Black Caps v South Africa
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@Chris-B said in Black Caps v South Africa Tests:
On the plus side - Santner at 8 through to Timmy at 11 means a pretty strong batting tail, who can hopefully make up for Devon's start.
He's averaging 11 in his last 10 bats in all forms of cricket - dating back to mid November.
Ugh
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@MN5 nah Conway’s done enough in the past to keep his spot. Hopefully he can find form because he’s easily one of our best when he’s on. Kane went through a period of not scoring anything and we kept our patience, we need to do the same with Conway.
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Around the time that Sky lost the cricket, we'd developed a pretty World Class commentary team, while the Aussies were messing around with their blokey crap. I thought our coverage was significantly better.
They've lifted their game significantly - including poaching Smithy - but also including a couple of Brits and better analysts, while we've gone backwards. Their coverage is way more professional than ours now.
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@Canes4life said in Black Caps v South Africa Tests:
@MN5 nah Conway’s done enough in the past to keep his spot. Hopefully he can find form because he’s easily one of our best when he’s on. Kane went through a period of not scoring anything and we kept our patience, we need to do the same with Conway.
Probably right but his form has fallen off a fucken cliff. Australia will be licking their lips
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@Canes4life said in Black Caps v South Africa Tests:
@MN5 nah Conway’s done enough in the past to keep his spot. Hopefully he can find form because he’s easily one of our best when he’s on. Kane went through a period of not scoring anything and we kept our patience, we need to do the same with Conway.
Conway won't still be in the team by the 2nd test v Aus. Imo.
Better to do it kindly, tell him his spot is still there as soon as he is out of his funk. Rather than destroy him.
Young fir 2nd test, IMO. Won't happen though.
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@KiwiMurph I think our guys are talking too much.
Funnily enough - that's possibly because there's only two commentators, where the Aussies have three. Our guys keep feeling like it's their turn to say something - and less time to consider and analyze.
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Rachin going nicely, I’m glad he’s playing his natural game. He’s hit plenty of shots but unfortunately he’s picked out the fielder with most of them.
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@Canes4life said in Black Caps v South Africa Tests:
Rachin going nicely, I’m glad he’s playing his natural game. He’s hit plenty of shots but unfortunately he’s picked out the fielder with most of them.
lot easier to fix that than repair abysmal technique. he looks good - could be on a hundy by now if they had gone through the field!
Slow scoring here, but slowly tipping towards NZ. I'm enjoying it
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@Chris-B said in Black Caps v South Africa Tests:
Around the time that Sky lost the cricket, we'd developed a pretty World Class commentary team, while the Aussies were messing around with their blokey crap. I thought our coverage was significantly better.
They've lifted their game significantly - including poaching Smithy - but also including a couple of Brits and better analysts, while we've gone backwards. Their coverage is way more professional than ours now.
Richardson is clearly going for the Boycott look with the hat. Makes sense, as he is just as boring to listen to.
Our best cricket commentators (e.g., Smith, Doull) earn their money overseas when we now play at home.
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@Bovidae I used to like Scott Styris, as well - tendency towards the grumpy and critical (along with Smith and Doull). He seems to have disappeared.
Richardson and McMillan tend to chatter on.
Elliott is a bit more considered, but quiet and maybe a bit too nice.
Sumo isn't going to give many technical insights.
Katey Martin might be quite good - I'm still deciding.
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Bob Blair the cricketer gets a bit lost in the other bigger tragedy related to his life.
But he was probably the most dominant bowler ever in NZ domestic cricket.
Struggled to find the same sort of penetration at test level, though. Where he averaged 33ish with the ball IIRC. In NZs most difficult/worst period. The 1950s.
In Plunket Shield he was top wicket taker on 6 occasions, which is still the best ever.
Had a Plunket Shield bowling average of 14.73. Taking 352 wickets.
(His over FC record was 537 wickets at 18.54, his test record was 43 wickets at 35 23)
