Cricket: NZ vs Aus
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@kev said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
@hydro11 Sommerville is good with the bat.
Santner's FC average is 30, Someville averages 18. Somerville is 35 and has never hit a FC 50 (although he does have one good innings for NZ). Not in the same class as Santner and not really good enough to bat 8.
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@Chris-B said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
@Godder said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
@hydro11 said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
@Godder said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
@hydro11 if Santner can't tie up an end with the ball, he's a specialist batsman at 8. Why are we picking him at 8 instead of finding a middle order batsman who can roll the arm over?
I don't think there really is such a player domestically. Our spin bowling batting all-rounders is probably limited to George Worker unless I am forgetting someone obvious. Santner does have a career economy rate of 2.75 in tests so it's not like he is regularly getting pasted.
Doesn't have to be a spinner - if Santner's not taking wickets, it can be anything.
Jimmy Neesham?
But his economy rate is 3.47 domestically. He isn't a 5th seamer in that he is a guy to toss the ball to just to bowl overs. Neesham is better with the newer ball. Anderson would be a better 5th seamer.
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@Donsteppa said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
Wagner has certainly fronted on this tour.
Steve Smith = Wagner's Bunny
That's remarkable by itself. What a bowler
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@Donsteppa said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
Wagner has certainly fronted on this tour.
Steve Smith = Wagner's Bunny
That's remarkable by itself. What a bowler
@nzzp said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
@Donsteppa said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
Wagner has certainly fronted on this tour.
Steve Smith = Wagner's Bunny
That's remarkable by itself. What a bowler
He's earned rave reviews. The only bright spot
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@booboo said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
Broken hand for Boult.
Heading home after the test. Still bowling this arvo though.
Hopefully they take the opportunity to fly over Sommerville.
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@booboo said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
Broken hand for Boult.
Heading home after the test. Still bowling this arvo though.
Hopefully they take the opportunity to fly over Sommerville.
@Biorealism said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
@booboo said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
Broken hand for Boult.
Heading home after the test. Still bowling this arvo though.
Hopefully they take the opportunity to fly over Sommerville.
He's a spinner. 38 is not that old to trundle in. Fuck the future, he'll be good for a couple of years easy
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Neil Wagner should be one of the first names on the BCs team sheet in as many forms of the game as he wishes. That is all
@canefan said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
Neil Wagner should be one of the first names on the BCs team sheet in as many forms of the game as he wishes. That is all
He reached 200 test wickets today, and is apparently the only bowler with 200+ test wickets to have debuted since the first ODI, not to have taken at least one ODI wicket.
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@canefan said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
Neil Wagner should be one of the first names on the BCs team sheet in as many forms of the game as he wishes. That is all
He reached 200 test wickets today, and is apparently the only bowler with 200+ test wickets to have debuted since the first ODI, not to have taken at least one ODI wicket.
@Godder said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
@canefan said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
Neil Wagner should be one of the first names on the BCs team sheet in as many forms of the game as he wishes. That is all
He reached 200 test wickets today, and is apparently the only bowler with 200+ test wickets to have debuted since the first ODI, not to have taken at least one ODI wicket.
Has he ever played ODI or T20 for NZ?
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@Godder said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
@canefan said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
Neil Wagner should be one of the first names on the BCs team sheet in as many forms of the game as he wishes. That is all
He reached 200 test wickets today, and is apparently the only bowler with 200+ test wickets to have debuted since the first ODI, not to have taken at least one ODI wicket.
Has he ever played ODI or T20 for NZ?
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[As if it couldn’t get any worse ]https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/28380912/trent-boult-scg-test-fracturing-hand)
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I think the most disappointing thing is that we've been undone by ourselves. A lack of patience and too many loose shots at key moments. The difference between us has been that the Aussie batsmen happily left anything not threatening alone and took what they could get. Our top 4 all went to soft shots at balls easily left. I think the combination of the occasion, the scoreboard pressure and a high quality bowling attack did that.
Also, although our bowlers performed okay (excellently in the case of Wags) I feel like we never bowled in partnerships so although we had individual bowlers looking threatening from time to time, we never managed to exert consistent pressure at both ends.
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@booboo said in Cricket: NZ vs Aus:
Broken hand for Boult.
Heading home after the test. Still bowling this arvo though.
What are you doing "liking" that post @KiwiMurph ?
