Black Caps - Bangladesh tour 2021

Donsteppa

What is with our outfielders missing out on wickets and conceding fours and sixes by fielding too far in from the rope? Careless AF

LABCAT

Seemers showing how stupid our selectors are for not sending more spinners.

Canes4life

Lol why aren’t our fielders on the boundary? Some seriously sloppy cricket in this game. Could have saved a tone of runs.

Donsteppa

Bennett’s Pies. Another poor selection.

JK

Alright then….here we go with the batting bit

Donsteppa

Both openers looked like they were just trying to swat and hope before a good one got their number.

LABCAT

Latham has batted brilliantly but unfortunately didn't have any support from the rest of the team.

canefan

Latham trying to will them over the line. We come up short.

LABCAT

Being only 5 wickets down is a bit disappointing, suggests the batters were a bit too cautious. Could have a least sent Bracewell up the order to try a fluke a few boundaries.

I know this is essentially our A team but the selections are all wrong. Blundell shouldn't be opening and we shouldn't be playing three seamers (not much choice but could at have picked Kuggeleijn who can hold a bat).

Godder

@labcat Based on earlier posts about 100 being a good score in Bangladesh, I don't know that we can really conclude that the selections were all wrong or anything else about the game plan. Maybe Bangladesh are just hard at home, and we don't have our best team available, so we lost.

Rapido

Not bad.

Although that might be our best game of the series.

Fielding sloppy, though.

Much better pitch. But, even so, too much seam. Need minimum 3 and a half spinners. But hands are tied now.

ARHS

Surely Kuggeleijn plays next time. Weird use of Sears. Need a boundary hitter firing in top order too. Maybe Finn Allen comes in.

Donsteppa

Bring Allen in for one of the seamers. Time for CDG to step up with the ball (and with the bat and in the field, for that matter).

canefan

@donsteppa said in Black Caps vs Bangladesh:

Bring Allen in for one of the seamers. Time for CDG to step up with the ball (and with the bat and in the field, for that matter).

Colin has been poor. The consummate flat track bully

LABCAT

@godder said in Black Caps vs Bangladesh:

@labcat Based on earlier posts about 100 being a good score in Bangladesh, I don't know that we can really conclude that the selections were all wrong or anything else about the game plan. Maybe Bangladesh are just hard at home, and we don't have our best team available, so we lost.

Blundell is not an opener in T20, Worker (one of the top scores in Super Smash who also bowls part time spin) would have been a batter choice.

Yes Bangladesh are hard at home, but that is where good squad selection is important. You don't send 6 (7 including Henry) seamers to Bangladesh, both Sommerville and Rippon would outperform any of the seamers that are currently over there.

canefan

@labcat yes to the spinners

Rapido

Dont think Rippon is available yet, he returned one winter to Saffaland for "too long". Should be later this year that his revised 3 years time is served.

Rapido

@canefan said in Black Caps vs Bangladesh:

@donsteppa said in Black Caps vs Bangladesh:

Bring Allen in for one of the seamers. Time for CDG to step up with the ball (and with the bat and in the field, for that matter).

Colin has been poor. The consummate flat track bully

Is he? Really? In what way? T20 is supposed to be a flat track sport.

Seems fairly consistent to me.

canefan

@rapido said in Black Caps vs Bangladesh:

@canefan said in Black Caps vs Bangladesh:

@donsteppa said in Black Caps vs Bangladesh:

Bring Allen in for one of the seamers. Time for CDG to step up with the ball (and with the bat and in the field, for that matter).

Colin has been poor. The consummate flat track bully

Is he? Really? In what way? T20 is supposed to be a flat track sport.

Seems fairly consistent to me.

When the conditions favour him he can be great. But when it comes time to tough it out, Colin often seems to be found wanting. Of course it is an eyeball observation that may be totally disproved by his match stats

Godder

T20 strikes me as a format where toughing it out is not nearly as commonly required as hitting out.

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Black Caps - Bangladesh tour 2021