*Official* India Tour of New Zealand 2019

[Moss]

Any thoughts on the Todd Astle selection? Did a good enough job with the ball until Pandya unleashed and may yet make a contribution with the bat, but everytime he's been on the park he seems like an afterthought to Williamson. Feels like we haven't learned anything in the Astle vs Sodhi debate.

Meanwhile, Santner has no clue against Shami, will do well to survive here.

 

[mr_mister]

They could easily do it in singles from here.. Neesham is looking awesome but this is a risky way to go about it lol

 

[vcs]

Wow Neesham is loving the pace on the ball.

 

[CM Punk]

hahahahahahahaha no ferguson?

It's close between Lockie and Henry, I'd choose depending on conditions.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

It's close between Lockie and Henry, I'd choose depending on conditions.

go look at southee and fergusons stats and then reconsider your position

 

[wellAlbidarned]

neesham hitting his way towards an ipl contract here

 

[OverratedSanity]

Hahahaha what

 

[mr_mister]

Wow. That was preventable lol

 

[SteveNZ]

Any thoughts on the Todd Astle selection? Did a good enough job with the ball until Pandya unleashed and may yet make a contribution with the bat, but everytime he's been on the park he seems like an afterthought to Williamson. Feels like we haven't learned anything in the Astle vs Sodhi debate.

Meanwhile, Santner has no clue against Shami, will do well to survive here.

It's a **** decision and the cynic in me thinks it's Stead and his Cantabrian eye patch on. Astle is irrelevant as an ODI bat, and I can't see him being effective in England with the ball. Ish is clearly the better ODI bowler, and whilst he is an 'inferior' bat - Astle is batting 9 in this side. Complete waste of time.

Jimmy is far, far too good to have ever have been out of this side. Hopefully the attitude never creeps back in because he is one serious player. Not sure his bowling will ever be more than 3-4 over worthy, however.

 

[Moss]

Got that was just idiotic Neesham

 

[vcs]

That sucks.. great awareness by Dhoni though.

 

[SteveNZ]

Yeah OK, just go back to not posting you muppet.

 

[OverratedSanity]

It's amazing how often batsmen just wander out of their crease during an appeal thinking they're somehow just immune to a runout.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

It's a **** decision and the cynic in me thinks it's Stead and his Cantabrian eye patch on. Astle is irrelevant as an ODI bat, and I can't see him being effective in England with the ball. Ish is clearly the better ODI bowler, and whilst he is an 'inferior' bat - Astle is batting 9 in this side. Complete waste of time.

Jimmy is far, far too good to have ever have been out of this side. Hopefully the attitude never creeps back in because he is one serious player. Not sure his bowling will ever be more than 3-4 over worthy, however.

reckon his bowling is not far from turning a corner. Mechanically, it's all there now as he's solved his issues of falling away. Just a matter of being able to bang a heavy length more consistently.

 

[The Hutt Rec]

reckon his bowling is not far from turning a corner. Mechanically, it's all there now as he's solved his issues of falling away. Just a matter of being able to bang a heavy length more consistently.

It’s definitely vastly improved from where it was prior to this season, I reckon.

 

[jcas0167]

Such a shame, but hugely encouraging to see Neesham carrying on his batting form from the Sri Lanka series. Really looks the goods.

 

[SteveNZ]

reckon his bowling is not far from turning a corner. Mechanically, it's all there now as he's solved his issues of falling away. Just a matter of being able to bang a heavy length more consistently.

Hope so. But I've just not seen him remedy the inability, as you say, of hitting a length. Drags down way, way too much. May be that he just needs to bowl a shitload to make it innate, if he has solved the technical stuff. I just love the base he hits from as a batsman, it's so clean - similar to what Gup does.

 

[CM Punk]

Neesham has number 6 locked down.

 

[vcs]

Neesham and Corey Anderson are basically the same cricketer.

 

[Bijed]

Re: Neesham's dismissal, how come it was run out as opposed to stumped? Only reading cricinfo, but it doesn't sound like he was attempting a run. Insignificant as far as the match is concerned, I appreciate, just curious.