Comparing him with Brady is dumb. Not only has the salary cap massively increased since Brady's prime, Brady also happily took below market deals because he wanted rings more (and once you've earned 333 million extra money is kind of meaningless).
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@LABCAT said in Black Caps v Australia:
Our bowling attack still could have got the twenty wickets though, bascially our batsmen let us down the whole series. If just one of the batters who got a 50 in that second innings stuck arround to get a score like Green did, the we have an extra 100 runs and probably win the game.
Nope that's way too simplistic. 4 of the top 5 had to battle to make 50s with the ball regularly beating the bat and with Hazlewood and Cummins constantly probing. Eventually there is a ball with your name on it and you get a nick. We should have won that game from 5 down today - I wasn't able to watch much of it but from what I saw runs were being leaked away to low risk shots. With a target that size you need to make the opposition sweat for every run not bowl 1-2 an over at the leg stump to be tucked away.
Yeah at times we were bowling like we were defending 100 runs less; getting way too straight searching for wickets. We needed to stick to our strengths, bowl good lines and lengths and force them to work.
I was really hopeful that Southee would be a better captain. Williamson was solid but tended to be a bit conservative. Southee is a pretty canny bowler and I hoped he'd bring that tactical nous to how he managed his bowlers and bowling plans. Instead we too often look bereft of ideas, can never resist a review and bowl Southee too often. Worse than Kane ever was.
Who are the other genuine candidates? Latham, but he's struggling for form a bit so would the added burden make that worse? Mitchell, Conway and Henry are probably the only other guys that are automatic selections with sufficient experience, and none of them really seem to stand out as big time leaders, but that can be hard to judge from the outside.
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Brutal. No luck for us today, so many half chances and missed edges. But also only had 3 bowlers that were actually looking threatening (and one of those a part timer) limited us as did straying down leg to Carey in particular.
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Phillips looking good. Needs Henry to tighten it up and the pressure will start to build, but while they're scoring freely at the other end they won't be too worried about just blocking Phillips out.
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I'd bowl Phillips from one end and rotate Sears and Henry at the other for the whole session. I'd have an extra couple of close in fielders for Phillips too.
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Unfathomable that we come out after lunch, needing a breakthrough and our best idea is to bowl wide of off stump at about 125k. Insanity.
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We've bowled well in patches but edges haven't gone to fielders or moved too much and evaded the edge. They've cashed in when we haven't bowled well.
I'm still think we should win from here. Australia won that session but our bowling was better than the numbers suggest. Key thing is going to be staying focused, working to our plans and not panicking.
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I've always thought players should get at least 18 months (so two home summers and a few overseas tours) to figure it out. The step from NZ domestic to international is huge. I'd be disappointed if we dropped Ravindra before the next home summer. Phillips too, I think he's shown he has the tools, so he deserves a decent shot to show he can figure out how to use them.
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Broncos cut Wilson. $84m against the cap, split over the next two years. 35 one year and 50 the other - hits can come in either order depending on exactly how they do the cut.
The contract has 'offset language'. That means that whatever money he is paid by his new team will reduce what the Broncos owe him. In practice, this means his next deal will be a vet minimum deal because the money will be going to the Broncos not him. That makes him a super low risk prospect for a team that wants to take a punt. (Although there are also ways to structure a deal to get around the offset language but depends on the length of the contract, so will depend on how much teams want him and trust him to stay good).
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Phillips was also one of our better performers on the tour to Bangladesh. I think he's earned his spot, hope that he continues to develop is deserving of a promotion to 6 since he's probably a better bat than blundell anyway, and is definitely in better form.
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God, I don't know what would be worse. Get rolled for 150 and losing by 200+ or getting through to about 300, losing by 75 and knowing that we probably with this game if we performed just a little bit better on day 2.
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Is this enough to drop Southee? Abysmal.
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Hey, my prediction of it getting easier to bat has been pretty good!
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I don't hate getting through a few overs here. The pitch is going to improve through the day. What we don't want is too many more runs. Ideally we'd reel off 10 or so maidens and then get the last wicket.
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Love seeing Henry get some success
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Marsh is going for it. Will be a good test for O'Rourke, as long as he keeps his line and length there will be chances.
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Jeez 98/3 off 10 is a pretty decent innings. Not incredible but not abysmal. The margin was so big because our bowling and fielding was shocking. The batting had an awful night in game 2 but the I think it was good in game 1 and acceptable in game 3.
I don't agree that we've bowled well. We bowled okay in the second half of game two (Ferguson was excellent), but the rest of the series we were bad, although the dropped catches are a big part of that too.
The fielding hasn't been good enough, but that's the bit that's easiest to fix so hopefully that will be fixed for the T20 world cup.
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Nah I don't buy that at all. I don't think an extra half a batter makes any difference to this performance. Plus we're possibly chasing 200 plus by taking apart the 5th bowler.
The selection issue is we lacked the Kane/Mitchell role who can score 50 off 35-40 while the big hitters fire around them. That was partly due to the injuries keeping Conway, Rachin, Mitchell out of the side who are they guys who can play that role, as well as Young not having settled into that role yet.
I don't think any line up changes fix this performance anyway, we've gone too hard on a pitch where it's tough to score fast when we should have been looking to just score runs off every ball and try to pressure the bowlers into giving up opportunities to score hunting wickets.
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This is really putting Head's innings into perspective. Everyone else has really struggled to score at pace.
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Averaged 44 at 140 last year, 30 at 160 the year before.
We're just going too hard on a pitch that seems to have quite an awkward pace/bounce that makes it tough to really get after.
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