a walker, that he can get away with anything now, and umpires don't go the 3rd umpire for anything when he's involved. Talk about using a brand to good effet.

Meanwhile, Comical…

Damian White

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:41:48 +1300

. . . what really grills my gristle is how one-sided the Channel 9 commentators can be. Case of point, Vettori's plumb LBW of Clarke/White at around the 40th over or so.

Bowling across the line, the ball pitched perfectly on mid-stump, then straightened up completely to rap the batsman…

Danyl Mclauchlan

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:38:52 +1300

One of the weirdest biographies you will ever read is online – it's called Bare Faced Messiah, the unauthorised biography of L Ron Hubbard, and I guarantee your esteem for Tom and Katie will soar by the page . . .

http://www.xs4all.nl/~kspaink/cos/rmiller/index.html

Ben Gracewood

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:34:09 +1300

Courtesy of a fateful IQ test by my father in law years ago, we get screeds of Scientology realspam in our letterbox every week. The quantity is quite amazing. At least one letter and one full glossy magazine every week. Shit about 'Flag' levels and 'Cleansing Cruises' and stuff.

The…

Public Address

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:34:09 +1300

Discussion from blog post.