Nah India were pretty lucky to be honest. Sharma should have walked when he was on 1 but oh well. Franklin played like the man. Pathan played like the man. Pretty good ODI compared to the rest I'd say.
Jimmeh! Great to see him go well with the bat. His two highest ODI scores in consecutive innings, I think! However, reading the cricinfo commentary, it appears he was plumb Lbw early and not given, and dropped twice on his way to 98*, so it could easily have all gone pear-shaped for him.Jimmeh Franklin 98*
Lol i was exactly the same as you.
Hm i would have to disagree. He looked like a completely different player out there. He was calm and confident and in the last over smashed like 20 (with a massive as six)
Yeah i must admit i had my doubts but it was slightly justified i mean he hadn't taken a wicket before this game.
I think suggesting Franklin as a potential captain is rather ridiculous. Not only is his place in the side not secure (yes, hopefully that may change) but he is still one of the biggest confidence-based performers with the worst body language going around. Not something you want in a captain.
I see him as performing the middle overs role, clogging up an end and every now and again he's going to take you a two to three wicket bag - he's not there to rip out a team, if he can average a 1/35 or 1/40 type bowling performance then he's doing his job, cause he also adds some late order hitting power and seems to be getting better and better as a batsman.
Yeah, he needs to establish himself in the team first. Look at his body language in the domestic circuit, he knows he's king there and if he can bring that mentality into his international play, that'll be the same.
Well if he can get another score in the next game then he will be going along way to cementing his place for a while at least. It's a shame about his bowling though.
Ignoring the Watling keeping thing for a minute (and Nathan McCullum as a Test option - blekh), I agree. I'd probably change the order though and go with:
I think you will find McCullum will get his average up over 40 in the next twelve months or so but yeah that 4-8 looks really good we just need a solid opener to partner Brendon(any ideas? Raval?) and I'll give Guptill the number 3 slot for the time being (i actually liked Flynn but he failed so many times after a good start). McCullum, Taylor, Ryder, Williamson all should average 40+ which would be a first for a NZ team.
Meh, I think the fact that before today he had four List A tons and a strike rate of over 120 was just as much of an indication that he was capable of this as his IPL performances. Picking players on what they're capable of rather than what they're likely to do is a recipe for disaster anyway.
I asked that about Tiwary earlier because people are more likely to have seen him playing in the IPL than anywhere else.
