@booboo said in Best ODI XI - NOMINATIONS -Bowlers:

@MN5 it must be Christmas ... I agree with you

Shit, so do I (but I have been drinking).

@MN5 said in Best ODI XI - NOMINATIONS -Bowlers:

Broken clocks and all of that....

Twice a day is quite some goal. I'm going for being correct once next year, didn't happen this year, but got to have aspirations.

@Snowy I'm with you fella. Pink fizz and Steinlager

Smith, had a decent SR for the era and was a fantastic keeper.

Do you have to pick a 'soecislist" all rounder? Or will we end up with several just picking our best batsmen and best bowlers anyway?

ESPN tells me that Turner has an average of almost 50 in this format, opening the batting, with a highest score of 171* (average opponents for that).

Second is Guppy with 44 and a much better strike rate.

Astle (surprisingly as he is one of my favorite players) comes in below Crowe and Latham which surprised me.

Southee’s variation in T20 is excellent

@dogmeat said in Best Test XI - POLL - Opening Batsmen:

@MN5 against us in 78.

We were 1-0 up in series. Boycott was (stand in) captain.

We got past the follow on. England wanted quick runs and a sporting declaration. Boycs was Boycs.

God bless youtube. I love how Beefy tells the story with such glee and not a hint of remorse.

@Chris-B said in Best T20 XI - NOMINATIONS - Batsmen:

https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/records/batting/most_runs_career.html?class=3;id=5;type=team

Top five run-scorers for NZ are Guptill, McCullum, Taylor, Munro and Williamson - by quite a wide margin.

Rossco has the weakest stats - lowest average and strike rate, but he's also batted lower in the order than the others.

Scanning the stats, probably the only guy with much of a case to push Ross out is Craig McMillan - who has a better average and much better strike rate - but, from a pretty small sample.

Macca perhaps a contender for the 6 slot along with Neesham and Scotty Styris - but, the latter two perhaps need to be discussed in the all-rounder thread.

Surprises me that T20 has been around long enough that Macca even played it.

Nomination option isn’t working

Scott Styris - 6th most runs by an NZer at a decent strike rate.

Plenty of wickets at a good average and excellent economy rate.

Did BMac do much keeping in T20? I don't remember him behind the stumps much. Makes it as an opening batsmen easily though.

@Chris-B said in Best Test XI - NOMINATIONS - Keeper:

@dogmeat said in Best Test XI - NOMINATIONS - Keeper:

@MN5 Blair squared [shudder]

There's a long trail of tried and failed opening batsmen subsequent to John Wright and Trevor Franklin. (I'm wondering how much of this we might lay at @Snowy's door - tried to collect him for a coat at Gatwick 🙂 )?

At a quick glance through the records - Matthew Bell, Craig Cumming, Daniel Flynn, Peter Fulton, Martin Guptill, Blair Hartland, Phil Horne, Jamie How, Peter Ingram, Tim McIntosh, James Marshall, Darin Murray, Rob Nicol, Michael Papps, Blair Pocock, Aaron Redmond, Hamish Rutherford, Craig Spearman, David White.

To be fair, some of these guys weren't that bad - quite a few actually had better records than Trevor - and should have got more tests. Others were pretty desperate rotations by selectors looking to pull rabbits from hats. I've listed the ones I can remember who averaged less than 30.

That is a long and depressing list

@KiwiPie said in Best Test XI - NOMINATIONS - Bowlers:

Can we nominate a combo - Dan about 2-3 years into his career before his back injury for his attacking bowling (honestly, watch him then and there was flight, loop and turn) and later Dan for his batting and bowling variations?

So you want two Dans in your team? I'm a fan of his but two?