Champions Trophy
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@Damo I can't see him keeping that role beyond this tournament. I'd be a bit surprised if he keeps his place in the team. At 36 yo, it won't surprise me if he pulls stumps at the end of this tournament.
Fuck it, Guppy is out. That looked on the high side to me - might have been worth a review.
Edit: clipping the top of the stumps - good call Little Kane. Now you're going to have to do it all again for us and the Bangles bowlers have got the wind in their sails.
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Kane run out. Not long after there was a mix up and he and Roscoe ran into each other and almost got run out.
Man Roscoe is a bit of worry....
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How the fuck did they lose that with the Bangles at 4/33?
Well - you have to look earlier in the game, where we managed to score 67 off the final 12 overs while losing five wickets doing it.
And we only did that well because Timmy came in at the end and smacked 10 runs off 5 balls.
Collectively, the last 10 overs in every game in this tournament and much of the warm up series has been embarrassing.
Without Kane in this tournament we would have been humiliated.
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@Chris-B. said in Champions Trophy:
Without Kane in this tournament we would have been humiliated.
Yes, yes, without Kane they woulda been humiliated...
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I'll add that if McCullum had been captaining last night I reckon we would have won comfortably. He would have piled into Mahmadullah and Shakib with Boult and Milne instead of letting the foot off the throat with Neesham - and shortly after - Santner.
Thought he also had a point that they should have sent out the left-handed Neesham ahead of Broom, when the bowling had tied down the two right handers (Kane and Ross) - resulting in Kane foolishly running himself out - though actually Broom did quite a good job, before chucking his wicket away.
Hesson rarely if ever varies his batting order though - more imagination required there, Mike!
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Disappointed but not surprised. It always looked a weak squad with bit players and others coming back from injury. Williamson will learn from this. Guess it is time to rebuild for next World Cup.
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Even with Kane, the Black Caps were humiliated. Losing by 87 runs and 5 wickets (against the Bangas) is pretty bad.
But yes, Kane and Luteru carried the batting. The only NZ batsmen who averaged more than 30 runs in the CT. It's funny, people say that Luteru is out of form, but he averaged 49.33 in this tournament and averages 55 and has scored the most runs for NZ in 2017.
I saw a stat earlier that said Kane has been run out 3 out of his last 4 innings. That's bloody woeful. At first, I thought it was Luteru, but maybe it's just Kane?
His partners at the time were Brownlie, Broom, and Luteru.I guess this is the end for Ronchi. I wonder if Broom (33) will also make way for the younger guys.
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Man that's hugely disappointing. As @Chris-B said to be 200/4 then only add 60 odd runs from the final 10 overs, then having them 33/4, that's bloody criminal not to put them away comfortably, let alone fucking lose.
We need to re-think our 6-7-8 axis. We've got three allrounders and only one of them actually commands a spot in the team for one of their disciplines (Santer, ball). Neesh and Anderson are not good enough as batsmen or bowlers, but make the team because they can do both to a reasonable standard. We can probably afford to have one of them but we need another specialist batsmen or bowler depending on conditions.
Ronchi came off against Aus so wasn't a complete failure, but unfortunately it counted for nothing because of the fucking rain. I said before the tournament we were very reliant on Guppy, Kane and Rosco to score all of our runs - they scored most of them but Guppy didn't convert his starts and they had 0 support from anyone else.
Also, as @Chris-B said I think we were too conservative. Reading Baz's book he said Hess was very conservative while he was always super attacking, and between them they struck a balance. I think either Kane needs to try and emulate Baz's captaincy more to find a better balance, or Hess needs to learn from this game. 33/4 should be foot firmly on the throat with only 6 (mostly tailender) wickets to get.
Oh well, thankfully given the Lions outrageous schedule we've got plenty of rugby to take our minds off this in the meantime.
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@mimic Rossco's had a pretty sensational year in ODIs - score-wise. He's only had three single figure scores. The comment I'd make about him on this tour is that he's never really looked fluent and he's been pretty slow for large chunks of his innings - accelerating towards the end, but if he gets out before he gets a chance to put his foot down for a decent period of time, he ends up having used up quite a lot of balls.
But, presumably this is the role Hesson is asking of him - and our lower middle order has certainly shown they can't be trusted if he got out early!