No it's a trait of losers. Seeing Southee laugh & carry on with Aussie players moments after the result reminds me of Hinkley back slapping & giggling with opponents moments after losing big games.
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Like Cummins and his team did three tests ago you mean?
What they do after the game doesn’t impact on what happens before it and if they come out in the next series and win it, it won’t have anything to do with what he said either.
There is no way in hell they care more about how they play than whether they win or lose. They would have been gutted yesterday. Being able to put that aside and go and have a beer with the opposition, like players have for 100 years previous, doesn’t change that.
Border is the toughest Australian cricketer I’ve seen and he was doing that long before Australia started winning anything
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Certainly not saying there aren’t issues with the team, in particular tge batting line up. In an ideal world, post t20 trophy we send a development squad to the UK for the white ball tour and all of the incumbents/challengers play shield in the lead up to the home tests.
Whilst NZ certainly lost their way at times, we also put pressure on them. In the same way we shouldn’t discount excellent performances against us when we lose, we can’t discount our own performances when we win. NZ aren’t a bad team, they were playing at home, and we have had a long and busy schedule. We still won both games.
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"This is a big win for Australia, don't worry that it's against New Zealand" - B. Julian, 2024.
Australia hadn't even won yet.
Australia hadn't even won yet.
Overall I think the commentary for the series was excellent, I loved how the Kiwis were unashamedly biased but also willing to rip the piss out of themselves.
Shame it wasn't a 3 test series, or even 5 for that matter.
Shame it wasn't a 3 test series, or even 5 for that matter.
Carey was excellent. Truly great knock.
I thought Marsh - remembering you can’t actually knock a guy for scoring runs so please don’t think I am - was the benefactor of some poor planning and/or execution from the kiwis. Either he spooked them or they just got it totally wrong to him.
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lol. Mate Kyle Verreyne made runs in that game. If that’s your evidence, you aren’t convincing many people.
Aidan Markram recently made a century that was rated among the best handful based on all the metrics of the pitch, the difficulty of the game and the other scores in the match, in the entire history of test cricket. Most people still wouldn’t trust him yet on a moving pitch until he proves it consistently. Why would head be any different.
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For sure, I think they saw it slipping away and thought “here we go again”. But for them to have that mentality you need to be good enough to make it count.
It’s like watching the Wallabies play the ABs. Plenty of games were we play well, have scoreboard pressure, set pieces going our way and then they get a run on against us - you just know we won’t be able to close out the game, because we lack the belief and they have the ability to force the point. However, you have to be good enough in the first place - and the ABs are.
It was reported by Tim Wigmore in 2017 that most boards lose US$500,000 per test.
I can't imagine tests have become any cheaper since then.
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It seems that the guys who are designated batters, Smith, Labauchangne, Khawaja and Head have been underwhelming.
The rest have been excellent, and batting above their averages. Green, Marsh, Carey, Starc, Cummins, Lyon and Hazelwood. All of them.
The rest have been excellent, and batting above their averages. Green, Marsh, Carey, Starc, Cummins, Lyon and Hazelwood. All of them.
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A four Test series. Two in Oz and two in NZ. Play two of them in Tassie and Queanbeyan.
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Why do we struggle against Wagner? He isn’t even that quick.
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and many others, here's your response from McDonald and Cummins:
McDonald:
" "We feel we've got a group that can carry us through that next phase. That's not to say there won't be changes," he said.
"It's going to be a hard group to infiltrate. It's going to take something special." ".
Interesting use of the word "infiltrate".
For Cummins, experience (not form) is everything:
" "In those key moments, being able to draw on that knowledge, guys that have played all around the world - it's valuable," he said.
"We're in no rush to make rash changes." ".
Barring injury or unlikely retirement (I mean, with the dough they're making, why would any of them pull the plug?), yesterday's team is a lock vs.India later this year.
Smith will get time as Australia Test opener: McDonald
Coach Andrew McDonald has hailed Australia's ability to find a way after the narrow second Test win over NZ and backed Steve Smith to overcome his batting yips.
Minimum $600k to stage a Five Day Test before you open a gate
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This from X (Twitter) - redefining the word "great".......
He was a very good keeper and a dogged bat, in a tough era - he is a kiwi great
NZ flogged India in NZ last time there. Think their last Series loss at home was to SA in 2017.
That would be about 1 pitch in 8. The other 7 times you should be batting, NZ fake green tops included. If we batted first we'd have won with alot less stress, much less excitement though....lol. Could have made 250, rolled them for 230 then set the game when the pitch went flat in the 3rd innings, like when NZ made 372, which gave them a strong lead despite their first innings. That's when you learn Tests are 4 innings games. Have to think of that at the toss.
Got to know your grounds too. Remember he was silly enough to do it at The Oval too and it probably cost us an Ashes Series win. No matter what that wicket looks like there you bat first. India sent us in at The Oval on a green looking wicket in the WTC final and we were 3/320 on the first day. Paine did it in 2019 and it cost us. Cummins didn't learn from that and it cost us. Nasser Hussain famously got sucked by by the greener Gabba back in the day. NZ pitches are near always bat first pitches too no matter the pitch color. If your batting line up us out of form, definitely bat! Chasing with a dodgy batting line often ends in disaster, as 4/35 showed. Fortunately, we had a no.6, a wicketkeeper, and a tail to bail us out when it mattered.
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We understand why England's Coach and Captain are New Zealanders. It's in their DNA....haha.
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