Cricket: NZ vs England
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We have 6 guys averaging 40+ with the bat and 3 less than 30 with the ball.
Quite often a batsman will start off well and their average slowly declines but even CdG has played 28 innings - next lowest is Nicholls with 42.
The three bowlers have 693 wickets between them!!!
Our two "passengers" are Santner and Raval - hardly surprising as openers and spinners are our biggest traditional weaknesses but look at the match Santner had and Raval has the 7th best average of any Kiwi who has opened in 20+ innings and is our 11th highest scorer as an opener He also almost invariably succeeds in the main job of an opener - he sees off the new ball and thus makes it easier for the classy batsmen who follow.
We have won 32 tests this decade. It took us until March 1994 to record our 32nd test victory in our history!!!!!
Two CWC Finals as well. I never imagined we could have it so good. Hadlee's 17 year career only encompassed 22 victories - Fleming had 31 in 14 years
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@dogmeat said in Cricket: NZ vs England:
We have 6 guys averaging 40+ with the bat and 3 less than 30 with the ball.
Quite often a batsman will start off well and their average slowly declines but even CdG has played 28 innings - next lowest is Nicholls with 42.
The three bowlers have 693 wickets between them!!!
Our two "passengers" are Santner and Raval - hardly surprising as openers and spinners are our biggest traditional weaknesses but look at the match Santner had and Raval has the 7th best average of any Kiwi who has opened in 20+ innings and is our 11th highest scorer as an opener He also almost invariably succeeds in the main job of an opener - he sees off the new ball and thus makes it easier for the classy batsmen who follow.
We have won 32 tests this decade. It took us until March 1994 to record our 32nd test victory in our history!!!!!
Two CWC Finals as well. I never imagined we could have it so good. Hadlee's 17 year career only encompassed 22 victories - Fleming had 31 in 14 years
Raval is the kind of opener that would be singled out and dropped in past black cap team for 'not scoring fast enough' or 'creating pressure' while we ignore the fact that our middle order might look great but are wildly inconsistent.
In this team Kane and Ross protect Raval by being consistent enough to take advantage of the hard graft Raval does. He's the kind of role player that does the dirty work most don't really notice but is key to our wider success. I'm sure both Ross and Kane will average more with Raval and Latham opening.
He remains the tempting candidate to drop for the up and comers (Will Young), but I hope we resist the temptation to slot a promising middle order bat in as a makeshift opener. If an opener is bashing down the door by all means try him out, but we need to recognise that being a test opener requires a specific set of skills that not all batsmen will posses.
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List of all time 3rd/4th seamers:
Wagner really is exceptional.
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@Rapido said in Cricket: NZ vs England:
List of all time 3rd/4th seamers:
Wagner really is exceptional.
That's fantastic. While Kallis 'may' be a bit too far to topple, he should easily get into second place.
How old is Wagner?
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@Hooroo said in Cricket: NZ vs England:
@Rapido said in Cricket: NZ vs England:
List of all time 3rd/4th seamers:
Wagner really is exceptional.
That's fantastic. While Kallis 'may' be a bit too far to topple, he should easily get into second place.
How old is Wagner?
Funny how his list of "Major Teams" includes Otago but excludes ND. Little ole ND not worth mentioning.
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@Hooroo said in Cricket: NZ vs England:
@Hooroo said in Cricket: NZ vs England:
@Rapido said in Cricket: NZ vs England:
List of all time 3rd/4th seamers:
Wagner really is exceptional.
That's fantastic. While Kallis 'may' be a bit too far to topple, he should easily get into second place.
How old is Wagner?
Funny how his list of "Major Teams" includes Otago but excludes ND. Little ole ND not worth mentioning.
Gulp. His is a hard role, and may find he suddenly so'oialos at any moment given his age.
I think his could be the hardest role to replace.
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@Hooroo said in Cricket: NZ vs England:
@Hooroo said in Cricket: NZ vs England:
@Rapido said in Cricket: NZ vs England:
List of all time 3rd/4th seamers:
Wagner really is exceptional.
That's fantastic. While Kallis 'may' be a bit too far to topple, he should easily get into second place.
How old is Wagner?
Funny how his list of "Major Teams" includes Otago but excludes ND. Little ole ND not worth mentioning.
NORTHERN DISTRICTS IS NEW ZEALAND CRICKET
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Watling is so awesome at getting the best out of others, even Reason was inspired to write a decent article.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/opinion/117702899/mark-reason-the-true-brilliance-of-bj-watling
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@Rapido said in Cricket: NZ vs England:
So much praise we will now crash and burn in Hamilton.
Even I will have to bear some responsibility for the upcoming comeuppance, for my best all-time 3rd seamer link.
we are all so scarred by the past
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@mariner4life said in Cricket: NZ vs England:
@Rapido said in Cricket: NZ vs England:
So much praise we will now crash and burn in Hamilton.
Even I will have to bear some responsibility for the upcoming comeuppance, for my best all-time 3rd seamer link.
we are all so scarred by the past
Yeah I was thinking that after reading @No-Quarter post. It's really hard to adjust the mindset that we're actually a good side now and not the much maligned black craps.
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@Bones said in Cricket: NZ vs England:
@mariner4life said in Cricket: NZ vs England:
@Rapido said in Cricket: NZ vs England:
So much praise we will now crash and burn in Hamilton.
Even I will have to bear some responsibility for the upcoming comeuppance, for my best all-time 3rd seamer link.
we are all so scarred by the past
Yeah I was thinking that after reading @No-Quarter post. It's really hard to adjust the mindset that we're actually a good side now and not the much maligned black craps.
despite at least 4 years of continued excellence in nearly all forms, when the poms cranked on 350, and we lost a couple early, in my mind we were conceding a first innings lead of 150.
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@mariner4life and scoring circa 80 in the second.
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@Cyclops said in Cricket: NZ vs England:
Been reading some commentary about Joe Root and how the captaincy is dragging him down brought up a fun question about best batsmen to never captain a side.
For NZ who would our best batsman who never captained the team be? Captain is defined as being the captain at the toss. So guys who only captained a couple of games when the regular captain was injured are counted.
I'm struggling to come up with names for the list. In recent times the only guys that come to mind are Astle and Richardson. Styris if we're counting ODIs.
Some of the older names might get in though. I don't think Donnelly, Dempster, Sutcliffe or Turner ever captained a test.
If he continues his current trajectory Tom Latham could enter the conversation in time
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@mariner4life said in Cricket: NZ vs England:
@Hooroo said in Cricket: NZ vs England:
@Hooroo said in Cricket: NZ vs England:
@Rapido said in Cricket: NZ vs England:
List of all time 3rd/4th seamers:
Wagner really is exceptional.
That's fantastic. While Kallis 'may' be a bit too far to topple, he should easily get into second place.
How old is Wagner?
Funny how his list of "Major Teams" includes Otago but excludes ND. Little ole ND not worth mentioning.
NORTHERN DISTRICTS IS NEW ZEALAND CRICKET
Don’t.Tell.BSG!! Christ knows he’ll have to don his white armour!!!
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@Rapido said in Cricket: NZ vs England:
Gulp. His is a hard role, and may find he suddenly so'oialos at any moment given his age
When it happens in your early 20's it's called getting Reiko'd.
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@canefan said in Cricket: NZ vs England:
@Cyclops said in Cricket: NZ vs England:
Been reading some commentary about Joe Root and how the captaincy is dragging him down brought up a fun question about best batsmen to never captain a side.
For NZ who would our best batsman who never captained the team be? Captain is defined as being the captain at the toss. So guys who only captained a couple of games when the regular captain was injured are counted.
I'm struggling to come up with names for the list. In recent times the only guys that come to mind are Astle and Richardson. Styris if we're counting ODIs.
Some of the older names might get in though. I don't think Donnelly, Dempster, Sutcliffe or Turner ever captained a test.
If he continues his current trajectory Tom Latham could enter the conversation in time
Yes, although he will likely captain the black caps at some point too.
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