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Mr. Glass
Its called a Sharma scale. Reasonable is the highest measurement in it.I hate how everyone seems to think he did reasonably in SA. The **** averaged something like 65.
Its called a Sharma scale. Reasonable is the highest measurement in it.I hate how everyone seems to think he did reasonably in SA. The **** averaged something like 65.
The thing is though, as has been shown with Sodhi, he releases all the pressure the quicks have built up with their opening spells with at least one loose ball an over being given away. He's too much of a loose cannon IMO, especially to play him against Pakistan in the UAE. At least when we played Bruce Martin he was able to keep it tight which Sodhi also fails to do.In the West Indies and the UAE, New Zealand will need a spinner. It's just too hot and humid for the quicks to bowl prolonged spells and maintain effectiveness without going massively over the allowed over-rate. For better or worse, Sodhi is the guy that New Zealand are backing to come good in international, and his Plunket Shield numbers have shown a little bit of progress this season. He's a project, and so shouldn't be binned as of yet, even though I personally would be picking Jeets ahead of him.
Yeah he was pretty erratic after an excellent series vs WI. Maybe still suffering from a lack of match practice due to that niggle that kept him out of the ND side last month?I was kinda disappointed with Boult this series.
Sorry but Tino Best should be no where near a WI starting Xl. The core of the WI bowling should be: Narine, Roach, Holder, Rampaul (lose some weight), Beaton, Cummings. I know some of those names don't ring a bell but trust me they're the future not freaking Tino Best of as we call him The "Worst"Wouldn't be shocked to see Best cling on to the 3rd seamer's spot. He's not terrible in that role, though he was horribly miscast as a new ball bowler.
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Yasir Shah and Samit Patel added.
Yasir is a very useful domestic pakistani spinner, while Samit is the big, fat, unlovable jerk who dicks from the sidelines about not getting a game :ninja:
Provisional line-up with stats from 2010/2011:
Dat tail (or lack of it) though...Code:Batting Bowling 1. Vijay 39.17 2. Fulton 37.95 3. Trott 43.48 4. Du Plessis 73.95 36.22 5. McCullum 31.18 6. P. Patel + 60.19 7. Hall 41.46 30.46 8. Philander 20.48 20.95 9. Thomas 18.55 24.60 10. Shah 19.40 21.33 11. Birch 18.70 24.82 12. S.Patel 38.33 40.06
So I posted that on another forum.Insanely long tail
Cos it starts from 5 lulz
Those are significant problems, chief. The last time we had either of those things were in the early 2000s, when Vettori was a world-class Test spinner and Mark Richardson showed enough hard work and application to being an opener could be done.NZ has a good chance in the UAE to beat Pak. There is always something there for the quicks and with Pak's fragile batting, not too difficult to win. Only problem for NZ will be to get a decent spinner and get better openers.
Assuming Narine is fit and willing to play tests, and assuming that results pan out, then I think Shillingford's days would be numbered.Those are significant problems, chief. The last time we had either of those things were in the early 2000s, when Vettori was a world-class Test spinner and Mark Richardson showed enough hard work and application to being an opener could be done.
Will the Windies get Shillingford's services, or is that unlikely? If they ragged their pitches up and played Narine/Shillingford, it could get ugly.
It's scheduled for May/June, but given that the WI players have a history of abandoning ship for the IPL, I imagine the WICB will push back the start of the tour until end of May at the earliest.Read in the paper today that McCullum has a new sprog due during May - isn't that when the WI series is on? Seems to be the season for such things.