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*Official* England in NZ 2023

jcas0167

International Debutant
Just bumped into Macewell during school drop off. Told him he was playing well and wished him all the best for the next game.
 

SteveNZ

Cricketer Of The Year
Just bumped into Macewell during school drop off. Told him he was playing well and wished him all the best for the next game.
Did you clarify your compliment was mainly based around ODIs?

Only kidding, he bowled well the other day. But geez, he has some SOFT dismissals in his Test history
 

Fuller Pilch

Hall of Fame Member
It sounds like a rain shortened game, so Bracewell's bowling would be a bit redundant. If they really like Nicholls so much play 6 batters as a trial between HN and WY. Hopefully Wags announces in the next couple of days that this will be his final test. If he starts getting smashed I hope that Mitchell has been bowling in the nets.

Conway
Latham
Young/Williamson
Williamson/Young
Nicholls
Mitchell
Blundell
Henry
Southee
Wagner
Tickner
 

straw man

Hall of Fame Member
Macewell the test cricketer is a combination of Santner's bowling and a sub-par version of CDG's batting* I think. Is that a worthwhile player? Only if you thought he was going to improve further, imo.

* CDG averaged 38.7 with the bat in his test career, which is a little flattering but shows how important he was to the side. Macewell nowhere near that at present.
 

The Hutt Rec

International Vice-Captain
What does Nathan Smith average for Wellington? And how old was he when he debuted for Otago? 17 or something crazy?
21.7 from 8 games, so nothing great. 31 wickets at 18.4 though. Of course those 8 games are basically just last season's stats, since he didn't play the first round of Plunket Shield games this season.
 

Bahnz

Hall of Fame Member
It sounds like a rain shortened game, so Bracewell's bowling would be a bit redundant. If they really like Nicholls so much play 6 batters as a trial between HN and WY. Hopefully Wags announces in the next couple of days that this will be his final test. If he starts getting smashed I hope that Mitchell has been bowling in the nets.

Conway
Latham
Young/Williamson
Williamson/Young
Nicholls
Mitchell
Blundell
Henry
Southee
Wagner
Tickner
The only change they'll make is Henry for one of Wagner or Kugz.
 

Fuller Pilch

Hall of Fame Member
Bazball is operating on a 91% win rate. This will likely move higher until the 2024 India series
High chance of rain at the Basin and as a pitch it turns into a road so even though the NZ bowling attack will deliver excrement, the batting lineup could bat 120 overs in the final innings to save the test. Judas McCullum certainly knows about batting for a long time to save a Basin test match, so will no doubt will pass on intel on his old teammates once more to prevent that from happening.

I also doubt that England's win % will increase in the Ashes. Even if they play absolutely brilliantly they won't win more than 3 tests.
 
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Skyliner

International 12th Man
England playing high risk ‘blitzkrieg’ cricket that they are rapidly mastering, while shell-shocked opponents seemingly have no answers. Hopefully the BC’s can at least compete strongly in the next test, individually and collectively there have to be some good plans made and executed & some fight shown across the board. Blundell has already shown the way. Would be good to see Tom ‘Hagley’ Latham & KW dig in and score heavily.
 

Howe_zat

Audio File
Chance of rain is a solid 50-70% on the first three days, then mostly fine in the last two. I'm going to be optimistic and think that means 6 sessions out of nine on the bad days, so essentially a four day test.
 

Zinzan

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Chance of rain is a solid 50-70% on the first three days, then mostly fine in the last two. I'm going to be optimistic and think that means 6 sessions out of nine on the bad days, so essentially a four day test.
England should have little problem in putting us away in 4 days if we do get that much play.
 

Molehill

Cricketer Of The Year
I also doubt that England's win % will increase in the Ashes. Even if they play absolutely brilliantly they won't win more than 3 tests.
They won 2 Tests in 2019 despite not having Anderson and generally being pretty appalling in the post World Cup haze. If they play 'absolutely brilliantly' then the 5-0 is on against this ageing Aussie line up.
 

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