NZ tour of India
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Just play out the day Mitch.
Run outs in test match cricket are just stupid.
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@donsteppa said in NZ tour of India:
And now Blundell idiotically runs himself out without troubling the scorers...
I miss BJW
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I think we're into some interesting selection times for the Test side over the next twelve months.
Last night I started to think about a side for Bangladesh without Williamson and Taylor in response to @Chris-B's post, and got myself into a tangle much quicker than I expected. Mainly because Ajaz. I started thinking through roughly...
- Latham
- Young
- Conway (or vice versa with Young)
- "Hmm... possibly Philips, or possibly move Nicholls up one" (I'm not a noted Nicholls fan, but I suppose he does make his own luck)
- Nicholls
- Blundell (although his form with the bat hasn't been great in the last few months, I can't think of others in the near future?)
- Ravindra, and then I'll pick the usual four pace... hang on... what about Sir Ajaz Patel?
I then wondered about:
- Latham (c)
- Young/Ravindra
- Ravindra/Young
- Conway
- Nicholls
- Blundell
- Jamieson
- Southee
- Wagner
- Patel
- Boult
Which offers five bowlers plus part time spin, but Jamieson and Southee feel about a spot too high in the batting order.
Might make for some fun times for the selectors...! Especially as and when Kane's elbow heals. I wonder if surgery looms, or if it's even possible for the nature of his injury, but it doesn't seem to be going away any time soon...
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@donsteppa does anyone know what the injury is?
I got like a tendonitis in my elbow a couple of months ago and it's a pig of a thing at flaring up again. Not much you can do about it and if KW has something similar I can understand why he cant play. The general soreness is easy to deal with but you can get a shooting pain from a rather simple movement that twists things a funny way.
As for your team I think we have to resign ourselves to removing a pace bowler in the sub-continent. Horses for courses though eg Wags may offer something that Southee or Boult doesn't on these pitches.
Biggest mystery is why KJ was so poor this match.
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@crucial said in NZ tour of India:
As for your team I think we have to resign ourselves to removing a pace bowler in the sub-continent. Horses for courses though eg Wags may offer something that Southee or Boult doesn't on these pitches.
I was thinking more for Bangladesh at Bay Oval, though for future sub-continent matches it will be interesting to see who a second frontline spinner could be. I've always hoped Ish Sodhi could become more consistent in the longer form of the game, but that still seems to be a way off.
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@donsteppa would be a little concerned with Kyle at 7 when Ravindra is batting as high as 2 or 3. Would love to see Ravindra continue to build experience in the middle order, but that may well be a luxury we can’t afford in the next year or so.
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@donsteppa I think they'll have a conversation with Rossco after this series - but, they need to work out if it's form, motivation or physical decline (e.g. eyesight).
I find it hard to believe that it's motivation - there was an obvious point to walk away if he was done (though he may not have realised he was). If it's form, they won't drop him after two bad tests. If it's eyesight - it will be pretty obvious in the nets.
However, if we are without him - at home - I'd go:
Latham
Conway
Young
Nicholls
Mitchell
Blundell
Ravindra
Jamieson
Southee
Wagner
BoultWhich is a bit tough on Ajaz, who is one of the first names on the teamsheet if we're playing in Asia - but, there's been no point in playing spinners in NZ for a number of years.
If Rossco plays then one of Mitch or Ravindra doesn't (probably RR) - if Kane plays, as well - neither does.
Interesting question - whether Kane shifts down to 4 when Rossco departs. I think he probably does.
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Taylor's knock reminiscent of the last days of Jesse Ryder
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@mariner4life said in NZ tour of India:
Taylor's knock reminiscent of the last days of Jesse Ryder
He should have hung it up after hitting the winning runs in Southampton. He was never going to top that
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@crucial said in NZ tour of India:
@donsteppa does anyone know what the injury is?
I got like a tendonitis in my elbow a couple of months ago and it's a pig of a thing at flaring up again. Not much you can do about it and if KW has something similar I can understand why he cant play. The general soreness is easy to deal with but you can get a shooting pain from a rather simple movement that twists things a funny way.
As for your team I think we have to resign ourselves to removing a pace bowler in the sub-continent. Horses for courses though eg Wags may offer something that Southee or Boult doesn't on these pitches.
Biggest mystery is why KJ was so poor this match.
Ebbs and flows of cricket. NO ONE can maintain the start he has had which makes sub par efforts look much worse than they probably are.
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@mn5 said in NZ tour of India:
@crucial said in NZ tour of India:
@donsteppa does anyone know what the injury is?
I got like a tendonitis in my elbow a couple of months ago and it's a pig of a thing at flaring up again. Not much you can do about it and if KW has something similar I can understand why he cant play. The general soreness is easy to deal with but you can get a shooting pain from a rather simple movement that twists things a funny way.
As for your team I think we have to resign ourselves to removing a pace bowler in the sub-continent. Horses for courses though eg Wags may offer something that Southee or Boult doesn't on these pitches.
Biggest mystery is why KJ was so poor this match.
Ebbs and flows of cricket. NO ONE can maintain the start he has had which makes sub par efforts look much worse than they probably are.
It is a testament to how amazing he has been
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@chris-b said in NZ tour of India:
I find it hard to believe that it's motivation - there was an obvious point to walk away if he was done (though he may not have realised he was). If it's form, they won't drop him after two bad tests. If it's eyesight - it will be pretty obvious in the nets.
I have a sinking feeling it may turn out to be eyesight, or age related slight decline (relative decline) in hand-eye reflexes like late career Ponting.
His brief innings last night looked like a man slightly panicky that he couldn't pick up the ball quickly enough, and was reaching out/swishing away to find it, desperate to get bat onto ball...
