Black Caps v England
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@MN5 said in Black Caps v England:
@Donsteppa said in Black Caps v England:
@KiwiMurph said in Black Caps v England:
I see Ravindra scored a 100 not out today.
Chuck him in for Bracewell surely.
Very tempting.
With the current balance of the side, if the spinner is batting 8 I'd very happily pick Ish Sodhi. Will be great if Ravindra can get into some consistent top form as well.
He’s played 18 tests in ten years. He’s a stop gap at best.
Outside of John Bracewell and Dan Vettori, lock-in spin options don't easily leap to mind in Black Caps history (and even then Stephen Boock was on the scene for Braces).
Ish's biggest issue is his consistency (and occasionally fielding), but he could still be good for a few years yet. His batting seems to have kicked on.
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@nzzp said in Black Caps v England:
I am still super pissed at Bracewell. We had the chance to rack up another 50, and actually create some scoreboard pressure and time. It could have been the miracle - but a moment of inattention and it's goddamn disaster time.
Still cross.
I don’t blame you. If Kane Williamson did that I’d be pissed off. The fact a bits and pieces player like Bracewell did means I’m fucken furious.
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Hmmm. Getting nervy from an England point of view.
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@Catogrande said in Black Caps v England:
Hmmm. Getting nervy from an England point of view.
And that was said at 3 down.
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@Donsteppa said in Black Caps v England:
Ish's biggest issue is his consistency (and occasionally fielding), but he could still be good for a few years yet. His batting seems to have kicked on.
I was looking at Ish's test batting average earlier. 22.78 with 4 x 50. In comparison, Bracewell has a test average of 20.36.
Anyway back to your regular channel...
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@Bovidae said in Black Caps v England:
@Donsteppa said in Black Caps v England:
Ish's biggest issue is his consistency (and occasionally fielding), but he could still be good for a few years yet. His batting seems to have kicked on.
I was looking at Ish's test batting average earlier. 22.78 with 4 x 50. In comparison, Bracewell has a test average of 20.36.
Anyway back to your regular channel...
A caveat to that , though. I'm really quite unimpressed with Ish's batting in bouncy or NZ conditions. Including watching him at FC level. But ever since his debut back in Bangladesh about a decade ago, I've been quite impressed with his batting (more accurately, his scoring options) v spin in Asia.
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Need to get through this partnership. Anyone got any good reserves jinxes or more bad takes to help the Craps out?
Think we've used up the biggest table turner in the much-berated Bracewell running out their star batter without facing a ball, but there must be other options for us to try.
