KiWiNiNjA
International Coach
Whether he gives a ****, thats another question.He has aged a lot, hopefully when he makes the test test, they will give him a real good diet and training programme.
Whether he gives a ****, thats another question.He has aged a lot, hopefully when he makes the test test, they will give him a real good diet and training programme.
It truly alarms me that there honestly does seem to be serious consensus to replace a batsman (albeit a totally out-of-nick one) with a bowler.Am predicting KP to come right with a big score. England imo will have to play Dimitri at the expense of Bopara and if I was in charge Luke Wright would replace an out of sorts looking Ian Bell.
Thing is, Anderson's World Cup performances were drastically improved by substandard sides. If you look at ODI-class sides only, he was abysmal bar, IIRR, 1 game.Pollock was the only bowler who bowled more maidens in ODIs than Anderson last year.
Buchannan was saying he wanted his bowlers to bowl an average of 55% dot balls in the World Cup.
Clark - 85.40 ( bowled in only 1 match)
Tait - 70.61
Bracken - 68.60
McGrath 65.15
Hodge - 63.88 (bowled in only 1 match)
Hogg - 61.36
Watson - 60.29
Clarke - 49.01
Symonds - 42.53
Anderson - 71.98
Flintoff - 66.66
Mahmood - 64.58
Plunkett -61.59
Panesar - 57.55
Dalrymple - 55.00
Collingwood - 51.43
Against India in 7 ODIs Anderson took 14 wickets at 22.57. That wasn't too long ago and in the 2 warm up games in NZ
Anderson - 20-1-86-7
Broad - 16-0-94-0
Mascarenhas 17.5-0-77-2
Swann - 13-1-68-0
Sidebottom 10-1-34-2
In half of the matches he played his economy was 4.20, 2.90, 4.00, 3.00, 3.80, 3.75, 2.87, 2.30, 3.49, 3.93, 3.11, 3.75, 4.37, 3.30 so I wouldn't say he played well only 3 times out of 10.Thing is, Anderson's World Cup performances were drastically improved by substandard sides. If you look at ODI-class sides only, he was abysmal bar, IIRR, 1 game.
Anderson's figures in the summer of 2007 looked quite good, but in truth he was grossly flattered, and bowled particularly well just 3 times out of 10, once against West Indies and in the First and Seventh games against India. And he's bowled abysmally in the ODIs this winter, even if he did go nicely in those meaningless 13-a-side games.
The ICC Rankings are just an extremely comprehensive form guide and are heavily flawed. Despite this I agree with you completely on James Anderson. James anderson is a match winning bowler and in the summer against an incredible Indian Batting Line up was the best bowler by far (discounting Flintoff's occasional appearances). He is very good economy-wise, can swing the ball at pace, he causes top-order batsmen problems and is an excellent death bowler.How did he manage to get into the top 15 in the ODI bowling rankings?
and is an excellent death bowler.
In the CB series against NZ/Aus 4 matches 8 wickets at 20.63.The ICC Rankings are just an extremely comprehensive form guide and are heavily flawed. Despite this I agree with you completely on James Anderson. James anderson is a match winning bowler and in the summer against an incredible Indian Batting Line up was the best bowler by far (discounting Flintoff's occasional appearances). He is very good economy-wise, can swing the ball at pace, he causes top-order batsmen problems and is an excellent death bowler.
He should definetely play tomorrow ahead of Tremlett who is overrated by many especially in ODI cricket.
Bell is a test player.... He will end up being the next Michael Vaughan imo.In the CB series against NZ/Aus 4 matches 8 wickets at 20.63.
Anderson isn't the finished article but he is never going to be if he gets dropped every five minutes. Had Mustard and Shah taken those catches the game would have had a different look. He got McCullum when he was on 0.
Funny that batsmen can have a bad series but they keep their places.
Bell
Sri Lanka - 14.00
NZ - 2.50
Collingwood
Sri Lanka - 17.00
NZ - 6.50
After the initial odds are posted by the bookmaker, the odds are subsequently affected by the bets placed by the punters. So, if a lot of people have put money on England, that will drive down their price.Does anyone know why the betfair punters are making ENG the favourites?!?
Betfair is an exchange.After the initial odds are posted by the bookmaker, the odds are subsequently affected by the bets placed by the punters. So, if a lot of people have put money on England, that will drive down their price.
You see it a lot here, in that NZ sides in the Australian leagues (football, basketball, league, etc) often pay much lower odds than they should because a lot of kiwis put money on them out of fandom, rather than common sense.
Okay, I don't know what that is. Only the government is allowed to run betting agencies here, so we only have the one.Betfair is an exchange.
You bet against other punters and Betfair takes a commission from the bets.Okay, I don't know what that is. Only the government is allowed to run betting agencies here, so we only have the one.
Only 5%!You bet against other punters and Betfair takes a commission from the bets.
Betfair are trying to get into the NZ market. I hope they succeed...
What?! One that spins?Apparently Tredwell has been working on a mystery ball.