NZ All Time XI
-
@mariner4life said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@rotated said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@mn5 said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
Just as long as everyones all time BC 11 features Williamson/Crowe/Taylor at 3/4/5.
Assuming Turner and Sutcliffe are selected as there openers they have to be because the remaining six positions need to be five bowling options and a keeper.
It was a fun period before Taylor and Williamson cemented their spots and there were super passionate arguments for Flem, Dempster, Wright, Congdon, Rig and my personal favourite Andrew Jones for that last spot.
Now the only real debatable slots would be third quick and keeper.
Boult and Baz, very little question in my eyes
Who's your second quick if Boult is third? Watling has a strong claim to the keeper's spot but with the top order we've got, it's hard to look past what Baz can offer coming out at 300/4 (or 5 if we have an all-rounder to bat 6).
-
@cyclops said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@mariner4life said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@rotated said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@mn5 said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
Just as long as everyones all time BC 11 features Williamson/Crowe/Taylor at 3/4/5.
Assuming Turner and Sutcliffe are selected as there openers they have to be because the remaining six positions need to be five bowling options and a keeper.
It was a fun period before Taylor and Williamson cemented their spots and there were super passionate arguments for Flem, Dempster, Wright, Congdon, Rig and my personal favourite Andrew Jones for that last spot.
Now the only real debatable slots would be third quick and keeper.
Boult and Baz, very little question in my eyes
Who's your second quick if Boult is third? Watling has a strong claim to the keeper's spot but with the top order we've got, it's hard to look past what Baz can offer coming out at 300/4 (or 5 if we have an all-rounder to bat 6).
Paddles Bond and Boult
-
@mariner4life said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@cyclops said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@mariner4life said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@rotated said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@mn5 said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
Just as long as everyones all time BC 11 features Williamson/Crowe/Taylor at 3/4/5.
Assuming Turner and Sutcliffe are selected as there openers they have to be because the remaining six positions need to be five bowling options and a keeper.
It was a fun period before Taylor and Williamson cemented their spots and there were super passionate arguments for Flem, Dempster, Wright, Congdon, Rig and my personal favourite Andrew Jones for that last spot.
Now the only real debatable slots would be third quick and keeper.
Boult and Baz, very little question in my eyes
Who's your second quick if Boult is third? Watling has a strong claim to the keeper's spot but with the top order we've got, it's hard to look past what Baz can offer coming out at 300/4 (or 5 if we have an all-rounder to bat 6).
Paddles Bond and Boult
Bond didn't play enough test cricket for me. Boult and Hadlee strike me as the only two guys who would be a unanimous selection.
-
@cyclops said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@mariner4life said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@cyclops said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@mariner4life said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@rotated said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@mn5 said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
Just as long as everyones all time BC 11 features Williamson/Crowe/Taylor at 3/4/5.
Assuming Turner and Sutcliffe are selected as there openers they have to be because the remaining six positions need to be five bowling options and a keeper.
It was a fun period before Taylor and Williamson cemented their spots and there were super passionate arguments for Flem, Dempster, Wright, Congdon, Rig and my personal favourite Andrew Jones for that last spot.
Now the only real debatable slots would be third quick and keeper.
Boult and Baz, very little question in my eyes
Who's your second quick if Boult is third? Watling has a strong claim to the keeper's spot but with the top order we've got, it's hard to look past what Baz can offer coming out at 300/4 (or 5 if we have an all-rounder to bat 6).
Paddles Bond and Boult
Bond didn't play enough test cricket for me. Boult and Hadlee strike me as the only two guys who would be a unanimous selection.
i saw enough.
-
-
@donsteppa said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
Jack Cowie could also be a bowling contender from stuff I’ve read in the past.
i have to have seen them play to put them in these sort of teams, but that's just my personal rule (like how Pinetree doesn't make my all time AB XV)
-
@rotated I don't think Flem, Congdon, Jones or Rig were ever more than footnotes in a discussion.
On their limited records and from period reports Donnelly and Dempster have to be considered ahead of Taylor but eventually discarded because of the lack of evidence despite the strong suspicion that they would be at least his equal.
-
@cyclops said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
Watling has a strong claim to the keeper's spot but with the top order we've got, it's hard to look past what Baz can offer coming out at 300/4 (or 5 if we have an all-rounder to bat 6).
As a bat-first keeper Watling is in the clubhouse with a four stroke lead at this point.
The only argument is if this side were to actually play games (presumably against other nations best XIs) given we don't have a wicket taking spinner, it's probably best to select the best outright keeper in which case it would be Smith.
-
Flem's not even close, a shit average, and a conversion rate about the same as that American bloke who went to that island in India the other week.
-
@mariner4life said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
Flem's not even close, a shit average, and a conversion rate about the same as that American bloke who went to that island in India the other week.
Ouch!!
-
@dogmeat said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@rotated I don't think Flem, Congdon, Jones or Rig were ever more than footnotes in a discussion.
On their limited records and from period reports Donnelly and Dempster have to be considered ahead of Taylor but eventually discarded because of the lack of evidence despite the strong suspicion that they would be at least his equal.
When Flem retired he had a claim to be number 2 to Crowe. I can remember plenty of discussions about whether he would have been our best ever if he hadn't had so many issues in the nineties (runs not the decade). Of course those conversations are now long forgotten and even laughable as Kane and Taylor have sailed past him and even Baz would have claim to be ahead. Even his vaunted captaincy, while still brilliant, doesn't shine as bright since Baz and Kane have both proven themselves to be able and capable captains.
-
@dogmeat said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@rotated I don't think Flem, Congdon, Jones or Rig were ever more than footnotes in a discussion.
Before Williamson and Taylor were candidates (~2013ish?) pretty much every all time test XI would have had at least one of those surely? If not only because Rig is the best pure opener we have but Flem/Sutcliffe/Turner can all be legitimately played there in an all time team.
-
-
@dogmeat said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
Turner
Dempster/Sutcliffe
Kane
Crowe
Taylor
Baz
Cairns
Hadlee
Vettori
Bond
Boult/Cowieyou have the advantage over most of us, having watched nearly every test match NZ has ever played...
-
If your picking all time XI full of batsmen who could effortlessly race to 50 before lazily hoisting a shot directly to the cover fieldsman on 56 then Flems your guy
-
@rotated said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@dogmeat said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@rotated I don't think Flem, Congdon, Jones or Rig were ever more than footnotes in a discussion.
Before Williamson and Taylor were candidates (~2013ish?) pretty much every all time test XI would have had at least one of those surely? If not only because Rig is the best pure opener we have but Flem/Sutcliffe/Turner can all be legitimately played there in an all time team.
yeah nah
In 2009 a cricinfo panel chose the best ever NZ XI None of your candidates got a look in
A team from all seasons
Two men from the current team, two from before the war, and many disagreements with readers, in New Zealand's all-time XI selection
-
@dogmeat said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
yeah nah
In 2009 a cricinfo panel chose the best ever NZ XI None of your candidates got a look in
A team from all seasons
Two men from the current team, two from before the war, and many disagreements with readers, in New Zealand's all-time XI selection
All of whom were mentioned here in an actual discussion of potential candidates here...
-
@virgil said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
If your picking all time XI full of batsmen who could effortlessly race to 50 before lazily hoisting a shot directly to the cover fieldsman on 56 then Flems your guy
Assuming he is selected as an opener that would make him our best ever by a country mile.
-
@mariner4life You're not that far wrong. NZ played 50 tests before I was born - winning one.
Everyone has been going on in the last week about 50 years since we won away against Pakistan, but what hasn't been mentioned is that 1969 win gave NZ their first ever series win - home or away. We've won 13 series in the last 10 years. It took us till 1993 to win our 13th series ever!
