West Indies tour of NZ
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@African-Monkey could not agree more re: Taylor, he's my favourite ever Black Cap for that reason (well him and Boult). So many young players could learn a lot from the way he applied himself. A talented youngster that would get himself out through lapses in concentration more than the bowler getting him out, really putting in the hard yards to work on his concentration in test matches to fashion a world class record. It must have been so hard for him to completely put away that swipe shot for hours at a time when it's what he grew up playing!
He did the same in ODIs to a lesser degree, worked hard on building an innings and trying to carry his bat rather than blast the opposition away in the first 20 overs. Ended up our best ODI batsmen of all time as a result with 21 tons.
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@No-Quarter said in West Indies tour of NZ:
@African-Monkey could not agree more re: Taylor, he's my favourite ever Black Cap for that reason (well him and Boult). So many young players could learn a lot from the way he applied himself. A talented youngster that would get himself out through lapses in concentration more than the bowler getting him out, really putting in the hard yards to work on his concentration in test matches to fashion a world class record. It must have been so hard for him to completely put away that swipe shot for hours at a time when it's what he grew up playing!
He did the same in ODIs to a lesser degree, worked hard on building an innings and trying to carry his bat rather than blast the opposition away in the first 20 overs. Ended up our best ODI batsmen of all time as a result with 21 tons.
Taylor probably looked at Jesse Ryder as a case of what NOT to do.
Rossco had huge natural talent but Ryder had even more.
Taylors career was pretty amazing, NZs best ODI batsman of all time and probably third only to Crowe and KW at test level.
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On Fleming, he was one of the most naturally talented players we've produced I think. I can remember him hitting peak Shoaib Akhtar bowling 155 - 160kmph for boundary after boundary when the rest of our team didn't look like they could even see the ball in time. He was the king of soft dismissals though, which are lapses in concentration really. As others have alluded to, he was made captain very early and had a lot on his plate from then on, not sure if that really helped him refine his game as much as he could have.
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And another bowler injured, lol, any Ferners in the area that fancy rolling the arm over today?
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@No-Quarter said in West Indies tour of NZ:
On Fleming, he was one of the most naturally talented players we've produced I think. I can remember him hitting peak Shoaib Akhtar bowling 155 - 160kmph for boundary after boundary when the rest of our team didn't look like they could even see the ball in time. He was the king of soft dismissals though, which are lapses in concentration really. As others have alluded to, he was made captain very early and had a lot on his plate from then on, not sure if that really helped him refine his game as much as he could have.
That conversion rate though, the guys on either side of him ( Pujara and Ali ) in the list of all time run scorers both got 19 tons to his nine.......
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@No-Quarter said in West Indies tour of NZ:
And another bowler injured, lol, any Ferners in the area that fancy rolling the arm over today?
Who's out now ?
I say bring Jezza Coney in from the commentary box for some dibbly dobbly.
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@MN5 Rae went down in pain, but is made of tougher stuff and has run it off. Given his age and unlikely to play much once others return from injury, he'd probably bowl with a broken leg if it meant he could snare another test wicket.
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@No-Quarter said in West Indies tour of NZ:
@MN5 Rae went down in pain, but is made of tougher stuff and has run it off. Given his age and unlikely to play much once others return from injury, he'd probably bowl with a broken leg if it meant he could snare another test wicket.
Yeah he won't play another test after this one, hopefully he can survive the last day.
Even so, draw looking bloody likely here. The Windies have no batting superstars, most of them aren't even test standard on paper but NZs fill in attack won't be good enough to knock them over.
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Interesting pitch this one, I really felt there was plenty of movement on offer with the new ball, but both sides were not disciplined enough, and once the shine wore off it became very difficult to prize wickets out. Not an absolute road though, all batsmen have worked hard for their runs.
The score probably wouldn't suggest it being an absolute road if we had our three frontline seamers playing though.
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Ohh then goes the other way, comon Patel spin us to victory!
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@No-Quarter said in West Indies tour of NZ:
And another bowler injured, lol, any Ferners in the area that fancy rolling the arm over today?
The juniors will be on standby by the end of the day at this rate...
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That's two, comon lads let's get through them now
