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*Official* New Zealand in Sri Lanka

Flem274*

Flem274*

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zinzan12 said:
Conveniently forgetting that like it or not Martin's our best test seamer and has been since Bond retired from Tests a few years back. Even the Indian's batsmen last year after they hammered us in the test matches made mention that Martin was a step-up from the other NZ seamers.
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Chris Martin | New Zealand Cricket | Cricket Players and Officials | Cricinfo.com

Iain O'Brien | New Zealand Cricket | Cricket Players and Officials | Cricinfo.com

Daryl Tuffey | New Zealand Cricket | Cricket Players and Officials | Cricinfo.com

James Franklin | New Zealand Cricket | Cricket Players and Officials | Cricinfo.com

There's a case for Martin being our best, and he's easily the most experienced, but there's really nothing in it. Add to that O'Brien pre-India was easily the best New Zealand current seamer.
 
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Polo23

International Debutant
Migara said:
Possibly. Three players average 50+ or close to it, two in 40s, and rmaining one improving. That will be a cake walk for the NZ lineup.
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Sorry, what I meant to say is that NZ have no chance and that Sri Lankan lineup will score at least 400 in a days play whenever they bat.
 
Bahnz

Bahnz

Hall of Fame Member
In terms of New Zealand's bowlers, O'Brien has clearly been our leading performer since Bond's retirement, with 32 wickets in 9 games at 33. His figures were spoilt a little bit by the series against India where he averaged 50, but that was partly due to the games being played on some very flat pitches.

Mills was very good against England last year (16 wickets at 25.8) but fell away against the West Indies and was savaged by India, and looked tragically vulnerable on flat wickets.

Martin was poor against England (averaging 40), OK against Australia (averaging 37, including one match on an Adelaide road) and good against India (32).
 
Flem274*

Flem274*

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Bahnz said:
In terms of New Zealand's bowlers, O'Brien has clearly been our leading performer since Bond's retirement, with 32 wickets in 9 games at 33. His figures were spoilt a little bit by the series against India where he averaged 50, but that was partly due to the games being played on some very flat pitches.

Mills was very good against England last year (16 wickets at 25.8) but fell away against the West Indies and was savaged by India, and looked tragically vulnerable on flat wickets.

Martin was poor against England (averaging 40), OK against Australia (averaging 37, including one match on an Adelaide road) and good against India (32).
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This.

Martin is solid, but this idea that he's by far and away our best seamer and a strike bowler is a myth. I'm struggling to think of the last time he savaged somebody. He used to be a strike bowler, but he's not now. I don't mind that, players change over time and he'd make a great solid third seamer. I'm also happy he's finally at least bowling respectably outside of New Zealand and South Africa, which are traditionally the only places he's had any joy in.
 
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Polo23

International Debutant
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DIRK-NANNES

U19 Vice-Captain
I see :happy:

EDIT: NZ A won their second warm-up BTW
EDIT 2: Uh oh, Flynn LBW, hope this doesn't set up the big LBW collapse again :tongue:
EDIT 3: Fair to say now that Guptill and McIntosh will open
 
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Migara

Migara

International Coach
SLD XI 330, NZ 89/3 with no NZ batsman with a huge score. It's a shame that this is a three day game.
 
Bahnz

Bahnz

Hall of Fame Member
And the match ends with NZ on 240/6. Taylor hitting his 3rd successive 50, and Oram also making a few runs. I'm pissed that McIntosh managed to consolidate his place in the side with a 40, but he was always going to be picked for this series anyway. My guess is that it'll be O'Brien and Martin ahead of Tuffee, with the rest of the side picking themselves.
 
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tooextracool

International Coach
Bahnz said:
In terms of New Zealand's bowlers, O'Brien has clearly been our leading performer since Bond's retirement, with 32 wickets in 9 games at 33. His figures were spoilt a little bit by the series against India where he averaged 50, but that was partly due to the games being played on some very flat pitches.

Mills was very good against England last year (16 wickets at 25.8) but fell away against the West Indies and was savaged by India, and looked tragically vulnerable on flat wickets.

Martin was poor against England (averaging 40), OK against Australia (averaging 37, including one match on an Adelaide road) and good against India (32).
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O'Brien is a far better seamer than Martin, who really is only useful when he gets that ball to swing. Mills is rubbish in test cricket, so the less said about him the better.
 
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Nishan

U19 Cricketer
I dont think hiring some unkown spinner to bowl like Murali is going to help you survive against the real deal. To me that shows lack of confidence in self because no other team has ever tried so hard to show to the world that they are worried.

IF it works and they keep the spinners at bay, Moles and Co will be made to look brilliant.
 
Woodster

Woodster

International Captain
Thought that was very interesting that they hired a bowler from Kent's 2nd XI and flew him out to Colombo to help them with their preparation because he bowls like Murali, I hope from an English perspective that he draws one or two favourable comparisons with Murali (presuming he is actually English)!
 
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Gowza

U19 12th Man
didn't pakistan use tariq mahmood in a similar way? tariq supposedly has a few similiarities to murali and i though i had read that they had him bowling in the nets to their players to help them with their upcoming challenge of murali.
 
Woodster

Woodster

International Captain
Gowza said:
didn't pakistan use tariq mahmood in a similar way? tariq supposedly has a few similiarities to murali and i though i had read that they had him bowling in the nets to their players to help them with their upcoming challenge of murali.
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Yes they did, and I'm sure there are plenty of other not so well known players that have acted as doubles for some top class players.
 
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