Black Caps in India
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@hydro11 said in Black Caps in India:
It's easy to look at a team like India and marvel at their tail. The truth is, of course they have a good tail. In India you probably always want to pick two spinners. If you pick two good spinners then you should only need two quick bowling options. What India does is pick two good spinners. One of those spinners happens to be a good batsman, too. Therefore they can put their keeper at 8 which gives them a good tail.
The tail is very easy to fix. All we need to do is put Neesham at 6, Santner at 8. Then you have Henry at 9 who has a FC average of 24. Wagner and Boult are good enough. The real concerns are who we bring in to bat at 5 and whether Raval is actually any good.
Yeah, outside India their tail is shit.
The problem with our tail (which has been terrible the last year), is it only looked good with Neesham (who will never be fit enough to play consistently & wont bat there ever again anyway) & Craig (who is only an option on rank turners), if you look at the 2014+ stats you ran, its Craig & Neesham padding those, the only ton & 3 / 6 50's.
Dropping Santner in at 8 would help hugely, but as you note, who bats 5. And where does the occasionally fit Anderson play
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If I can interrupt for but a moment:
Waugh ton lifts NSW Metro to U17s title | cricket.com.au
A timely century from Austin Waugh set the tone for NSW Metro before a brilliant performance with...
Austin Waugh (son of Steve) racked up a century for NSW Metro U17 as they took the final against QLD (by 152 runs) in the final today. There is a highlights vid in the link above.
He bats 4. Can hit. No pressure
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Did we do the Saffas hitting the 2nd biggest run chase of all time yesterday to stuff Australia?
http://www.espncricinfo.com/south-africa-v-australia-2016-17/engine/match/936139.html
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@gollum said in Black Caps in India:
Did we do the Saffas hitting the 2nd biggest run chase of all time yesterday to stuff Australia?
http://www.espncricinfo.com/south-africa-v-australia-2016-17/engine/match/936139.html
Even better, don't they hold the proud record of giving up 8 of the 10 biggest chases ever?
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@NTA said in Black Caps in India:
Would be at least 4 of the top 5?
Yeah - it's 4 of the top 4, 8 of the top 10.
I think my favourites were the 2007 series in NZ, when Aus kept posting giant scores, and we kept chasing them down.
Especially Hamilton, with Hayden's 181no... I believe he was taken straight to hospital for heat-stroke(?) (plus broken toe, apparently) after the innings - very probably assuming he'd won the game. I like to imagine his face when discovering it was all-for-nought. -
@NTA said in Black Caps in India:
If I can interrupt for but a moment:
Waugh ton lifts NSW Metro to U17s title | cricket.com.au
A timely century from Austin Waugh set the tone for NSW Metro before a brilliant performance with...
Austin Waugh (son of Steve) racked up a century for NSW Metro U17 as they took the final against QLD (by 152 runs) in the final today. There is a highlights vid in the link above.
He bats 4. Can hit. No pressure
Austin, son of Steve
Who knew Tugger was such a big WWE fan.
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i'd be a bit wary of having a go at the aussies for losing despite posting massive scores - if pressed you could probably come up with a reason that hasn't happened to us too often... still, gotta make hay where we can in the cricket sledging... pack of fucking chokers when they score big eh, bad as the saffas in a knock-out game!
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Little Kane and Neesham in for us - Nicholls and Wagner out.
Batting should be much stronger - Santner possibly batting at eight. Bowling maybe a bit less bite.
The toss apparently crucial - I think that's the seventh in a row for India at home - they won all four against SA as well and I don't think they played anyone since?
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@Chris-B. said in Black Caps in India:
Little Kane and Neesham in for us - Nicholls and Wagner out.
Batting should be much stronger - Santner possibly batting at eight. Bowling maybe a bit less bite.
The toss apparently crucial - I think that's the seventh in a row for India at home - they won all four against SA as well and I don't think they played anyone since?
That really fucks me off. No DRS / hound the umpire / prepare pitches that don't last 5 days dickheads keep winning the fucking toss making them nigh on impossible to beat at home. Grrrr.
