Blocky
Banned
It's so amazing to me to see a bunch of guys averaging 50+ over the course of a season and bowlers being 30+ - really shows you how much the pitches have changed in the last decade, unfortunately I just get the feeling that players aren't being asked to score hard runs and that our pitches in NZ just don't deteriorate over four days.
You're also seeing when guys like Wagner, Boult and Southee return - they're such a class above the other contenders in terms of their performance that you start to see the major gulf between our mainline seam attack and the other options we have - if one of those three were to go down, it'd create a pretty big hole.
Frank the Tank continues to score domestic runs in abundant quantity year in, year out.... why they can't take a guy who has proven he can do this in England and New Zealand with frequency and turn him into a useful product for NZ is beyond me. It has to be purely mental because he even does it over in India in the IPL.
You're also seeing when guys like Wagner, Boult and Southee return - they're such a class above the other contenders in terms of their performance that you start to see the major gulf between our mainline seam attack and the other options we have - if one of those three were to go down, it'd create a pretty big hole.
Frank the Tank continues to score domestic runs in abundant quantity year in, year out.... why they can't take a guy who has proven he can do this in England and New Zealand with frequency and turn him into a useful product for NZ is beyond me. It has to be purely mental because he even does it over in India in the IPL.