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@canefan said in NZ Cricket:
@MN5 said in NZ Cricket:
@1kiwi said in NZ Cricket:
Ajaz Patel back in the mix along with Michael Bracewell.
theosL/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==The thought of Bracewell and Santner in the same test team fills me with all sorts of dread
Bracewell is the journeyman's journeyman
I'll stand up for Mike. Should never be in the test squad. But, is a lock every day of the week in the pyjama cricket. Which is interesting as a young cricketer he looked a veey good top order four day bat. I just don't see him as a bowling all rounder
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four test tour to Australia in a couple of summers. Can we please start preparing for that now so we do not completely embarrass ourselves?
Also CA fire the first shots by not giving Qld a test, and suddenly the pressure is on the Qld Government. You do NOT fuck with the populaces access to cricket.
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@canefan said in NZ Cricket:
@Bovidae said in NZ Cricket:
Lou Vincent finally gets his 100th ODI cap. The occasion even brought Hadlee to tears.
You have to be made of stone not to feel something for Lou
Brassed me off no end his life time ban. He was just a dumb kid easily influenced by the wrong crowd. He should have been rehabilitated. And then you have some blokes from the sub-continent doing it for years without punishment and Australians caught cheating in SA and we're back in 12 months. Sick.
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Great guy off the field too was Lou Vincent. Always had time for everyone.
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@African-Monkey That was his problem
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@Bovidae said in NZ Cricket:
Replacing Conway and Allen.
Wellington seamer Nathan Smith and power hitting Central Districts allrounder Josh Clarkson have earned their first Black Caps cricket contracts for the coming season.
Nathan Smith is a good option, not convinced Clarkson will be more than a journeyman at international level.
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Right decision. Curtains down on a very good career. Certainly one of NZs best ever.
A great combo of longevity AND class.
Sort of a bowling equivalent of Ross Taylor, not QUITE World class maybe but there wouldn’t be a team in his era who wouldn’t have had him in the mix in their squads ( ok maybe except for Australia in recent years )
Thanks Timmy, you’ve been an absolute champ.
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@dogmeat said in NZ Cricket:
@MN5 Fuck you're a tough audience mate. According to the ICC Test ranking Roscoe's the 62nd best batter of all time . What's your definition of world class?
Timmee's the 71st best bowler FWIW.
Well, clearly the top 61 of all time is World Class, I stand by what I said.
Southee misses out by heaps by that measure…..
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He's on 385 test wickets, so needs 5/match to get to 400. He takes about 4 wickets per test at home so he'll probably finish up in the high 390s and be hoping we make the WTC final.
He's currently on 93 sixes, 6th on the all time list. Ben Stokes is top with 131, so we'll out of reach. McCullum is second and the leading kiwi with 107 which also seems out of reach. The others ahead of him are Gilchrist (100), Gayle (98) and Kallis (97). He averages 2 sixes every three innings, so 4 sixes across these tests would see him draw level with Kallis. If he gets in particularly good nick, getting to 100 might be doable.
Incidentally, that list kind of shows what a wasted talent Southee's batting was. He averages 15. Only three other players have hit 50+ sixes while averaging under 30 - Wasim Akram, Jason Holder and Stuart Broad (averaging 22, 29 and 18 respectively). All managed test tons and Broad needed 244 innings to get to 55. I sometimes wonder if he hadn't blasted that 77 on debut he'd have tried to hit less sixes and scored more runs as a result.
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