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***Official*** New Zealand in Zimbabwe and South Africa 2015

Days of Grace

Days of Grace

International Captain
Zimbabwe must have the biggest difference between runs conceded in overs 1-10 vs. 41-50 of any team by a country mile.
 
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CaptainGrumpy

Banned
Thought that was an average 100 from Ross. Scored the first 50 at far too slow a pace. But, I like the fact he has continued to score runs from the ODI's in England.
 
kiwiviktor81

kiwiviktor81

International Debutant
What I've noticed:

Latham was the only one who got himself out; Guptill and Williamson both got done by movement off the seam.

Taylor only ran one batsman out which is good for an innings of that length.

I will continue to believe that sides are scoring too slowly and will continue to be surprised when they end up getting 300 anyway. No team I ever played for paced an innings that professionally, or near to it.

Zimbabwe ought to bowl Chibhabha more.

That KW-Taylor combination is going to murder a horrendous number of opposition teams before it's done. With Williamson averaging 48 and Taylor 44 it's hard to believe that Crowe at 38 will still be considered our best, or even second-best, batsman in 3 or 4 years.
 
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CaptainGrumpy

Banned
kiwiviktor81 said:
What I've noticed:

Latham was the only one who got himself out; Guptill and Williamson both got done by movement off the seam.

Taylor only ran one batsman out which is good for an innings of that length.

I will continue to believe that sides are scoring too slowly and will continue to be surprised when they end up getting 300 anyway. No team I ever played for paced an innings that professionally, or near to it.

Zimbabwe ought to bowl Chibhabha more.

That KW-Taylor combination is going to murder a horrendous number of opposition teams before it's done. With Williamson averaging 48 and Taylor 44 it's hard to believe that Crowe at 38 will still be considered our best, or even second-best, batsman in 3 or 4 years.
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I laughed at this. But I thought this NZ team should have scored more than what they did. Thought Ross batted too slow to begin with. Not impressed by Guptill's early approach either.

If Williamson maintains recent form, he is better than Crowe. Crowe has acknowledged that.
 
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Zinzan

Zinzan

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kiwiviktor81 said:
What I've noticed:

Latham was the only one who got himself out; Guptill and Williamson both got done by movement off the seam.
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Have to say the Williamson dismissal was just as Flem predicted, lazy.

kiwiviktor81 said:
With Williamson averaging 48 and Taylor 44 it's hard to believe that Crowe at 38 will still be considered our best, or even second-best, batsman in 3 or 4 years.
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Different eras etc. Very few batsmen averaged 40+ in Crowe's era, plenty do in this era.
 
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IKWT

Cricket Spectator
kiwiviktor81 said:
That KW-Taylor combination is going to murder a horrendous number of opposition teams before it's done. With Williamson averaging 48 and Taylor 44 it's hard to believe that Crowe at 38 will still be considered our best, or even second-best, batsman in 3 or 4 years.
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They currently have the 4th best partnership average ever (min. 20 innings) at 60.9. They're only behind...

Lloyd and Richards - 62.1
Astle and Twose - 71.5 (those two were unexpected, but I do have some fond memories of Twose heroics)
Amla and de Villiers - 82 (**** me...)
 
CM Punk

CM Punk

State Vice-Captain
kiwiviktor81 said:
What I've noticed:

Latham was the only one who got himself out; Guptill and Williamson both got done by movement off the seam.

Taylor only ran one batsman out which is good for an innings of that length.

I will continue to believe that sides are scoring too slowly and will continue to be surprised when they end up getting 300 anyway. No team I ever played for paced an innings that professionally, or near to it.

Zimbabwe ought to bowl Chibhabha more.

That KW-Taylor combination is going to murder a horrendous number of opposition teams before it's done. With Williamson averaging 48 and Taylor 44 it's hard to believe that Crowe at 38 will still be considered our best, or even second-best, batsman in 3 or 4 years.
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Probably left a few runs out there with Neesham coming in ahead of Ronchi

Zimbabwe off to a good start, I won't be surprised if they chase this.

The bowling attack we've fielded is pretty ordinary and doesn't really pose any danger to the Zim batsmen.
 
Flem274*

Flem274*

123/5
he can't pick the googly. finish him.

and after this post i expect to wake up to him scoring a match winning ton.
 
weldone

weldone

Hall of Fame Member
"Footwork in cricket is extremely important, especially for batsmen." What kind of commentary is that?
 
weldone

weldone

Hall of Fame Member
"If you're nimble on your feet, you must be a good dancer. Some examples are AB de Villiers, Ricky Ponting, Brian Lara, Sachin Tendulkar."

Jeez!
 
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CaptainGrumpy

Banned
Its taken the commentators till 3/4 in the match to realise that Zim is in the game. The Zim bowlers bowled well and contained with no credit from the commentators and NZ (esprcially Taylor) did not bat particularly well despite the commentators talking them up.
 
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