Black Caps v Australia
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Another gone. Chapman fails again. Why does he keep getting picked?
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@Canes4life said in Black Caps v Australia:
Another gone. Chapman fails again. Why does he keep getting picked?
He's actually quite good, but the pressure created by Santner's promotion is what caused that wicket.
Batting order was all wrong, Phillips should have opened with Young at three. Santner should remain in the mid-lower order where he belongs.
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@Chris-B said in Black Caps v Australia:
Luckily, we've got some reinforcements to call on for the World Cup.
Conway, Ravindra, Williamson, Mitchell, Neesham, Henry, Southee and Tickner!
And boy do we need them.
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@Gunner said in Black Caps v Australia:
@Chris-B said in Black Caps v Australia:
Luckily, we've got some reinforcements to call on for the World Cup.
Conway, Ravindra, Williamson, Mitchell, Neesham, Henry, Southee and Tickner!
And boy do we need them.
You can keep Tickner though.Southee as well.
Seems like our selectors don't know how to select a T20 team, no other team in the world selects 4 number 11 batsmen. T20 is max four full time bowlers and at least two of them need to be able to at least do a bit of batting.
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@LABCAT we need a Doug Bracewell type who can hold a bat.
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Nah I don't buy that at all. I don't think an extra half a batter makes any difference to this performance. Plus we're possibly chasing 200 plus by taking apart the 5th bowler.
The selection issue is we lacked the Kane/Mitchell role who can score 50 off 35-40 while the big hitters fire around them. That was partly due to the injuries keeping Conway, Rachin, Mitchell out of the side who are they guys who can play that role, as well as Young not having settled into that role yet.
I don't think any line up changes fix this performance anyway, we've gone too hard on a pitch where it's tough to score fast when we should have been looking to just score runs off every ball and try to pressure the bowlers into giving up opportunities to score hunting wickets.
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@Canes4life said in Black Caps v Australia:
@LABCAT we need a Doug Bracewell type who can hold a bat.
……and who has less test 50s than pretty much all of the number 11s discussed above
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@Cyclops said in Black Caps v Australia:
Nah I don't buy that at all. I don't think an extra half a batter makes any difference to this performance. Plus we're possibly chasing 200 plus by taking apart the 5th bowler.
The selection issue is we lacked the Kane/Mitchell role who can score 50 off 35-40 while the big hitters fire around them. That was partly due to the injuries keeping Conway, Rachin, Mitchell out of the side who are they guys who can play that role, as well as Young not having settled into that role yet.
I don't think any line up changes fix this performance anyway, we've gone too hard on a pitch where it's tough to score fast when we should have been looking to just score runs off every ball and try to pressure the bowlers into giving up opportunities to score hunting wickets.
Yeah, your probably right. It wouldn't have made much of an outcome to this match.
I still don't think we need to play four fast bowlers who can't bat, Santner should be at 8 and someone like Neesham at 7. The way Sodhi bowled the other night, I doubt bowling 2 each from Phillips and Ravindra could have been much worse.
Neesham's career economy is slightly higher than Milne's but he offers so much more in the batting department, probably wouldn't helped much last night but I would have kept the TV on for at least one more wicket.
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@LABCAT said in Black Caps v Australia:
@Cyclops said in Black Caps v Australia:
Nah I don't buy that at all. I don't think an extra half a batter makes any difference to this performance. Plus we're possibly chasing 200 plus by taking apart the 5th bowler.
The selection issue is we lacked the Kane/Mitchell role who can score 50 off 35-40 while the big hitters fire around them. That was partly due to the injuries keeping Conway, Rachin, Mitchell out of the side who are they guys who can play that role, as well as Young not having settled into that role yet.
I don't think any line up changes fix this performance anyway, we've gone too hard on a pitch where it's tough to score fast when we should have been looking to just score runs off every ball and try to pressure the bowlers into giving up opportunities to score hunting wickets.
Yeah, your probably right. It wouldn't have made much of an outcome to this match.
I still don't think we need to play four fast bowlers who can't bat, Santner should be at 8 and someone like Neesham at 7. The way Sodhi bowled the other night, I doubt bowling 2 each from Phillips and Ravindra could have been much worse.
Neesham's career economy is slightly higher than Milne's but he offers so much more in the batting department, probably wouldn't helped much last night but I would have kept the TV on for at least one more wicket.
Splitting hairs over a bowler who might offer a bit more with the bat is hardly the main issue when the top order shit the bed as much as they did last night. Phillips getting 42 and TRENT BOULT being second highest scorer with 16 are much bigger things to worry about.
I am a fan of Neesh and his ability to clear the fence (despite the fact he hasn’t passed 50 in 72 T20 internationals ) but his nickname should be Irvine with all the pies he dishes up when he bowls.
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@KiwiMurph said in Black Caps v Australia:
@Chris-B said in Black Caps v Australia:
and Tickner
Surely you jest
Suggesting Tickner is Ethan Blackadder levels of ridiculousness
