The New Zealand cricket team, aka The Black Caps, have made it into the Champions Trophy final after beating Pakistan in the semi finals.
Firstly, a massive well done. Fantastic effort!
More to the point of this article, the reason why I say a "massive well done" is that the Blacks Caps are so unreliable that it's 99.9% reliable to expect them to beat the best team in the world followed by being beaten by the shittiest! Someone like Scotland for example...
So often in major tournaments they have made it to the semi finals against all odds only to lose and shit their panties. Usually involving bowling the other team out for a reasonable effort and then suffering their inevitable, renowned batting collapse! Losing 5 wickets for something pitiful like 20 runs is a regular occurrence.
Goodbye title hopes. Goodbye self respect. Goodbye marriage.
NZ cricket is so gut wrenching, so full of MASSIVE ups and downs that when doctors give advice to their patients who have high cholesterol, or a heart condition they say stay off the greasy Macca's, Kfc, Pizza Hut and watching the Black Caps. Seriously. I'm sure people have actually died supporting them!
One of the black caps better efforts in this department was when they played Australia in a semi final of a tournament and their best batter got something like 25 runs, next was another guy who got like 19 runs and the next best contributor to their score was 'extras'. For those who don't know 'extras' are awarded to the other team when the bowlers from the other team bowl wides, no balls... that sort of thing. Seriously the 3rd best contributor to the Black Caps score was the Australian Bowlers. The other 8 batters couldn't get in double figures! Now when it gets that bad Psychologists recommend to their patients suffering from depression to watch because it becomes so ridiculous that it's funny! I believe they call it dark humour?
Another effort which must be recognised is in another semi final effort against Pakistan when the black caps were all out for like 60 runs. It remains to this day the shittiest performance they have ever done. Lucky for us avid supporters, this majestic record breaking team saved their shittiest performance for the semi finals of a major tournament! Heart attack material!
So well done to the lads for finally putting on a decent showing in a semi final, especially against are achilles heel team, Pakistan, who until last night we'd played 6 times in a semi final of a major competition with one win to our side of the ledger! As for Australia, our finals opponents, I not sure if we've ever beaten them in a semi final/final scenario... a) because we keep losing to Pakistan in the semi's and b) our national team never usually makes finals, due largely to our infamous top order/middle order batting collapses! Bring on Australia and another note worthy batting collapse followed by a 300 run partnership from Daniel Vettori and Chris Martin!
Come on boys you can do it!!
