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***Official*** Australia in New Zealand 2016
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Loose Cannon
U19 Debutant
Chad=country
Chadd=cricketer who won't get a game.
It would have been so awesome to see Nev keeping up to the stumps like Ludes does for him
Chadd=cricketer who won't get a game.
It would have been so awesome to see Nev keeping up to the stumps like Ludes does for him
Spark
Global Moderator
It won't be.
Binkley
U19 Captain
Seriously, how hard is it to do just the slightest bit of research about New Zealand wickets? Neither Cricket Australia nor Fairfax apparently know how Google works.
HeathDavisSpeed
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Much more of an example of CA doing the age old Australian cricket thing and treating a tour to NZ as a bit of a jolly and a chance for their 2nd string players to cash in without any need for things like preparation.
Similar to the sounds of how some of the Sri Lankan team treated the tour to NZ.
Immenso
International Vice-Captain
Similar to how we treat most of our tours, tbh. We rarely do warm ups. Sometimes understandable, sometimes drives me crazy. And all our overseas JAMODIs we fill with rotation. Which I'm in favour of.
There's a lot of cricket these days.
Has gilly ever kept up to the stumps to Mc Grath? I bet he has. At Sayers pace though you need to be able to move the ball both ways and be accurate to be successful in test. He is a chance then of succeeding ( if he gets a game). I just get the feeling though that selectors are just like fans here and 130 k bowlers must do exceptional things early on to remain in the team, or else the minute they struggle it is because they're not fast enough. Consequently if he does make the team, unless he takes bags of wickets earlier on he won't survive.Remember Bird who is faster than Sayers but still not very fast and how quickly he wasdropped. Glad he is back though.
Moss
International Captain
Picked the right thread to bring that up. Memories from '05..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTAB4qkPDVU
kiwiviktor81
International Debutant
The reason why I think Gilchrist is the best keeper I've ever seen is that he stumped Craig McMillan off McGrath in 2004 or so.
Edit: it was the exact video Moss posted. It wasn't an easy ball to take either as it was a half volley.
Pretty sure I've seen another Gilchrist/McGrath stumping off a leg side wide as well.
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TNT
Banned
McGrath only had one stumping in his career, the McMillan one.
kiwiviktor81
International Debutant
Fair dues. Don't know who I'm thinking of then.
thierry henry
International Coach
McMillan was so woefully late on that shot. It was like Gilchrist coming up to the stumps somehow tricked him into forgetting that McGrath was a quick bowler.
TheJediBrah
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TNT
Banned
I think SL would tear them to pieces in Asia.
Bahnz
Hall of Fame Member
Tend to doubt it given that Sri Lanka couldn't beat this NZ side when they still had Sangakkara, Jayawardene, Dilshan and Samaraweera in their top 6.
2nd Test: Sri Lanka v New Zealand at Colombo (PSS), Nov 25-29, 2012 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo
TheJediBrah
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NZ actually tend to play OK in asia IIRC
Bahnz
Hall of Fame Member
Difficult to say for certain, since we've only had two tours in Asia since the team turned a corner back in 2012: 1-1 in SRL and 1-1 in UAE. But yeah, KW's excellence and McCullum's ability to gun it on flat surfaces against overawed bowlers, combined with the swing bowlers' ability to take the pitch out of the equation (for the first 20 overs at least) has meant that the team is reasonably suited to those conditions.