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adharcric

adharcric

International Coach
Athlai said:
Mills + Vettori = the difference

Edit: Talking about one dayers ITBT
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Never mind, I was talking about test bowling attacks. In one-day cricket, it's definitely closer and New Zealand may be ahead, I'll have to take another look.
James said:
Would agree with you there.

Especially if you look at India's bowling lineup in their last ODI - Cricket Web Stats Spider - Scorecard - India in Sri Lanka: 5th match, 2008/09
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That was a dead rubber and 3/4 of India's first-choice attack was missing.
KiWiNiNjA said:
New Zealand has one of the best ODI bowling units going around. :wacko:

It's the batting thats "no way".
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NZ certainly have a quality attack but India's attack, for once, is strong and balanced as well. Here are the relevant averages and economy rates in the past 15 matches.

Zaheer Khan: 23, 4.1 rpo; Praveen Kumar: 26, 4.9 rpo; Munaf Patel: 30, 4.9 rpo; Ishant Sharma: 33, 5.9 rpo, Harbhajan Singh: 30, 4.6 rpo

Both Ishant Sharma and Pragyan Ojha, the reserve spinner, are coming off strong performances in Sri Lanka.

Kyle Mills: 24, 4.6 rpo; Ian O'Brien: 28, 6.1 rpo; Tim Southee: 32, 5.4 rpo; Dan Vettori: 36, 3.9 rpo

Close call IMO.
 
NUFAN

NUFAN

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Anyone else think that Guptill and McIntosh have to open together in the First Test Match?
 
Athlai

Athlai

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I'd say in the long run How is a better batsman than McIntosh but just by being a lefty he might be able to scrape together a few runs. Guptill is the second choice for me either way,

I'd be happy with McIntosh/Guptill or How/Guptill
 
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shankar

International Debutant
adharcric said:
NZ certainly have a quality attack but India's attack, for once, is strong and balanced as well. Here are the relevant averages and economy rates in the past 15 matches.

Zaheer Khan: 23, 4.1 rpo; Praveen Kumar: 26, 4.9 rpo; Munaf Patel: 30, 4.9 rpo; Ishant Sharma: 33, 5.9 rpo, Harbhajan Singh: 30, 4.6 rpo

Both Ishant Sharma and Pragyan Ojha, the reserve spinner, are coming off strong performances in Sri Lanka.

Kyle Mills: 24, 4.6 rpo; Ian O'Brien: 28, 6.1 rpo; Tim Southee: 32, 5.4 rpo; Dan Vettori: 36, 3.9 rpo

Close call IMO.
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The key difference is India will have 10 overs from Sehwag+Yuvraj whereas NZ will have Oram/Elliot (is he good?).
 
GGG

GGG

State Captain
Athlai said:
I'd say in the long run How is a better batsman than McIntosh but just by being a lefty he might be able to scrape together a few runs. Guptill is the second choice for me either way,

I'd be happy with McIntosh/Guptill or How/Guptill
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Agree, I predict that this will be McIntosh's last test series.
 
cowboysfan

cowboysfan

U19 Debutant
the kiwis best bet in the odis is to prepare seaming wickets as opposed to flat ones because our big hitters are going to destroy them.with seaming wickets the scores might be low but they have a better chance of keeping the series close and even winning it.
 
Uppercut

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Flat ones are fine, NZ can hit a bit too. It's the subcontinental-style ones you want to avoid- flat and slow with low bounce, or turning.
 
Arjun

Arjun

Cricketer Of The Year
shankar said:
The key difference is India will have 10 overs from Sehwag+Yuvraj whereas NZ will have Oram/Elliot (is he good?).
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Elliot, it seems, is a part-timer, but has maintained good bowling figures, even as NZ has become a lot more batting-friendly. He's bowled stretches of overs, and looked unspectacular, but surely better than the likes of Sehwag and Yuvraj. Then again, he won't get to bowl much now, since the Kiwis anyway have five regular bowlers.
 
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Nutter

U19 Debutant
India to win the tests comfortably, and NZ to edge out the ODIs.

Zaheer will wreak havoc amongst our top order with our poor history against left arm sing bowlers.

Hope McCullum has a decent series. He has been batting with more responsibility recently.
 
adharcric

adharcric

International Coach
shankar said:
The key difference is India will have 10 overs from Sehwag+Yuvraj whereas NZ will have Oram/Elliot (is he good?).
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Over the past 15 matches, Yuvraj has taken 12 wickets @ 29.33 in 71 overs, conceding 4.98 rpo. Sehwag has shown his bowling ability in test cricket and Yusuf Pathan has done the same in Twenty20 cricket. India's part-timers are clearly the weak point in the attack but the weakness is exaggerated far too often.
 
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shankar

International Debutant
adharcric said:
Over the past 15 matches, Yuvraj has taken 12 wickets @ 29.33 in 71 overs, conceding 4.98 rpo. Sehwag has shown his bowling ability in test cricket and Yusuf Pathan has done the same in Twenty20 cricket. India's part-timers are clearly the weak point in the attack but the weakness is exaggerated far too often.
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In India/SL they're fine but I doubt if they can bowl as cheaply on NZ pitches.
 
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