*Official* New Zealand in Zimbabwe

[Zinzan]

Delicious innings

 

[Flem274*]

Who would have thought Kane Williamson would score a 69 ball hundred?

I think Craig McMillan has a 67 baller (Hamilton vs Aus?), so it must be the 2nd fastest for a NZer.

Oram 68 iirc. So third.

 

[Athlai]

I literally clapped and cheered for Kane there. The missus had NFI what was going on as I'm watching this on my laptop with earphones in.

 

[Flem274*]

Athlai is a girl.

 

[Howsie]

As fun as it was watching that innings I really hope we don't see Williamson come in at six for too much longer. He showed in his first 30 balls why he should be smack bang in the middle order, put Taylor to shame with the way he worked the spinners around.

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

Oram 68 iirc. So third.

Just looked it up.

67 - McMillan
69 - Williamson
71 - Oram
72 - Ryder
75 - Cairns
75 - McMillan (That innings against Pakistan with the same scenario as Kane)

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

As fun as it was watching that innings I really hope we don't see Williamson come in at six for too much longer. He showed in his first 30 balls why he should be smack bang in the middle order, put Taylor to shame with the way he worked the spinners around.

I'm pretty sure he will end up playing at 5 in the next "proper" series.

 

[Athlai]

Yeah we'll be going

Guptill
McCullum
Ryder
Taylor
Williamson
--------------(Franklin?)
Oram
NcCullum
Mills
Southee
--------------(Bennett?Dougeh?McKay?Woodcock?)

as the lineup in the next ODI series, pending fitness

 

[Flem274*]

As fun as it was watching that innings I really hope we don't see Williamson come in at six for too much longer. He showed in his first 30 balls why he should be smack bang in the middle order, put Taylor to shame with the way he worked the spinners around.

AWTA.

With a big hole still at six, I can see either

A) Franklin, Nicol or Flynn getting picked at six (/life if so)

B) Brownlie getting a call up.

C) Left field selection of someone like Munro or Noema-Barnett to blatantly go for the big hits.

 

[_Ed_]

Being a Nicol fan, I'd have him open and put McCullum at six. Doubt it'll happen, though.

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

Guptill
McCullum
Ryder
Taylor
Williamson
Franklin
Oram
NcCullum
Mills
Southee
McKay

imo

 

[Howsie]

I'm pretty sure he will end up playing at 5 in the next "proper" series.

Yeah, hopefully. I'd still much rather see him come in at three but he's got the skillset to do well at five.

 

[Flem274*]

I think we should pick McGlashan at six tbh. Can't think of too many other options.

 

[Flem274*]

Being a Nicol fan, I'd have him open and put McCullum at six. Doubt it'll happen, though.

This was the other option I was thinking of, but I'm still not sold on Nicol. Seems very front foot oriented and his domestic strike rate in List A has been hovering at around 70 last season iirc.

Definitely deserves a run when we get the chance to play our backups, and should play ahead of Watling.

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

Yeah, hopefully. I'd still much rather see him come in at three but he's got the skillset to do well at five.

Yeah, I'd like to see him come in at 3 if there has been a big opening partnership, but I can't see it happening with all the openers in the team.

 

[Mike5181]

Our best team IMO

1.McCullum+
2.Guptill
3.Ryder
4.Taylor (c)
5.Williamson
6.Franklin
7.Oram- 4
8.N McCullum- 5
9.Mills- 2
10.Southee- 1
11.Bennett- 3

 

[Flem274*]

Guptill
Ryder
Williamson
Taylor
Random middle order batsman
McCullum

Is another option. I think Ryder is much better off at 3-5 though.

 

[Flem274*]

The problem with Franklin is he isn't suited to the faster pitches we will get in Australia (where we play a lot of ODIs lately) and South Africa. Slower decks he's all right.

He's also horrifically inconsistent and could decide to retire and bugger off to County Cricket at any moment.

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

Is another option. I think Ryder is much better off at 3-5 though.

This.

And with Taylor being the 4, it's basically the choice of

Ryder-Taylor-Williamson
or
Williamson-Taylor-Ryder

 

[Zinzan]

Our best team IMO

1.McCullum+
2.Guptill
3.Ryder
4.Taylor (c)
5.Williamson
6.Franklin
7.Oram- 4
8.N McCullum- 5
9.Mills- 2
10.Southee- 1
11.Bennett- 3

Agree with most of that, although would bracket Bennett with a few other bowlers such as Milne, Bolt or McKay.

Incidentally, Vettori's only given up playing T20's right? I'm assuming he'll be back for the ODI's vs Aust