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  • Chris B.C Offline
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    @booboo The smiley face is a hint. 🙂

    Mitch Jr. is actually the only one who does with bowling.

    After this evening Tickner is a respectable low thirties. 🙂

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    So, at stumps, I've got us marginally ahead with SL effectively 65/3 (and not really accounting their last four wickets being bits of bunnies).

    Matthews the big wicket.

    Get him early tomorrow and I think we win.

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    @kiwi_expat said in Blackcaps v Sri Lanka:

    Conway, Williamson, Mitchell.

    Settle down, you don’t get an upvote for googling things and writing them down.

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    Mate, 150 odd for 5, were all but fucked.
    Get in tonight after a busy day out and we made 370 odd.

    We’ve got an incredible knack of getting ourselves out of some really shit situations at the moment.

    Out batting order seems very brittle at the moment, prone to a collapse which we haven’t seen much of in the last couple of years.

    Nicholls the huge concern, hasn’t scored runs for what seems a long time. Time to give Young or Phillips some time in the saddle and see what they can do.

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    @Gunner said in Blackcaps v Sri Lanka:

    Mate, 150 odd for 5, were all but fucked.
    Get in tonight after a busy day out and we made 370 odd.

    We’ve got an incredible knack of getting ourselves out of some really shit situations at the moment.

    Out batting order seems very brittle at the moment, prone to a collapse which we haven’t seen much of in the last couple of years.

    Nicholls the huge concern, hasn’t scored runs for what seems a long time. Time to give Young or Phillips some time in the saddle and see what they can do.

    Yup. Can't judge Young or Phillips on a game or two, Nicholls has been given far more rope than that

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    @canefan said in Blackcaps v Sri Lanka:

    @Gunner said in Blackcaps v Sri Lanka:

    Mate, 150 odd for 5, were all but fucked.
    Get in tonight after a busy day out and we made 370 odd.

    We’ve got an incredible knack of getting ourselves out of some really shit situations at the moment.

    Out batting order seems very brittle at the moment, prone to a collapse which we haven’t seen much of in the last couple of years.

    Nicholls the huge concern, hasn’t scored runs for what seems a long time. Time to give Young or Phillips some time in the saddle and see what they can do.

    Yup. Can't judge Young or Phillips on a game or two, Nicholls has been given far more rope than that

    Young and Phillips are just clearly worse players. I'm all for someone arguing that Nicholls is out of form and maybe someone else could score more runs than him in Wellington. I don't accept that there is a better batsman than him in New Zealand waiting in the wings.

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    @hydro11 said in Blackcaps v Sri Lanka:

    @canefan said in Blackcaps v Sri Lanka:

    @Gunner said in Blackcaps v Sri Lanka:

    Mate, 150 odd for 5, were all but fucked.
    Get in tonight after a busy day out and we made 370 odd.

    We’ve got an incredible knack of getting ourselves out of some really shit situations at the moment.

    Out batting order seems very brittle at the moment, prone to a collapse which we haven’t seen much of in the last couple of years.

    Nicholls the huge concern, hasn’t scored runs for what seems a long time. Time to give Young or Phillips some time in the saddle and see what they can do.

    Yup. Can't judge Young or Phillips on a game or two, Nicholls has been given far more rope than that

    Young and Phillips are just clearly worse players. I'm all for someone arguing that Nicholls is out of form and maybe someone else could score more runs than him in Wellington. I don't accept that there is a better batsman than him in New Zealand waiting in the wings.

    Then we are fucked

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    Our bottom 5 batsmen scored a combined 151 runs. Strong end to the innings.

    With a bit of luck we may have had 5.

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    @ACT-Crusader said in Blackcaps v Sri Lanka:

    Our bottom 5 batsmen scored a combined 151 runs. Strong end to the innings.

    With a bit of luck we may have had 5.

    Very hard to see the SL tail wagging like it did again. That bottom four barely average double figures between them.

    ….and as if to say “fuck you MN5” Tickner gets another !!!!

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    https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/black-caps/300828095/veteran-quick-doug-bracewell-called-up-to-black-caps-squad-for-second-sri-lanka-test

    Nicholls will continue to be selected.

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    @Bovidae said in Blackcaps v Sri Lanka:

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/black-caps/300828095/veteran-quick-doug-bracewell-called-up-to-black-caps-squad-for-second-sri-lanka-test

    Nicholls will continue to be selected.

    And another 30 plus mediocre Quick selected.

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    @Chris said in Blackcaps v Sri Lanka:

    @Bovidae said in Blackcaps v Sri Lanka:

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/black-caps/300828095/veteran-quick-doug-bracewell-called-up-to-black-caps-squad-for-second-sri-lanka-test

    Nicholls will continue to be selected.

    And another 30 plus mediocre Quick selected.

    Yep, aside from the heroics in Australia ( 12 years ago !!!! ) that’s fair.

    So frustrating as he looked to the manor born after that effort.

    At least they didn’t refer to him as an all rounder.

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    @Chris said in Blackcaps v Sri Lanka:

    @Bovidae said in Blackcaps v Sri Lanka:

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/black-caps/300828095/veteran-quick-doug-bracewell-called-up-to-black-caps-squad-for-second-sri-lanka-test

    Nicholls will continue to be selected.

    And another 30 plus mediocre Quick selected.

    Who would you have picked instead?

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    @Chris I'd still back Doug to score more runs than Michael 🤣

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    @canefan said in Blackcaps v Sri Lanka:

    @hydro11 said in Blackcaps v Sri Lanka:

    @canefan said in Blackcaps v Sri Lanka:

    @Gunner said in Blackcaps v Sri Lanka:

    Mate, 150 odd for 5, were all but fucked.
    Get in tonight after a busy day out and we made 370 odd.

    We’ve got an incredible knack of getting ourselves out of some really shit situations at the moment.

    Out batting order seems very brittle at the moment, prone to a collapse which we haven’t seen much of in the last couple of years.

    Nicholls the huge concern, hasn’t scored runs for what seems a long time. Time to give Young or Phillips some time in the saddle and see what they can do.

    Yup. Can't judge Young or Phillips on a game or two, Nicholls has been given far more rope than that

    Young and Phillips are just clearly worse players. I'm all for someone arguing that Nicholls is out of form and maybe someone else could score more runs than him in Wellington. I don't accept that there is a better batsman than him in New Zealand waiting in the wings.

    Then we are fucked

    Nicholls still averages like 35? If he is our worst batsman, that is pretty good. Plenty of other teams in test cricket would love for their worst batsman to be as good.

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    @Crazy-Horse said in Blackcaps v Sri Lanka:

    @Chris said in Blackcaps v Sri Lanka:

    @Bovidae said in Blackcaps v Sri Lanka:

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/black-caps/300828095/veteran-quick-doug-bracewell-called-up-to-black-caps-squad-for-second-sri-lanka-test

    Nicholls will continue to be selected.

    And another 30 plus mediocre Quick selected.

    Who would you have picked instead?

    There's quite a few young players that would be worth more of a punt than picking D. Bracewell again. We should be looking for next Souther/Boult who quite young when they started playing test cricket.

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    @LABCAT said in Blackcaps v Sri Lanka:

    @Crazy-Horse said in Blackcaps v Sri Lanka:

    @Chris said in Blackcaps v Sri Lanka:

    @Bovidae said in Blackcaps v Sri Lanka:

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/black-caps/300828095/veteran-quick-doug-bracewell-called-up-to-black-caps-squad-for-second-sri-lanka-test

    Nicholls will continue to be selected.

    And another 30 plus mediocre Quick selected.

    Who would you have picked instead?

    There's quite a few young players that would be worth more of a punt than picking D. Bracewell again. We should be looking for next Souther/Boult who quite young when they started playing test cricket.

    Who are these players? The wee bit of domestic cricket I have watched suggest to me the cupboard is bare of younger bowlers, and batters, who are ready to be thrown into the Craps.

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    @Crazy-Horse said in Blackcaps v Sri Lanka:

    @LABCAT said in Blackcaps v Sri Lanka:

    @Crazy-Horse said in Blackcaps v Sri Lanka:

    @Chris said in Blackcaps v Sri Lanka:

    @Bovidae said in Blackcaps v Sri Lanka:

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/black-caps/300828095/veteran-quick-doug-bracewell-called-up-to-black-caps-squad-for-second-sri-lanka-test

    Nicholls will continue to be selected.

    And another 30 plus mediocre Quick selected.

    Who would you have picked instead?

    There's quite a few young players that would be worth more of a punt than picking D. Bracewell again. We should be looking for next Souther/Boult who quite young when they started playing test cricket.

    Who are these players? The wee bit of domestic cricket I have watched suggest to me the cupboard is bare of younger bowlers, and batters, who are ready to be thrown into the Craps.

    I would pick any of the following before I would consider Bracewell again:
    https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/william-o-rourke-1211825
    https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/henry-shipley-962831
    https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/zakary-foulkes-1202098
    https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/kristian-clarke-1193549

    or if we really want someone who has experience how about we pick someone who is actually proven they are a world class bowler (although that is white ball cricket):
    https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/lockie-ferguson-493773

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  • ChrisC Offline
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    @Crazy-Horse said in Blackcaps v Sri Lanka:

    @Chris said in Blackcaps v Sri Lanka:

    @Bovidae said in Blackcaps v Sri Lanka:

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/black-caps/300828095/veteran-quick-doug-bracewell-called-up-to-black-caps-squad-for-second-sri-lanka-test

    Nicholls will continue to be selected.

    And another 30 plus mediocre Quick selected.

    Who would you have picked instead?

    Perfect chance to blood a youngster,They could learn of the other older quicks bring someone through.
    Another 33 year old means the 5 or 6 bowlers they are using now will all go together and you will have 3 or 4 new quicks all blooded together.

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    And if we are really serious about finding a spinner who can bat a bit, lets select this guy:
    https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/adithya-ashok-1193546

    Daniel Vettori had a similar amount of experience when he was picked and look how he turned out.

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