Skyliner
International 12th Man
Nicholls is just playing in the wrong era, poor guy. If he was playing with the blokes who had to face the Windies in their pomp with bats half the size of what they have now, and never got to play Zim-Bang, Nicholls would have been a stand-out performer(?)
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‘New Black Caps selector Sam Wells believes part of the criticism over the inclusion and performances of Henry Nicholls in the test side stems from the era he is playing in.
“Henry is up there with some of our greats of the game in terms of run scoring,” Wells said.
“He seems to attract this criticism ... he's playing with some of the greats of the modern era for New Zealand, when you look at some of the other guy's averages.”
In 56 tests, Nicholls has accumulated 2970 runs at an average of 37.59, with nine centuries and 12 fifties.
“If you looked at past teams, and they had a batsman with Henry Nicholls’ record, he would be one of our best players – and it is a very good record.
”His form has been up and down a little bit, but obviously he scored a double-hundred a couple of tests ago. He's got nine test centuries, which is as many as Stephen Fleming scored in his 111 tests.”
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‘New Black Caps selector Sam Wells believes part of the criticism over the inclusion and performances of Henry Nicholls in the test side stems from the era he is playing in.
“Henry is up there with some of our greats of the game in terms of run scoring,” Wells said.
“He seems to attract this criticism ... he's playing with some of the greats of the modern era for New Zealand, when you look at some of the other guy's averages.”
In 56 tests, Nicholls has accumulated 2970 runs at an average of 37.59, with nine centuries and 12 fifties.
“If you looked at past teams, and they had a batsman with Henry Nicholls’ record, he would be one of our best players – and it is a very good record.
”His form has been up and down a little bit, but obviously he scored a double-hundred a couple of tests ago. He's got nine test centuries, which is as many as Stephen Fleming scored in his 111 tests.”
