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**Official** New Zealand in Australia 2015

Gob

Gob

International Coach
Frost said:
Surely its Henry for southee and bring Ronchi for Neeshem.
Henry takes the new ball with boult and hope Doug and Trent bowl a whole lot better.
On the Bmac out,should smith have called him back? Or is that too nice?
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Why on earth should he do that?
 
Moss

Moss

International Captain
Gob said:
Why on earth should he do that?
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Yeah, even by bmac's standards that would be too nice.

I suppose the only misgiving is that it cut short what seems to have been one of bmac's rare genuinely good innings against a top attack.
 
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Moss

Moss

International Captain
Anyway well done to Australia. While they clearly weren't tested much in this game, still beasts at home and were assured for a new look side. Warner gets better and better as a test batsman and the attack great to watch as usual.
 
Kippax

Kippax

Cricketer Of The Year
Howsie said:
Santner is a better bowler obvs, plus he's more likely to score runs in Australia.
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Nah I've never got the impression Santner wants faster and meaner bowling to face in our four-dayers. A bit of a scaredy cat tbh. In shorter forms I've seen him camp right back in the crease and whack a few.

 
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hendrix

hendrix

Hall of Fame Member
Debuting a spinner/batsman who's not quite good enough to bat 7at the Waca against Johnson and Starc.
 
Kippax

Kippax

Cricketer Of The Year
Yeah even Sri Lanka A discards like Cribb's Tharaka can get onto him before the feet have gone anywhere. It'll be interesting alright.

 
Hurricane

Hurricane

Hall of Fame Member
I think our captain needs to be given a kick up the jacksie by Hesson. I watched part of the first day, and what I saw with the chopping and changing of field settings was under eleven year old captaincy. And according to the commentators he had been worse in the first session and had apparently costed us 30-40 runs on the first day. Maybe even a wicket or two if we had've been able to dry them up a bit.

Where you place your field is critical. If you give a bowler a mid on and a square leg then he will bowl in specific areas, if you give him a mid wicket as well then he can afford to get a bit straighter. If you give him a short midwicket for four balls and a short cover for the final two balls you will mess with the bowler.

I think if we get nothing out of this game other than McCullum becoming more patient with his field settings I will be a happy man.

Overall I am a 6 out of ten level of happiness with our performance.

1) We basically scored 300 in both innings. I therefore don't think that Australia smashed us by any stretch. They did win comfortably though.

2) Kane scored a big century.

3) We actually have opening batsman who don't get out in the first 3 overs of the game.

We lost. It happens. We will hopefully bounce back.
 
ohnoitsyou

ohnoitsyou

International Regular
Nah we got our asses handed to us. But if we had won the toss and put on 400 it would be a different game. Scoreboard pressure is everything.
 
Athlai

Athlai

Not Terrible
6 out of 10? That's legitimately our worst bowling effort since Boult debuted. We may have lost two players to injury. And the batting on a whole was well under what we have come to expect.

I'd give that a 2.5 out of 10. Kane being awesome and the opening partnership not being spuds are the only source of enjoyment.
 
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