*Official* New Zealand in West Indies, AUG 10 to 21, 2022

[NZTailender]

are the windies showing up to these t20is with any planning or thinking? seems like they just show up and tell each other ayyyy breddah smash de ball real haad breddah brap brap brap

They're treating us how we treated Ireland, Scotland and Netherlands, in terms of team lineup by the looks

 

[slippy888]

Nice little 38 run partnership there at the end for the 10th wicket, the highest of the innings, just as predicted.

walsh will keep his place in the team now

 

[thundaboult]

They're treating us how we treated Ireland, Scotland and Netherlands, in terms of team lineup by the looks

True, lots of key players missing + the franchise t20 guys doin franchise t20 things.

 

[thundaboult]

Still believe there's a big reality check coming for us in those Aus ODI's. The likes of southee, sodhi and boult (form from last 2 t20s)) could find it a very unfriendly place yet again. Especially if aus fields the likes of starc, hazelnut and cumcloth...our batters will freeze like usual.

 

[ashley bach]

I HATE everytime anyone mentions macewell as a bowling option, mcmillan just mentioning that we have 3 frontline spinners today, and phillips is the 4th as part time option....ugh

Stop this macewell being a good bowler narrative ffs NZC

Lol what Maceball has just done is got ya with the googly.
The so called magic with the white ball this guy continues pulling off is insane, he's always in the thick of the action and coming up with something.
Against much stronger opposition, ok WI didn't perform well, but he came up with 3/15, Is it yet another fluke?
Either he's one of the luckiest players to bless the game and currently walking on water with the cricket gods,or he's just a beast and he's damn good.
Could be that he's like Santner, sneakily good in white ball formats and crap in tests.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Santner is blatantly chucking it

 

[trundler]

Well this series hasn't revealed any new information about the strength of this NZ team at all. That is to say the West Indies have scarcely put up a better fight than Ireland and the minnows.

 

[Athlai]

It's a rubbish Windies side

 

[Apex Predator]

Windies were not that bad in T20s. Last few T20 games have been shocking. Spinners are owning their big hitters.
They need to be more aggressive in PP.

 

[Beamer]

I'm just not going to watch our white ball sides until there appears to be some sort of plan to put our best team forward and play with a strategy.

Until then I'm just not going to waste any more time on them. I'll watch the under 19s instead.

It's hard to judge NZ based on these two games. My gut feeling is the batting is really impressive but with Southee and Ish Sodhi the bowling can be got at. We'll see when they play a proper side that actually wants to compete.

 

[Apex Predator]

This is the final T20Is series for WI before WT20. Strange that they are resting Joseph & Akeal for these games. Cottrel should also make it to Aus at this rate. I like Shepherd's hitting more than Odean.

Lewis
Mayers/King
Hetmeyer
Pooran
Powell
Holder
Shepherd
Akeal
Joseph
Obed
Jayden/Cottrell

Genuine pace at the start in Aus & no more bits n pieces players.

 

[Moss]

Very hard to read much into this as the Windies are having a bad run and not helping themselves with selection I suppose. Agree with Beamer, Southee and Sodhi as unquestioned first choice just doesn’t fill one with confidence (see: 2021 WT20 final). Would like to see Allen and Ferguson in for the final game now that the series is won.

 

[thundaboult]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/crick...t-indies-tour-as-injured-matt-henry-ruled-out

Yes!! Finally a forward thinking selection with our fast bowling!

 

[jcas0167]

Was looking on Spark to replay some of the NZ innings but see Sky have the rights so will have to make do with highlights. Why can't Sky make replays available?

 

[TheBrand]

Was looking on Spark to replay some of the NZ innings but see Sky have the rights so will have to make do with highlights. Why can't Sky make replays available?

The replays are available for 24 hours I think, I watched the replay of the All Blacks this morning spoiler free just by going back in their Live TV guide.

 

[thundaboult]

Still no finn allen today. Hmm. Well yeah that all but confirms his non-selection for the t20 wc.

 

[Beamer]

Good Lord how have they picked a weaker team than the last match?!

Edit: Brooks and Thomas still playing, no Mayers, Dominic Drakes is basically a passenger, not one but three bits and pieces players in Smith, Shepherd and Drakes.

Well I guess that gives me my evening back ?

 

[Prince EWS]

So Shepherd has basically been picked as a batsman here, right? He's only the sixth best bowler in the lineup.

Has Pooran dropped himself?

 

[Beamer]

So Shepherd has basically been picked as a batsman here, right? He's only the sixth best bowler in the lineup.

Has Pooran dropped himself?

The whole series strategy has been bizarre with no official explanation. I guess he's resting ahead of the ODI's?

 

[Prince EWS]

I seriously think even Hope would be a better selection than Brooks. At least he's *good* at being an anchor.