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***Official*** India in New Zealand 2013/14

hendrix

hendrix

Hall of Fame Member
500 on the board in 122 overs after being sent in to bat. **** yeah.

I don't know whether the ball will swing with the wind like this. We'll see.
 
Blocky

Blocky

Banned
straw man said:
If you offered me a spinner that could average 35 while playing most of his games in NZ I would bite your arm off. Yes it is a long way away from here.
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Vettori managed that, probably would've been even better if he didn't have the back and hip problems plaguing him.

I think due to the nature of our wickets and the type of bowling that is most effective here, it's more likely going to be a finger spinner. Our three best spinners domestically over the last twenty years were all left arm orthodox in my view, Priest, Bucko Martin and Vettori. Some might put Jeets or Wiseman up there too, again, finger spinners.
 
Jono

Jono

Virat Kohli (c)
India to pull an Adelaide 2003 :cool:

Wait, no Dravid.


Wait, no Laxman.













Wait, no Agarkar!






We're ****ed.
 
straw man

straw man

Hall of Fame Member
Blocky said:
Vettori managed that, probably would've been even better if he didn't have the back and hip problems plaguing him.

I think due to the nature of our wickets and the type of bowling that is most effective here, it's more likely going to be a finger spinner. Our three best spinners domestically over the last twenty years were all left arm orthodox in my view, Priest, Bucko Martin and Vettori. Some might put Jeets or Wiseman up there too, again, finger spinners.
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It probably is most likely to be a finger spinner, imo in particular a finger spinner that focuses more on overspin and drift like Vettori rather than sidespin and turn for which you don't get much assistance in NZ. Though Sodhi already bowls with a fair amount of overspin and doesn't turn it big so there's some similarities - if (big if) at some point he can land it accurately and consistently then he could indeed perform a similar role to Vettori imo, as unlikely as that may sound for a legspinner.

The issue I and many had with Vettori in the latter half of his career is not so much his high average but that he couldn't dismiss batsmen through turn (or flight), relied so much on attrition and was basically a slow flighty seamer. He took first innings wickets rather than second innings wickets and didn't benefit from turning pitch conditions. Someone that averaged 35 but that could bowl us to victory occasionally in turning conditions would be a better fit for this NZ side.
 
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