*Official* New Zealand in Sri Lanka

[Fuller Pilch]

Give KW back the captaincy in an interim capacity (a longer term captain can be appointed for the England series in December), promise Tim a few farewell games in the T20's later this summer, and give NZ the best chance to level this series.

Latham is the vc and pre-tour Southee admitted that he (Timmy) might not play all the tests in Asia due to conditions and high no of tests, and that Latham would captain if Southee was "rested" for any matches.

 

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Latham is the vc and pre-tour Southee admitted that he (Timmy) might not play all the tests in Asia due to conditions and high no of tests, and that Latham would captain if Southee was "rested" for any matches.

It'll be interesting to see what happens if we manage to win any of those tests that Southee doesn't play.

 

[Bahnz]

Latham is the vc and pre-tour Southee admitted that he (Timmy) might not play all the tests in Asia due to conditions and high no of tests, and that Latham would captain if Southee was "rested" for any matches.

Fine, let's rest him for the next 4 tests.

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[Ali TT]

Batters 8, 9, 10 and Jack contributing 47 runs for 13 dismissals in that match. As it should be.

Jayasuriya has taken 62/88 of his test career wickets at Galle.

 

[ashley bach]

Southee will finish the home summer against England with somewhere between 397- 399 test wickets and we'll all be cursing the fact he couldn't get
a few more because it'll be obvious he'll be back for more.

 

[anonymouskefe]

Southee will finish the home summer against England with somewhere between 397- 399 test wickets and we'll all be cursing the fact he couldn't get
a few more because it'll be obvious he'll be back for more.

Yeah hopefully for both our sakes he can get it quickly

 

[Sunil1z]

NZ fans , what happened to Kyle Jamieson? Guy was so good in 20,21 .

 

[Chin Music]

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/...uffering-another-back-stress-fracture-1421476 Not a Kiwi, but here is the explanation,Sunil1z

 

[govinda indian fan]

Nz should have played m bracewell

 

[Kenneth Viljoen]

NZ cricket fans , if Conway fails in the next test test will he be dropped for Will Young ?

What's the likelihood of that happening

 

[kevinw]

NZ cricket fans , if Conway fails in the next test test will he be dropped for Will Young ?

What's the likelihood of that happening

I swore he had a test average of 50 last time I looked, now less than 40.

 

[kevinw]

Batters 8, 9, 10 and Jack contributing 47 runs for 13 dismissals in that match. As it should be.

Jayasuriya has taken 62/88 of his test career wickets at Galle.

What is the highest percentage of wickets on one ground, of bowlers with say more than 50 or 100 wickets?

 

[LangleyburyCCPlayer]

NZ cricket fans , if Conway fails in the next test test will he be dropped for Will Young ?

What's the likelihood of that happening

If Conway fails in his next Test I think he’d better leave right now

 

[Zinzan]

NZ cricket fans , if Conway fails in the next test test will he be dropped for Will Young ?

What's the likelihood of that happening

Shouldn't happen, Will Young is a very poor man's Devon Conway, looks all at sea against decent quality pace & spin bowling.

Was basically a walking wicket against Australia when he did replace an injured Conway.

And yes Conway's average has dropped below 40, but Young's is 26.

The only value NZ will get out of Young is as a back up middle order batsman to cover the likes of Mitchell or Ravindra in the middle order if they're injured.

 

[Migara]

We need to drop Mendis and bring Sadeera in as the keeper. There were way more balls missed by the keeper. Drop Kumara and bring in Kasun Rajitha or Milan Ratnayake.

My team would be

DK, Nissanka, Chandimal, Mathews, Kamindu, DDS, Sadeera, Ratnayake, R. Mendis, Jayasuriya, Fernando

 

[SteveNZ]

Latham is the vc and pre-tour Southee admitted that he (Timmy) might not play all the tests in Asia due to conditions and high no of tests, and that Latham would captain if Southee was "rested" for any matches.

This makes it even worse that they flagged it as a possibility - which is actually praise-worthy - then played him over Henry. I'd love to hear the justification as to why Southee is a better pick in the XI than Henry, ignoring the captaincy (of which he isn't that much chop, anyway).

 

[straw man]

I swore he had a test average of 50 last time I looked, now less than 40.

Damn, knew he'd been in a slump but that drop is worse than expected.

We did the dirty on him by making him open, of course. Still probably the best thing for the side as a whole though.

 

[Kenneth Viljoen]

Damn, knew he'd been in a slump but that drop is worse than expected.

We did the dirty on him by making him open, of course. Still probably the best thing for the side as a whole though.

Who are the alternatives to open

 

[straw man]

Fine, let's rest him for the next 4 tests.

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Harsh

Rest him for three tests and then he can play the third India test when we're 2-0 down and all the other bowlers are injured.

 

[straw man]

Who are the alternatives to open

Basically none, other than:
Young - a middle order player that we unsuccessfully tried to convert to an opener.
Rachin - opens domestically, but thought to be too loose to open in test cricket, which is probably correct for now. Still a question if he moves up in future or not.

Need a couple more options to emerge domestically.