Any chance of a comparison between Beard's old and new actions, Kippax? From what I've seen it looks pretty clean.
His bowling has always been good in 4-5 day stuff. Which is a post I have made many times. He is a slower ball away from being another Dimitri Masceranhas in pajama cricket. However due to his predictability he is cannon fodder in List As.Munro bowling up a storm. Just Neesham's health stands between him and Tests against Australia, they say.
Watched Bracewell's wicket balls and they were fairly uninspiring - a couple of decent bouncers at the tail the only thing worth noting. His competition in Henry however didn't make much impression at all.Quick 5 wickets for Boult. Cleaning up the middle/lower order. Nice to know Southee Bracewell and Boult have all got 5 wickets in their matches. Shame Craig was fairly ineffective..
What do you like about Nicholls btw? Seems to be preparing for the favoured slog-sweep and hook/pull but still looks unbalanced even when he hits those. I think it's his feet that don't move quickly and precisely enough. That and a fairly exaggerated bat arc from outside to in.
Oh ok, I'll keep an eye on him as a LO batsman.Well I think Nicholls came up because some posters were saying Latham belonged in Limited Overs matches basically (which I didn't really agree with). Nicholls does offer good strike rotation and power to be somewhat interesting at the top of the order in typical NZ white ball conditions (45 average in List A I think), But yeah I was advocating Will Young over Nicholls and Munro for this series.
What I gathered from that video is that he's strong with anything coming in at the body/leg side but dubious on things moving away outside off.
I think Munro can hurt spin bowlers with his charges, swipes, reverse sweeps etc so there are some quick runs to lose, however you'd still back a good spinner to take care of him.Yeah it's become a bit of a mystery as to why domestic captains are ever opting for anything other than spin to Munro, even with Plunket Shield pitches being the way the are.
He's proven for several seasons now that he's going to gorge himself at a 100+ SR on your conventional bowling rotations, so there's not a whole lot to lose.
A lot of his offside play does degenerate into a nasty swipe with the very hard and dominant bottom hand.What I gathered from that video is that he's strong with anything coming in at the body/leg side but dubious on things moving away outside off.
Milne also with one or two catches put down in the slips yesterday ftr.Milne's three wickets beating Wagner, Astle and Sodhi with one each so far.
Is it just me or has he slightly modified his action?Milne also with one or two catches put down in the slips yesterday ftr.