Black Caps vs Windies Series
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The West Indies were 9/5 at one point? That's bad....really bad.
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@mn5 said in Black Caps vs Windies Series:
I'm not watching but I'm not sure why Gabriel is on 7 from 15. Last I checked you can't play for a draw in limited overs.
Have a fucken swing, you have nothing to lose
His previous highest score was 2 so he's not doing too bad...
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Did you know that in the player rankings for ODI batting the highest West Indian is rated 48? That's Marlon Samuels. Shai Hope is next highest on 62nd. That tells me that they aren't getting a consistent team on the field because even Neil Broom has got himself up to 39th place currently.
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@mn5 said in Black Caps vs Windies Series:
9 down. Heaps to get.....and I'm talking to myself cos no one cares about this crap Windies team.
I would have been there right beside you bro, but um.....yea, na the relaxing hum of my ride on and it’s stubble holder were more appealing once the Windies got to double figures only 5 down.
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@hydro11 said in Black Caps vs Windies Series:
Did you know that in the player rankings for ODI batting the highest West Indian is rated 48? That's Marlon Samuels. Shai Hope is next highest on 62nd. That tells me that they aren't getting a consistent team on the field because even Neil Broom has got himself up to 39th place currently.
All of that speaks absolute volumes. Broom only gets in when someone is rested or injured.
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@no-quarter said in Black Caps vs Windies Series:
@mn5 said in Black Caps vs Windies Series:
I'm not watching but I'm not sure why Gabriel is on 7 from 15. Last I checked you can't play for a draw in limited overs.
Have a fucken swing, you have nothing to lose
His previous highest score was 2 so he's not doing too bad...
Yeah but surely it's a better option to have a go for an extremely unlikely victory than to pad the woeful average....
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@hydro11 said in Black Caps vs Windies Series:
@mimic said in Black Caps vs Windies Series:
@hydro11 said in Black Caps vs Windies Series:
Broom played some very good innings last summer and over the winter as well against good opposition. Brownlie is the only other option to bat 3 IMO with Williamson out. Broom was always a bit of a short term solution.
They could've given one of the young guys a go.
Like who? Bruce isn't a #3.
Neither is Broom. Young is probably a better choice at 3. But hey, if Munro can open the batting, I'm sure Bruce can have a go at 3.
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@mn5 said in Black Caps vs Windies Series:
@hydro11 said in Black Caps vs Windies Series:
Did you know that in the player rankings for ODI batting the highest West Indian is rated 48? That's Marlon Samuels. Shai Hope is next highest on 62nd. That tells me that they aren't getting a consistent team on the field because even Neil Broom has got himself up to 39th place currently.
All of that speaks absolute volumes. Broom only gets in when someone is rested or injured.
Broom's ranking is boosted by his games against Bangladesh and Ireland.
Take those games out and his average drops from 26.94 to 14.48.That's disgusting.
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@hydro11 said in Black Caps vs Windies Series:
Broom played some very good innings last summer and over the winter as well against good opposition. Brownlie is the only other option to bat 3 IMO with Williamson out. Broom was always a bit of a short term solution.
Depends on who you count as good. He started very promisingly, with two very good scores against the Bangles and backed it up with a match winning 73 against Australia. At that point he looked like he was going to be a new Grant Elliot.
But after that he made runs only against the Bangles (consistently) and Ireland.
He had an awful series against South Africa, failed in the CT vs Australia and England and has now had two failures vs the Windies and has doubtless lost his place in the starting XI to Nicholls and is probably being edged out of the squad by Worker.
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@chris-b said in Black Caps vs Windies Series:
@hydro11 said in Black Caps vs Windies Series:
Broom played some very good innings last summer and over the winter as well against good opposition. Brownlie is the only other option to bat 3 IMO with Williamson out. Broom was always a bit of a short term solution.
Depends on who you count as good. He started very promisingly, with two very good scores against the Bangles and backed it up with a match winning 73 against Australia. At that point he looked like he was going to be a new Grant Elliot.
But after that he made runs only against the Bangles (consistently) and Ireland.
He had an awful series against South Africa, failed in the CT vs Australia and England and has now had two failures vs the Windies and has doubtless lost his place in the starting XI to Nicholls and is probably being edged out of the squad by Worker.
Sure. I'm just saying that Bruce is a slogger and Young hasn't pushed his case by performing poorly in domestic cricket. We have lost two senior players so they have brought a senior batsman into the #3 slot. If Guptill was fit, we could just slot Worker in at 3.
Ronchi made a century and was picked for two years after that while offering next to nothing. No way Broom would be not selected for someone unproven.
