Black Caps v England Test series
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@gunner said in Black Caps v England Test series:
@mn5 @Chris-B futile argument, we did this a couple of years ago remember.
Go back and find the thread and you’ll have your definitive answer (TSF is never wrong) of who gets in.
That would imply it's a democracy, instead of the much more sensible idea that I am right!
I've made a small adjustment to my selection I think. Rossco now bats at six instead of Martin Donnelly. His sheer weight of runs and hundreds surpasses Donnelly's average.
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@rotated said in Black Caps v England Test series:
@mokey said in Black Caps v England Test series:
Why does it happen so often, that the Black Caps follow up a brilliant performance with an utter shit one, batting-wise?
Openers.
With few exceptions we have always had below average openers. Aside from the rare periods with a Richardson or Wright our weakest or inconsistent batsmen have opened. Always susceptible to a couple of quick wickets and things spiral from there.
Yeah - Raval's in a difficult situation in that he's only going to be facing test quality bowlers a handful of times a year. This season anyway. And this year, he's averaged 19 in Plunket Shield cricket.
A bit like Alistair Cook has gone home for a month to sit by his fire and drink cocoa. It's not ideal preparation.
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@mn5 said in Black Caps v England Test series:
@booboo said in Black Caps v England Test series:
@mn5 said in Black Caps v England Test series:
Southee will go into tomorrow on 13 not out.
I'm expecting either of the following posts from Southee haters.....
If he goes early and cheaply he's 'irresponsible'
If he swings and racks up a big score it's a 'fluke'
I'm expecting a third option:
He bats sensibly sees BJ through to a hundy and NZ through to a first innings lead leading to those who always thought he under achieved with the bat given his performances to say:
Gee what a mature innings.
You're obviously a hater who doesn't rate his ability with the bat if his options are failure or slogging.
You're missing my point completely booboo. I rate him as a bowler who can bust out a pretty good innings every now and again but who is very unfairly maligned for something that he isn't in the team for.
I get your point.
I think you miss the point that he could be awesome at another discipline he is obliged to perform in some way.
Do you think he doesn't try to field as well as he can? After all he isn't picked for his fielding.
I'm a fanboi. But he can easily be better at batting than he's been. Or should be bat permanently at 11 and be laughed at like Chris Martin?
I truly hope people have higher expectations if him than you ... and he delivers
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@booboo said in Black Caps v England Test series:
@mn5 said in Black Caps v England Test series:
@booboo said in Black Caps v England Test series:
@mn5 said in Black Caps v England Test series:
Southee will go into tomorrow on 13 not out.
I'm expecting either of the following posts from Southee haters.....
If he goes early and cheaply he's 'irresponsible'
If he swings and racks up a big score it's a 'fluke'
I'm expecting a third option:
He bats sensibly sees BJ through to a hundy and NZ through to a first innings lead leading to those who always thought he under achieved with the bat given his performances to say:
Gee what a mature innings.
You're obviously a hater who doesn't rate his ability with the bat if his options are failure or slogging.
You're missing my point completely booboo. I rate him as a bowler who can bust out a pretty good innings every now and again but who is very unfairly maligned for something that he isn't in the team for.
I get your point.
I think you miss the point that he could be awesome at another discipline he is obliged to perform in some way.
Do you think he doesn't try to field as well as he can? After all he isn't picked for his fielding.
I'm a fanboi. But he can easily be better at batting than he's been. Or should be bat permanently at 11 and be laughed at like Chris Martin?
I truly hope people have higher expectations if him than you ... and he delivers
You really think he's gonna get better at batting at this stage of his career.
Also, who is picked for their fielding?
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@mn5 said in Black Caps v England Test series:
@booboo said in Black Caps v England Test series:
@mn5 said in Black Caps v England Test series:
@booboo said in Black Caps v England Test series:
@mn5 said in Black Caps v England Test series:
Southee will go into tomorrow on 13 not out.
I'm expecting either of the following posts from Southee haters.....
If he goes early and cheaply he's 'irresponsible'
If he swings and racks up a big score it's a 'fluke'
I'm expecting a third option:
He bats sensibly sees BJ through to a hundy and NZ through to a first innings lead leading to those who always thought he under achieved with the bat given his performances to say:
Gee what a mature innings.
You're obviously a hater who doesn't rate his ability with the bat if his options are failure or slogging.
You're missing my point completely booboo. I rate him as a bowler who can bust out a pretty good innings every now and again but who is very unfairly maligned for something that he isn't in the team for.
I get your point.
I think you miss the point that he could be awesome at another discipline he is obliged to perform in some way.
Do you think he doesn't try to field as well as he can? After all he isn't picked for his fielding.
I'm a fanboi. But he can easily be better at batting than he's been. Or should be bat permanently at 11 and be laughed at like Chris Martin?
I truly hope people have higher expectations if him than you ... and he delivers
You really think he's gonna get better at batting at this stage of his career.
Also, who is picked for their fielding?
Why shouldn't he?
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@hydro11 said in Black Caps v England Test series:
The problem with Southee's batting seems to be his attitude, which he could easily change. No one had a go at Chris Martin.
Southees big mistake was flaying 9 x 6’s and making 77 on his debut.
Expectations have been high ever since, but clearly he knows how to swing a bat.
Chris Martin on the other hand.. sometimes I expected him to hold the bat at the wrong end given how clueless he was with it -
@booboo said in Black Caps v England Test series:
@mn5 said in Black Caps v England Test series:
@booboo said in Black Caps v England Test series:
@mn5 said in Black Caps v England Test series:
@booboo said in Black Caps v England Test series:
@mn5 said in Black Caps v England Test series:
Southee will go into tomorrow on 13 not out.
I'm expecting either of the following posts from Southee haters.....
If he goes early and cheaply he's 'irresponsible'
If he swings and racks up a big score it's a 'fluke'
I'm expecting a third option:
He bats sensibly sees BJ through to a hundy and NZ through to a first innings lead leading to those who always thought he under achieved with the bat given his performances to say:
Gee what a mature innings.
You're obviously a hater who doesn't rate his ability with the bat if his options are failure or slogging.
You're missing my point completely booboo. I rate him as a bowler who can bust out a pretty good innings every now and again but who is very unfairly maligned for something that he isn't in the team for.
I get your point.
I think you miss the point that he could be awesome at another discipline he is obliged to perform in some way.
Do you think he doesn't try to field as well as he can? After all he isn't picked for his fielding.
I'm a fanboi. But he can easily be better at batting than he's been. Or should be bat permanently at 11 and be laughed at like Chris Martin?
I truly hope people have higher expectations if him than you ... and he delivers
You really think he's gonna get better at batting at this stage of his career.
Also, who is picked for their fielding?
Why shouldn't he?
Because he's a bowler who bats as opposed to a batsman?
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I had no problem with Southee's innings last night. Other than he isn't good enough to bat 8. Or 9. But neither are the 3 to come in behind him and somebody has to do it. His first movement is to back away to leg and like Stuart Broad he doesn't like the short ball.
So you could make an argument that Timmy should have a go and see what happens. If he can get to 30, those could be vital runs.
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@mn5 said in Black Caps v England Test series:
@booboo said in Black Caps v England Test series:
@mn5 said in Black Caps v England Test series:
@booboo said in Black Caps v England Test series:
@mn5 said in Black Caps v England Test series:
@booboo said in Black Caps v England Test series:
@mn5 said in Black Caps v England Test series:
Southee will go into tomorrow on 13 not out.
I'm expecting either of the following posts from Southee haters.....
If he goes early and cheaply he's 'irresponsible'
If he swings and racks up a big score it's a 'fluke'
I'm expecting a third option:
He bats sensibly sees BJ through to a hundy and NZ through to a first innings lead leading to those who always thought he under achieved with the bat given his performances to say:
Gee what a mature innings.
You're obviously a hater who doesn't rate his ability with the bat if his options are failure or slogging.
You're missing my point completely booboo. I rate him as a bowler who can bust out a pretty good innings every now and again but who is very unfairly maligned for something that he isn't in the team for.
I get your point.
I think you miss the point that he could be awesome at another discipline he is obliged to perform in some way.
Do you think he doesn't try to field as well as he can? After all he isn't picked for his fielding.
I'm a fanboi. But he can easily be better at batting than he's been. Or should be bat permanently at 11 and be laughed at like Chris Martin?
I truly hope people have higher expectations if him than you ... and he delivers
You really think he's gonna get better at batting at this stage of his career.
Also, who is picked for their fielding?
Why shouldn't he?
Because he's a bowler who bats as opposed to a batsman?
What you said.
And so far so good this morning
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@mn5 said in Black Caps v England Test series:
@hydro11 said in Black Caps v England Test series:
Sodhi should really be ahead of Southee.
Based on ? Still too early in his career to make that claim conclusively I reckon....
Better FC average and better temperament.
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278/10....
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