Athlai
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With Franklin+Vettori+Mills+Cairns+Oram+Southee in the mix maybe not though it'd be close.
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99*
International Debutant
No, other NZ teams didn't have Martin either, so they had 11 batsmen as well.
Athlai
Not Terrible
Haha and in matches with no results Guptill has the best ODI record in the history of the game.
The guy perks up when rain is in the air.
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Haha, that's incredible.
Ryder could start to suffer from "if only" syndrome, where a sportsman with high-profile off-field issues comes to be severely overrated because people assume that he'd play his best all the time "if only he sorted himself out."
99*
International Debutant
Insane. Who else bowled in that game I wonder? Macca, Astle?Wow at the second lot. To bad we never had a top order (or had one that included Marshall/Vincent).
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IMO, Franklin wasn't really a very good batsman back then. Vettori definitely wasn't in the same league that he is now, and McCullum wasn't near what he is today either.
I think it's an interesting argument.
Athlai
Not Terrible
Actually I see that time as being about when Franklin came in to his own with the bat, he scored 29* in that match I think, higher than those around him.
surreal.
Dick Rockett
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I was gonna say I remembered NZ once having a batting lineup in which every man had scored at least one first-class century. That must've been it.
Every time I'm tempted to curse the rain back home, I think of all the times I've flown out of brown, dry, dusty Melbourne and back into beautiful, green, lush New Zealand. It's a blessing more than a curse.