Black Caps vs Bangles
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@Donsteppa said in Black Caps vs Bangles:
@mimic said in Black Caps vs Bangles:
nicholls is struggling out there..
Business as usual unfortunately. He gets a charmed run. There's a #5 spot waiting for Guppy when he's fit again...
I hope so re Guptill. He's got potential to be an excellent test no. 5 imo.
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@Donsteppa said in Black Caps vs Bangles:
@mimic said in Black Caps vs Bangles:
nicholls is struggling out there..
Business as usual unfortunately. He gets a charmed run. There's a #5 spot waiting for Guppy when he's fit again...
That said, at 54 off 82 he does have a chance of kicking on for a first test ton.
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@booboo said in Black Caps vs Bangles:
BJ in before CDG. CDG not a good enough bowler to be batting 8.
Not a lot to suggest he's a good enough batsman to be batting at six, so I'm not completely surprised to see this this shift.
He's been done like a dinner here by Shakib - you've got to think that a recall for Jimmy Neesham is on the cards. Seems like a much better bet as a test batsman than CdGH - maybe not quite as good as a bowler - certainly doesn't have a bag to match that one Colin got against Pakistan.
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@Cyclops said in Black Caps vs Bangles:
@Chris-B.
I don't see anything from de Grandhomme's bowling that makes me think he's up to test standard.Nor me, really - except that he got 6/41 against Pakistan. I'm inclined to think it was a fluke, but it's a bit hard to drop him three tests later - especially when he's garnered a few useful runs as well.
He seemed an odd pick to me, when they picked him for tests in the first place.
Meanwhile - the squad for the return Chappell-Hadlee has been named.
I'd be inclined to start with:
Guppy, Latham (wktkpr), Williamson, Taylor, Broom, Neesham, de Grandhomme, Santner, Southee, Ferguson, Boult.
With Henry, Munro and Blundell on the sideline.
Plenty of batting and bowling options in that - as well as some firepower in each - even if not particularly reliable.
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@Chris-B. said in Black Caps vs Bangles:
@booboo said in Black Caps vs Bangles:
BJ in before CDG. CDG not a good enough bowler to be batting 8.
Not a lot to suggest he's a good enough batsman to be batting at six...
Essentially my point. Don't get what he brings to the team.
A slow medium trundler who bats at 8.
Neesh or Herb he is not.
I'd prefer a genuine one or t'other rather than a neither.
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A few trolls on FB suggesting Rossco only gets runs against 'minnows'. There's five nation's above us in test cricket rankings and I definitely recall hundreds against most of them ( yet to get one vs S.A. I think )
Not only that his 290 away against Australia was 'ages ago'....right.
Inflated modern averages aside he's still two runs clear of Martin Crowe, he really has had a terrific career, how he wasn't an unanimous selection in an all time NZ test XI by Stuff 'experts' ( one picked Nathan Astle ) is completely beyond me.
