Black Caps vs Bangles
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Tom Bruce had one of the stranger debut's in domestic cricket history. He came out with the score at 101/4 and ended up top scoring in a domestic one day semi final with 88 runs. http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/772867.html. The funny thing about it was that no one knew who the hell he was. This is what cricinfo had to say:
"Little-known TC Bruce, playing his first competitive game at domestic level, slammed 88 off 65 balls to propel Central Districts to a 49-run victory against Otago in New Plymouth, and set up a finals clash against Auckland on February 1.
Not much about Bruce is common knowledge at present - not his age, not his place of birth, not his previous cricket pedigree, and not his playing style - but he came out at No. 5 for Central Districts and hit half a dozen sixes and five fours to lift his team to 252 before they were dismissed in 48.1 overs."
This is perhaps his most memorable inning
s. It is at Pukekura Park and many of those would have been caught at another ground. However, you can see that he has tremendous power. The bowler, Jamieson, was bowling poorly but he is seen as one of our best young fast bowlers.I think Bruce will probably get a go in the T20's at some point. Bruce probably isn't an ideal replacement for Taylor. I think Bruce is probably competing with Munro - we also have Anderson who can do that role and bowl a bit. I was surprised at the selection of Broom. We should be trying to build our team for the 2019 World Cup. I doubt Broom or Ronchi will be there. However, Broom is apparently a good player of spin, has a good domestic record over the past 3 seasons and looked good against Boult, Southee and Santner today. Bangladesh seemed a good chance to give some young player a go.
Whether or not Bruce is good enough to play international cricket - well, you don't really know until you pick him.
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Bruce is a proper genuine bat with good technique.
He shouldn't be type cast as a white ball bashed because he has a currently high career strike rate.
He might be a good white ball basher, but he's definitely a contender for a Taylor replacement, he's also a contender (and maybe current front runner) for the test 5 if Nicholls gets dropped (or maybe they will go with elevating Neesham).
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Speak of the devil.
I see Bruce had a very good t20 knock today on a proper sized ground.
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@Rapido said in Black Caps vs Bangles:
Speak of the devil.
I see Bruce had a very good t20 knock today on a proper sized ground.
Is that Wellington team allowed to field using mobility scooters?
I guess these are the guys who have delivered one title to the capital in ten years, so they should be stuck with at all costs.
Where's James Franklin? He must be injured (or crippled with the arthritis) or surely he'd be playing instead of this Gulbis bloke, who seems to lack the requisite experience.
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The annoying thing for me is they give Watling 3 games against Aussie, in Aussie, to see if he is good enough to play as he ODI keeper. Shockingly he is shit against the best ODI pace unit around on their own tracks (as is everyone else).
Now we are facing a terrible touring unit, with a bowling side utterly unsuited to NZ conditions and we call up Ronchi. To learn what? That he can smash 7 shades of shit out of that attack on home pitches? We could have either stuck with Wating & if he can't score runs v the Bangles then he's done in the ODI game, or given a very gentle 1st cap to some 21 year old guy& actually learned something.
Same with Broom, WTF will we learn from him playing? That he is OK at home v a bowling unit not quite as good as Northern Districts?
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In IPL news Colin Munro, Corey Anderson, Trent Boult & Marty Guptil just got shitcanned -
http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/story/1073340.html
Kane & Baz keep their gigs obviously.
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Strange that Guptill always struggles to get contacts in the IPL. He's one of the best players going around in the short forms. I'd actually take him over Kane in T20s...
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@Bovidae said in Black Caps vs Bangles:
@Rapido First time seeing Bruce on TV tonight. He might have talent but he looked like a slogger in this format, and was very uncomfortable with the short ball. In comparison Clarkson was striking the ball so sweetly.
In Mitch we trust!
Yeah. He looked too leg side reliant, and trying to overhit everything.
Wonder if that was bowling plans base on a bit more knowledge.
Don't know enough.
But wasn't very impressive.His batting partner Young, who I've always rated, looked a better bet as he has scoring options 360 degrees. But even he was looking a bit scratchy.
Young, who I think is the best young uncapped bat in the country has had a poor start to the season (when the field is wide open) and assume he's not currently in close contention. He's not outperforming Nicholls. Plus he needs to sort out his flemesque conversion rate at this lower level before higher honours in the red ball stuff.
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@MN5 said in Black Caps vs Bangles:
Whatever happens we'll hammer them in all forms and fans will get a false sense of where they stand in the cricketing world before being beaten into submission in a mid year overseas tour.
Classic 'rinse and repeat' Black Caps really!
We play both Aussie and SA at home this summer don't we? No need to wait to go overseas or for mid year
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Damn. Can't move from couch. Christmas kittens have decided that my ample err waist is comfy place to sleep off breakfast ... have to stay here now. Would be rude to wake them.
Latham puts one over the rope and its 97 for 2 off 18.
Boxing Day test starting on the other channel...
