Black Caps v Ireland v Bangledesh ODIs
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Second game starts in about 45 minutes.
Cricinfo is suggesting Adam Milne is available to the Black Caps, while earlier articles suggested Guppy and Anderson also might be (but, I doubt it for this one).
In any case, I'd like to see Latham and Ronchi continue to be pitted against one another as openers.
Suggestions that this pitch will be more seam friendly, so prospects of one of Milne, Bennett or Wagner coming in for Sodhi - as well as maybe some other rotation.
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@Siam Yeah - we could be in a fair bit of trouble in this game. - though as I type, Neesh gets the breakthrough.
Yeah - there's something about Coney's commentary - very smooth... mellifluous!
Unlike Owais Shah - with that grating "see if I can sound thicker than I am" Essex sort of accent.
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Quite good having this series on as it gives me something (albeit not very exciting) to follow while working up this way.
We've been set 258 to win. Ronchi looking to hit out again (which is good) and a 4 and 6 off first two balls he faced
Rain forecast soon so not sure they will get 20 overs in
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A narrow points victory to Tom Latham over Ronchi in this game. Tom scored more runs, but Luke got his faster and gave the innings some initial impetus (and Luke is wearing the gloves, while Tom is not - though he is captain).
Otherwise, Broom and Neesham both doing good jobs with the bat and Bennett, Santner and Sodhi doing good jobs with the ball - Rance and Neesham both very expensive.
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Yeah - that's a convincing win for Tom.
Ronchi has done quite well in the BMac role of coming out and giving the innings impetus, but notably he hasn't managed to go on with any of his innings and we're playing Ireland and the Bangles not England and Australia.
Anderson looked terribly out of form - I'm not convinced he's a guy who can come out and hit from ball one in any case. He seems to need a few overs to have a look and scratch about. Rossco looked a bit scratchy as well.
Munro showed Corey how it's done in this innings.
I guess there's a couple more ODIs to play before the CT but I'd lean towards:
Guptill, Latham, Williamson, Taylor, Broom, Neesham, Santner, Milne, Southee, McClenaghan, Boult
Slightly light in batting - I blame Southee who could have developed into a decent and reliable 8, but hasn't.
I don't think this line-up will be quite good enough to win the Trophy -but, they might be able to burgle it. Will need some luck and most likely Kane and Guppy to play multiple big innings at the right time.
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@gollum Yeah - I think the key thing for Tom will be not to bat himself into any sort of hole. No matter how good the bowling he needs to play some shots.
Might be a temptation - with the team I named above - to replace one of the seamers with Anderson and require him and Neesham to bowl 10 overs between them (maybe Kane to bowl a few as well).
If Corey can find some form, that would strengthen the batting quite a lot - Neesham at 7 and Santner at 8.
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Yip, totally agree, he just needs that mindset that if we are 70 / 0 & he's not timing hit have a slog, best case he hits a few, worst case he steps aside for Kane. Otherwise his role is to just go at 85% strike rate, not get out & take singles to get the other guy on strike.
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Tom gets bowled for 84, in a pretty dribbly fashion - rebounds off the back pad onto the front leg and back onto the stumps.
In terms of the game situation, this is ideal for Anderson - coming in at 167/3 after 30 overs. He can take a little bit of time to get in and then hopefully find some form and confidence and smack it around.
