NZ All Time XI
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Boult is the superior choice over Bond.
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Problem with Cairns in an all-time team is he doesn't stack up as batsmen or bowler alone against the other options. You'd only play him if you think you needed an extra batsmen at 7, or another bowling option and bat him at 6, to cover weaknesses. You don't have those weaknesses in all-time teams so for me he doesn't make the cut as he either weakens the batting or the bowling. 6 batsmen, 1 keeper and 4 bowlers gives the best balance to this team.
Someone like Kallis can make teams like this as he makes the team as a batsmen alone, and the bowling is just a bonus. Cairns isn't quite good enough at either.
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@no-quarter Yeah - and that's the thing.
Ideally, you'd want everyone in the top 6 to have averages of 50+, because that's going to be the benchmark of the Aussies/English/Windies etc. Which is why I'll pick Dempster (a coulda been Great, but didn't play enough) over someone like Wright or even Sutcliffe.
Bowling-wise, you want people who can dynamite a world class batting line-up - in my lifetime that's Hadlee, Bond and just maybe Boult.
Harsh reality of NZ cricket is that we have to include people like Turner and Vettori - excellent players, but guys who wouldn't get a look in in an all-time Australian team.
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@chris-b said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@no-quarter Yeah - and that's the thing.
Ideally, you'd want everyone in the top 6 to have averages of 50+, because that's going to be the benchmark of the Aussies/English/Windies etc. Which is why I'll pick Dempster (a coulda been Great, but didn't play enough) over someone like Wright or even Sutcliffe.
Bowling-wise, you want people who can dynamite a world class batting line-up - in my lifetime that's Hadlee, Bond and just maybe Boult.
Harsh reality of NZ cricket is that we have to include people like Turner and Vettori - excellent players, but guys who wouldn't get a look in in an all-time Australian team.
Ummmmmm......It's New Zealand?
An Aussie all time 2nd or even 3rd XI would destroy our best.
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@baron-silas-greenback said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
Boult is the superior choice over Bond.
Longevity vs utter brilliance....I disagree. Bonds career was just long enough to be included.
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@baron-silas-greenback said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
Boult is the superior choice over Bond.
Not if you need to knock Bradman's head off!
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@mn5 said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@chris-b said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@no-quarter Yeah - and that's the thing.
Ideally, you'd want everyone in the top 6 to have averages of 50+, because that's going to be the benchmark of the Aussies/English/Windies etc. Which is why I'll pick Dempster (a coulda been Great, but didn't play enough) over someone like Wright or even Sutcliffe.
Bowling-wise, you want people who can dynamite a world class batting line-up - in my lifetime that's Hadlee, Bond and just maybe Boult.
Harsh reality of NZ cricket is that we have to include people like Turner and Vettori - excellent players, but guys who wouldn't get a look in in an all-time Australian team.
Ummmmmm......It's New Zealand?
An Aussie all time 2nd or even 3rd XI would destroy our best.
That's because you're picking people like Cairnsie! He's going to get pumped!
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@chris-b said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@mn5 said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@chris-b said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@no-quarter Yeah - and that's the thing.
Ideally, you'd want everyone in the top 6 to have averages of 50+, because that's going to be the benchmark of the Aussies/English/Windies etc. Which is why I'll pick Dempster (a coulda been Great, but didn't play enough) over someone like Wright or even Sutcliffe.
Bowling-wise, you want people who can dynamite a world class batting line-up - in my lifetime that's Hadlee, Bond and just maybe Boult.
Harsh reality of NZ cricket is that we have to include people like Turner and Vettori - excellent players, but guys who wouldn't get a look in in an all-time Australian team.
Ummmmmm......It's New Zealand?
An Aussie all time 2nd or even 3rd XI would destroy our best.
That's because you're picking people like Cairnsie! He's going to get pumped!
Well considering guys as good as Hayden, Langer, possibly both Waughs, Border, Ponting, Clark, Hussey, Healy, McDermott, Thomson, Gillespie and whoever else are highly unlikely to make a top oz team I believe your point is moot
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@mn5 You fucking defeatist!
Lillee is going to be steaming in at Little Kane, with his fucking headband - and with a minimum of fuss Kane will just guide him away through backward point to the boundary.
Out comes Bradman - on comes Jack Cowie. Only met one another once and Jack fucked him up!
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@chris-b said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@mn5 You fucking defeatist!
Lillee is going to be steaming in at Little Kane, with his fucking headband - and with a minimum of fuss Kane will just guide him away through backward point to the boundary.
Out comes Bradman - on comes Jack Cowie. Only met one another once and Jack fucked him up!
I know.....but when Border, S Waugh, Hussey and Clark are competing for the same spot in an all time XI you know the BCs are in for a pounding.....
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@mn5 said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@baron-silas-greenback said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
Boult is the superior choice over Bond.
Longevity vs utter brilliance....I disagree. Bonds career was just long enough to be included.
Boult wins on both counts.
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@baron-silas-greenback said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@mn5 said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@baron-silas-greenback said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
Boult is the superior choice over Bond.
Longevity vs utter brilliance....I disagree. Bonds career was just long enough to be included.
Boult wins on both counts.
No. Fucken. Way.
I'm no mathetician but 87 wickets in 18 tests beats 222 in 57. You are talking out of your arse. Bond also averaged better than that Hadlee guy....
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@mn5 said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@baron-silas-greenback said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@mn5 said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@baron-silas-greenback said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
Boult is the superior choice over Bond.
Longevity vs utter brilliance....I disagree. Bonds career was just long enough to be included.
Boult wins on both counts.
No. Fucken. Way.
I'm no mathetician but 87 wickets in 18 tests beats 222 in 57. You are talking out of your arse. Bond also averaged better than that Hadlee guy....
I wouldnt trust Bond to thrive on surfaces all around the world and perform in series after series to get his team to the top. I may be talking out of my arse, but that just shows my ass knows about cricket than your whole body.
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@baron-silas-greenback said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@mn5 said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@baron-silas-greenback said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@mn5 said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@baron-silas-greenback said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
Boult is the superior choice over Bond.
Longevity vs utter brilliance....I disagree. Bonds career was just long enough to be included.
Boult wins on both counts.
No. Fucken. Way.
I'm no mathetician but 87 wickets in 18 tests beats 222 in 57. You are talking out of your arse. Bond also averaged better than that Hadlee guy....
I wouldnt trust Bond to thrive on surfaces all around the world and perform in series after series to get his team to the top. I may be talking out of my arse, but that just shows my ass knows about cricket than your whole body.
Oh of course silly me....it was just helpful conditions that had shit batsmen like Hayden, Ponting, Gilchrist etc playing and missing and then getting out.
You're right. Bond was shit, just really, really lucky to get so many wickets so quickly and with an exceptional average in both forms of he game.
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@mn5 said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@chris-b said in Cricket - NZ vs Pakistan:
@mn5 You fucking defeatist!
Lillee is going to be steaming in at Little Kane, with his fucking headband - and with a minimum of fuss Kane will just guide him away through backward point to the boundary.
Out comes Bradman - on comes Jack Cowie. Only met one another once and Jack fucked him up!
I know.....but when Border, S Waugh, Hussey and Clark are competing for the same spot in an all time XI you know the BCs are in for a pounding.....
Again, defeatist!
Hadlee would be very pleased to see any of them, and used to go quite well against two of them. Bond to take off Clarke's head, or Boult to york Hussey. Easy.
