The Silver Fern

Surely with late arrivals from IPL you still schedule pre-tournament fixtures for the remaining players who haven’t just been playing IPL.
Who apart from Trent & Santner arrived late?

Lols at climate change denier Doull wanking himself over Santner not getting a bowl yet, then finally comes on and bowls two rank long hops…

Sanity has prevailed

@MN5

Hallelujah

Beast is Mike Bracewell. Underdone and this is not the match we need to be using to nurture players into form

Rachin & James in for Chappy & Beast please

@SouthernMann

Chapman just never scores significant runs in big matches or against big teams. Small match player. Timid.

Chapman AGAIN?! WTAF…

We really missed Henry Nicholls today
/s

Anyone else trying to find a streaming option to watch these matches from UK?
(Other than vpn hack of tvnz+ )

Why why WHY is Latham still at 4?????
Has offered zero firepower or dominance.

It’s great that he’s getting through that, young family and cricket hero (one of mine especially) etc etc.
Are the world media and social platforms gagged from mentioning the elephant in the room? Is he suddenly forgiven?

@taniwharugby don’t start me on MIQ priority….

Big undertaking for a couple of net sessions

SAKES!! 😩

Culture/Cult legend, not skills/stats legend sure!

@labcat Todd Astle had better bowl verrrrrrry well in the PAK series to justify his selection over Ajaz for the World Cup

Was about to say T20 WC will be CDG’s swan song if he makes it that far, but of course he wasn’t selected for it in any case.
Been a legend, and may play a few more tests this season, but Father Time says Ciao Bella

Good shout Shark, reckon your 15 is bang on.
I struggle to have confidence is the firepower of a Nicholls/Latham/CDG/Santner middle order but prefer the look of Latham/Neesham/CDG/Santner, with Munro opening.
Nicholls and Latham essentially play the same role, Nicholls has only just delivered one ton whereas Latham has done it consistently at 5 in ODI’s, so Latham starts and Nicholls is your spare batsman.
I am obviously biased, but genuinely think if Jimmy keeps getting wickets that he is now ahead of CDG in all three formats (and they’ll probably play both in ODI & T20)

The irony is their competition for team all rounder spots goes way back to Auckland cricket 8 or so years ago when they and Colin Munro were all in the mix for the Aces, until Jimmy hightailed it to Otago. 18 months ago it was CDG again when Jimmys form fell away. Now here we are... May the best man, or better still all three men, WIN

<p>Destructive NZ born & bred former Christchurch-based allrounder a match-fixer? </p>
<p>#papertrail</p>
<p>#why</p>