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**Official** New Zealand in Australia 2015

GotSpin

GotSpin

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Well done NZ and taylor.

I hope steve learns a lesson about this 1st innings declaration/bat to declare crap.
 
thierry henry

thierry henry

International Coach
FTR I was actually at work so just following the cricinfo commentary, assumed the fields were set deep for Taylor but not sure to what extreme
 
Niall

Niall

International Coach
thierry henry said:
I agree with that tactic but we went with "everyone else swing while Taylor becomes increasingly more defensive and disinterested in going for his 300" as our way of going about it.

Would've thought "everyone bat sensibly but once we get to 9 down Ross farms the strike and goes hell for leather for 300 before Boult gets out" would've been the more traditional method
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Agreed.

He for whatever reason decided to prioritise his triple rather than quick runs this morning, which was silly.

Immense innings, but he slowing down was what the team did not need this morning.

It suited Australia perfectly though, so doubt they were to upset about his strategy.:laugh:
 
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Dan

Hall of Fame Member
Given that we all slam the comms when they make a "well teams can score at 12 an over in T20s these days, so they can totally chase 220 in a session" statement, because, you know, they're different formats and you can counter it by bowling more defensively and having men back on the boundary, I'm amazed at the amount of people pretending that Taylor could smash every ball because he's on 290 not out and players can score at 12 an over in T20s these days.
 
hendrix

hendrix

Hall of Fame Member
Niall said:
Agreed.

He for whatever reason decided to prioritise his triple rather than quick runs this morning, which was silly.

Immense innings, but he slowing down was what the team did not need this morning.

It suited Australia though perfectly though, so doubt they were to upset about his strategy.:laugh:
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He went from 233 to 290.

Took the singles early against guys like Lyon and told Boult to block.

The strategy worked pretty well.
 
thierry henry

thierry henry

International Coach
NZTailender said:
Maybe he doesn't give a **** about the personal milestone and is taking a longer view i.e. the more Boult bats he gains confidence and experience in these situations so he doesn't get panicky in the future situations like this.
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I get that it's like 99.99% a team game, but a 300 against Australia takes precedence over "Trent Boult might get us some runs" imo

But yeah anyway, he finally listened to me and immediately got out, so there ya go
 
Athlai

Athlai

Not Terrible
Dan said:
Given that we all slam the comms when they make a "well teams can score at 12 an over in T20s these days, so they can totally chase 220 in a session" statement, because, you know, they're different formats and you can counter it by bowling more defensively and having men back on the boundary, I'm amazed at the amount of people pretending that Taylor could smash every ball because he's on 290 not out and players can score at 12 an over in T20s these days.
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I mean there are times he could,batting on his third day in 30 degree heat? Probably a bit harder
 
hendrix

hendrix

Hall of Fame Member
thierry henry said:
But yeah anyway, he finally listened to me and immediately got out, so there ya go
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It's also that Taylor just isn't a particularly good slogger these days, and he knows it. It's been pretty evident in his one day game that his peak SR these days is about 110.
 
thierry henry

thierry henry

International Coach
Dan said:
It's almost like Australia bowled well to him and, with the 6-guys-back-take-the-single-please fields, it wasn't easy to slog!
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I'm referring to the entire day's batting. I understand that Craig, Henry and Southee did not cover themselves in glory if "hang around and make as many runs as possible" was the team goal.
 
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