Cricket: NZ vs England
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Through chance I've seen a lot of Wagner, Southee, and Mitchell bowling in this innings, and only heard Henry and Santner bowling on the radio.
Should that stop me from making a snarky comment about the Henry/Ferguson selection?
I fear it's too late for the reverse jinx to be successful for Henry in this game...
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That weather forecast is going to help us. Eng apparently want a go at us today, as the tail free swinging indicates. Stopping singles right now is really important for us.
So when Eng bowl they need to display lots of energy and chirp and make pressure. 3 for 30 odd and it all changes, so their first hour of bowling has to be relentless.In our substantial favour is that Eng will have to maintain attacking fields so sensible batting will get a steady return of runs. Massively important to run well between wickets in that scenario.
Our restricting them to 2.7 odd an over for most of the innings has been invaluable. Kudos to bowling and fielding plans and all the concentration, execution and awareness that goes with that.
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@Donsteppa said in Cricket: NZ vs England:
Should that stop me from making a snarky comment about the Henry/Ferguson selection?
No.
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@Gunner chance for Jeets to just bat time and hopefully find some form with it
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@bayimports said in Cricket: NZ vs England:
@Gunner chance for Jeets to just bat time and hopefully find some form with it
Ummm, that whole jinx thing...
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@Snowy said in Cricket: NZ vs England:
@bayimports said in Cricket: NZ vs England:
@Gunner chance for Jeets to just bat time and hopefully find some form with it
Ummm, that whole jinx thing...
Raval is a walking wicket either way these days. Shame there's no obvious replacement, as batting with just ten in Australia is less than ideal...
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If ever there was a scenario tailor made for Jeet. Freedom to bat without any kind of time or run rate pressure.
This feels like a black caps collapse coming on. If we're as good as we hope we are we should be able to dig in and calmly bat out the test.
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@Cyclops said in Cricket: NZ vs England:
One thing about DRS is that it gives a much better idea of form. No way an in form batsman doesn't instantly review that.
Do we have a warm up before the Perth test to try and get Raval back into nick?
Unfortunate thing with Jeet is that he's hardly played this "summer". - at least, not at first class level. Three innings for Auckland and now three for NZ - 48 runs in total. No short form cricket.
Looking closer - one of Auckland's games was rained out and the other two were low scoring affairs. Hopefully, he's played a bit of club cricket or he's badly underdone for test cricket.
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Raval v Starc/Cummins/Hazlewood is just men against boy type stuff. It'll be a bloodbath.
