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3 is optional.NZC Selection Criteria
1. Are you over 30? If not, bad luck.
2. Are you a relative of a previous international cricketer? CONGRATULATIONS! You're in.
3. Are you any good?
3 is optional.NZC Selection Criteria
1. Are you over 30? If not, bad luck.
2. Are you a relative of a previous international cricketer? CONGRATULATIONS! You're in.
3. Are you any good?
How about Bracewell for Nicholls in this team? Improves both batting and bowling.I think I know the 11 the selectors will pick. E.g. Nicholls at 4, Bracewell at 7 and the 4 seamers.
My preference.
I definitely want Young over Nicholls, that is a no-brainer.
As for the bowling/allrounder mix and positions 7, 8 and 9 in the batting order. I genuinely don't know the balance I would prefer.
This is in part because of the natural decline / injury concern over our old ball seamers Jamieson and Wagner. In part because bazball could/should throw us off our natural rythym (but really that releates to point 1 about our old ball decline). Which then makes picking Sodhi more tempting if England will be batting like it is an ODI.
I kind of think this would be my favourite 11 (Mitchell as 5th bowler, Sodhi taking a full spinners workload, no longer having 4 seamers. Gulp, an era is passing):
- Latham
- Conway
- Williamson
- Young
- Nicholls
- Mitchell
- Blundell
- Sodhi
- Jamieson
- Henry
- Southee
I'm assuming you mean Doug Bracewell, and I agree that he is a much better batsman than Nicholls.How about Bracewell for Nicholls in this team? Improves both batting and bowling.
I made a post about ten years ago where I said D Bracewell should bat 6 for NZ and iirc @Bahnz called me an idiot. Neva 4get.I'm assuming you mean Doug Bracewell, and I agree that he is a much better batsman than Nicholls.
Whenever I hear something like this my reaction is that it is code for an unconscious bias. It usually seems to be applied to someone who is white, speaks with the right accent, probably went to one of the right schools, and is possibly related to someone the selectors played with. In other words, someone that the selector just thinks “feels the right selection” without being able to quite put his finger on the reason why.4. Do you bring something to 'the group'?
(enthusiasm, encourage the lads, bucket hands, good trainer, good coffee making skills etc.)
Yeah I wrote it because it is a piece of coach speak that really grates with me.Whenever I hear something like this my reaction is that it is code for an unconscious bias. It usually seems to be applied to someone who is white, speaks with the right accent, probably went to one of the right schools, and is possibly related to someone the selectors played with. In other words, someone that the selector just thinks “feels the right selection” without being able to quite put his finger on the reason why.
The selectors owe it to the fans after denying us Double Bracewell in India (and paying the price).This will seem like blatant PEWS pandering but honestly, I feel like our best Test XI to beat England (as it stands, with injuries, no Boult and KJ not being at peak fitness) might include two Bracewells. Certainly I think he's a much better squad member than Tickner.
ND, Otago, Canterbury players would be unavailable, I presume, as their teams still in the super smash.Kyle Jamieson and Will Young have been included in a NZ XI squad to play England in a two-day, pink-ball warm-up match, starting in Hamilton on Wednesday.
New Zealand XI squad: Tom Bruce (c), Adi Ashok Jacob Cumming, Sean Davey, Curtis Heaphy (wk), Kyle Jamieson, Jarrod McKay, Robbie O’Donnell, Will O’Donnell, Quinn Sunde, Sean Solia, Theo van Woerkom, Will Young
We've already given the Black Caps the two best new players in Conway and MacewellGreat to see the array of Wellington's talent in that line-up.
Neither Conway or Bracewell are products of the Wellington system.We've already given the Black Caps the two best new players in Conway and Macewell
Thats the beauty of the Wellington systemNeither Conway or Bracewell are products of the Wellington system.