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    **Official** 1st Test @ Perth, 22nd-26th November

    Woopsie
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    **Official** 1st Test @ Perth, 22nd-26th November

    They're talking about why Washington was picked...probably because he's one of a select few in this side who is prepared to fight and show the right sort of attitude. Very rare guy who came out with his reputation in tact against us
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    **Official** 1st Test @ Perth, 22nd-26th November

    Has this been answered? I've watched back on the highlights, and want to know why the **** we didn't get the normal view from the offside, clearly seeing the part where the ball passes the bat. Seems to me like he hit it but gee, not exactly irrefutable evidence that he did and given it was...
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    *Unofficial* New Zealand Black Caps Thread

    This is 100% spot on. Coaching cricket isn't an exercise in superior tactics or even technique if you're the head coach (you get good specialist coaches for this). It's man management, environment, expectations, standards, some tactics, identifying talent and being patient/daring enough to back...
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    *Unofficial* New Zealand Black Caps Thread

    This is really intriguing. How many coaches could we say are 'expensive' and we have to spend cash on? I can't think of too many. This isn't like buying a striker if you're Man United. Guys like Fleming, Hesson etc don't want to coach a national side 10 months a year. And who else would come...
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    Whose test career will end last?

    Definitely not Kohli. Cooked.
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    **Official** England in New Zealand 28 Nov-18 Dec 2024 - 3 Tests

    I think it's underestimated by some as to how good CdG's technique was. He was really one of our better equipped technical players of the modern era - more so than guys who have batted in the top 4-5 like Mitchell, Taylor etc. That might have got lost in his approach to the game. With a...
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    2024–25 NZ domestic season

    Perfect. That's one of the other benefits of continuing to try to develop bonafide opening bats - we can all figure Rachin will average the most at 4, and we need to maximize the output of the guy who will be our best batsman for the next 10 years
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    *Official* Pakistan in Australia 2024 (white ball tour)

    Ha! This meme could be trotted out for Fraser-McGurk when he inevitably makes a 60 odd off 20 balls on a small ground against a mud bowling line-up, and sets social media alight.
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    **Official** England in New Zealand 28 Nov-18 Dec 2024 - 3 Tests

    I tend to agree...the only caveat being that he's renowned for unconverted 50s. If he wasn't, they would look even stronger. And I think his career has been horribly mismanaged, a real could have been for a guy of his talent. But having said that, he's not made the most of the opportunities...
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    Whose test career will end last?

    It's a close-run thing, I reckon, with Indian legends' propensity to go on too long, the fact Smith is a ridiculous cricket nerd and that Kane is marginally the youngest of them all. Kane, I think, will try to get to Australia in 2026-27, defying the doubters like PEWS to finish his career on...
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    Whose test career will end last?

    I see you woke up on Tuesday and chose violence. I hope you have calmed down since.
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    **Official** England in New Zealand 28 Nov-18 Dec 2024 - 3 Tests

    It's great to see people debating this in the general social media space, but there is a hell of a lot of 'drop Blundell, play Young, Latham/Conway keeps'...which overlooks the fact that Conway is too sloppy to be a T20 keeper let alone a Test one, plus is too much to expect to keep + open - as...
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    **Official** England in New Zealand 28 Nov-18 Dec 2024 - 3 Tests

    Yeah, I tend to agree that pitched in at 5-7, Young isn't offering a lot more than Phillips is on balance, anyway. I think it was Flem (?) that said for all of his outstanding work in India, he was still the same Will Young - looking a million bucks and getting out between 20-70 as a general...
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    **Official** England in New Zealand 28 Nov-18 Dec 2024 - 3 Tests

    Yeah, I'm not a fan of that at all. I know Young is in a good vein of form, but Glenn brings a lot to the table and probably more (IMO) that this side needs. There's no spot in the top 5 for Young, he's not a 6-7...what do you do, bat him at 4 and push everyone down?
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    *Official* New Zealand vs Sri Lanka- White Ball Tour of SL- November, 2024

    Haha well that's probably true for a guy who's played 6 international games and faced a solitary ball in ODIs, but no one gets significantly better by netting. That sounds like a job that Sir Gary can do.
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    *Official* New Zealand vs Sri Lanka- White Ball Tour of SL- November, 2024

    But why would you take him on a 5-match tour and not play him once? These are not the days of taking people as injury cover. To me, you have an obligation a) of course, to win games but also b) grow talent and service a wider squad in terms of progression for the player and the ability to put...
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    **Official** England in New Zealand 28 Nov-18 Dec 2024 - 3 Tests

    Yep I completely agree with this one. I do think Crawley has a better defensive technique than Gup but part of the issue as well was that Gup so badly wanted to be a good Test opener, but that made him tight in the way he played and uncertain about himself. In ODIs he came out with more...
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    **Official** England in New Zealand 28 Nov-18 Dec 2024 - 3 Tests

    This has been my feeling for 12 months but bizarrely I don't feel that way for this series. With Sears injured, Smith and Duffy both potential debutants, he needs to be that 3rd seamer
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    *Official* New Zealand vs Sri Lanka- White Ball Tour of SL- November, 2024

    I had the same thought - I actually find it unfathomable as to why he didn't. Why in the world would you take a guy to a three match series like this one and not play him? I don't see any sense in that. And was Foxcroft in the T20 squad and didn't play, either?

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