2019 Cricket ODI WC
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Don't think we have a dedicated thread for the WC - pretty sure the team is announced today.
A few of our guys will be feeling flush after that payout for finishing 2nd in Test rankings!
World Cup is close guys - fuck yeah!!
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Australia is going to win it, and it is going to be awful.
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@mariner4life how high you think Davey will jump?? Into low orbit?
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Ok, I was a day early. Squad named tomorrow.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=12218343
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@rotated said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
Taking two spinners to the UK, neither of which you have much faith in, is curious but Stead seemed insistent this summer he was going to do it.
Yeah very odd, looks like Ish will have a paid holiday.
Thinking back to the 1999 WC, didn’t Vettori go and not play a single game? (Too lazy to look it up..) -
@Virgil probably will be able to get on the piss with Southee!! Kyle Mills was the non-playing squad member in 2015 - not sure if he was the only one?
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Hearing on Radio Sport, sounds like Kane wasn't a fan of Stead's boy Astle and might have used the captain's call in picking Sodhi.
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@Paekakboyz said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
@Virgil probably will be able to get on the piss with Southee!! Kyle Mills was the non-playing squad member in 2015 - not sure if he was the only one?
Tom Latham didn't play as well (unless he got a run against Afghanistan).
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@Sneakdefreak ah, that is interesting and would make sense for any last minute changes in selection. I don't have anything against Astle, but being better at fielding and batting shouldn't have been the focus when picking our second spinner imo.
Not sure what the rationale is around Blundell if he has actually been included.
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@Paekakboyz He's a better glovesman and fielder than the other options (and let's be honest, he won't play apart from being a sub).
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@rotated said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
Taking two spinners to the UK, neither of which you have much faith in, is curious but Stead seemed insistent this summer he was going to do it.
They've been talking all season that the English pitches are likely to turn, so I think they were always taking two spinners - and pondering taking three.
Assuming a first XI of Guptill, Nicholls, Kane, Rossco, Latham, Neesham, de Grandhomme, Santner, Henry, Ferguson, Boult
We've got:
Southee - spare seamer
Sodhi - spare spinner
Blundell - spare keeper
Munro - spare batsman/allrounderWhich is what I think you want assuming that you'll mainly plan to play just one spinner.
Our bowlers don't look good enough to me to win this CWC - unless we fluke it.
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@mariner4life said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
Australia is going to win it, and it is going to be awful.
Nice try at the reverse curse, cockboy.
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@Paekakboyz said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
@mariner4life how high you think Davey will jump?? Into low orbit?
What will be hilarious is if they leave Finch in and his form goes to shit, and leave Davey out
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@NTA said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
@mariner4life said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
Australia is going to win it, and it is going to be awful.
Nice try at the reverse curse, cockboy.
no reverse curse, i don't think we are a hope really. Aus are on a role.
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@Chris-B said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
@rotated said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
Taking two spinners to the UK, neither of which you have much faith in, is curious but Stead seemed insistent this summer he was going to do it.
They've been talking all season that the English pitches are likely to turn, so I think they were always taking two spinners - and pondering taking three.
Assuming a first XI of Guptill, Nicholls, Kane, Rossco, Latham, Neesham, de Grandhomme, Santner, Henry, Ferguson, Boult
We've got:
Southee - spare seamer
Sodhi - spare spinner
Blundell - spare keeper
Munro - spare batsman/allrounderWhich is what I think you want assuming that you'll mainly plan to play just one spinner.
Our bowlers don't look good enough to me to win this CWC - unless we fluke it.
Isn't it a funny quirk that Nicholls and Latham directly reverse positions based on the form of cricket they're playing, still considering we have a 3 and 4 as good as any in the world it's not a formula you wanna fuck with too much.
I like that team although could an argument be made for Southee's experience ahead of CDGH or Ferguson ?
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@mariner4life said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
@NTA said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
@mariner4life said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
Australia is going to win it, and it is going to be awful.
Nice try at the reverse curse, cockboy.
no reverse curse, i don't think we are a hope really. Aus are on a role.
I didn't mean to suggest for a moment NZ were a chance, just that we're not as dominant as we look right now.
We're still burdened with Marshes, for example.
Though of course the easy route is to:
- Replace SMarsh with The Angry Lesbian
- Shift The Waj down the order and put Warner back in with Finch.
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@NTA said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
@Paekakboyz said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
@mariner4life how high you think Davey will jump?? Into low orbit?
What will be hilarious is if they leave Finch in and his form goes to shit, and leave Davey out
More hilarious if they drop Finch and put little Davey in and he fails miserably
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@NTA said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
@mariner4life said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
@NTA said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
@mariner4life said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
Australia is going to win it, and it is going to be awful.
Nice try at the reverse curse, cockboy.
no reverse curse, i don't think we are a hope really. Aus are on a role.
I didn't mean to suggest for a moment NZ were a chance, just that we're not as dominant as we look right now.
We're still burdened with Marshes, for example.
Though of course the easy route is to:
- Replace SMarsh with The Angry Lesbian
- Shift The Waj down the order and put Warner back in with Finch.
Welcome to the Black Caps world......except this team has few, if any, passengers whereas in the past we've had a truckload of "can bat a bit, bowl a bit" types.
Only Mitch Santner in this squad and.......
.....only at test level.
