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

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SteveNZ

Cricketer Of The Year
Blocky said:
But you have to recall what I said in relationship to "getting unplayables" - any form of cricket, there is a chance a ball will be bowled that'll basically be an anomaly that you can't keep out. If you're trying to grind down a side by defending them into dust, you're furthering the risk of getting that unplayable ball because you're not rotating the strike frequently, you're not putting pressure on the bowler and the bowler can construct a plan with full awareness that the batsman will not look to disrupt him.

It was always likely that one of these guys get a good nut to dismiss them within 40 odd overs of batting together, it was equally as likely that mental lapses borne out of simply trying to refuse the opposition wickets was likely to happen too, because your plan doesn't include a scoring mindset, you get what you think is a hittable ball and you throw the hands at it ending in dismissal.

Whether the test would already be over or not isn't really the question, for me, showing fight means actually trying to get yourself in a position where the opposition struggle to beat you. Rather than this situation where we really just had a plan of batting time, rather than advancing the game.
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So in any given innings, attack should be the best form given a ball will ultimately have your name on it? I'm not so sure. I remember an innings played by Ross, which doesn't get nearly enough kudos that it deserved in the context of us winning in Hobart 3 years ago. He'd watched both sides knocked over for >150, yet played a very watchful and tight innings that basically gave us the chance to win the game. He could've slogged a few, made 20 and got out. But that's a pee weak second option to backing your technique, watching the ball and concentrating.

The ball that got Latham was an anomaly. You can't base your game plan around the likelihood of getting one of those. In fact there was probably not a single ball like it in the rest of the series.

Kane has been getting out in that manner fairly regularly between 30-80, so forget the match situation there. Nor did he throw his hands at it.

There's more than one way to skin a cat. I'm not saying playing the way we did late on day 3 was the only way, but being 1 down at stumps was an acceptable goal and it (to my mind) created zero residual effect the next day.
 
WindieWeathers

WindieWeathers

International Regular
Annoyed that it's gone to the last day but can't fault the guys...another brilliant effort in the field and with a good rest hopefully we'll get the job done as soon as possible.

I also have to echo the post above..Holder and Narine should be playing as both are better than Gabriel and Benn...though Benny has done well tbh so it might be harsh to drop him for the third test..while Gabriel has picked up some key wickets.
 
A

African Monkey

U19 Vice-Captain
Every time Sulieman Benn plays a test he seems to bowl at least 45+ overs at least once out of the two innings. I may be imagining things lol.
 
Hurricane

Hurricane

Hall of Fame Member
Tomorrow is my first chance to see any live action and it is odds on to have finished before I get up :(

Regarding blocky's hypothesis of you need to bat faster etc.

I plan to do an analysis on SRs vs Batting averages and publish it shortly will do so later this weekend.
 
Athlai

Athlai

Not Terrible
God I hope there is no rain. Unless we grind it out to tea by some miracle rain can GAGF. Such a hollow way to get out of it.

We won the first game by a margin, WI at this stage definitely deserve to do the same in the second.
 
Flem274*

Flem274*

123/5
The weather gods will give us an elaborate troll where Watling gets us through to a sort of total and the West Indies will be 5/70 before the heavens open.

And because he was in charge at Dunedin the karma will all be Sammy's fault.
 
Hurricane

Hurricane

Hall of Fame Member
Flem274* said:
The weather gods will give us an elaborate troll where Watling gets us through to a sort of total and the West Indies will be 5/70 before the heavens open.

And because he was in charge at Dunedin the karma will all be Sammy's fault.
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yes that dunedin thing was a farce. it stopped raining two minutes too late. Or actually right when it needed to but Dunedin ground staff got confused and didn't know how to take a wet cover off the field because apparently they had never been asked to do it before.:ph34r:
 
Bahnz

Bahnz

Hall of Fame Member
A big 9th wicket partnership, multiple basic dropped chances... place your bets people, the fix is in!
 
Zinzan

Zinzan

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50 up now, lolling. Even if Craig does end up in the scrap-heap, he has some stories to tell the grand-kids. An 8-fer & six of his first ball on debut followed by a 50 in the 4th innings
 
BC_fan_abored

BC_fan_abored

School Boy/Girl Captain
Craig looks much more solid against spin than pace. BJ should try and take as much of the pace as possible and have faith in Craig to keep Benn out.
 
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