CharlesLara
U19 12th Man
Yeah apparently he's a back foot gun, and down at the A's one those decks with the true bounce was pulling and cutting like its nothing. Jonny Bassett-Graham who is a close friend of mine was saying he played two cut shots over point for 6, that were HUGE hits. Interestingly enough JBG did say it would be interesting to see how he would fair would consistent red ball bowling, but he's obviously tiers ahead of his peers atm.
Fisher swings the ball VERY late, been playing Prems cricket at Uni since he was about 16 and having faced him with the new ball he definitely looked to have the goods, no surprise to see what he is achieving tbh.
As far as Anurag Verma is concerned, he was a never a prodigy in the sense of KW and Southee, in fact Anurag never really put together mindblowing performances nor consistent outputs that were far better than his peers to even get the hype that kidna went his way. As someone who played with and against the generation we now see peaking (I'm 24 btw, the Auckland Secondary Schools XI I was in is featured Raval, Brad Cachopa, Andy De Boorder, and Southee and we played against Canterbury who has a certain see ball, hit ball guy named Corey Anderson), Tim and Andy were head and shoulders above the rest, with respect to Jeet. Southee used to DOMINATE first XI, we all knew he was destined for greatness, it as only a matter of when, and even moreso in the case of KW. I played a bit against him and used to billet with him and trust me, its no surprise that he is where he is now, apart form talent, that work ethic you so famously hear of now, was evident back then. He would literally have the processes of a first class player at age 15/16, quite remarkable tbh. I stil remember playing for Auckland 17's and ND were playing next to us losing wickets regularly but KW was still in. ND bowled out for 200-odd with Kane 140*. Southee also got a double hat-trick in first XI and took 5 fers every other week.
De Boorder, as Steve has said before is just a guy who is both intelligent, applies himself to everything he does AND is an A+ guy. You could always tell who the genuine guys of class were, and it was the norm to see accomplished front foot plodders, but guys like Andy and Kane could punch through the covers on the up for fun, and play that flick off the hip to good ball fairly risk free and consistently. Im a bit of an Andy fanboy simply because he is THAT good IMO.
