Black Caps v India
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@shark said in Black Caps v India:
@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Black Caps v India:
Embarrassingly empty stadium.
More often than not, when you state the obvious you get it right.
As the guys just said on RS, the SI missed out on the entire tour but attendances around the NI have been underwhelming to disgustingly poor.
wow..... You have to laugh.
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Guptill in place of Munro, Lockie in place of CDG - that's a capable Kiwi XI.
Don't go by the results in this series, yes it looks ugly. But other teams are not as formidable as India. I think Kiwis are likely to make semi-final in the WC. Obviously top order needs to make it count - but Guptill, Kane, Ross, I think they can do it more often than not.
Astle is a tempting pick, he can obviously bat. But I think NZ has to pick the leggie that's more likely to get wickets, and Astle looks more of a T20 leggie to me, not a guy who can get that breakthrough against a team that plays spin decent and has a partnership going.
Boult, Henry, Santner, Sodhi, Neesham, Add Lockie or another bowler who you can bank on for 10 quality overs. There's enough batting up top to needlessly pick guys like Munro, CDG. Maybe use Munro against teams with weaker new ball bowlers in a few games in the WC, but not against the quality of Bumrah, Cummins, Rabada, etc.
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@KiwiMurph said in Black Caps v India:
Looks like the Wellington crowd was 13,133.
Woulda looked awesome at the Basin.
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@KiwiMurph said in Black Caps v India:
Looks like the Wellington crowd was 13,133.
A sellout at the Mount was still under 10,000. Although there is still a fair amount of space in the ground - they must be cautious about overcrowding.
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@akan004 said in Black Caps v India:
So the biggest city in NZ with by far and away the largest Indian population doesn't get a ODI. Do these guys not like making money?
NZC had a falling out with Eden Park I believe. Lots of issues, including people that live in the area being absolute fucking killjoys and making it difficult to have events that go past a certain time. But also that it's not a cricket ground. I'm sure other posters can elaborate further but the situation is an absolute farce.
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@No-Quarter said in Black Caps v India:
@akan004 said in Black Caps v India:
So the biggest city in NZ with by far and away the largest Indian population doesn't get a ODI. Do these guys not like making money?
NZC had a falling out with Eden Park I believe. Lots of issues, including people that live in the area being absolute fucking killjoys and making it difficult to have events that go past a certain time. But also that it's not a cricket ground. I'm sure other posters can elaborate further but the situation is an absolute farce.
Fair enough. Wasn't aware of this.
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@KiwiPie said in Black Caps v India:
@Chris-B said in Black Caps v India:
@No-Quarter said in Black Caps v India:
That sums it up. A gentle half volley on leg stump and Santner chips a catch. We've thrown this game away with stupidity.
Mostly Little Kane. What the fuck was he thinking?!!
Neesham's was just a contribution to the "Cricket Fails" video.
We've been very soft as a batting unit in this series.
India have done a fantastic job on Kane in this series. Not fed his scoring shots and blocked up his driving areas - one thing to have a plan, another to implement it and they have so superbly. Kane has become so frustrated he's not thinking clearly, yesterday's shot a prime example. And just when he and Latham had finally got on top.
Dead right.
I said earlier about the importance of that over where we got 10 runs - you could sense Kane was about to bubble over and do something stupid. But, then it seemed like he and Latham had worked things out - just had to keep pushing it around to the 40 over mark and the hitters could bring it home. And then he decided he needed to hit a six...over a fieldsman's head!
No doubting that Matt Henry gets wickets - he's in the top 15 for ODI strike rate of all time! Boult also in the top 20 - both of them fractionally ahead of Shane Bond! Of course strike rate isn't everything - the only New Zealander ahead of them is Corey Anderson.
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@Chris-B for mine, Henry has been significantly better than Southee for a long time. I know he's on the outer now but it's a bit of a travesty that Henry hasn't started more in the past four years - he's getting some very unjustified stick on here due to people remembering him taking tap at the death. Which to me is a bit odd as basically all bowlers take tap at the death - anything less than 10 an over in the final 10 is seen as a failure for batting teams these days.
IMO his record speaks for itself and he and Boult could form a lethal opening combination.
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@No-Quarter plus his record in England is nuts. This definitely seems to be a stats v feelings instance
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@newsjunkie said in Black Caps v India:
Guptill in place of Munro, Lockie in place of CDG - that's a capable Kiwi XI.
Don't go by the results in this series, yes it looks ugly. But other teams are not as formidable as India. I think Kiwis are likely to make semi-final in the WC. Obviously top order needs to make it count - but Guptill, Kane, Ross, I think they can do it more often than not.
Astle is a tempting pick, he can obviously bat. But I think NZ has to pick the leggie that's more likely to get wickets, and Astle looks more of a T20 leggie to me, not a guy who can get that breakthrough against a team that plays spin decent and has a partnership going.
Boult, Henry, Santner, Sodhi, Neesham, Add Lockie or another bowler who you can bank on for 10 quality overs. There's enough batting up top to needlessly pick guys like Munro, CDG. Maybe use Munro against teams with weaker new ball bowlers in a few games in the WC, but not against the quality of Bumrah, Cummins, Rabada, etc.
Guptill finding some form will obviously help - he was significantly worse than Munro in this series - seemed hell bent on destruction, but also looked like he might not be far away.
Munro has to go from the best XI. In reality, we are short just a Virender Sehwag and a Garfield Sobers, from having a pretty good team!
We will have to use Henry Nicholls to open, which is going to be relatively untested going into the World Cup.
Number 7 batsman is the other big problem. In the bowling line-up you suggest, Santner is a weak No. 7, Henry is a weak 8 and Sodhi, Ferguson, Boult are collectively a poor 9,10,11.
Gary Sobers would solve this problem! Otherwise it might have to be de Grandhomme, who has mainly been a liability in ODIs this year - or just maybe Corey Anderson - though how he would remain unbroken throughout a World Cup is a mystery beyond science.
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@Chris-B said in Black Caps v India:
@newsjunkie said in Black Caps v India:
Guptill in place of Munro, Lockie in place of CDG - that's a capable Kiwi XI.
Don't go by the results in this series, yes it looks ugly. But other teams are not as formidable as India. I think Kiwis are likely to make semi-final in the WC. Obviously top order needs to make it count - but Guptill, Kane, Ross, I think they can do it more often than not.
Astle is a tempting pick, he can obviously bat. But I think NZ has to pick the leggie that's more likely to get wickets, and Astle looks more of a T20 leggie to me, not a guy who can get that breakthrough against a team that plays spin decent and has a partnership going.
Boult, Henry, Santner, Sodhi, Neesham, Add Lockie or another bowler who you can bank on for 10 quality overs. There's enough batting up top to needlessly pick guys like Munro, CDG. Maybe use Munro against teams with weaker new ball bowlers in a few games in the WC, but not against the quality of Bumrah, Cummins, Rabada, etc.
Guptill finding some form will obviously help - he was significantly worse than Munro in this series - seemed hell bent on destruction, but also looked like he might not be far away.
Munro has to go from the best XI. In reality, we are short just a Virender Sehwag and a Garfield Sobers, from having a pretty good team!
We will have to use Henry Nicholls to open, which is going to be relatively untested going into the World Cup.
Number 7 batsman is the other big problem. In the bowling line-up you suggest, Santner is a weak No. 7, Henry is a weak 8 and Sodhi, Ferguson, Boult are collectively a poor 9,10,11.
Gary Sobers would solve this problem! Otherwise it might have to be de Grandhomme, who has mainly been a liability in ODIs this year - or just maybe Corey Anderson - though how he would remain unbroken throughout a World Cup is a mystery beyond science.
Anderson managed it four years ago.
Neesham/Anderson certainly seem to be a neat answer. They can bat 6/7 and between them make up the fifth bowler (behind Santner, Boult, Ferguson and Southee/Henry/Sodhi/Astle), plus not requiring either to bowl 10 should help on the injury front. I still think Kane should roll his arm over a couple of times a game as well.
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@Chris-B said in Black Caps v India:
@Cyclops Yeah - I'm surprised Kane didn't bowl at all in this series.
I think it is crazy. He is a decent 7th option, and a decent 2nd spin option on some pitches. Plus he can buy wickets, which is sometimes just what is needed in ODI's
My WC team would be
Nicholls
Guptill
Williamson
Taylor
Latham
Munro
Neesham
De Grandhomme
Sodhi
Ferguson
BoultBoult, Ferguson, Sodhi to bowl 10 each, with Neesham, De Grandhomme, Munro and Williamson to share the other 20.
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@KiwiMurph said in Black Caps v India:
Looks like the Wellington crowd was 13,133.
Just googled the capacity of Hagley Oval and the interweb tells me it is 8,000.
I'll not comment further at this time.
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It just builds a case for playing more cricket at the Basin if not even India can attract a decent crowd.
