Comments on: For now, based on cricket that’s actually been played, New Zealand are the top-ranked Test side https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/for-now-based-on-cricket-thats-actually-been-played-new-zealand-are-the-top-ranked-test-side/2021/01/08/ Independent and irreverent cricket writing Fri, 15 Jan 2021 05:12:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.3 By: North by West https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/for-now-based-on-cricket-thats-actually-been-played-new-zealand-are-the-top-ranked-test-side/2021/01/08/#comment-265806 Fri, 15 Jan 2021 05:12:22 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=24871#comment-265806 In reply to Rhys Muir.

SENA is the most awful acronym in the cricket world and I wish it would go away.

]]> By: Rhys Muir https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/for-now-based-on-cricket-thats-actually-been-played-new-zealand-are-the-top-ranked-test-side/2021/01/08/#comment-265756 Sun, 10 Jan 2021 10:02:18 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=24871#comment-265756 In reply to Nick.

It reflects how poor everyone has been overseas too. New Zealand never get to tour SENA nations, but they have managed to win or draw 2 tours in Asia which is more than australia can say. India haven’t had enough home games, once they get a run at home they’ll be back in front.

]]> By: Scott https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/for-now-based-on-cricket-thats-actually-been-played-new-zealand-are-the-top-ranked-test-side/2021/01/08/#comment-265754 Sun, 10 Jan 2021 00:43:44 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=24871#comment-265754 In other news, Andrew Symonds and Shane Warne have managed to cause a storm over here by describing Marnus Labuschqgne as “ADD”. Go and have a look lmao.

]]> By: Nick https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/for-now-based-on-cricket-thats-actually-been-played-new-zealand-are-the-top-ranked-test-side/2021/01/08/#comment-265753 Sat, 09 Jan 2021 21:15:53 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=24871#comment-265753 In general, yes. In this instance, it’s not that New Zealand aren’t great away from home; it’s that they got annihilated, utterly destroyed, by Australia in their most recent away series, a total humiliation that particularly irritated me as I really thought they might win.

]]> By: King Cricket https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/for-now-based-on-cricket-thats-actually-been-played-new-zealand-are-the-top-ranked-test-side/2021/01/08/#comment-265751 Sat, 09 Jan 2021 06:49:10 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=24871#comment-265751 In reply to The Smudge.

We wrote that very line in the assumption that most of you don’t want unequivocal answers. The joy is in the experiment, not the results and conclusion.

]]> By: The Smudge https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/for-now-based-on-cricket-thats-actually-been-played-new-zealand-are-the-top-ranked-test-side/2021/01/08/#comment-265750 Fri, 08 Jan 2021 23:38:53 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=24871#comment-265750 “People want unequivocal answers”. Most people probably do. But do WE? Isn’t what separates the sort of people who bother to engage in a community centred around a sharp but whimsical cricket blog from other, more socially functional people our embrace of equivocation? Aren’t we the sort of people who regularly justify five day draws to those who don’t know better? Cricket is nuanced and equivocal. When it is absolute, like India getting bowled out for 36, we look away, embarrassed. Or am I projecting my psychosis on the rest of you to justify them to myself?
The rating are arcane and equivocal. I like them

]]> By: King Cricket https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/for-now-based-on-cricket-thats-actually-been-played-new-zealand-are-the-top-ranked-test-side/2021/01/08/#comment-265749 Fri, 08 Jan 2021 16:46:01 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=24871#comment-265749 In reply to King Cricket.

Does she also support Sunderland?

]]> By: sam https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/for-now-based-on-cricket-thats-actually-been-played-new-zealand-are-the-top-ranked-test-side/2021/01/08/#comment-265748 Fri, 08 Jan 2021 15:23:50 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=24871#comment-265748 In reply to King Cricket.

NZ are my middle child’s favourite team because she thinks they are called ‘The Black Cats’.

Children are idiots.

]]> By: John https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/for-now-based-on-cricket-thats-actually-been-played-new-zealand-are-the-top-ranked-test-side/2021/01/08/#comment-265747 Fri, 08 Jan 2021 14:38:53 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=24871#comment-265747 New Zealand have won Test cricket! Now they have a nice mantelpiece decoration.

]]> By: King Cricket https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/for-now-based-on-cricket-thats-actually-been-played-new-zealand-are-the-top-ranked-test-side/2021/01/08/#comment-265746 Fri, 08 Jan 2021 12:50:47 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=24871#comment-265746 In reply to Ged Ladd.

Maybe if the Black Caps earn the reputation of the All Blacks it could happen.

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