Mingster said:
Yup, thats for me too.
Nope, their techniques are different. For one, is an opener and the other is not.
He was joking. There is clearly a difference in their facial features. Their fielding skillsare different. Hamish is the better in ring fielder.
No. Not just my family. It's proven that twins don't all have the same characteristics. Even if their technique is the same, it doesnt' mean they have the same temperant etc.
Sorry, I shouldn't have mentioned you then.
Eh...why not? Who else would you hand the gloves to? Nevin? Hell no.
Giving Vincent the gloves allows for another player in the team, like a Taylor or Scott. It's not a bad idea.
Him being a keeper won't make him a jack of all trades. He's a part time keeper and kept for Auckland before he got injured.
The whole point of this OD trail is to put the young players up against the best in NZ.
Far out, he's the Golden One.
No. Marshall has played some good innings this season. I never said if he scored runs he wouldn't be included. I was saying if James wasn't scoringany runs and still picked for the NZ team based on Hamish. That would be unfair.
hey but at least we can have some fun & a laugh about it all now....
re J Marshall - I hadn't picked him as I thought he'd not shown anything in the Shield, although he had some form early on in the Championship I thought........
my interest in James is the same as any other young player who had been selected & had some measure of success at a higher level, and had then apparently been discarded - like Franklin at Test level, even tho' James does not have full international selection. It just so happens that the catalyst has been his twin Hamish.
As I said I'd also heard that their temperaments & technical abilities were much the same.....
I had Nevin in the team as 'keeper / opener because I wanted specialists in the key roles and to mirror the selection of Papps - if you look at my Sth squad I have not selected B McMullum & intended to have 2 'keeper openers to compare head to head......I consider Papps as still being a specialist as he was THE 'keeper for Canterbury until this season, and it appears he still keeps in the Shield when McCullum is on ODI duty....
like you however I have no interest in selecting Nevin for full internationals but wanted to use his experience & 'known quantity' as a yard stick.......
Vincent needs to be let alone to concentrate on his batting IMO - once he's got it on song again & established in the squad as a middle order player then he can be used as a backup 'keeper if there are no others in the squad (presumably Tests as I would curtrently have both Papps & McCullum in my ODI squad)......I was aware he had been used as 'keeper in internationals (ODIs?) & at State levels, but I think he has had too much bits & pieces to do / cover in both squads - hence my jack of all trades comment.......
see my earlier post re 3 match trial series & 1 off with the internationals.......
hadn't heard Wilson called Goldie b4.........wasn't aware of his nickname.....
