*Official* Bangladesh in New Zealand 2016/2017

[Meridio]

I just got the feeling with Munro that he's the sort of player who can bulldoze weak opponents (especially when everything is in his favour) but who suffers from technical deficiencies that will always see him found out in more challenging circumstances. Don't favour him for the test side at all.

Yeah have always had this feeling with Munro. Technical deficiencies and looks rushed for time when he plays his shots; can get away with a good eye at first class level but gets found out when the bowling is that bit better.

 

[Zinzan]

I wouldn't mind him at 5 or 6 depending on who we put in the other spot. Guptill clearly the best option for 5 overall though.

I wouldn't be terribly against Guptill or Munro getting a shot at Bmac's vacant no.5 Test spot. It's not like Nicholls has tearing the house down & I do like the idea of a number 5 who can genuinely take a Test by the scruff of the next in a session especially since we do have batters who can bat time like Watling and Santner further down the order.

 

[Zinzan]

I don't remember any particularly common thread in McMillan's methods of dismissal, beyond the fact that they were usually hilarious.

I recall many a nick to slip all for a dinky single to 3rd man.

 

[jonbrooks]

Yeah have always had this feeling with Munro. Technical deficiencies and looks rushed for time when he plays his shots; can get away with a good eye at first class level but gets found out when the bowling is that bit better.

Munro has his place for the moment. He is batting lower down the order where we're expecting us to be upping the RR. He's not the type of player to hang around and dig us out of a situation like was expected of him today. Having said that he did get a very good delivery.

 

[Zinzan]

Yeah have always had this feeling with Munro. Technical deficiencies and looks rushed for time when he plays his shots; can get away with a good eye at first class level but gets found out when the bowling is that bit better.

Michael Clarke made a good observation about Munro in Australia after he was bowled by Starc about the fact he needs to reduce his bat-lift against swinging proper pace bowling.

 

[jonbrooks]

Interesting that Matthew Sinclair is still being discussed.

 

[jonbrooks]

Michael Clarke made a good observation about Munro in Australia after he was bowled by Starc about the fact he needs to reduce his bat-lift against bowlers like Starc.

All batsmen need to reduce their lift when facing a 145kph+ bowl who is reverse swinging the ball.

 

[Bahnz]

Going dramatically off topic for a minute, McMillan was a huge loss to NZ cricket when he retired in 2007. While he undoubtedly had his technical issues, he was very close to being the most talented batsman of his era (Fleming just slightly shading it). I think Warne rated McMillan above every other NZ batsman that he bowled against, and when you see some of the innings he played in both test and LO cricket, it's not hard to see why. Just had that bit of magic that the honest triers like Astle and Styris lacked.

 

[jonbrooks]

33rd over and the ball is still nipping around. Southee and Boult better exploit these conditions.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Double figures. Raise the bat Luke

 

[jonbrooks]

Going dramatically off topic for a minute, McMillan was a huge loss to NZ cricket when he retired in 2007. While he undoubtedly had his technical issues, he was very close to being the most talented batsman of his era (Fleming just slightly shading it). I think Warne rated McMillan above every other NZ batsman that he bowled against, and when you see some of the innings he played in both test and LO cricket, it's not hard to see why. Just had that bit of magic that the honest triers like Astle and Styris lacked.

With a comment like this I am glad you've blocked me!

 

[Zinzan]

Going dramatically off topic for a minute, McMillan was a huge loss to NZ cricket when he retired in 2007. While he undoubtedly had his technical issues, he was very close to being the most talented batsman of his era (Fleming just slightly shading it). I think Warne rated McMillan above every other NZ batsman that he bowled against, and when you see some of the innings he played in both test and LO cricket, it's not hard to see why. Just had that bit of magic that the honest triers like Astle and Styris lacked.

That's not quite how I remember it. He rated Crowe as by far the best NZ bat he bowled to & rated Crowe, Cairns & Fleming as the best NZ'ders he played against when he did his 50 best cricketers a few years back. I do recall he said something like that about McMillan after he hit Warne for a couple of 6s on debut, but I think he was referring to that particular NZ side.

 

[The Hutt Rec]

I don't remember any particularly common thread in McMillan's methods of dismissal, beyond the fact that they were usually hilarious.

The Sinclair criticism was around lack of footwork, which wasn't a problem of McMillan's, that I recall.

I wonder if Doull will acknowledge it was good to select Broom. In the last game he was advocating for Neesham and the Colins at 4,5,6.

Neverrrr, Doull is never wrong!

In fact it's written into the ICC regulations that no dismissal in a game that Doull is commentating in is official until he says "I don't have a problem with that".

 

[NZTailender]

Bangladeshi's have bowled really well here, haven't done much wrong. Good contest and will be a good Test of Broom, Ronchi and Santner.

 

[Bahnz]

The Sinclair criticism was around lack of footwork, which wasn't a problem of McMillan's, that I recall.

McMillan's footwork made Sinclair look a technical master. Not that footwork is the be and all (see Sehwag and Ryder).

 

[Johnners]

I wouldn't be terribly against Guptill or Munro getting a shot at Bmac's vacant no.5 Test spot. It's not like Nicholls has tearing the house down & I do like the idea of a number 5 who can genuinely take a Test by the scruff of the next in a session especially since we do have batters who can bat time like Watling and Santner further down the order.

What's a next

 

[_Ed_]

This is already the second biggest partnership of the innings.

 

[ajdude]

really slipped under my radar that Broom is back in the ODI side. when he was in last time, wasn't there a lot of conjecture that he'd be more suited to the test side?

 

[Bahnz]

Defendable total? Given how much nip there is in the surface I think anything over 250 will see NZ with a good chance. They'll have to bowl a lot better than they did on Boxing Day though.

 

[cnerd123]

This partnership is going to take this away from BD. Sigh.