Black Caps v India
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Black Caps v India:
Cantab Stead is pretty determined to pick cantab Henry. Henry has had worse form than Munro.
Wonderful call.
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@Chris-B said in Black Caps v India:
@No-Quarter said in Black Caps v India:
That sums it up. A gentle half volley on leg stump and Santner chips a catch. We've thrown this game away with stupidity.
Mostly Little Kane. What the fuck was he thinking?!!
Neesham's was just a contribution to the "Cricket Fails" video.
We've been very soft as a batting unit in this series.
India have done a fantastic job on Kane in this series. Not fed his scoring shots and blocked up his driving areas - one thing to have a plan, another to implement it and they have so superbly. Kane has become so frustrated he's not thinking clearly, yesterday's shot a prime example. And just when he and Latham had finally got on top.
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@canefan said in Black Caps v India:
@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Black Caps v India:
Cantab Stead is pretty determined to pick cantab Henry. Henry has had worse form than Munro.
Henry is a total pie thrower. He must only be in the mix because Milne and Ferguson aren't fit at the same time
Another absolute expert chiming in.
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I was pleased when India recovered from their early collapse to get through to a total which represented a decent chase, but soon rued those thoughts!
We learnt a little more about a couple of guys last night. Munro is still a Muppet. Nicholls as an opener? Too small a snapshot. CDG? Hmm, a marginal selection. He was shit in both disciplines last night. Henry? Probably has a WC spot sewn up now and possibly at Southee's expense.
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Black Caps v India:
Embarrassingly empty stadium.
More often than not, when you state the obvious you get it right.
As the guys just said on RS, the SI missed out on the entire tour but attendances around the NI have been underwhelming to disgustingly poor.
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@shark said in Black Caps v India:
@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Black Caps v India:
Embarrassingly empty stadium.
More often than not, when you state the obvious you get it right.
As the guys just said on RS, the SI missed out on the entire tour but attendances around the NI have been underwhelming to disgustingly poor.
Really? Thought the first 4 were well attended.
But fucken North Islanders ...
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@shark said in Black Caps v India:
@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Black Caps v India:
Embarrassingly empty stadium.
More often than not, when you state the obvious you get it right.
As the guys just said on RS, the SI missed out on the entire tour but attendances around the NI have been underwhelming to disgustingly poor.
The sellout at Bay Oval was clearly underwhelming...
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@shark said in Black Caps v India:
@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Black Caps v India:
Embarrassingly empty stadium.
More often than not, when you state the obvious you get it right.
As the guys just said on RS, the SI missed out on the entire tour but attendances around the NI have been underwhelming to disgustingly poor.
wow..... You have to laugh.
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Guptill in place of Munro, Lockie in place of CDG - that's a capable Kiwi XI.
Don't go by the results in this series, yes it looks ugly. But other teams are not as formidable as India. I think Kiwis are likely to make semi-final in the WC. Obviously top order needs to make it count - but Guptill, Kane, Ross, I think they can do it more often than not.
Astle is a tempting pick, he can obviously bat. But I think NZ has to pick the leggie that's more likely to get wickets, and Astle looks more of a T20 leggie to me, not a guy who can get that breakthrough against a team that plays spin decent and has a partnership going.
Boult, Henry, Santner, Sodhi, Neesham, Add Lockie or another bowler who you can bank on for 10 quality overs. There's enough batting up top to needlessly pick guys like Munro, CDG. Maybe use Munro against teams with weaker new ball bowlers in a few games in the WC, but not against the quality of Bumrah, Cummins, Rabada, etc.
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@KiwiMurph said in Black Caps v India:
Looks like the Wellington crowd was 13,133.
Woulda looked awesome at the Basin.
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@KiwiMurph said in Black Caps v India:
Looks like the Wellington crowd was 13,133.
A sellout at the Mount was still under 10,000. Although there is still a fair amount of space in the ground - they must be cautious about overcrowding.
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@akan004 said in Black Caps v India:
So the biggest city in NZ with by far and away the largest Indian population doesn't get a ODI. Do these guys not like making money?
NZC had a falling out with Eden Park I believe. Lots of issues, including people that live in the area being absolute fucking killjoys and making it difficult to have events that go past a certain time. But also that it's not a cricket ground. I'm sure other posters can elaborate further but the situation is an absolute farce.
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@No-Quarter said in Black Caps v India:
@akan004 said in Black Caps v India:
So the biggest city in NZ with by far and away the largest Indian population doesn't get a ODI. Do these guys not like making money?
NZC had a falling out with Eden Park I believe. Lots of issues, including people that live in the area being absolute fucking killjoys and making it difficult to have events that go past a certain time. But also that it's not a cricket ground. I'm sure other posters can elaborate further but the situation is an absolute farce.
Fair enough. Wasn't aware of this.
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@KiwiPie said in Black Caps v India:
@Chris-B said in Black Caps v India:
@No-Quarter said in Black Caps v India:
That sums it up. A gentle half volley on leg stump and Santner chips a catch. We've thrown this game away with stupidity.
Mostly Little Kane. What the fuck was he thinking?!!
Neesham's was just a contribution to the "Cricket Fails" video.
We've been very soft as a batting unit in this series.
India have done a fantastic job on Kane in this series. Not fed his scoring shots and blocked up his driving areas - one thing to have a plan, another to implement it and they have so superbly. Kane has become so frustrated he's not thinking clearly, yesterday's shot a prime example. And just when he and Latham had finally got on top.
Dead right.
I said earlier about the importance of that over where we got 10 runs - you could sense Kane was about to bubble over and do something stupid. But, then it seemed like he and Latham had worked things out - just had to keep pushing it around to the 40 over mark and the hitters could bring it home. And then he decided he needed to hit a six...over a fieldsman's head!
No doubting that Matt Henry gets wickets - he's in the top 15 for ODI strike rate of all time! Boult also in the top 20 - both of them fractionally ahead of Shane Bond! Of course strike rate isn't everything - the only New Zealander ahead of them is Corey Anderson.
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@Chris-B for mine, Henry has been significantly better than Southee for a long time. I know he's on the outer now but it's a bit of a travesty that Henry hasn't started more in the past four years - he's getting some very unjustified stick on here due to people remembering him taking tap at the death. Which to me is a bit odd as basically all bowlers take tap at the death - anything less than 10 an over in the final 10 is seen as a failure for batting teams these days.
IMO his record speaks for itself and he and Boult could form a lethal opening combination.
