*Official* 2022 New Zealand Tour of England, Ireland, Scotland & Netherlands

[Socerer 01]

Macewell objectively the superior bowler in this XI

 

[thierry henry]

Pretty consistently scoring huge runs while conceding big runs against these minnows. **** bowling or just small grounds + "modern cricket"?

 

[Mike5181]

We're kind of sneakily building up a lot of legit international standard options in the wider limited overs squads atm. Mitchell, Allen, Chapman, Phillips, M Bracewell. Neesham seems too good in the T20Is to forget about him in ODIs. You've got huge competition for spots now. Fast bowling has been a bit of a miss but admittedly I've never rated Tickner or Duffy. Honestly N Smith should've been picked and Kuggeleiijn despite his indiscretions always looked a much better player than either of them. Hard to say much about Sears because I just haven't seen much of him. Spin bowling you've still got Santner, Sodhi, Rippon, M Bracewell.

 

[NZTailender]

does tickner swing it? never seen him swing the ball... also he's right arm

Why am I always thinking Tickner is a leftie

 

[NZTailender]

We're kind of sneakily building up a lot of legit international standard options in the wider limited overs squads atm. Mitchell, Allen, Chapman, Phillips, M Bracewell. Neesham seems to good in the T20Is to forget about him in ODIs. You've got huge competition for spots now. Fast bowling has been a bit of a miss but admittedly I've never rated Tickner or Duffy. Honestly N Smith should've been picked and Kuggeleiijn despite his indiscretions always looked a much better player than either of them. Hard to say much about Sears because I just haven't seen much of him. Spin bowling you've still got Santner, Sodhi, Rippon, M Bracewell.

Kuggeleijn, despite popular belief, has had plenty of chances (incl. A tours, not so much ODIs) and has been decidedly average. He's not the future.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Yep. I've never seen anything from Kuggeleijn. Reasonably quick, but doesn't do much with the ball from what I've seen. But yeah, Tickner and Duffy aren't much chop either, it seems.

 

[NZTailender]

Yep. I've never seen anything from Kuggeleijn. Reasonably quick, but doesn't do much with the ball from what I've seen. But yeah, Tickner and Duffy aren't much chop either, it seems.

I can see why Duffy was picked, after a pretty decent domestic record and he has some good basic tools to work with. Good he's had some international experience now, but if we were to get more from him he needs some intensive work with a bowling coach to get some more zip and options to be more effective at international level.

 

[straw man]

Tickner is a very similar bowler to Kuggeleijn - bit quicker than average which only makes the ball disappear faster to the boundary.

Duffy is bit better - has a good List A record and was doing well last night until his sixth over went for 19. Not that we're short of bowlers like that, but could be an ODI backup for Matt Henry.

Dunno what happened with Ferguson but extremely surprising to see him get pumped like he did here.

 

[thundaboult]

wasn't the point of kuggs being given a run was that he can bowl quick plus hit boundaries/score at a decent clip? admittedly, i would have liked to see him get more chances with bat in hand....also think that perhaps he is our most durable 90mph bowler of all time....87 fc games, 88 list A and over a 100 t20 games....i can see nz giving him another run if he has a decent season...there's a lot to work with there....he was average in the intl chances he got plus his performanes in domestics have gone down

 

[SteveNZ]

Hardly been a tour of consistently convincing performances, has it?

 

[ashley bach]

Hardly been a tour of consistently convincing performances, has it?

Sadly that's under-cooking it to say the least...

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Terrible looking scorecard. Good thing Guppy held it together, Neesham is hitting the ball really well and Ish hit a couple of 6s.
For those who watched it, how did Sears bowl? Great figures. And was Tickner decent? Finally, how did Pringle bowl for the Dutch (great figures too)?

 

[Flem274*]

I think we'll learn a lot more next week.

I've been piling on NZC lately (and they deserve it) but it is good we're keeping the fringe players warm with something.

 

[Athlai]

Neesham has been so good at T20 for us in the last 3 years. It infuriates me that hes been pushed out of the other forms of the game.

 

[nzfan]

Glad to see Sears get a good run... probably missed Macewell this game. Can't quite understand why Rippon isn't playing. They played him vs Scotland thereby ending his Dutch career. Maybe if they tried him post world cup he could have played for Dutch in the qualifiers in the world cup. I wish they gave him a reasonable run.

 

[thundaboult]

If neesham can keep onnnn doin this late order biffing consistently like he has been, we are golden

 

[Daemon]

NZ’s been having a fair few competitive games against the minnows of late. Hopefully signs that they’ve improved?

 

[nzfan]

Neesham is quite a come back artist isn't he? Every time they try to cut him, he seems to come back roaring. As hard as they want they can try but the man is here to stay for few years I think.

 

[Socerer 01]

Neesham is quite a come back artist isn't he? Every time they try to cut him, he seems to come back roaring. As hard as they want they can try but the man is here to stay for few years I think.

He should be one of the first names in this team. Has that elite mentality that a bunch of these players sorely lack

 

[ashley bach]

Well who would of thought, Santner a new super star at number 3, nice to have some options for the future.
Much more solid performance today overall, but really it's quite hard to get a good gauge where we really are, despite all the recent cricket played.
Looking forward to West Indies now, that should at least give us some good clues as to how we're really travelling at the moment.