NZ All Time XI
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@no-quarter said in NZ All Time Test XI:
Also, I love that we've had this exact discussion and these exact same arguments nearly every year but nobody gives a fuck and everyone just piles in. This is what makes the Fern great. Awesome thread lads.
I appreciate that @MN5 always volunteers to be the guy to get everything wrong in these threads. That is a job that is harder than it looks.
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@baron-silas-greenback said in NZ All Time Test XI:
@no-quarter said in NZ All Time Test XI:
Also, I love that we've had this exact discussion and these exact same arguments nearly every year but nobody gives a fuck and everyone just piles in. This is what makes the Fern great. Awesome thread lads.
I appreciate that @MN5 always volunteers to be the guy to get everything wrong in these threads. That is a job that is harder than it looks.
Your trolling game is about as strong as Heineken 0%
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@mn5 said in NZ All Time Test XI:
@baron-silas-greenback said in NZ All Time Test XI:
@no-quarter said in NZ All Time Test XI:
Also, I love that we've had this exact discussion and these exact same arguments nearly every year but nobody gives a fuck and everyone just piles in. This is what makes the Fern great. Awesome thread lads.
I appreciate that @MN5 always volunteers to be the guy to get everything wrong in these threads. That is a job that is harder than it looks.
Your trolling game is about as strong as Heineken 0%
That post needed a warning MN5.
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@raznomore said in NZ All Time Test XI:
Don't care so long as Paddles & Bond open the bowling. We may not need to even bat..
Ohh we’ll always need to bat again after one of our trademark collapses. I don’t care who’s in the team and what era, a collapse is in Blackcap DNA 🙂
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@mn5 said in NZ All Time Test XI:
@kiwipie said in NZ All Time Test XI:
@synicbast said in NZ All Time Test XI:
Kane just broke the 900 point barrier on the ICC rankings...absofuckinglutely sensational.
Places him 27th on the list of batsmen ordered by their highest ever ranking. Top 5 is Bradman, Smith, Hutton, Ponting, Hobbs. Immediately after KW are Lara, Pietersen, Amla, Chanderpaul, Clarke, Tendulkar, Hammond, Flower, S Waugh, Dravid which is a pretty fine 9 to be above you have to admit. Now all we need is a double hundred from him this weekend and he can go above Barrington, Headley, Gavaskar, Compton, Root ....
Shit, some brilliant names there....Off the top of my head no Richards, Chappell, Kallis, Sobers, Border....in any case it's amazing seeing one of our boys on the list.
Three Aussies and two Poms in the top 5. You forget how good Ponting was at his peak but without being churlish I'd argue he is not a guaranteed pick for an all time Australian XI
Ponting makes my Aussie all-time XI every day of the week. Couldn’t stand the guy but a phenomenal batsman that had arrogance and will to win since he was hitting balls as a teenager in the CA academy.
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@act-crusader said in NZ All Time Test XI:
@raznomore said in NZ All Time Test XI:
Don't care so long as Paddles & Bond open the bowling. We may not need to even bat..
Ohh we’ll always need to bat again after one of our trademark collapses. I don’t care who’s in the team and what era, a collapse is in Blackcap DNA 🙂
Better put BJ and Coney in there because they bailed us out enough times
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@act-crusader said in NZ All Time Test XI:
Ponting makes my Aussie all-time XI every day of the week. Couldn’t stand the guy but a phenomenal batsman that had arrogance and will to win since he was hitting balls as a teenager in the CA academy.
Makes mine too. Read his autobiography, comes across as much less of a fluffbunny than he seemed as a player. Certainly does a lot of behind the scenes charity and disadvantaged groups work (I saw this at first hand in my job) and for all his churlishness when captaining Australia, he always fronted up after a loss. No sandpaper antics from him, not with his transparent love of the game.
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@synicbast yeah I’ve met him a couple of times through work since he’s retired and he seems like a decent guy that doesn’t mind having a laugh or chat.
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If I can just mention keepers re dismissals...
Keepers don't create dismissals. Bowlers do. Keepers just take catches ... mostly.
Stumpings are awesome, and are more a measure of how good a keeper you are than overall dismissals, most of which are catches.
But you're not going to get them unless you have spinners on spinners' decks.
My measure as to how well I kept was how tidy I was (ie no dropsies to routine deliveries), and no byes, absolutely no byes.
Having said all that Smithy was my hero growing up (along with SRH & MDC). One of my favourite memories was his ton v England at Eden Park to ensure we drew and won the series in 1984.
Especially being a keeper myself back in those days.
And a huge fan of BMac recently. His triple hundy and his various doubles.
But I've just got to go with Watling as my keeper. Super tidy and just a rock in that lower middle ordsr.
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@booboo said in NZ All Time Test XI:
My measure as to how well I kept was how tidy I was (ie no dropsies to routine deliveries), and no byes, absolutely no byes.
I'm not sure you can use byes as a measure of the ability of a keeper with the umpires interpretation of a bye. For example, a fast bowler bowls a short-pitched delivery that goes over the batsmen's head and is also too high for the keeper to catch. They are called byes when they should be called wides.
I agree with conceding byes to spinners but the scorecard doesn't make that distinction.
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@act-crusader said in NZ All Time Test XI:
@mn5 said in NZ All Time Test XI:
@kiwipie said in NZ All Time Test XI:
@synicbast said in NZ All Time Test XI:
Kane just broke the 900 point barrier on the ICC rankings...absofuckinglutely sensational.
Places him 27th on the list of batsmen ordered by their highest ever ranking. Top 5 is Bradman, Smith, Hutton, Ponting, Hobbs. Immediately after KW are Lara, Pietersen, Amla, Chanderpaul, Clarke, Tendulkar, Hammond, Flower, S Waugh, Dravid which is a pretty fine 9 to be above you have to admit. Now all we need is a double hundred from him this weekend and he can go above Barrington, Headley, Gavaskar, Compton, Root ....
Shit, some brilliant names there....Off the top of my head no Richards, Chappell, Kallis, Sobers, Border....in any case it's amazing seeing one of our boys on the list.
Three Aussies and two Poms in the top 5. You forget how good Ponting was at his peak but without being churlish I'd argue he is not a guaranteed pick for an all time Australian XI
Ponting makes my Aussie all-time XI every day of the week. Couldn’t stand the guy but a phenomenal batsman that had arrogance and will to win since he was hitting balls as a teenager in the CA academy.
I said I'd argue and to me he's not 100% locked in. When you consider Bradman is a certainty for 3 or 4 then he's competing with the likes of Greg Chappell, Steve Waugh, Border, Doug Walters, Smith.....some of those legends have to miss out.....
Guys as good as Clarke, Hussey, M Waugh, Langer, Taylor, Slats, Boon etc have absolutely no chance which is scary.
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@booboo Watling's batting record as a keeper is the reverse of Baz, who only really scored big runs after giving up the gloves, though back problems played a part there.
Myself a former keeper as well I'm pretty amazed by the way Watling digs in, as keeping is physically exhausting. To have the levels of concentration he shows is pretty amazing, must be super fit.
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@no-quarter said in NZ All Time Test XI:
@booboo Watling's batting record as a keeper is the reverse of Baz, who only really scored big runs after giving up the gloves, though back problems played a part there.
Myself a former keeper as well I'm pretty amazed by the way Watling digs in, as keeping is physically exhausting. To have the levels of concentration he shows is pretty amazing, must be super fit.
Do you reckon the age of the awesome batsman who happens to keep ( started with Alec Stewart and continued with Gilly, Flower and Sangakara ) has meant a decline in keeping quality?
I remember Ian Smith being brilliant but that might be rose tinted memories.
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@mariner4life said in NZ All Time Test XI:
there were super passionate arguments for Flem, Dempster, Wright, Congdon, Rig and my personal favourite Andrew Jones for that last spot.
Congdon was a true amateur, wasn't he?
Remember chatting to an old-timer at Lord's a few years ago (ex-England player) who opined that Congdon would be one of the true greats of his era if he'd gone professional
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@mn5 said in NZ All Time Test XI:
I remember Ian Smith being brilliant but that might be rose tinted memories.
He WAS bloody good. Still think the mid-80's team was the best we've had.
Fleming's '99 team was pretty special and the current Black Caps look seriously good - could well become the best ever.
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@mn5 said in NZ All Time Test XI:
@no-quarter said in NZ All Time Test XI:
@booboo Watling's batting record as a keeper is the reverse of Baz, who only really scored big runs after giving up the gloves, though back problems played a part there.
Myself a former keeper as well I'm pretty amazed by the way Watling digs in, as keeping is physically exhausting. To have the levels of concentration he shows is pretty amazing, must be super fit.
Do you reckon the age of the awesome batsman who happens to keep ( started with Alec Stewart and continued with Gilly, Flower and Sangakara ) has meant a decline in keeping quality?
I remember Ian Smith being brilliant but that might be rose tinted memories.
There is an expectation that keepers are all-rounders today, so those that are purely keepers are probably not making the pro teams anymore.
I don't have any clear memories of watching Smith, but I reckon Baz in his prime was one of the best keepers I've ever seen. Unbelievably athletic, some of the catches he took wouldn't even go down as chances for other less mobile keepers.
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Liked Ponting. Great player, hard bastard but never a cheat.
Bought his book as well. Found it as boring as hell, sadly.
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@mn5 Absolutely you could argue he wouldn't make it - Wisden chose Bradman Greg Chappell and Border from the following list of contenders:
Don Bradman, Allan Border, Steve Waugh, Greg Chappell, Ricky Ponting, Stan McCabe, David Boon, Charles Macartney,
Neil Harvey, Mark Waugh.Personally I think Pontings achievements post 2009 when this exercise was conducted puts him ahead of Border (who I wouldn't have had anyway - I'd have gone Harvey or McCabe)
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@victor-meldrew said in NZ All Time Test XI:
Liked Ponting. Great player, hard bastard but never a cheat.
Bought his book as well. Found it as boring as hell, sadly.
Ponting and his two predecessors were some of my absolute favourite cricketers. Real 'wish they were Black Caps' type guys.
Clarke was a cock though
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@mn5 said in NZ All Time Test XI:
@act-crusader said in NZ All Time Test XI:
@mn5 said in NZ All Time Test XI:
@kiwipie said in NZ All Time Test XI:
@synicbast said in NZ All Time Test XI:
Kane just broke the 900 point barrier on the ICC rankings...absofuckinglutely sensational.
Places him 27th on the list of batsmen ordered by their highest ever ranking. Top 5 is Bradman, Smith, Hutton, Ponting, Hobbs. Immediately after KW are Lara, Pietersen, Amla, Chanderpaul, Clarke, Tendulkar, Hammond, Flower, S Waugh, Dravid which is a pretty fine 9 to be above you have to admit. Now all we need is a double hundred from him this weekend and he can go above Barrington, Headley, Gavaskar, Compton, Root ....
Shit, some brilliant names there....Off the top of my head no Richards, Chappell, Kallis, Sobers, Border....in any case it's amazing seeing one of our boys on the list.
Three Aussies and two Poms in the top 5. You forget how good Ponting was at his peak but without being churlish I'd argue he is not a guaranteed pick for an all time Australian XI
Ponting makes my Aussie all-time XI every day of the week. Couldn’t stand the guy but a phenomenal batsman that had arrogance and will to win since he was hitting balls as a teenager in the CA academy.
I said I'd argue and to me he's not 100% locked in. When you consider Bradman is a certainty for 3 or 4 then he's competing with the likes of Greg Chappell, Steve Waugh, Border, Doug Walters, Smith.....some of those legends have to miss out.....
Doug Walters? Nowhere near sorry.
