Cricket: NZ vs England
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Looking at the rankings has made me realise that despite our CWC performances, short form cricket is actually our weaker suit by a fair margin. Outside of Kane and Ross, none of our batsmen rank particularly highly, whereas in tests we have Latham, Nicholls and Watling all in the top twenty. And at this point Kane and Ross are both much stronger performers in the longer format (more so Ross than Kane, who is world class in both).
Our bowling is relatively even, where the loss of Wagner is offset by the presence of Ferguson.
@Cyclops agree, particularly at opener and 5. Raval and Nicholls are both solid test players, but we've really struggled to find an opener to replace BMac and a decent #5 in ODIs. That said, the quality of Williamson and Taylor has masked that a bit and our middle order hitters can win ODIs with a quick 100 between them, which is usually less useful in tests.
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@Machpants I almost went there ... never gets old.
Anyway, the team is as Daryl Mitchell and Matt Henry coming in for TB and CDG.
I'd still have taken Lockie
@nzzp said in Cricket: NZ vs England:
@Machpants I almost went there ... never gets old.
Anyway, the team is as Daryl Mitchell and Matt Henry coming in for TB and CDG.
I'd still have taken Lockie
Sames
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England drop Leach for Chris Woakes, they now have 5 seamers. Strengthens their batting too. Pope will keep. This is his fifth first class game keeping wicket.
I probably would have preferred Ferg over Henry, but I get why Henry is preferred. Ferg has never lead a black caps attack and he's best eased in to test cricket as a 3/4 option. That said, Ferg is likely to be very effective in Aus.
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Kane better step up a bit, or he'll be carrying the drinks in Australia. We're too good to just be carrying people these days
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@Donsteppa said in Cricket: NZ vs England:
Kumar is the sort of umpire DRS was made for.
Absolutely. I would love to see his getting it right/wrong ratio
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Black Caps should be reasonably happy getting to 86/2 at lunch, after being put in and losing 2 early wickets.
Hopefully one or both of these two go on and make a big score.@Gunner said in Cricket: NZ vs England:
Black Caps should be reasonably happy getting to 86/2 at lunch, after being put in and losing 2 early wickets.
Hopefully one or both of these two go on and make a big score.Kane's was a really nice piece of bowling.
Jeet, on the other hand, will be kicking himself. He started driving at the ball that over, and just gave up on occupying. Tell ya what, I'd take 50/1 at lunch over 82/2 any day. So frustrating.
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I know many don't like him, but really neat interview with Ian Smith just on sky UK, was it on in NZ too?
@Bones said in Cricket: NZ vs England:
I know many don't like him, but really neat interview with Ian Smith just on sky UK, was it on in NZ too?
Don’t understand why people wouldn’t like Smithy, he’s a brilliant, knowledgeable commentator. I always enjoy listening to him.
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@Bones said in Cricket: NZ vs England:
I know many don't like him, but really neat interview with Ian Smith just on sky UK, was it on in NZ too?
Don’t understand why people wouldn’t like Smithy, he’s a brilliant, knowledgeable commentator. I always enjoy listening to him.
@Gunner said in Cricket: NZ vs England:
@Bones said in Cricket: NZ vs England:
I know many don't like him, but really neat interview with Ian Smith just on sky UK, was it on in NZ too?
Don’t understand why people wouldn’t like Smithy, he’s a brilliant, knowledgeable commentator. I always enjoy listening to him.
Sames!!
My favourite trio so far is Smithy, Bumble and Doull
