So to keep everyone interested I thought we could make some predictions around the fringes. Not quite in the same vein as betting on which ball of an over will contain a sundry or a 6, but you get my drift.
Here are my predictions for the series, feel free to add your own:
- Daniel Vettori will make at least one 50, scrapping NZ through to 200.
- NZ will fail to pass the follow on in one of the matches, but Ricky Ponting won't enforce it cause he's just such a nice fella
- Peter Ingram will be dropped after the first game, making in total less than 20 runs
- Matthew Sinclair will come in to replace him, look promising in his first innings but get out unfortunately after making a start and then get a duck in the second innings.
- One of the New Zealand bowlers will be taken for more than 20 runs in one over (probably by Brad Haddin)
- One of Mitchell Johnson or Nathan Hauritz will end the series with more runs that at least 2 (up to 4) of New Zealand's top 6 batsmen.
- Hauritz will bowl without venom, and won't turn the ball much, but will still take over 10 wickets in the series due to his abundant supply of fairy dust
- Tim McIntosh will be involved in at least 3 runouts.
- Chris Martin will get half of his wickets caught at point whilst bowling short and wide outside off stump.
- New Zealand at best will have 1 total above 400
- Shane Watson will get angry at someone for no reason and yet still try to appeal for sympathy.
- Ricky Ponting will make a bad toss call
Whilst I am being rather negative, at the same time if NZ bowls well and Australia continues with its less than solid batting form of late there is every chance New Zealand could bundle out Australia for small totals and make the games more than competitive.
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Oh Andrew, how can you add that last paragraph on? As if it belongs in the same universe let alone same post. Reckon you had an hour dithering about being a negative nelly before adding that post-script. You and Carver need to get laid, then it won't all seem so bad.
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Lol I wasn't really thinking about it that way, I was just trying to be a smart betting man and put a bob each way - don't want to look like I ruled out NZ doing ok in case we manage some kind of upset of the century.
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't my post. You can tell because mine are actually funny. And you're right. WE do need to get laid. But I don't see how that will make New Zealand's batting any better.
ReplyDeleteIt will make everything seem a little better...its all a matter of perspective. Hey, at least they're not as woeful as Bangladesh or the West Indies. Apart from getting laid, I deal with NZ's cricket incompetency with a psychological response defence mechanism. We win, I post-analyze every moment for days and revel ridiculously in the victory. When, moreoften, we lose, the match is immediately consigned to a dark and forgotten dungeon of my brain, where its hidden with other Very Bad Things like Uncle Bully sneaking into my room as a young boy...
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