New Zealand doom and gloom thread

[thundaboult]

Baz PR team strikes again.

#dreambig

 

[Flem274*]

The team started showing signs of a rise under Taylor too. The key players were in place and started nabbing some wins.

 

[thierry henry]

The team started showing signs of a rise under Taylor too. The key players were in place and started nabbing some wins.

In conclusion, it's been Vettori that truly sucked all along

 

[the big bambino]

he didn't really put up the kind of numbers that make you ask why he isn't playing tests until he was in county cricket, and by then he was mid-30s and they wanted younger options.

He’d be a regular now.

 

[thierry henry]

I could never really understand Adams' career, would be interested if anyone closer to him new more about him. From the outside looking in, he seemed to go from "white ball specialist talented erratic wildcard" to "red ball guru" at some point in his 30s and I'm not sure how that happened. During his international career he seemed to be, or was pigeonholed as, the polar opposite of a reliable test seamer. He was also somewhat of a late bloomer generally but I've never known much about his cricket background.

The best I can guess is he may not have come through the conventional pathways and then may not have played in the most conventional way, and this may have led to the perception that he was unpredictable or unreliable when in fact he was just a genuine thinker about the game. Or maybe he was just a late bloomer who matured after his physical peak and learned the game too late to help his own international career, I dunno.

 

[Big_Gun]

Speaking of Andre Adams, can anyone here shed light on why he only played one test?

He literally wanted to focus on Tests, he was selected for the ODI team and told the coach Bracewell that he wants to focus on Test Cricket. (bracewell focused more on one day cricket) So he was never selected because of a gripe from bracewell.
Its a shame, I thought he would of been a good Test bowler, he left NZ and played the English first class scene, he took heaps of wickets, he was his teams lead bowler at 40.

 

[govinda indian fan]

He literally wanted to focus on Tests, he was selected for the ODI team and told the coach Bracewell that he wants to focus on Test Cricket. (bracewell focused more on one day cricket) So he was never selected because of a gripe from bracewell.
Its a shame, I thought he would of been a good Test bowler, he left NZ and played the English first class scene, he took heaps of wickets, he was his teams lead bowler at 40.

Boy nz missed a potential great red ball bowler