Black Caps vs Pakistan Series
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@bovidae said in Black Caps vs Pakistan Series:
Ferguson dropped, KItchen still there (WTF?), and Blundell is the wicketkeeper.
Black Caps Twenty20 squad for Australia:
Kane Williamson (captain), Martin Guptill, Colin Munro, Tom Bruce, Ross Taylor, Anaru Kitchen, Tom Blundell, Colin de Grandhomme, Mitchell Santner, Tim Southee, Seth Rance, Ben Wheeler, Trent Boult, Ish Sodhi.
What am I missing with Kitchen? The guy has a batting average in domestic T20 of 20.01 and four half tons. So at that level he score one every 25 bats ( he's obviously a specialist batsman )
Also he's 33.
Can someone please tell me what the fuck he's doing in the Black Caps?
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@mn5 said in Black Caps vs Pakistan Series:
@bovidae said in Black Caps vs Pakistan Series:
Ferguson dropped, KItchen still there (WTF?), and Blundell is the wicketkeeper.
Black Caps Twenty20 squad for Australia:
Kane Williamson (captain), Martin Guptill, Colin Munro, Tom Bruce, Ross Taylor, Anaru Kitchen, Tom Blundell, Colin de Grandhomme, Mitchell Santner, Tim Southee, Seth Rance, Ben Wheeler, Trent Boult, Ish Sodhi.
What am I missing with Kitchen? The guy has a batting average in domestic T20 of 20.01 and four half tons. So at that level he score one every 25 bats ( he's obviously a specialist batsman )
Also he's 33.
Can someone please tell me what the fuck he's doing in the Black Caps?
He's old. Larsen likes selecting old guys.
He's been a good FC and List A player, his T20 selection is strange. Not even had good recent seasons obscured by a bad career record.
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@rapido said in Black Caps vs Pakistan Series:
@mn5 said in Black Caps vs Pakistan Series:
@bovidae said in Black Caps vs Pakistan Series:
Ferguson dropped, KItchen still there (WTF?), and Blundell is the wicketkeeper.
Black Caps Twenty20 squad for Australia:
Kane Williamson (captain), Martin Guptill, Colin Munro, Tom Bruce, Ross Taylor, Anaru Kitchen, Tom Blundell, Colin de Grandhomme, Mitchell Santner, Tim Southee, Seth Rance, Ben Wheeler, Trent Boult, Ish Sodhi.
What am I missing with Kitchen? The guy has a batting average in domestic T20 of 20.01 and four half tons. So at that level he score one every 25 bats ( he's obviously a specialist batsman )
Also he's 33.
Can someone please tell me what the fuck he's doing in the Black Caps?
He's old. Larsen likes selecting old guys.
He's been a good FC and List A player, his T20 selection is strange. Not even had good recent seasons obscured by a bad career record.
It's just odd. Not like his strike rate is incredible either and he's actually even older than Ross Taylor.
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I have no idea what they're doing with Kitchen. Waste of space.
Dropping Ferguson is also really disappointing, he's got good first class numbers and is really starting to find his feet at international level. I want him playing as much as possible to continue his development.
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@no-quarter said in Black Caps vs Pakistan Series:
I have no idea what they're doing with Kitchen. Waste of space.
Dropping Ferguson is also really disappointing, he's got good first class numbers and is really starting to find his feet at international level. I want him playing as much as possible to continue his development.
We've had periods in the past where we've had to select some pretty damn ordinary players ( far too many to name ) but in the era we're in I expect every player called up to either be extremely young and promising or have an excellent domestic record. Kitchen ticks neither of these boxes.
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@mn5 said in Black Caps vs Pakistan Series:
It's just odd. Not like his strike rate is incredible either and he's actually even older than Ross Taylor.
Who is one of our best batsmen ever and doesn't get selected in the T20 team in spite of being able to up a strike rate better than the captain.
Ross seemed to get a rough decision yesterday as well, just when he was about to save the day (I don't have any pictures of white knights handy). I think the snicko "could have been anything" as we have heard before from Mr Wrong (apologies that is Llong and it was a hotspot) but my grudges will remain. -
I'll tell you all a little story. Larsen was in Hamilton for the ND-Otago T20 game on Dec 23 to watch a particular player. That player was obviously Kitchen as he was named in the NZ T20 squad the following day.
Kitchen's match stats were 3-0-38-1 and 2 (5) batting at 5.
Who the hell knows what Larsen saw in that game to convince him KItchen was of international quality.
Oh, as a comparison Devcich got 42 (21) and 3-0-12-4 in the same match.
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Moving forward, Kane shouldn't be there. Rest him from the T20 squad and let him focus on his two better formats. Taylor should bat at 3 seeing as they're now happy with him and he's hardly going to burn out playing a handful of T20s in the twilight of his career so let the guy play. Bruce appears to have a future and maybe they should play Nicholls and give him the gloves. That's the top 5 sorted including a keeper and a bowling option in Munro. CDGH is a lock and Anderson also comes in to create a potentially devastating middle order. I don't think Santner has the batting to be at 8 in this format and I want another hitter there so I'd pick Wheeler but he'd need to take the new ball also and do a job as he's followed by - in no particular order -
Santner, Sodhi and one strike bowler in Boult, Southee or Henry. At a pinch you could bat Henry at 8 as he's able to hit a long ball, and play Boult or Southee as well. I think an XI along those lines is well balanced and bats really deep with plenty of bowling. -
My team would be
Munro
Guptill
Williamson
Bruce
Taylor
Seifert
Dr Grandehomme
Santner
Sodhi
Boult
SoutheeAnderson to replace Bruce when fit.
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@baron-silas-greenback said in Black Caps vs Pakistan Series:
Anderson to replace Bruce when fit.
So Bruce’s place is secure then!
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@shark said in Black Caps vs Pakistan Series:
Moving forward, Kane shouldn't be there. Rest him from the T20 squad and let him focus on his two better formats. Taylor should bat at 3 seeing as they're now happy with him and he's hardly going to burn out playing a handful of T20s in the twilight of his career so let the guy play. Bruce appears to have a future and maybe they should play Nicholls and give him the gloves. That's the top 5 sorted including a keeper and a bowling option in Munro. CDGH is a lock and Anderson also comes in to create a potentially devastating middle order. I don't think Santner has the batting to be at 8 in this format and I want another hitter there so I'd pick Wheeler but he'd need to take the new ball also and do a job as he's followed by - in no particular order -
Santner, Sodhi and one strike bowler in Boult, Southee or Henry. At a pinch you could bat Henry at 8 as he's able to hit a long ball, and play Boult or Southee as well. I think an XI along those lines is well balanced and bats really deep with plenty of bowling.Since when is Taylor in the twilight of his career?
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@shark Don't think Henry is part of the T20 equation - he struggles to bowl at the death in ODIs because consistent line and length is predictable and eminently sloggable.
I think Santner's got more to offer with the bat than he's shown so far. It's a bit of a thankless task batting at 7/8 in a T20 because you're often going to come in and have to face about five balls and swing away. You can do a good job by scoring 12 runs, but no-one's going to remember it.
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Keeping our powder dry for the Aussie and Poms aye....
A few concerning aspects with selections and execution of a game plan. We looked a little lost out there which is surprising given over the last couple of years we have played pretty assured.
Looking forward to the upcoming series.
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@mn5 said in Black Caps vs Pakistan Series:
@shark said in Black Caps vs Pakistan Series:
Moving forward, Kane shouldn't be there. Rest him from the T20 squad and let him focus on his two better formats. Taylor should bat at 3 seeing as they're now happy with him and he's hardly going to burn out playing a handful of T20s in the twilight of his career so let the guy play. Bruce appears to have a future and maybe they should play Nicholls and give him the gloves. That's the top 5 sorted including a keeper and a bowling option in Munro. CDGH is a lock and Anderson also comes in to create a potentially devastating middle order. I don't think Santner has the batting to be at 8 in this format and I want another hitter there so I'd pick Wheeler but he'd need to take the new ball also and do a job as he's followed by - in no particular order -
Santner, Sodhi and one strike bowler in Boult, Southee or Henry. At a pinch you could bat Henry at 8 as he's able to hit a long ball, and play Boult or Southee as well. I think an XI along those lines is well balanced and bats really deep with plenty of bowling.Since when is Taylor in the twilight of his career?
He's 34 in March. Since when is that not the twilight period of a NZ batsman's career??
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@chris-b said in Black Caps vs Pakistan Series:
@shark Don't think Henry is part of the T20 equation - he struggles to bowl at the death in ODIs because consistent line and length is predictable and eminently sloggable.
I think Santner's got more to offer with the bat than he's shown so far. It's a bit of a thankless task batting at 7/8 in a T20 because you're often going to come in and have to face about five balls and swing away. You can do a good job by scoring 12 runs, but no-one's going to remember it.
You make a good point re Henry. But I still like his strike at the top of the innings.
You won't away me on Santner though. He's a really, really good ODI player because both his skillsets suit the pace of that format but in T20 his batting is no good and in tests his bowling is almost purely about containment.
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@shark said in Black Caps vs Pakistan Series:
@mn5 said in Black Caps vs Pakistan Series:
@shark said in Black Caps vs Pakistan Series:
Moving forward, Kane shouldn't be there. Rest him from the T20 squad and let him focus on his two better formats. Taylor should bat at 3 seeing as they're now happy with him and he's hardly going to burn out playing a handful of T20s in the twilight of his career so let the guy play. Bruce appears to have a future and maybe they should play Nicholls and give him the gloves. That's the top 5 sorted including a keeper and a bowling option in Munro. CDGH is a lock and Anderson also comes in to create a potentially devastating middle order. I don't think Santner has the batting to be at 8 in this format and I want another hitter there so I'd pick Wheeler but he'd need to take the new ball also and do a job as he's followed by - in no particular order -
Santner, Sodhi and one strike bowler in Boult, Southee or Henry. At a pinch you could bat Henry at 8 as he's able to hit a long ball, and play Boult or Southee as well. I think an XI along those lines is well balanced and bats really deep with plenty of bowling.Since when is Taylor in the twilight of his career?
He's 34 in March. Since when is that not the twilight period of a NZ batsman's career??
Not sure how him being a 'NZ' batsman is relevant? Loads of international players have retired quite a bit older than he is currently and it's not like he plays heaps compared to others. ( not his fault of course )
The BCs have just picked someone to debut at virtually the same age. Taylor could do another 4-5 years if he wanted to. Let's not forget he has a few goals that are in reach ( 50 plus test average, 20 test hundies, most test runs for BC etc )
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@shark said in Black Caps vs Pakistan Series:
You won't away me on Santner though. He's a really, really good ODI player because both his skillsets suit the pace of that format but in T20 his batting is no good and in tests his bowling is almost purely about containment.
In T20, if we're going to win, Santner should never have to do much more than make a small cameo with the bat.
In tests, I heard Jeremy Coney making an interesting assessment of our spinners. He said the guy we should pick should be the guy who is most capable of spinning us to victory on a Day 5 pitch.
His assessment was that that man is Todd Astle!
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@chris-b said in Black Caps vs Pakistan Series:
@shark said in Black Caps vs Pakistan Series:
You won't away me on Santner though. He's a really, really good ODI player because both his skillsets suit the pace of that format but in T20 his batting is no good and in tests his bowling is almost purely about containment.
In T20, if we're going to win, Santner should never have to do much more than make a small cameo with the bat.
In tests, I heard Jeremy Coney making an interesting assessment of our spinners. He said the guy we should pick should be the guy who is most capable of spinning us to victory on a Day 5 pitch.
His assessment was that that man is Todd Astle!
How many 'day 5 pitches' are there in cricket these days? I think (the usually astute) Coney is thinking of the old days.
Unless you have a player that can bamboozle with spin you are best to select the most accurate guy that is going to hold an end while you rotate through the quicks. If the have the ability to tie a batsman up with perfect line and length then better still.
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@crucial Not that many in NZ it seems - but, plenty in the subcontinent, Sharjah and some in the Windies.
If there's really no prospect of wickets for the spinner - wouldn't we be better off just playing another seamer - e.g we could play Boult, Southee, Wagner, Ferguson and de Grandhomme who could sustain a pretty large workload.
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@chris-b said in Black Caps vs Pakistan Series:
@crucial Not that many in NZ it seems - but, plenty in the subcontinent, Sharjah and some in the Windies.
If there's really no prospect of wickets for the spinner - wouldn't we be better off just playing another seamer - e.g we could play Boult, Southee, Wagner, Ferguson and de Grandhomme who could sustain a pretty large workload.
I think we should be looking at Ferguson. Point of difference to the other seamers and has a very good first class record. I feel we are underplaying him at the moment.
