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[brokenbat]

NZ are a joke, terrible bowling and they have no idea with the reviews, deserve all they get.

every team is a "joke" when on tour.. The Aussies themselves got absolutely annihilated in the UAE - massive margins of defeat, AND they conceded the fastest test 100....to Misbah "tuk tuk" ul Haq of all people.

[csnew]

every team is a "joke" when on tour.. The Aussies themselves got absolutely annihilated in the UAE - massive margins of defeat, AND they conceded the fastest test 100....to Misbah "tuk tuk" ul Haq of all people.

Not just the uae, their sub continent record has been probably the worst out of the big teams. A lot of innings defeats.

[ProCricketer1982]

NZ are a joke, terrible bowling

This, it's poor poor cricket  people surely want to see a higher standard of cricket in tests ? This is just average

[potzy248]

This, it's poor poor cricket

Granted poor bowling.

A joke? After cleaning up England in the last test? Lets say we are struggling in an unfamiliar environment.

Harsh.

[ProCricketer1982]

Granted poor bowling.

A joke? After cleaning up England in the last test? Lets say we are struggling in an unfamiliar environment.

Harsh.

I'm just talking about one game. This one game has been farcical, bowling is just so poor. Fair play to the aus batsmen they are cashing in to buffet but if you love your test cricket this isn't it. Personally I'd kind of built this series up as probably one of the better ones as both sides (I thought) were good bowling and both batting was frail with the odd decent player.

Sigh, try sledging England too but they are as much a joke in tests.. We play buttler and moeen as opener ffs

[potzy248]

Way too many 4 balls. Saying that, these decks are absolute roads and our swing bowlers who are mid 130kph are like cannon fodder.
I'm still enjoying watching cricket at 8pm at night.

[potzy248]

I'm just talking about one game. This one game has been farcical, bowling is just so poor. Fair play to the aus batsmen they are cashing in to buffet but if you love your test cricket this isn't it. Personally I'd kind of built this series up as probably one of the better ones as both sides (I thought) were good bowling and both batting was frail with the odd decent player.

Sigh, try sledging England too but they are as much a joke in tests.. We play buttler and moeen as opener ffs

Yeah, I was looking forward to this series. South and Boult need swing. There is none. Kabooooooooom

[brokenbat]

pretty sure Aus would be decimated had this been played in NZ. similar to what Pak seamers did to Aus in the tests "hosted" in England.

[ProCricketer1982]

pretty sure Aus would be decimated had this been played in NZ. similar to what Pak seamers did to Aus in the tests "hosted" in England.

If you know a batsmen can't/struggle to play a moving ball why koo over it when they biff on a road when it's like the m25 ? That's what I don't get with people, ok they are scoring runs but it's not a challenge, it's not testing their stamina, technique etc. At which point, meh.. It's not test cricket.


Everyone pretty much looks at 2005 ashes as a bench mark.. You didn't score easy runs, you didn't get a let up in bowling.l and each bowler was good or better.. That's what test cricket should be

Meh, maybe the game has surpassed test cricket and it's just time for people like me to accept it is doomed. I've given the game until 2018 to convince me it's not just getting more hitty, otherwise I'll be walking away from sky sports and from following pro cricket as others have already done.

[brokenbat]

Well..this is a "test" for the bowlers. The great fast bowlers of the past worked out ways to get batters out on roads.

[smilley792]

2005


Did England not get put in to bat and then score something ridicolous on the first day similar to this??

[northernboy1987]

Think they got 400 in a day at Edgbaston didn't they?

[rickjames]

Wake up, check scorecard. OK.

[WalkingWicket37]

Think they got 400 in a day at Edgbaston didn't they?

Wasn't that in 2009?

[Aussie In England]

Davey boy you beauty!!! Gotta be gunning for Lara's 400!