was just about to say the same thing.Haha, Ajaz pissing on Latham's immaculately pruned season stats. That'll teach the youngster to try and win matches with horrible slogs.
Ford Trophy counts as well IIRC.Power Papps beats Redmond by 196 runs.
His P-poor attitude and superior desire to sample the finer parts of West Indian life than earn a Test debut a couple of years ago sealed that long ago.Bah.
By the way, do you think this latest performance will turn out to be a career killer for Nethula? 1/150 in a match where the other two specialist spinners picked up 21 wickets at about 20 apiece. If so, it's a pretty sad end for a guy who posed some fairly interesting questions to Amla at Napier just a couple of years ago.
Yeah that was my understanding too, though with a 200 run deficit it's hard to see SoR1 catching up.Ford Trophy counts as well IIRC.
Ah, I see what you did there.I bet you $10 Papps scores more PS and FT runs combined this season than Redmond anyway.
There's certainly more than a fair amount of yuck in those bowling tables. CDG taking 30 at 20.8, KNB taking 15 at under 20 etc, lots of older military mediums and all the spinners bar Astle struggling. Though the older crowd dominate the wicket tallies as much through matches played as anything else - not absent for NZ duty or through injury which continues to blight our younger quicks.The bowling tables are a little too dominated by players whose representative days have sailed on by for my tastes. I can't see any of Gillespie (42 wickets at 32.90), McKay (35 at 30.62), Aldridge (25 at 26.40) or Arnel (24 at 39.45) playing for New Zealand again. I am particularly sad that CD's wonderful crop of youngsters didn't get much game time (Wheeler - 15 wickets at 29, Small - 11 at 18.62, Milne 8 at 41.75). Nice to see Tastle so high on the back of a decent season and a hell of a good last game though (37 at 30.48). And Scott Kuggeleijn (29 at 31.82) and Hamish Bennett (28 at 26) did well too.
Take your points on those bowlers, but to be fair when Lord de G is fit and firing he's a level above that. He can hit 130, do it with a heavy ball and nip it either way - unfortunately his knees haven't always played ball. If he could offer the runs he needed to in order to play international cricket, he'd be quite handy with the ball too. Look at the nut that got Papps on a flat one.There's certainly more than a fair amount of yuck in those bowling tables. CDG taking 30 at 20.8, KNB taking 15 at under 20 etc, lots of older military mediums and all the spinners bar Astle struggling. Though the older crowd dominate the wicket tallies as much through matches played as anything else - not absent for NZ duty or through injury which continues to blight our younger quicks.
Breakthrough season for Bennett - certainly deserving of NZ consideration though I'd still much prefer to see him in ODIs than tests. Good season for Kugglejuggle as well - looks more fluent and starting to take wickets like a bowler rather than a number 8 batting allrounder; still scored 438 at 36.5 too.
After topping the wicket charts I wouldn't object to seeing Gillespie in the NZ test squad in the next 12 months, though more so if one or two other fast bowlers are injured.