Athlai
Not Terrible
Hard to rate him by a scorecard but usually he's quite solid.
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**Official** New Zealand in Australia
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Athlai
Not Terrible
straw man
Hall of Fame Member
Although it looks like we'll lose this game it's been a reasonably positive warm-up. McCullum obviously batted well and I think we would have accelerated better at the end of the innings to a better score in a 'proper' match - rather than fiddling round with the order and maybe trying to conserve wickets a little much. All the batsmen got some time in the middle, about from Broom (can't understand the reason for dropping him down the order).
Mills, Vettori and Patel all have decent figures with the ball, while Boult's ghastly figures including 4 wides seem to confirm that it's too early for him, and he shouldn't play on Sunday. Only problem will be how to fit Patel into the team, since there's no Oram, Styris or even a BFJ to pick up a few overs - it would leave Elliott as third seamer and I guess Patel to bowl at the death. In general do we even have a sixth bowler now? Ummm... Broom?
Mills, Vettori and Patel all have decent figures with the ball, while Boult's ghastly figures including 4 wides seem to confirm that it's too early for him, and he shouldn't play on Sunday. Only problem will be how to fit Patel into the team, since there's no Oram, Styris or even a BFJ to pick up a few overs - it would leave Elliott as third seamer and I guess Patel to bowl at the death. In general do we even have a sixth bowler now? Ummm... Broom?
pup11
International Coach
Really happy for him, he is such a good batsman and i rate him, but he has this tendency of scoring the 40's, 60's, but never going onto to make a big one, so... good to see him not losing his head and guiding the chase till the very end, if he were a bit more consistent with his run scoring he surely would have been in with a sniff to make it into the Australia ODI side.George!! WAG
Also worth noting that is Baileys first evern List-A ton
Btw how good is JL, has not even been playing any competitive cricket, but still comes out and plays such a gun knock, it still baffles me why he didn't play more ODI's then he did for Australia.
Precambrian
Banned
Minnow basher.George!! WAG
Also worth noting that is Baileys first evern List-A ton
I didn't read the team roster well, had I known Langer was there, I'd be roasted for my earlier comment.
KiWiNiNjA
International Coach
So now who's breaking the rules, Mr Moderator?
Precambrian
Banned
Report if you want.
I am not trolling, and this NZ team is a minnow considering they have not won a test series against a major opposition barring perhaps Windies in years.
Ok, I love NZ team, but seriously Boult?
Bring in O Brien for ODIs.
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And that makes us a minnow in one-day cricket...how?
Oh and Boult will be good. It might be too soon, but he'll be a class bowler in the near future.
S.P. Fleming
U19 Cricketer
Im sick of this ****ing crap from all the aussies saying that nz are bad and "minnows". We are the 4th ranked team FFS!!! Does that not mean anything? I would back a full strength NZ to beat Sri Lanka, Pakistan, West Indies, England and India and give Aus and SA go in ODI's. Perhaps tests at the moment are a different story.
KiWiNiNjA
International Coach
OK, please enlighten me. What do you call someone who calls the number 4 ranked ODI side a minnow?