Black Caps Tour to Zimbabwe
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<p>If Anderson is your 6th bowler, then his bowling is hardly going to matter. If Anderson is going to bat 5 then he has to basically be our 3rd best middle order batsman in the country. I don't think he is close to that.</p>
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<p>Good 4th seamer is often pretty handy though.</p>
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<p>I'd be surprised if he's too far away from being our best No. 5. His first class record is very similar to Nicholls, who seems to have the inside running at present.</p>
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<p>Good 4th seamer is often pretty handy though.</p>
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<p>I'd be surprised if he's too far away from being our best No. 5. His first class record is very similar to Nicholls, who seems to have the inside running at present.</p>
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<p>However, if we can find someone who can average 40+ as a specialist batsman at number 5, I'll take them every day of the week over a ~32 Anderson.</p>
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<p>I think on pitches where a 4th seamer is handy, a 2nd spinner wouldn't be. But yeah, there is no obvious case for number 5 but Will Young, Popli, Munro, Nicholls, Tome Bruce and maybe even Guptill are all options there.</p> -
<p>someone forgot to tell Zimbabwe the Flag referendum was unsuccessful, or maybe as they dont have them over there, they just figured it was a done deal?</p>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="hydro11" data-cid="600988" data-time="1469689810">
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<p>I think on pitches where a 4th seamer is handy, a 2nd spinner wouldn't be. But yeah, there is no obvious case for number 5 but Will Young, Popli, Munro, Nicholls, Tome Bruce and maybe even Guptill are all options there.</p>
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<p>Good thing about my plan is that any of Anderson, Santner or Neesham could come good as a number five, since any of them is already easily good enough to bat seven and probably six.</p>
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<p>Need to start looking around for Watling's eventual replacement - especially since Ronchi's not got far to run. </p> -
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<p>How old is Watling? Surely we don't need to find a replacement just yet.</p>
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<p>31. We need him to stick around because we don't have deep keeping stocks.</p> -
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<p>How old is Watling? Surely we don't need to find a replacement just yet.</p>
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<p>Just turned 31, so he's hopefully got a couple more years. But, Ronchi is 35 and not done much in the past 12 months.</p>
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<p>Just turned 31, so he's hopefully got a couple more years. But, Ronchi is 35 and not done <strike>much</strike> a fucken thing in the past <strike>12</strike> 18 months.</p>
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<p>Never too soon to start looking. :)</p>
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<p>You're far too nice sometimes Chris B.</p> -
The pitch curator looks like a fun guy to hang out with.
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="MN5" data-cid="601012" data-time="1469692615">
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<p>You're far too nice sometimes Chris B.</p>
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<p>Incredibly harsh!</p>
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<p>Ronchi has a test average of 60 in that period!</p>
