*Official* Australia A in New Zealand 2022/23

[straw man]

Genuine NZ A team would probably include Cooper, Bruce, Fletcher*, Ajaz, Duffy from this lineup.

* or Cleaver, same same.

 

[Burgey]

It's because there's so much other cricket. Teams have less Test depth because more players are specialising in other formats, and even when backup players are good at FC cricket they're often off doing other things to make a living and not available for these sorts of games.

A proper Australia A that was genuinely trying to win would probably look something like this:

1. Bancroft
2. Harris
3. Renshaw
4. Handscomb
5. Marsh/Green
6. Hardie
7. Inglis
8. Neser
9. Boland
10. Murphy
11. Morris

Now I definitely wouldn't pick Harris and I probably wouldn't pick Bancroft either (I'd prefer to open with Renshaw and get Maxwell in there actually) but I think that's what we'd get from the selectors if they were just ignoring the best Test XI and going from there with the game on the line.

God that's a junk top four. All proven failures at test level. They shouldn't be considered again.

 

[Nintendo]

God that's a junk top four. All proven failures at test level. They shouldn't be considered again.

Handscomb did fine in india on some hard decks and has been in pretty good form recently, tbf. Renshaw also really hasn't had a proper second shot since he started making runs again. Bancroft and harris definitely should be binned off.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Genuine NZ A team would probably include Cooper, Bruce, Fletcher*, Ajaz, Duffy from this lineup.

* or Cleaver, same same.

Having the white ball tours of the UAE and England clashing with this meant it was always going to be a weak NZ team.

 

[Burgey]

Handscomb did fine in india on some hard decks and has been in pretty good form recently, tbf. Renshaw also really hasn't had a proper second shot since he started making runs again. Bancroft and harris definitely should be binned off.

If I coached a kid in under 12s to have Handscomb's technique I'd have my certification revoked.

And then I'd be euthanized. Justifiably.

 

[Burgey]

Plus he's Victorian. A cursed breed.

 

[Prince EWS]

God that's a junk top four. All proven failures at test level. They shouldn't be considered again.

I'm open to picking Renshaw again, and Handscomb specifically in Asia/WI, but yeah it's pretty grim. Harris in particular is so bad that it makes me want Warner to continue as long as possible even though he's a passenger in close games.

 

[Kippax]

I was going to guess Greg Hay at first but I see you've mentioned him later in the post so it seems too obvious.

NZ stats mavens have successfully put forward a player from outside Central Districts for once, and this may complete the full set. Underneath Francis Payne, these would be the top mavens, esteemed mavens.

Neil Broom it was, bringing up 5000 @ 41 in 2012/13.

 

[G. S. Kohli]

Nz lead by 20 runs with 8 wkts on hand

 

[straw man]

Nice from Solia and Bruce. Solia played and missed a heap early, not surprising for an adapted opener, but has hung around stubbornly and put away the bad balls.

Bruce's innings has reminded me a little of Daryl Mitchell <- high praise from me.

 

[Zinzan]

Nice from Solia and Bruce. Solia played and missed a heap early, not surprising for an adapted opener, but has hung around stubbornly and put away the bad balls.

Bruce's innings has reminded me a little of Daryl Mitchell <- high praise from me.

Where is this being broadcast? You tube?

 

[straw man]

Cricket.com.au

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Can’t even rely on Australia to give the old ***ual predator a good old thrashing.

Fancy conceding a 5-wicket haul to the old straight up and down fast-mediums. Seeing his best in the season just gone was 3-53, this is a massive letdown from the other side of the Tasman.

 

[straw man]

It's a fair point

 

[NZTailender]

3 tailend wickets in that 5, just to take the "shine" off it

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

3 tailend wickets in that 5, just to take the "shine" off it

You know the cynical ***** at NZC won’t care whether it was Mpofu, Martin, Such, Mullally and Malcolm - they’ll use a 5-wicket haul against Aus-A to justify any old selectorial bullshit.

 

[Kippax]

Can’t even rely on Australia to give the old ***ual predator a good old thrashing.

Fancy conceding a 5-wicket haul to the old straight up and down fast-mediums. Seeing his best in the season just gone was 3-53, this is a massive letdown from the other side of the Tasman.

How about cajoling Ben Sears into thinking some thoughts that are a bit meatier and heartier in nature, eh?

He should've just cut his oh-so-fragile Katherine Mansfield path all the way to a London residence back in 2018, the way things are going for him lately. At least he might've encountered some kind of Stephen Fry/Jordan Peterson evening of oh-so-seemly centrist discussion over there. Just someone very rich and famous to remind him that it's actually okay to be a young New Zealander who's started thinking of his ancestral roots as if they were a wiser, richer great uncle of his. A more genial host and much better company for a young man who's clocking 150+ on the speed gun by day and 150+ on the Farnsworth-Munsell hue tests by night.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Shut the **** up

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Ah. More hiding behind semantics in order to obscure one’s prejudice. It was ever thus. Why not just say what you really think, Kippax? It’d make a change from obscurantist whataboutery.

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Seems like Kayo have just decided not to bother putting up a stream for this for whatever reason

Not brilliant, that


EDIT: it's there now. Minor inconvenience averted