I just back Boult to come right sooner or later. Apart from that one game against England, Southee was pretty average in 2015, and Santner I think is just about Vettori's equal as a containing spinner (at least in his one-legged 2015 incarnation). I agree the 5th bowling option is weaker on balance, but if we get overcast conditions like today, CdG is more likely to take you wickets and keep it tight than Corey.
So what? We also have 4 glue batsmen in that top 7, who can all bat through the whole innings in Guptill, KW, Taylor & Latham. I'd say that's quite a good balance of bread and butter myself. Aside from England and India, which other top 7s are much different or for that matter, any better?
I purposely looked for the alternative. Cake/icing belongs to the 2015 WC.
He was just deliberately increasing the tension so that when the happy ending came it felt so so good. *Lights cigarette*
Indeed.
im more confident than pre-tournament on that front, but im not convinced it won't come spectacularly unglued under sunny skies. cdg is brilliant in suitable conditions but we knew that before the wc and neesham is neesham.
He's so one dimensional. It annoyed me when he was criticizing Henry in the middle of an excellent bowling spell. Apparently building pressure with dot balls isn't aggressive enough and doesn't earn you the right to be one of the cool kids.
That's a positive in my book. Undefeated after five games and we still haven't performed anywhere near our true potential.
Tbf half you guys have been hating on CDG in this format for a while. I get his output had been weak but it always seemed like he had this innings in him
I actually like McCullum's commentary. He isn't always right but he generally has a good reason behind what he says. With the Henry thing he was implying that he wasn't doing enough to get a South African wicket and was bowling too wide. Allowing the South African's to preserve their wickets during (theoretically) the hardest time to bat. If Saffa were 30-0 after 10 and 175 - 1 after 30, it'd be a good point. But thankfully on the day, CDG and Ferguson kept the pressure up and managed to stop the Saffas from building any match winning partnerships.
