2019 Cricket ODI WC
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@MN5 said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
@Hooroo said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
@rotated said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
@Virgil 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.
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..)They took Hart and Vettori and they played a total of one game combined - Hart against Scotland.
Could be different this time and at least Sodhi and Santner offer something with the bat so you can justify playing one of them a bit easier - but in England and...
@Chris-B said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
Assuming a first XI of Guptill, Nicholls, Kane, Rossco, Latham, Neesham, de Grandhomme, Santner, Henry, Ferguson, Boult
When outmatched by some of the bigger sides I don't see how Satner offers a better chance of victory than playing Southee and hope he can get it swinging in the UK conditions - especially with the tournament starting in May.
I have to play a match this weekend and Hart is in our team (we are all meeting at the pub on Thursday to see who is who) Apparently a really nice guy in person but an absolute "meanie" on the cricket pitch.
From what I remember Matthew Hart was about as intimidating as a 4th former in his playing days. Interested to hear what is so mean about him these days.
Apparently that wasn't the case at all on the pitch when feilding
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@Cyclops said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
I think Stead's off to a bit of a rocky start as a selector. Hesson's biggest strength as coach was his ability to select well and his confidence in his selections meaning he'd give them a chance to grow into the side.
Tough call when Stead hasn't selected a touring squad yet (Hesson strangely selected the Pakistan tour side before quitting, but two months prior to the tour).
Had a weird summer with playing the world's best team bookended by two relative easybeats, all while trying to prepare for the CWC... tough assignment. Some would argue he had too much faith in some like Munro and Southee.
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@rotated said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
@Cyclops said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
I think Stead's off to a bit of a rocky start as a selector. Hesson's biggest strength as coach was his ability to select well and his confidence in his selections meaning he'd give them a chance to grow into the side.
Tough call when Stead hasn't selected a touring squad yet (Hesson strangely selected the Pakistan tour side before quitting, but two months prior to the tour).
Had a weird summer with playing the world's best team bookended by two relative easybeats, all while trying to prepare for the CWC... tough assignment. Some would argue he had too much faith in some like Munro and Southee.
There's probably hope that Southee can do what some players in different codes do and repeat his 2015 WC efforts.
Munro will flatter to deceive by carving up some shit team then get found out.
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2 Points
1/ How the hell Henry is in anyones top XI is beyond me, I renaming him Big Ben as all he does is provide pies. Big Ben Henry i dub thee.
2/ I played Matt Hart in club cricket, didnt see the mean side.... but he scored fuck all and his team got crushed... so my team did all the trash talk. Except me... as i am super nice...
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Henry seems to have been picked solely on the grounds that 'it'll seam in England'.
@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
so my team did all the trash talk. Except me... as i am super nice...
Interesting. So that Large Hadron Collider really has changed the planet somehow
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback he played for Te Puke, everyone beat them, even us
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
2 Points
1/ How the hell Henry is in anyones top XI is beyond me, I renaming him Big Ben as all he does is provide pies. Big Ben Henry i dub thee.
2/ I played Matt Hart in club cricket, didnt see the mean side.... but he scored fuck all and his team got crushed... so my team did all the trash talk. Except me... as i am super nice...
Obviously Hooroo is being a pussy then
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@MN5 said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
2 Points
1/ How the hell Henry is in anyones top XI is beyond me, I renaming him Big Ben as all he does is provide pies. Big Ben Henry i dub thee.
2/ I played Matt Hart in club cricket, didnt see the mean side.... but he scored fuck all and his team got crushed... so my team did all the trash talk. Except me... as i am super nice...
Obviously Hooroo is being a pussy then
Not sure yet. Am yet to play. Only passing on what I heard from guys that played against him
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@Hooroo said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
@MN5 said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
2 Points
1/ How the hell Henry is in anyones top XI is beyond me, I renaming him Big Ben as all he does is provide pies. Big Ben Henry i dub thee.
2/ I played Matt Hart in club cricket, didnt see the mean side.... but he scored fuck all and his team got crushed... so my team did all the trash talk. Except me... as i am super nice...
Obviously Hooroo is being a pussy then
Not sure yet. Am yet to play. Only passing on what I heard from guys that played against him
Ask him if he still likes a sesh with Fleming and Nash.
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@MN5 said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
@Hooroo said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
@MN5 said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
2 Points
1/ How the hell Henry is in anyones top XI is beyond me, I renaming him Big Ben as all he does is provide pies. Big Ben Henry i dub thee.
2/ I played Matt Hart in club cricket, didnt see the mean side.... but he scored fuck all and his team got crushed... so my team did all the trash talk. Except me... as i am super nice...
Obviously Hooroo is being a pussy then
Not sure yet. Am yet to play. Only passing on what I heard from guys that played against him
Ask him if he still likes a sesh with Fleming and Nash.
And thats why you dont invited to nice events......
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
@MN5 said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
@Hooroo said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
@MN5 said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
2 Points
1/ How the hell Henry is in anyones top XI is beyond me, I renaming him Big Ben as all he does is provide pies. Big Ben Henry i dub thee.
2/ I played Matt Hart in club cricket, didnt see the mean side.... but he scored fuck all and his team got crushed... so my team did all the trash talk. Except me... as i am super nice...
Obviously Hooroo is being a pussy then
Not sure yet. Am yet to play. Only passing on what I heard from guys that played against him
Ask him if he still likes a sesh with Fleming and Nash.
And thats why you dont invited to nice events......
righto
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Amazing thing about Henry is where he sits in terms of career strike rates...13th of all time. Lots of four and five wicket bags.
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@Godder https://www.odt.co.nz/sport/cricket/risk-too-great-not-take-blundell
Makes some sense on the keeping front - if he drops Virat Kohli on 0 whatever contribution the keeper might make with the bat is probably well and truly nullified.
I agree on Ish - he seems more likely to take wickets than Astle and I'm not sure Astle is going to concede any less runs.
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In the strange world that NZ Cricket operates in, next month we (a New Zealand XI) are playing three ODIs against an Australian XI as a warm up to the World Cup.
Only most of our World cup team aren't playing because they're too busy warming benches in the IPL. The Australians, meanwhile, are expected to have their full squad CWC squad available, even though a lot of them actually play in the IPL.
Apparently our guys are allowed to use their annual leave to skip this series and stay in India, where a few of them might actually get to play a couple of T20s as replacements for the Aussies, who've come home to prepare properly for the Cricket World Cup. But, probably most of our guys will continue to work on their form from the dugout - perhaps using an app on their phone.
Santner has had a few games and bowled a good spell in his last one. I think Little Kane might have had a couple of quick bats in recent times.
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And in other "bend over" news, India has instructed Australia to re-schedule its January three match series against us. The Aussies and us are "looking at options". I think the subtext of us being relaxed about this is that we've also got a mega-buck series against India scheduled, so there will be no rocking of the boat.
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"Black Caps star Martin Guptill says he's ready to try to fill the big boots of the departed David Warner in the Indian premier League.
The hard-hitting Guptill hasn't been used at all by the Sunrisers Hyderabad but is an obvious choice to replace Warner who has left to join Australia's World Cup preparations."
Somehow the phrase "fucked up" hasn't been used in this article.