that odi strike rate of 74 certainly screams strike rotation
Flem - please read these bullet points
- Guptill can hit a very long cricket ball and is one of the best strikers of a ball in the NZ side when in form
- Given enough balls faced, Guptill will generally increase his scoring rate due to the above fact
- Due to thinking of him as a striker, most teams will drop the field back when he plays, meaning he then starts to find more runs during this play
However
- Guptill has no clue where the ball is heading off his bat, outlined several times, Guptill plays "see ball, hit ball" with no concern for where he hits it
- Guptill cannot softly place the ball into gaps, meaning he cannot rotate strike
- Guptill constantly gets bogged down at the start of the innings and no longer seems to be able to hit from ball one.
- While Guptill is at the crease, our other batsman seem to have major difficulties rotating the strike, when he leaves, suddenly we see a bevvy of singles and usually a marked increase in the run rate
- Guptill's average and career strike rate rely heavily on early performances and a golden patch against Zimbabwe and two innings in England - outside of that, he's been mud.
- Guptill due to the tendencies above, disrupts our ability to plan consistent outcomes in innings and requires someone like Ryder to go hell for leather for us to have any chance at approaching an RPO of 5 at the tenth over mark.
Seeing as he doesn't seem to be able to just hit the ball from ball one anymore, we require him to face sixty balls before he can actually get his strike rate up - at which point, he doesn't actually strike it any better or any quicker than Taylor, McCullum, Anderson, Ronchi, Ryder - and he doesn't have the ability against spin that Williamson has - so in the current environment, he's our worst player in the side, because he can't hit early, and he can't hit spin.