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***Official*** New Zealand in the West Indies 2014

hendrix

Hall of Fame Member
Been an excellent effort from the Windies bowlers. Benn has been extremely unlucky, and Taylor has been excellent.
 

Zinzan

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Need a reckless 37 off 19 balls from Southee ending with a horrible swipe across the line Heef.
 

kiwiviktor81

International Debutant
Decent tail with Boult at 11, still though, this is not a situation tailor-made for Southee (although it is Taylor-made haha)
 

RxGM

U19 Vice-Captain
need to score at least 100 more. 300 looks a lot better than 198/6.

mccullum has a horrific away record as captain. was averaging 14 before this test iirc.
Was similarly bad under Taylor has only scored 3 50's away from home since his break out series in 2010
 

Flem274*

123/5
A single off the first ball, Rosco? Really? Craig's gone on the third ball now.
Craig averages 22 with the bat in FC cricket. Taylor was looking to trust his partner and build a partnership.

Boult is just a hitter though. Time for Ross to start swinging.
 

Blocky

Banned
Anyway, I'm happy to see Blocky tasting it.

I'll also point out that Blocky didn't rate Latham, something he forgot to mention in his "I was right about everything" comment.
Tasting what? I said if Latham starts to show the same signs of consistency, he'll make the Windies pay. I also said Taylor was a solid if unspectacular bowler and put more time into talking about how ineffective Roach was likely to be.... Taylor has out performed my expectations but Roach certainly hasn't. I also wouldn't expect (based on recent scores on this wicket) that a score over 200 is extremely poor. I'd still expect the Windies to be bowled out under 200.

As for Ross Taylor - he should never be taking a single off the first ball when he's seen his side go from 160 for 3 to 210 for 8. He should be taking as many ball as he can and also putting it in his own hands to score at an accelerated pace to get more runs on the board.

Well bowled Jerome Taylor. Good to see Roach was about as effective as I expected.
 

Mike5181

International Captain
Craig averages 22 with the bat in FC cricket. Taylor was looking to trust his partner and build a partnership.

Boult is just a hitter though. Time for Ross to start swinging.
Normally, I'd agree. It just didn't feel like one of those days where Craig was ever going to hang around out there though. He was always going to go early.
 

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