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Michael Appleton

Michael Appleton

@michelappleton

🇳🇿 diplomat. Now: Senior Adviser to @NewZealandMFA. Ex: HCer to 🇱🇰, posted to 🇹🇱🇺🇸🇮🇳. Samraj’s Dad & @nayantarapple’s husband. Love 🏏🗳. Views my own

Wellington City, New Zealand Katılım Ağustos 2009
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Michael Appleton
Michael Appleton@michelappleton·
.@nayantarapple & I celebrated a decade of wedded bliss at a party with friends and family today … in exactly the same place we spent our wedding day. We are so blessed (including by the Wellington sunshine) … and so grateful. @ZEALANDIA
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Michael Appleton@michelappleton·
@samuelsmith1988 @BLACKCAPS I was mainly referring to what’s been achieved via 🇮🇳 outside of NZ - won T20WC game in 🇮🇳, CWC 2019 semi in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿, WTC final in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 in 2021, Test and ODI series wins (first ever) in 🇮🇳 in 2024 & 2026. Agree results in 🇳🇿 were expected.
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Sam[uel] Smith
Sam[uel] Smith@samuelsmith1988·
@michelappleton @BLACKCAPS I disagree these are above expectations performances v India. We have always usually dominated them at home. History shows us that.
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Michael Appleton
Michael Appleton@michelappleton·
This is precisely right from @cricketingview. @BLACKCAPS have had an extraordinary run of above-expectations results against 🇮🇳 in the last 12 years of so. They were due a thrashing in a big/important game … and boy are they getting one from 🇮🇳 today.
cricketingview@cricketingview

NZ were due a bad day against IND... looks like today is that day... They've had a lot of outstanding days against IND in the last 10 years.. they've been IND's bogey team across formats.

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Michael Appleton@michelappleton·
Congratulations 🇮🇳 They’re deserved winners of this tournament, and an exceptionally strong T20I side. Having been given an early scare by 🇿🇦, they’ve been unstoppable since.
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Michael Appleton@michelappleton·
Allen + Ravindra + Phillips + Chapman = 18 off 22 balls. When chasing 250+ in a T20I, these are fatal performances.
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Michael Appleton@michelappleton·
Seifert 50(23) Everyone else (including extras) 18 (19)
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Michael Appleton@michelappleton·
255: mixed feelings about that, as a @BLACKCAPS fan. It both feels way out of reach for 🇳🇿 and a total that could have been much worse. At 203/1 after 15 overs, I thought 🇮🇳 would go much bigger. But 255 is an enormous, possible insurmountable, target.
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Michael Appleton@michelappleton·
It’s been a torrid few months for the @BLACKCAPS T20 bowling attack in 🇮🇳 🇮🇳 has just feasted on them, both today and in the T20I series ahead of the World Cup. In that series, 🇮🇳 scored at 12.35 runs per over - the best run rate for any side in a five-match T20I series ever.
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Michael Appleton@michelappleton·
I wonder what odds you’d have got if you’d bet before this over, with 🇮🇳 on 203/1 off 15 overs, that Neesham would take three wickets and concede fewer than two runs in the 16th. A seriously freakish over.
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Michael Appleton@michelappleton·
Well, basically everything went right for @BLACKCAPS in the semi-final v 🇿🇦 … and now basically everything has gone wrong so far in the final v 🇮🇳 And, when those two sides played against each other, 🇿🇦 crushed 🇮🇳 The swings and roundabouts of T20 🏏 …
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Michael Appleton@michelappleton·
7, 5, 15, 24, 21, 20 The final, as a competitive match, almost feels over within the first six overs. Desperately need Santner to break through here.
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Michael Appleton@michelappleton·
Living in 🇮🇳, I’d utilise shorthands for comparing our countries’ sizes -e.g. About two out of every hundred New Zealanders could fit into this stadium in Ahmedabad. To build a stadium to fit two percent of India’s population, you’d need one that holds around 30 million people.
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Michael Appleton@michelappleton·
Since 2014, 🇮🇳 has the strongest record in international men’s 🏏 Yet they’ve found 🇳🇿 unusually hard to beat: losing in 🇮🇳 a T20WC match, Test series & ODI series and in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 a CWC semi & WTC final. So the world’s best team vs their bogey side. That’s the final we have today.
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Michael Appleton@michelappleton·
How @BLACKCAPS’ world finals have gone, based on: Where game was played: 🇰🇪 won 1 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 won 1, tied 1 🇿🇦 lost 1 🇦🇺 lost 1 🇦🇪 lost 2 🇮🇳 pending Where I was watching from: 🇳🇿 won 1, tied 1, lost 2 🇱🇰 won 1 🇮🇳 lost 1 🇲🇻 lost 1 🇵🇫 🇫🇷 pending
Michael Appleton@michelappleton

I’ve seen recent commentary that @BLACKCAPS have: 1) underperformed in world finals; and 2) this is attributable to psychological frailty. It’s wrong. They’ve done about as well as you’d expect, taking strength of opposition & favourability of conditions into account ⬇️

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Michael Appleton@michelappleton·
I’ve seen recent commentary that @BLACKCAPS have: 1) underperformed in world finals; and 2) this is attributable to psychological frailty. It’s wrong. They’ve done about as well as you’d expect, taking strength of opposition & favourability of conditions into account ⬇️
Michael Appleton@michelappleton

.@BLACKCAPS’ 7 world finals so far: Beat 🇮🇳 in neutral venues: CT2000🇰🇪 WTC2021🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lost/failed to win title vs teams @ home: CWC2015🇦🇺CWC2019🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lost at neutral venues: v🇦🇺CT2009🇿🇦 v 🇦🇺 T20WC2021🇦🇪 v🇮🇳CT2025🇦🇪 (🇳🇿 have not had and will prob never get chance to have home final.)

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Michael Appleton@michelappleton·
@conorkiwi It’s a work trip. But, yes, I am very lucky to be able to see the world in the way I do….
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Conor Leahy
Conor Leahy@conorkiwi·
@michelappleton Is this business or pleasure? I know you work hard but the places you get to make me very jealous (though appreciate you are usually working)
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