2022 Women's Cricket World Cup in New Zealand
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@bovidae said in 2022 Women's Cricket World Cup in New Zealand:
The 2 experienced players didn't want to take responsibility and bowl.
Yep, I'm sure that there's something not quite right in that squad and leadership/coaching setup...
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@donsteppa said in 2022 Women's Cricket World Cup in New Zealand:
@bovidae said in 2022 Women's Cricket World Cup in New Zealand:
The 2 experienced players didn't want to take responsibility and bowl.
Yep, I'm sure that there's something not quite right in that squad and leadership/coaching setup...
Picking Jonas ahead of Kasperek looks a pretty poor decision in hindsight. Probably with foresight as well, but I wasn't paying any attention.
Three close losses - can't afford that.
However, would have been a miracle if we'd been able to beat Oz in the play-offs - especially with Tahuhu and Devine probably broken.
We could have called in Kasperek!
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@chris-b said in 2022 Women's Cricket World Cup in New Zealand:
Picking Jonas ahead of Kasparek looks a pretty poor decision in hindsight. Probably with foresight as well, but I wasn't paying any attention.
It was an insane selection decision by Bob Carter and his sidekicks. I read and reread the squad list before assuming that the NZ Cricket social media team must have made a typo.
@chris-b said in 2022 Women's Cricket World Cup in New Zealand:
However, would have been a miracle if we'd been able to beat Oz in the play-offs - especially with Tahuhu and Devine probably broken.
We could have called in Kasperek!6/46 would have been very handy! https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/australia-women-in-new-zealand-2020-21-1249224/new-zealand-women-vs-australia-women-2nd-odi-1249242/full-scorecard
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Well, so that's that. Barring miracles, we're done.
There are clearly three divisions of talent; Australia at the top, BANG/PAK at the bottom, and the 5 mid tier nations in the middle.
We just weren't good enough in the tight ones, particularly batting deeper down.
Batting
We couldn't score 6 in the last over against WI, couldn't get another 10 against SA (that would probably have been game changing), and failed to bat out our overs consisently. Losing 6/30 or less twice is just not OK; you're not going to win many games that way.Fielding
We've improved, but a long way to go. Practice critical; the tournament fielding in general seems to improve with regular, high quality cricket. Dropping simple catches is the biggest work-on I reckon.Bowling
I think we are very competitive here, but could improve still. Certainly not a weak area, but we struggle with actually taking wickets.OVerall, it's been fun, looking forward to the last few games and knockouts, but really only to see if Aus drop a playoff game. It's cricket, it could happen, but so far it looks very very unlikely.
What this shows is Women's Cricket has a viable product, but need time and eyeballs ($$$) to keep developing.
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@nzzp said in 2022 Women's Cricket World Cup in New Zealand:
Well, so that's that. Barring miracles, we're done.
There are clearly three divisions of talent; Australia at the top, BANG/PAK at the bottom, and the 5 mid tier nations in the middle.
We just weren't good enough in the tight ones, particularly batting deeper down.
Batting
We couldn't score 6 in the last over against WI, couldn't get another 10 against SA (that would probably have been game changing), and failed to bat out our overs consisently. Losing 6/30 or less twice is just not OK; you're not going to win many games that way.Fielding
We've improved, but a long way to go. Practice critical; the tournament fielding in general seems to improve with regular, high quality cricket. Dropping simple catches is the biggest work-on I reckon.Bowling
I think we are very competitive here, but could improve still. Certainly not a weak area, but we struggle with actually taking wickets.OVerall, it's been fun, looking forward to the last few games and knockouts, but really only to see if Aus drop a playoff game. It's cricket, it could happen, but so far it looks very very unlikely.
What this shows is Women's Cricket has a viable product, but need time and eyeballs ($$$) to keep developing.
I agree. I've really enjoyed this WC despite the NZ results.
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The main issue is our batting... you can't get really good totals on the board if your batting partnerships are poor, far too often we look like we are getting a promising partnership going & either get out through bad shot selection or are run out, also lose too many wickets close together.
