I'll still give the Marshalls one more game to prove themselves. Hamish looked comfortable before being fooled by a lower one. Keep the same squad, but with the additions of Fleming and Bond into the XI. Bond for Franklin and Fleming for McMillan who just ****es me off with his continuous unsuccessful attempts to guide it to 3rd man.
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Why avoid risks when we still had 2 wickets in hand? If McCullum had got caught on the boundary going for a 4 then Mills and Vettori would still have been capable of working the singles for the remainder of the over.Ming said:
It is just my opinion of the approach I would take. Trying to look for a boundary is actually pretty easy, executing it is the hard part but McCullum is an innivative batsman
You are right most NZers probably would look for a singles off every ball, it didn't seem to work last night though did it? I bet if the situation was reversed then the Aussies would have killed the game off early by looking towards the fence in the first couple of balls.
Tim
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Clarke's run-out was one of the best I have seen, under pressure. Quite frankly, that won them the game. It's all very well to criticise the batsmen but when a guy knocks the stumps over at the bowlers end from way down at point..thats almost genius.
NZ's confidence is low, its remarkable they even made it to 300 but 5 or 6 players dug deep and they can at least go to Christchurch knowing they have restored some pride.
McMillan is an idiot, he has to go, it's as simple as that. James Marshall needs to go back to Domestic level and there is the possibility that Hamish needs a break too. Astle is a concern, but out of all of them..I reckon he's the most likely to come good.
Kyle Mills has impressed me, ok he got hammered in his final 2 overs but up until then he had been bowling really well so hopefully he continues some good form.
NZ's confidence is low, its remarkable they even made it to 300 but 5 or 6 players dug deep and they can at least go to Christchurch knowing they have restored some pride.
McMillan is an idiot, he has to go, it's as simple as that. James Marshall needs to go back to Domestic level and there is the possibility that Hamish needs a break too. Astle is a concern, but out of all of them..I reckon he's the most likely to come good.
Kyle Mills has impressed me, ok he got hammered in his final 2 overs but up until then he had been bowling really well so hopefully he continues some good form.
Tom Halsey
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Yes but his thing recently (and to be fair he did make improvements against WI) was to bowl slower but more accurately - this was hardly that, was it?social said:
Tim
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It was great to see a few batsmen actually back their ability for once. It appears Vincent has decided to change his batting attitude entirely..and if its in the slot he's going to go after it. Well, someone had to do it because I couldn't stand watching all of our batsmen block & nudge much longer.
I think we can only afford to have Vincent & Hamish Marshall in the team, James is just too similar and I think we need someone who can be more dominent at the crease like a Fulton or Ryder.
McMillan, well if it weren't for lack of options he'd be well out of the team.
I think we can only afford to have Vincent & Hamish Marshall in the team, James is just too similar and I think we need someone who can be more dominent at the crease like a Fulton or Ryder.
McMillan, well if it weren't for lack of options he'd be well out of the team.
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The point I think he was making was that Brett Lee didn't change his bowling much from the first game to this one (aside from the brain explosion in the 49th over). In that game he took 3/5 and in this one 1/85. When you bowl as aggressively as he does and at that speed on a much smaller ground, especially when NZ took the more aggressive road, that's what can happen. Next time they or someone else will try the same thing and he'll take 5-fer. He didn't bowl badly, they just got away from him. It happens.
Either way, Brett Lee has 211 wickets at around 22 in 117 ODI's and 39 wickets at 18.71 during the last year. Even if you don't have terribly accurate bowlers around you, you can't buy that sort of wicket-taking ability.
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He was seriously the reason why NZ had a moral victory last night. That was a great knock and indeed he seems to be changing; when he was playing in Adelaide, he never EVER played like he did last night. Was always far too correct for that. If he can do that consistently, I think NZ may have found the attacking opener to partner Astle they've been craving for so long.
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what a game that was (yesterday morning UK time), the kiwis really surprised me at the end to set up one of the best ODI's i've ever seen. Symo was absolutely devasting the way he paced that innings was superb & he made Clarke look really pedestrial out their.
With regards to the aussie seamers well Lee was up & down & was really carted at the end & i thought he last over had cost australia but Lewis was good in the last over seemed a veteran. Bracken was disappointing IMO, while Clark was pretty good the best of the bowlers on the night
With regards to the aussie seamers well Lee was up & down & was really carted at the end & i thought he last over had cost australia but Lewis was good in the last over seemed a veteran. Bracken was disappointing IMO, while Clark was pretty good the best of the bowlers on the night
I still believe he has alot to offer. You don't mantain an ODI average of 40 for 2 years and score a 150 against Australia and another 100 against SL if you're a hopeless bugger. He's just going through a bad patch, and hopefully like Hayden, he can get himself out of it with a few big centuries....Natman20 said:
