Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series
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@frugby said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
@MN5 said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
@nzzp said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
@MN5 said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
Not Latham either.
why not Latham?
He’s not exactly in vintage form either. Then again he does justify his spot more than Southee, especially with how his opening partner has gone of late.
Mitchell is more ‘new blood’ which I think the team needs
Problem with Mitchell is it could be Southee all over again... not sure a team in need of invigoration should be turning to a 33 year old.
Latham? He is 32, so hardly inspiring either though I think he probably has a good 4-5 years in him... but his captaincy record thus far leaves a lot to be desired.
Phillips? Not sure I would want to burden him with the captaincy, and furthermore, there is nothing about him which suggests captain.
I think the long-term option could be Ravindra?
Based on no other options ( assuming you rule out a horribly out of form Conway, Blundell and the terminally not up to it Santner ) you could be right
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@MN5 said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
40/3 and unfortunately the man out early wasn’t the night watchman, it was our best batsman.
MASSIVE score needed by Ravindra or Mitchell just to make them bat again. Fuck this is awful stuff
……and this post aged poorly. 40/4 now with Ravindra gone.
Poor old Ajaz Patel faced with holding the innings together after a massive bowling stint in the first couple of days
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If you’re Sri Lanka what do you do ?
Enforcing the follow on doesn’t seem to be the done thing in cricket these days. How’s the weather looking ?
Their bowlers have barely turned their arms over to reduce us to 55/7 so fatigue shouldn’t be a factor.
It’s depressing to say but every member of our XI has been varying degrees of utter shithouse so far this test.
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Splitting hairs probably, but I’ve often found the idea of a night watchman a bit weird.
Someone is in the team as a specialist batsman, in some situations he will find himself needing to bat for a few niggly overs at the end of the day. I think it’s rough they get a guy who has bowled 41 thankless overs padded up and sent out to “protect” him.
Jason Gillespie will definitely disagree with this though.
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@Donsteppa said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
Though it's not clear to me that there's any difference between our top order batsmen and our night watchmen...
Haha, was just thinking that.
Flipside of that is that they could have gotten Latham, Conway etc to send down lots of innocuous pies for the Sri Lankans to rack up a cheeky six hundy for five declared…..
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@Donsteppa said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
Am struggling to remember a more utterly worthless and spineless NZ cricket performance in our lifetimes. 1995 v the West Indies was up there.
At least 26 all out was in the days of uncovered pitches.
This match ?
Walsh went ok, shit he is underrated for whatever reason. Fantastic bowler.
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@Donsteppa said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:
My memory of the scores was out, I just remember the second innings being like men v boys.
Yeah shameful performance at home.
I sat on the bank and Curtly Ambrose did a lap of the ground to thunderous applause from all of us ( he had a lot of time to fuck around and have fun while the Windies were batting to be fair )
All those middle order left handers just took the piss against our attack from memory. The one who actually looked the best that day wasn’t Lara, it was Keith Arthurton, I was always surprised he had such an average career compared to the “Prince”
