Prince EWS
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Haha, the new ball watchman.
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*Official* New Zealand in India 2010
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Flem274*
123/5
Ah yes, good old John Bracewellisms.
Bahnz
Hall of Fame Member
Hey, don't knock it. Compared to how things are now, Bracewell's strategems look ****ing inspired.
Howsie
International Captain
Yeah, he's definitely fast enough to be a genuine option with the ball at test level. I haven't seen a lot of him with the bat but he made the New Zealand under 19 training squad years back as an opening batsmen so you'd have to think his record with the bat to date isn't some sort of fluke.
M0rphin3
International Debutant
New Zealand in India 2010-11
Gambhir, Ishant and Laxman return for Tests
ESPNcricinfo staff
October 25, 2010
Text size: A | A Gautam Gambhir, VVS Laxman and Ishant Sharma have recovered from injuries sustained during the Test series against Australia and are included in India's squad for the three-Test series against New Zealand, which begins on November 4 in Ahmedabad. Gambhir and Ishant sustained knee injuries during the first Test in Mohali while Laxman, who led India to a thrilling win in the same game, batted with a hurt back. All three players missed the second Test in Bangalore.
Cheteshwar Pujara, who made his debut in the Bangalore Test and played a crucial role in India's successful chase with a fluent 72, retained his place.
India: MS Dhoni (capt), Virender Sehwag (vice-capt), Gautam Gambhir, Suresh Raina, Cheteshwar Pujara, M Vijay, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, VVS Laxman, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Ishant Sharma, Sreesanth, Pragyan Ojha, Amit Mishra
India v New Zealand: Gambhir, Ishant and Laxman return for Tests | Cricket News | India v New Zealand | Cricinfo.com
Gambhir, Ishant and Laxman return for Tests
ESPNcricinfo staff
October 25, 2010
Text size: A | A Gautam Gambhir, VVS Laxman and Ishant Sharma have recovered from injuries sustained during the Test series against Australia and are included in India's squad for the three-Test series against New Zealand, which begins on November 4 in Ahmedabad. Gambhir and Ishant sustained knee injuries during the first Test in Mohali while Laxman, who led India to a thrilling win in the same game, batted with a hurt back. All three players missed the second Test in Bangalore.
Cheteshwar Pujara, who made his debut in the Bangalore Test and played a crucial role in India's successful chase with a fluent 72, retained his place.
India: MS Dhoni (capt), Virender Sehwag (vice-capt), Gautam Gambhir, Suresh Raina, Cheteshwar Pujara, M Vijay, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, VVS Laxman, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Ishant Sharma, Sreesanth, Pragyan Ojha, Amit Mishra
India v New Zealand: Gambhir, Ishant and Laxman return for Tests | Cricket News | India v New Zealand | Cricinfo.com
honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
NZ are a side that thrives on surprising people.. Most of their players have amazing spirit tbh.. Awesome attitude towards the game with the majority of them.
BeeGee
International Captain
AWTA.
AWTA. What are the odds that he'll drop a catch or miss a stumping off one of the Indian batting stars, who will then go on to make a bazillion runs. Confidence is low.
honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
Didn't Lara used to send Nixon McLean as a pinch hitter in tests Vs RSA in RSA back in 98?
Lara was a bit off the beaten track as a captain, wasn't he? 
Hurricane
Hall of Fame Member
I guess the school of thought I am going by is that if Hopkins can't live up to his List A average then he is unlikely to live up to his admittedly decent FC average.
Hopkins List A avg 25
Hopkins FC avg 36
Hopkins ODI avg since Jan 1 2009 18 (14.5 overall)
Parore List A avg 27
Parore FC avg 33
Parore ODI avg 26
Parore Test avg 26
Parore's and Hopkins List A averages were similar yet Parore at least lived up to his List A potential. If Parore can play to his List A potential in ODIs why can't Hopkins. I suspect it is because Parore > Hopkins at facing international bowling.
And if Parore averaged 26 in tests then I reckon that Hopkins won't achieve this level. And if he doesn't then he shouldn't be a number 7.
NZTailender
I can't believe I ate the whole thing
Statistics suggest he should've done it more often.
Smudge
Hall of Fame Member
Sam Wells? He's my mate's cousin and my mate is an outstanding man, so Wells has gotta be alright.awta
Someone from CW needs to go to a match he plays and see what exactly the **** he bowls like. Accounts vary from dibbly dobbly swing bowler to bang it in at 140 clicks with seam movement. Likewise some say his batting has real potential (was an opener at youth level apparently) and others say he's a lower order hitter and no more.
I think I need to post **** about him. if he's quick, the fast bowlers club will sign up again and we'll know what he actually bowls.
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That makes sense.
But Hopkins has often had to come in at the death for NZ and hit out, which has inevitably led to him getting out. In the mediocre Auckland List A lineup, though, he's been able to come in earlier and get himself in.
He may do better without that boundary-hitting pressure on his shoulders.
Flem274*
123/5
Think this gets overhyped tbh. We're no different than the other non-crazy test nations. In fact Australia, England et al are made of sterner stuff in many cases with harder attitudes.Most of their players have amazing spirit tbh.. Awesome attitude towards the game with the majority of them.
Heh, well whaddya know.
Flem274*
123/5
Because ODIs=Tests for all NZ international cricketers.
Flem274*
123/5
lol aussie.
Jeetan Patel has always been the better bowler between him and Nathan McCullum, whose deliveries never vary from the dart. NcCullum is very much an ODI option only and there will be many spinners ahead of him I would hope.
If NcCullum played tests in India, it would be worse than Hauritz.
Jeetan Patel has always been the better bowler between him and Nathan McCullum, whose deliveries never vary from the dart. NcCullum is very much an ODI option only and there will be many spinners ahead of him I would hope.
If NcCullum played tests in India, it would be worse than Hauritz.
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aussie
Hall of Fame Member
I can certainly see Patel being just a worse a Hauritz as well. Patel is just a crap as Hauritz.
Based on what i've seen of them in international cricket, i certainly think McCullum could be a useful option in tests on turners, which will be present in IND. The INDs could smash him too of course, but his all-rounder backage could give you some useful runs down the order on occassions. Since with Vettori likely to bat @ # 6, in order to accomodate 5 bowlers, Hopkins an unknown coming @ 7 & none of your bowlers really can bat consistently well (especially if Southee is left out), thats a very long tail you will have, so N McCullum could help to balance that out a bit. Plus i have seen McCullum flight the ball in international cricket & a few domestic T20s in England this year, he certainly has more to his bowling armony than just darts.
McIntosh
Watling/Guptil
B McCullum
Taylor
Ryder
Vettori
Hopkins
N McCullum
Martin
Arnel
Southee/McKay/Bennett
Not sure, how your top-order is going to be structured. So i'm guessing. Picking N McCullum would not have made NZ more likely to win ther series or anything, it could have given NZ a slightly better balance for this specific series IMO.
Prince EWS
Global Moderator
Funniest thing about aussie's team - he put Chris Martin at nine.