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shocker !…Should never of lost that one, had them 86 for 5, just didn’t keep the pressure on.

Strange call to send McCullum, Southee & Boult home ???

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Wider World Cup Squad of 30… going to be reduced to 15 in 4 weeks time, with Ryder consistently acting like an idiot didn’t deserved to get selected.

Hamish Bennett (Canterbury)
Trent Boult (Northern Knights)
Doug Bracewell (Central Stags)
Neil Broom (Canterbury)
Dean Brownlie (Northern Knights)
Colin de Grandhomme (Auckland Aces)
Anton Devcich (Northern Knights)
Grant Elliott (Wellington Firebirds)
Andrew Ellis (Canterbury)
James Franklin (Wellington Firebirds)
Martin Guptill (Auckland Aces)
Matt Henry (Canterbury)
Roneel Hira (Canterbury)
Tom Latham (Canterbury)
Mitchell McClenaghan (Auckland Aces)
Brendon McCullum (Otago Volts)
Nathan McCullum (Otago Volts)
Kyle Mills (Auckland Aces)
Adam Milne (Central Stags)
Colin Munro (Auckland Aces)
James Neesham (Otago Volts)
Rob Nicol (Auckland Aces)
Luke Ronchi (Wellington Firebirds)
Hamish Rutherford (Otago Volts)
Tim Southee (Northern Knights)
Ross Taylor (Central Stags)
Daniel Vettori (Northern Knights)
BJ Watling (Northern Knights)
Kane Williamson (Northern Knights)

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/63932773/black-caps-name-wider-world-cup-squad-of-30

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Well done Welly for winning the final… made it hard for ourselves at times, but got there in the end.

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After drawing the test & 20/20 series the 5. ODI’s will be very interesting.

1st ODI
Mon-8th Dec – 11pm
Sky Sport 1.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/63901841/upbeat-black-caps-seek-fast-starts-in-odi-series

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NZ v Pakistan { 1st 20/20 }
Fri-5th Dec – 5am
Sky Sport 1

NZ Squad for : two 20/20’s & Five ODI’s –
Kane Williamson (c)
Corey Anderson
Dean Brownlie
Anton Devcich
Martin Guptill
Matt Henry
Tom Latham
Mitchell McClenaghan
Natham McCullum
Kyle Mills
Adam Milne
James Neesham
Luke Ronchi
Ross Taylor
Daniel Vettori

http://www.blackcaps.co.nz/news-items/williamson-to-captain-blackcaps

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Good 5-1 win to the Phoenix over Melbourne City… defence is still a big worry, especially down the sides, bloody poor coaching by Merrick for not fixing the problem, mind-boggling stuff.

1. Perth Glory { p8 } – 19pts
2. Melbourne Victory { p8 } – 18pts
3. Adelaide United { p8 } – 17pts
4. Sydney FCSydney { p8 } – 16pts
5. Wellington Phoenix { p8 } – 12pts
6. Central Coast Mariners { p8 } – 6pts
7. Melbourne City { p8 } – 6pts
8. Brisbane RoarBrisbane { p7 } – 4pts
9. Newcastle Jets { p8 } – 4pts
10. Western Sydney Wanderers { p7 } – 3pts

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Superb test win by NZ… went to bed about 1am, with Shafiq being such a good player of spin found it a very strange tactic that we continued to bowl spin from both ends for long periods.

Would of given McCullum Man Of The Match over Craig… it was McCullum’s excellent run rate that gave us the momentum to put us in the position to win the match, scoring a great double hundred.

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NZ went really well in the 2nd test, but going even better in this 3rd one, we hit 22 6’s, breaking the world record for the number of 6’s in a test innings.

We have Pakistan 30 for 3 & they still trail by 309… brilliant swing bowling by Boult & Southee.

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That was like watching ODI batting last night, great stuff !

Obviously NZ are showing a ton of respect for Hughes by not bowling any bouncers, this pitch has a bit more pace than the other two, but by not bowling bouncers on these slow piches it’s allowed us to apply quite a bit more pressure on Pakistan & Craig has cashed in on it… outstanding controlled aggression by McCullum, poor bowling by Pakistan though, overdone the bouncers, especially on these sort of wickets, which McCullum is taking full advantage of, hope it continues & they don’t wake up by bowling fuller & straighter.

With them winning the toss looked like they were going to get 500 plus, now we’re in an excellent position to put the squeeze on them.

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Hopefully we win the toss.

3rd Test
Tonight – 7pm
Sky Sport 2.

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Yeah, Roberts getting M.O.T.M. was a total joke, thought Piutau was a top contender for it.

We were always going to be up against it with Barnes as ref, so it proved again, unbelievable how many times he let Wales get away with playing the ball on the deck, eventually they tired in the last 20 minutes & with the depth we have on the bench ABs won comfortably.

SBW’s limitations as a 2nd-five were shown up yet again, if they’re going to persist with having him in the squad should bring him on in the last quarter of the match or so off the bench.

Congrats to Retallick for picking up IRB Player Of The Year, well deserved.

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Sun-23rd Nov – 6.30am
Sky Sport 1.

ALL BLACKS : Ben Smith, Charles Piutau, Conrad Smith, Sonny Bill Williams, Julian Savea, Beauden Barrett, Aaron Smith, Kieran Read, Richie McCaw (c), Jerome Kaino, Sam Whitelock, Brodie Retallick, Owen Franks, Dane Coles, Wyatt Crockett.
Reserves : Keven Mealamu, Joe Moody, Charlie Faumuina, Patrick Tuipulotu, Liam Messam, TJ Perenara, Colin Slade, Ryan Crotty.

WALES : Leigh Halfpenny, Alex Cuthbert, Jonathan Davies, Jamie Roberts, George North, Dan Biggar, Rhys Webb, Taulupe Faletau, Sam Warburton (captain), Dan Lydiate, Alun Wyn Jones, Jake Ball, Samson Lee, Richard Hibbard, Paul James.
Reserves : Scott Baldwin, Nicky Smith, Rhodri Jones, Luke Charteris, Justin Tipuric, Mike Phillips, James Hook, Liam Williams.

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Our spinners performed poorly on the 5th day, bowled too short & wide & didn’t use the footmarks enough… that said, it was a massive improvement from the 1st test, weren’t able to force the win but won more sessions than them, so gives us some momentum going into the last test.

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