Black Caps v Pakistan
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@KiwiMurph said in Black Caps v Pakistan:
So are there no prospects around the First Class scene that could replace Santner?
Ajaz Patel is a far better spinner but just has no gametime this season. Santnav is about as penetrative as a spitball against good batsmen or even tailenders who know how to hold a bat. TBH, given the exigencies I'd have played Ajaz just to get him some match fitness anyway. He still offers better bowling at 50% than santnav would on a career day
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@KiwiMurph said in Black Caps v Pakistan:
So are there no prospects around the First Class scene that could replace Santner?
I think we need to be realistic. We currently have the GOAT NZ Batsman, a very good opener and two very good upper middle order batsmen. Our keeper/batsman is arguably our best ever and our pace quartet is our best ever as a unit. ( early days for Jamieson notwithstanding )
Something has to give and spin bowling quality is that something. I just wish the NZ selectors would stop their shoehorning.
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@KiwiMurph said in Black Caps v Pakistan:
So are there no prospects around the First Class scene that could replace Santner?
He's not the first choice spinner. So, obviously Ajaz.
I'm not sure if he's second choice spinner according to selectors (IMO Sommerville, but hes 36), or if he is selected as allrounder only.
There is McConchie. Who is a batting (spinner ) allrounder. He could, might be more solid with bat, but still just 75% of a bowler.
Eventually, getting sooner after the 'A' games. Ravindra as a batsman who can provide spin.
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@MN5 said in Black Caps v Pakistan:
@KiwiMurph said in Black Caps v Pakistan:
So are there no prospects around the First Class scene that could replace Santner?
I think we need to be realistic. We currently have the GOAT NZ Batsman, a very good opener and two very good upper middle order batsmen. Our keeper/batsman is arguably our best ever and our pace quartet is our best ever as a unit. ( early days for Jamieson notwithstanding )
Something has to give and spin bowling quality is that something. I just wish the NZ selectors would stop their shoehorning.
We have 2/3rds of the GOAT trio in Roscoe and Kane. An Opener who could end up being our best ever and allowing for eras is up there with the likes of Sutcliffe and GMT, bowling wise, yeah the current unit is the best I have seen collectively. It'
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@MN5 said in Black Caps v Pakistan:
I think we need to be realistic. We currently have the GOAT NZ Batsman, a very good opener and two very good upper middle order batsmen. Our keeper/batsman is arguably our best ever and our pace quartet is our best ever as a unit. ( early days for Jamieson notwithstanding )
While I'm celebrating being able to watch this curent team, I'm not looking foward to 2 years time when we could have lost Kane, Roscoe, BJ, Boult, Southeee and Wags - it'd be like the post 2015 RWC ABs, but more impacting in terms of missing talent/skills
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@SynicBast said in Black Caps v Pakistan:
@MN5 said in Black Caps v Pakistan:
I think we need to be realistic. We currently have the GOAT NZ Batsman, a very good opener and two very good upper middle order batsmen. Our keeper/batsman is arguably our best ever and our pace quartet is our best ever as a unit. ( early days for Jamieson notwithstanding )
While I'm celebrating being able to watch this curent team, I'm not looking foward to 2 years time when we could have lost Kane, Roscoe, BJ, Boult, Southeee and Wags - it'd be like the post 2015 RWC ABs, but more impacting in terms of missing talent/skills
After Hadlee went ( which unfortunately coincided with me getting into cricket ) the team suffered for years. Also some of the openers we had were atrocious. The two Blairs got test appearances when across the ditch Matthew Hayden couldn't get a game cos Taylor and Slats were in the way. Fuck me the early 90's was a bad time.
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@SynicBast said in Black Caps v Pakistan:
Peronally I'd like to see us start selecting spinners on their bowling and totally eliminate their batting as anything other than a tie breaking criterion between two equally sjkilled bowlers
We normally do, though. Santner 's time in the team is the only time that NZ have had their spinner as the allrounder in my time, and not the best spinner in the country. Well, Harris got a couple of goes as second spinner, actually.
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@Rapido said in Black Caps v Pakistan:
@SynicBast said in Black Caps v Pakistan:
Peronally I'd like to see us start selecting spinners on their bowling and totally eliminate their batting as anything other than a tie breaking criterion between two equally sjkilled bowlers
We normally do, though. Santner 's time in the team is the only time that NZ have had their spinner as the allrounder in my time, and not the best spinner in the country. Well, Harris got a couple of goes as second spinner, actually.
Daniel Vettori just got triggered reading this
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One of the problems that developped in the test team is that I don't think either Kane or McCullum had enough faith in any of the spinners to bowl them enough TBH. In McCullum's case, I don't believe he rated any spinner anyway so whoever got selected was on a hiding to nothing. This was exacerabted by the selection of the likes of santner and craig who arre basically seen - as vettori-lites. And let's be honest here, when was the last time Vettori ran through a test side - if my memory serves me well, it was before his batting became essential to make up for an extremely deficient top order
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@SynicBast said in Black Caps v Pakistan:
One of the problems that developped in the test team is that I don't think either Kane or McCullum had enough faith in any of the spinners to bowl them enough TBH. In McCullum's case, I don't believe he rated any spinner anyway so whoever got selected was on a hiding to nothing. This was exacerabted by the selection of the likes of santner and craig who arre basically seen - as vettori-lites. And let's be honest here, when was the last time Vettori ran through a test side - if my memory serves me well, it was before his batting became essential to make up for an extremely deficient top order
cricinfo confirms you could be right. Looks like he got about a wicket a test in his last few matches which is not good enough.
As you mention his gutsy batting and captaincy made him an absolute champion player ( and this was needed with our diabolical top order ) but it's fair to say the bowling fell away in a big way.
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@MN5 said in Black Caps v Pakistan:
cricinfo confirms you could be right. Looks like he got about a wicket a test in his last few matches which is not good enough.
As you mention his gutsy batting and captaincy made him an absolute champion player ( and this was needed with our diabolical top order ) but it's fair to say the bowling fell away in a big way.
Mind you he had to basically mollycoddle some of the most injury-prone attacks we had - and he was never a big turner - it was the fact he was a left arm orthodox spinner who was very accurate for long periods over 17 years that got him that haul of wickets - he was a much more game-changing bowler when the batsmen were under pressures of time and pacing ie limited over games.
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@SynicBast said in Black Caps v Pakistan:
@MN5 said in Black Caps v Pakistan:
cricinfo confirms you could be right. Looks like he got about a wicket a test in his last few matches which is not good enough.
As you mention his gutsy batting and captaincy made him an absolute champion player ( and this was needed with our diabolical top order ) but it's fair to say the bowling fell away in a big way.
Mind you he had to basically mollycoddle some of the most injury-prone attacks we had - and he was never a big turner - it was the fact he was a left arm orthodox spinner who was very accurate for long periods over 17 years that got him that haul of wickets - he was a much more game-changing bowler when the batsmen were under pressures of time and pacing ie limited over games.
You've summed him up pretty accurately. When you put it that way he sounds limited which maybe he was but he was still considerably better than any who've come since. A genuine NZ great for sure.....and someone we haven't come close to replacing.
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Jamieson continues to impress. I will be very interested to see who he manages bowling on this deck - will he be able to get enough bounce to make things difficult - although it was gratifying to see that he is getting up in pace with each test he plays - started around the 127-133kmh mark, now he tends top start around 135-6 kmh and can sustain it for longer
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@SynicBast said in Black Caps v Pakistan:
Jamieson continues to impress. I will be very interested to see who he manages bowling on this deck - will he be able to get enough bounce to make things difficult - although it was gratifying to see that he is getting up in pace with each test he plays - started around the 127-133kmh mark, now he tends top start around 135-6 kmh and can sustain it for longer
Indeed. All these decent innings can't be a fluke.....and obviously he's made a dream start with the ball in his hands too.
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@MN5 said in Black Caps v Pakistan:
Indeed. All these decent innings can't be a fluke.....and obviously he's made a dream start with the ball in his hands too.
I'm liking that he is tailoring his shots to suit the vconditions - Roscoe said the pitch was a little two paced - so accumulation was paramount - Jamieson looks to have that mental discipline required to be satisfied with accruing runs as available rather than forcing the issue.
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WRT to the spinner selection - I'm still struggling with this from Stead:
*"The toughest squad selection was clearly around the spinner," said coach Gary Stead.
"That basically came down to the balance of the side and with the four-strong pace attack going so nicely we wanted to have a spinning allrounder as an option for that No 7 position."*
A guy that averages 25 (and scored 19 today) is a bowler (who is unlikely to take wickets in NZ).I think that we are living in the past a bit, our top order is so much stronger in NZ (mostly) and our pace bowlers so much fitter that giving them a rest with a spinner isn't really necessary either. So why not an attacking spinner that takes wickets (if one at all)?
