*Official* New Zealand in England 2021

[The Hutt Rec]

Start of a great career in the whites for Conway.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

The overseas pro looks good. Decent effort on debut.

 

[Flem274*]

i wonder how much of taylors genuine pace average doull mentions is south africa related? his record against them is terrible, whereas he has had good knocks against your australians, pakistanis etc.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

That's plumb as they come.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Oh dear

 

[The Hutt Rec]

Well that just looked like a matter of time ...

 

[Daemon]

Taylor's trolling them into bowling on his pads imo

Setting it up for the 2nd innings 150

 

[Flem274*]

athlai paid out the wrong bowler

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Amazing what picking the best bowler from county cricket does.

 

[Moss]

Good day for the debutants so far. Needed more from Taylor given that Latham and KW failed to cash in.

 

[Pup Clarke]

Stick a fork in Taylor he's done

 

[The Hutt Rec]

Could do with Nicholls getting dropped at least four times here.

 

[The Hutt Rec]

Horrible review

 

[Flem274*]

Stick a fork in Taylor he's done

nz have never been in the position before where they can afford to discard established players. new zealands best side, selected ruthlessly, has either blundell/young/rachin opening and conway sliding to #4 with taylor out or taylor sliding to #6, watling #7 with someone new entering the top 5.

he's 37, there's no shame in not being quite test standard anymore, but nz are not used to this position and nzc have history with both pissing off senior players without need under bracewell and screwing taylor himself over with the captaincy thing.

 

[Flem274*]

they need to drive stuart broad right through nicholls' gate.

 

[Moss]

Loathe to write Taylor off but if he's planning to continue his test career beyond this month would want a serious consideration about dropping to 5 or 6.

Reminds me of the Tendulkar scenario in the last 2-3 years of his career, the runs dried up but apparently moving down from no.4 was never an option.

 

[The Hutt Rec]

Loathe to write off Taylor but if he's planning to continue his test career beyond this month would want a serious consideration about dropping to 5 or 6.

Reminds me of the Tendulkar scenario in the last 2-3 years of his career, the runs dried up but apparently moving down from no.4 was never an option.

I was just thinking he's starting to look a bit like late-career Ponting, with how off the pace he is (but not quite that bad yet).

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Is Wood too quick for Nicolls?

 

[Pup Clarke]

nz have never been in the position before where they can afford to discard established players. new zealands best side, selected ruthlessly, has either blundell/young/rachin opening and conway sliding to #4 with taylor out or taylor sliding to #6, watling #7 with someone new entering the top 5.

he's 37, there's no shame in not being quite test standard anymore, but nz are not used to this position and nzc have history with both pissing off senior players without need under bracewell and screwing taylor himself over with the captaincy thing.

No one's position in a side is guaranteed in my view. Him being an established player doesn't hold any weight imo. This is international sport, it's not the Dog and Duck 5th XI where a past his prime player carries on indefinitely irrespective of how he performs.

He's had a wonderful career, played over a 100 tests and been a quality performer for the large proportion of his career. But he's done at this level now. Do NZ not want to drop a player (who's been a great servant and role model) because it might hurt his feelings a bit and lead to fractured relationships within the team? Bizarre

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Nah, the guy deserves to play the WTC final for all the stuff he's put up with his whole career, I don't give a **** if he's not in the best XI.