*Official* Australia tour of New Zealand Feb-Mar 2024

[anonymouskefe]

Hm, I had zero expectations of the 2019 tour there after the previous two series and still came away disappointed, so I'm assuming they will score 700/3 every first innings and we won't crack triple digits once.

Yeah 2019 still hurts praying for wickets that dont spin lyon will have field day if it does

 

[Days of Grace]

So does Young get in ahead of Phillips after today?

Conway
Latham
Big Daddy
Ravindra
Mitchell
Young
Blundell
Jamieson
Henry
Southee
O’Rorke

 

[King Kane]

I would still pick Phillips ahead of Young as he offers a spin bowling option and is also a great fielder as well as being a better middle order batsman.

Young scoring a fifty against a second rate SA side that had just about given up when he scored it isn't enough for me to pick him ahead of Phillips.

 

[King Kane]

Phillips was also one of our best batsmen and bowlers in the test series against Bangladesh at the end of last year so he has some credits in the bank.

 

[ashley bach]

Yeah that was only the other day Phillips won us the test and looked like our best batsman in the process.

 

[Gob]

Time to drop Jimmy Conway

 

[CricAddict]

I will go with Young and Santner or Philips +4 pacers. Can't have Rachin as the only spinner.

 

[straw man]

guys I think I've done it, the answer is job-share Southee/Santner (c)

 

[thundaboult]

great win against larp africa yesterday for us

aussie will be a nice reality check

latham to stay, nicholls to return, drop phillips ravindra and rourke

wagner southee santner and a couple more 100km inswing bowlers as the attack, the young ones aren't ready to take on aussie now and they won't be in 2027 as well

 

[Bahnz]

Smith's opening makes it interesting for me especially wont be easy at the basin or Hagley

Southee's bowling like a club bowler, Smith will be fine.

 

[Flem274*]

I would still pick Phillips ahead of Young as he offers a spin bowling option and is also a great fielder as well as being a better middle order batsman.

Young scoring a fifty against a second rate SA side that had just about given up when he scored it isn't enough for me to pick him ahead of Phillips.

Young is the better batsman but Phillips is the better #6

His playing back to spin in defense all the time gives me a heart attack though. Lyon will probably eat him alive if he tries to dig in.

 

[_Ed_]

Southee's bowling like a club bowler, Smith will be fine.

Sadly true. I'm keen to see if O'Rourke can unsettle him, though (and hopefully a fit Jamieson...).

 

[thundaboult]

hopefully conway and blundell turn up because these 2 do score quality runs against quality attacks

blundell fell off a cliff since that fluke england win

 

[Zinzan]

FFS it's official https://www.nzc.nz/news-items/jamieson-ruled-out-for-remainder-of-summer/

Why couldn't it be Timmy

 

[straw man]

Young is the better batsman but Phillips is the better #6

His playing back to spin in defense all the time gives me a heart attack though. Lyon will probably eat him alive if he tries to dig in.

Agree - Phillips is unorthodox and far more likely to make counterattacking runs if we're in trouble than Young imo. Young is an ok reserve batsman and I hope he cracks the next chance he gets, but if Cummins/Hazlewood types are on a roll they'll just relentlessly target him around offstump and he'll edge behind or be lbw in no time. Whereas Phillips will try things to mix up their lines and lengths and while not guaranteed, it may work.

 

[straw man]

FFS it's official https://www.nzc.nz/news-items/jamieson-ruled-out-for-remainder-of-summer/

Why couldn't it be Timmy

ah ffs

 

[Flem274*]

That makes selection easy

 

[SteveNZ]

Honestly, I don't think they would've picked Jamieson and O'Rourke, so I'm not massively worried for the Test series.

Does make me worried for Jamieson's future, however, as he just can't stay fit.

I thought before this week they'd be looking at Wagner for Australia...but given he was 4th change in the 3rd innings in Hamilton, a situation he usually thrives in, I'm not so sure now.

Really interested in what our squad will look like, now Jamieson is out. Duffy? Seems to be bowling heat in the Ford Trophy. Smith?

 

[SteveNZ]

That makes selection easy

Does it? What if we play 4 seamers? Tim didn't seem to show much faith in Wags in the 3rd innings (then apparently Wags pulled the fingers at the dug out and shushed them )

 

[jcas0167]

FFS it's official https://www.nzc.nz/news-items/jamieson-ruled-out-for-remainder-of-summer/

Why couldn't it be Timmy

****, that is heartbreaking. Would have been his first test series against Australia. I always wondered how he would have gone against them on that 2019/20 tour.