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Emerging Players Tournament 2009

Howsie

International Captain
Te Ahu Davis can take lots of wickets, but he gets an RPO of 8+ with it (yes I exaggerated), so it makes those wickets a bit irrelevant.

A slower, poor mans Shaun Tait IMO.
He was only just clocking up 140kph earlier this season, so I would hardly call him a poor man's Shuan Tait. The thing with Davis is that he isn't as quick as he used to be.
 

Howsie

International Captain
Jimmy Neesham?





Jokes. He's a good guy, he actually won the school bowl of comp the year after I did.
 

Flem274*

123/5
So whose the next NZ U-19 player gonna be? :p

NZ is slowly taking over CW. We've got the blogs, the reps and a kiwi owns the site...
 

Polo23

International Debutant
So whose the next NZ U-19 player gonna be? :p

NZ is slowly taking over CW. We've got the blogs, the reps and a kiwi owns the site...
It's pretty blatantly obvious we are the driving force of the online cricketing world.

Reckon someone like Nick Beard will be here soon.

We should have a "cricket web net session" somewhere at sometime, invite Jimmy Neesham, Trent Boult and Skippy Sinclair, plus anyone else from cricketweb who lives in the region/plays cricket.
 

Howsie

International Captain
It's good to see Tim Southee getting some good match practice, I was a little surprised Boult didn't get selected though. Te Ahu Davis is also very lucky, from some of the games I went and seen last season he didn't look all that impressive.

Hopefully Williamson does well over there, I'm sort of hoping he goes to Sri Lanka.
 

Howsie

International Captain
Bit early for Williamson to meet Murali and Mendis tbh.
Yeah your probaly right. I would like to see him play one more full season for ND before he plays for NZ, but I can't see it happening. I think that before he plays for the Black Caps he has to bat at three for ND, as that is where I can see him playing for New Zealand.

But we know how NZ selectors work, they will feed him to the wolves to early. And then get rid of him.
 

Polo23

International Debutant
I reckon the selectors will get it right this time and give him another season. I mean he's only played a handful of FC games. If he has another good season averaging 45+ then I have no problem with him being selected, though preferably at home. Plus, who is he really going to replace? Taylor? No. Ryder? No. Flynn deserves more chances at number 3 (to be honest, he hasn't done a lot wrong). The only spot he could possibly take is the number 6, but if Oram's fit he should probably be our first choice number 6, you can't drop someone from the test side on the back of their T20 performances. Though the selectors seem certain that Franklin is a batsman, when he clearly is not so he's fighting for that number 6 spot anyway.
 

Flem274*

123/5
If James Franklin ends up with a test batting average of 28 and a test bowling average of 35 because of this strange idea that he is a better batsman than a bowler, then I will be one severely ****ed off fan.
 

Polo23

International Debutant
The pleasing thing I found at the T20 WC was he was bowling relatively quickly again (135km/h) and was probably bowling his bouncer a tad quicker. Far far better than when he was picked against the West Indies early last season and he was bowling high 120's..he was obviously picked too early coming back from his injury to be at full bowling fitness. I have high hopes for his bowling next season, and once the selectors/coach realise his bowling is where his strength lies, I have no doubt he'll be back at number 8 where he belongs.
 

brockley

International Captain
aussie side named.in cricinfo do news search.
Peter forrest and mathew wade added to the team plus 2 indians.
 

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