Black Caps in Zimbabwe
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@Virgil said in Black Caps in Zimbabwe:
The Black Caps record is 101..can you guess who it belongs to? (without cheating!)
Baz?
@nzzp said in Black Caps in Zimbabwe:
@Virgil said in Black Caps in Zimbabwe:
The Black Caps record is 101..can you guess who it belongs to? (without cheating!)
Baz?
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Here’s my XI for this game
Young
Conway
Ravindra
Nicholls
Mitchell
Blundell
Santner
Smith
Henry
Patel
O’RourkeKW not being there leaves a fucken chasm at 3….no Latham fucks the batting order too but in saying that they should put these chumps to the sword 2-0
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Looking forward to a scratchy 30 from Nicholls
Disappointing Duffy isn't getting a run.
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67/4 at lunch. Feel like we're a batter short with Blundell coming in an 6. Probably won't matter.
Henry with 3 of the wickets. Doesn't have a 10fer in his career yet - they're pretty rare for NZ bowlers not called RJ Hadlee. Maybe this test?
I hope Patel gets a run in the second test - he's close to 100 test wickets, none of which have come at home yet.
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67/4 at lunch. Feel like we're a batter short with Blundell coming in an 6. Probably won't matter.
Henry with 3 of the wickets. Doesn't have a 10fer in his career yet - they're pretty rare for NZ bowlers not called RJ Hadlee. Maybe this test?
I hope Patel gets a run in the second test - he's close to 100 test wickets, none of which have come at home yet.
Possibly a batter short but Blundell has batted six for awhile now ( with poor form of late overall ) and Bracewell, Santner, Smith and Henry are a very strong 7-10 line up. Won’t matter against Zimbabwe like you say.
Chatfield might be out of the top ten but it was always going to happen with other good bowlers coming in.
Magnificent from Henry again.
Pretty predictable scoreline to wake up to, would be nice to see one or both of these guys get a big one.
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Possibly a batter short but Blundell has batted six for awhile now ( with poor form of late overall ) and Bracewell, Santner, Smith and Henry are a very strong 7-10 line up. Won’t matter against Zimbabwe like you say.
Chatfield might be out of the top ten but it was always going to happen with other good bowlers coming in.
Magnificent from Henry again.
Pretty predictable scoreline to wake up to, would be nice to see one or both of these guys get a big one.
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@MN5 said in Black Caps in Zimbabwe:
Magnificent from Henry again.
he's been second to Bumrah in the last WTC cycle. Averaging 18.
@nzzp said in Black Caps in Zimbabwe:
@MN5 said in Black Caps in Zimbabwe:
Magnificent from Henry again.
he's been second to Bumrah in the last WTC cycle. Averaging 18.
his last 2 years have been really impressive, and across all formats
Since July '23 hes done the followingTests - 10 matches - 54 wickets @ 17.24
T20I - 47 matches - 65 wickets @ 17.98
ODI's - 19 matches - 38 wickets @ 22.18 -
@Cyclops said in Black Caps in Zimbabwe:
Henry outright 10th now. A bit sad that Chats is now out of the top 10.
Good chance he might over take Cairns Snr by the end of this match too.
@Virgil said in Black Caps in Zimbabwe:
@Cyclops said in Black Caps in Zimbabwe:
Henry outright 10th now. A bit sad that Chats is now out of the top 10.
Good chance he might over take Cairns Snr by the end of this match too.
Yeah would love him to get a 10fer. Absolutely deserved.
For me he’s second name down on the team sheet after KW now. Just an amazing improvement from the pieman he used to be.
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Just on Henry and his chances of 10 for the match……
It’s a staggering stat that just THREE Black Cap bowlers have ever taken more than one 10 fer in their careers.
Hadlee stands out like dogs balls by achieving this NINE times, Vettori three and Patel twice.
Southee, Boult, Martin, Cairns jr and sr, Chatfield, Bracewell, Nash, Bond, Jamieson, Santner, Craig, Cowie, Troup and Pringle make up the rest having done this once each. Some very good bowlers here mixed in with a few one off freak performances.
Notable to me that Wagner who would be in the discussion for an all time NZ XI never managed it once.
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