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@Gunner said in Other Cricket 2020:
@shark those are outstanding numbers over a 12 year period. What the fuck does the guy have to do to get some much deserved recognition for what he’s achieved?
You could pick any bowler that has ever played a test and lay claims to why they’re shit and why their stats don’t tell the whole picture.
Jog on pal.
He barely averages under 30, FFS. Open your blinkers: Southee is servicable but he isn't, and never has been, a genuine stike bowler. In 136 bowling innings he's taken five wickets or more just ten times. One ten-for in his entire career. It'd be interesting to see who those hauls were against, and the match results. And that's the good stuff.
The really negative stuff is his batting, which has attracted plenty of attention over the years and has had enough criticism already. I don't need to add to it, suffice to say Blind Freddie knows he's one of the most selfish and careless batsmen NZ has ever seen. Luckily, he's not there for that.
And the real nadir of his career are the various rumours that have followed him around. From his tour behaviour, specifically his reputation as an icorrigible 'swordsman' - by all accounts on par with the kind of behaviour which saw opening batsman Matthew Elliott axed from the Australian team after an Ashes tour in the 90s - to the rumour that he made himself unavailable for the third test in Sydney earlier this year after being told Tom Latham would be the skipper. The former apparently created a division in the team between those who thought his prolific rooting was ok, and those who felt it was wrong or potentially reputationally damaging for the NZ team.
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@SynicBast said in Other Cricket 2020:
@shark Selective incidents can allow one to make a claim that Hadlee was a shit bowler at one period because in one test he took no wickets because Chatfield, Cairns and Coney took all of them. Yes there is a difference in batting quality between top order and tail enders but these days being able to polish off the tail quickly/and or cheaply is a lot harder than it was - Wagner picks up an awful lot of lower order wickets but we don't criticise him for not knocking off the top order in droves more regularly.
Wagner isn't an opening bowler.
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@shark said in Other Cricket 2020:
Wagner isn't an opening bowler.
Wagner's a legend
I feel compelled to post something like this every time the name of one of my all time favourite cricketers comes up. I really wonder if he would have had a run at Test level if he played in SA - I suspect not given their rich depth of talent.
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@shark said in Other Cricket 2020:
@Gunner said in Other Cricket 2020:
@shark those are outstanding numbers over a 12 year period. What the fuck does the guy have to do to get some much deserved recognition for what he’s achieved?
You could pick any bowler that has ever played a test and lay claims to why they’re shit and why their stats don’t tell the whole picture.
Jog on pal.
He barely averages under 30, FFS. Open your blinkers: Southee is servicable but he isn't, and never has been, a genuine stike bowler. In 136 bowling innings he's taken five wickets or more just ten times. One ten-for in his entire career. It'd be interesting to see who those hauls were against, and the match results. And that's the good stuff.
The really negative stuff is his batting, which has attracted plenty of attention over the years and has had enough criticism already. I don't need to add to it, suffice to say Blind Freddie knows he's one of the most selfish and careless batsmen NZ has ever seen. Luckily, he's not there for that.
And the real nadir of his career are the various rumours that have followed him around. From his tour behaviour, specifically his reputation as an icorrigible 'swordsman' - by all accounts on par with the kind of behaviour which saw opening batsman Matthew Elliott axed from the Australian team after an Ashes tour in the 90s - to the rumour that he made himself unavailable for the third test in Sydney earlier this year after being told Tom Latham would be the skipper. The former apparently created a division in the team between those who thought his prolific rooting was ok, and those who felt it was wrong or potentially reputationally damaging for the NZ team.
So we're heaping scorn on players for inappropriate sexual behaviour now ?
Shit, someone better let Shane Warne know his status as a cricketing legend has been revoked.
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@shark said in Other Cricket 2020:
He barely averages under 30, FFS. Open your blinkers: Southee is servicable but he isn't, and never has been, a genuine stike bowler.
He's Simon Doull, basically. Good in swinging conditions, but otherwise middle of the road. Not bad by any stretch, but firmly in the solid journeyman category.
Interestingly, though, only slightly worse than Jimmy Anderson (who has longevity on his side for sure).
https://www.espncricinfo.com/newzealand/content/player/232364.html
https://www.espncricinfo.com/newzealand/content/player/36835.html
https://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/8608.html
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Possibly a nickname/sledge that's been around for ages, but I saw one of the Aussie Facebook cricket pages referring to "Jimmy Clouderson" for the first time last week. Overly harsh, but they take no prisoners across the ditch.
I'm not a noted fan of Southee. But I'm still shaking my head at opening the bowling at the SCG with Henry and CdG in our first ever Test match back there since 1683...
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remember at the start of his career, when Jimmy Anderson was pretty average? It seemed the only guy he got wickets against was us. He got better and better though. His seam release is almost perfect these days, what a swing bowler.
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@mariner4life He's someone who'll be appreciated more when he retires. Prboably the best swing bowler the game has ever seen, both with the duke and kookaburra.
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@African-Monkey said in Other Cricket 2020:
@mariner4life He's someone who'll be appreciated more when he retires. Prboably the best swing bowler the game has ever seen, both with the duke and kookaburra.
I'll take Wasim Akram
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@mariner4life said in Other Cricket 2020:
@African-Monkey said in Other Cricket 2020:
@mariner4life He's someone who'll be appreciated more when he retires. Prboably the best swing bowler the game has ever seen, both with the duke and kookaburra.
I'll take Wasim Akram
Bloody hell, I still have nightmares of sitting on the couch in the mid 90s when NZ were chasing a hundred odd to win and him and Waqar got five each. What a pair they were.
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@MN5 said in Other Cricket 2020:
@mariner4life said in Other Cricket 2020:
@African-Monkey said in Other Cricket 2020:
@mariner4life He's someone who'll be appreciated more when he retires. Prboably the best swing bowler the game has ever seen, both with the duke and kookaburra.
I'll take Wasim Akram
Bloody hell, I still have nightmares of sitting on the couch in the mid 90s when NZ were chasing a hundred odd to win and him and Waqar got five each. What a pair they were.
felt like they came every summer for a while, to get a hundred wickets each.
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@mariner4life said in Other Cricket 2020:
@MN5 said in Other Cricket 2020:
@mariner4life said in Other Cricket 2020:
@African-Monkey said in Other Cricket 2020:
@mariner4life He's someone who'll be appreciated more when he retires. Prboably the best swing bowler the game has ever seen, both with the duke and kookaburra.
I'll take Wasim Akram
Bloody hell, I still have nightmares of sitting on the couch in the mid 90s when NZ were chasing a hundred odd to win and him and Waqar got five each. What a pair they were.
felt like they came every summer for a while, to get a hundred wickets each.
Regularly taking such mighty scalps as Rod Latham, Shane Thomson, Ken Rutherford and the two Blairs.......( MN5 shudders at the state of NZ cricket in the mid 90s )
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@MN5 said in Other Cricket 2020:
@mariner4life said in Other Cricket 2020:
I'll take Wasim Akram
Bloody hell, I still have nightmares of sitting on the couch in the mid 90s when NZ were chasing a hundred odd to win and him and Waqar got five each. What a pair they were.
So how do you think those of us at Seddon Park felt?
Wasim is my favourite fast bowler.
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@mariner4life Yeah, no comeback there, I conveniently forgot about him.
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@African-Monkey said in Other Cricket 2020:
@mariner4life Yeah, no comeback there, I conveniently forgot about him.
most batsmen from the 90s would like to do the same
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@Gunner said in Other Cricket 2020:
@shark said in Other Cricket 2020:
@MN5 Gunner seems to think Southee is beyond reproach. He's not. I'm just balancing the argument.
How is it up there on that high horse?
Good, Tim's Dad.
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@Bovidae said in Other Cricket 2020:
@MN5 said in Other Cricket 2020:
@mariner4life said in Other Cricket 2020:
I'll take Wasim Akram
Bloody hell, I still have nightmares of sitting on the couch in the mid 90s when NZ were chasing a hundred odd to win and him and Waqar got five each. What a pair they were.
So how do you think those of us at Seddon Park felt?
Wasim is my favourite fast bowler.
guaranteed nightmare test for me...i still get queasy about that last innings.
