Your signature is a deadset ****ing joke. As I said elsewhere, I'm sure you know SO much more than Vettori about Southee's talent with a bat. At least you appreciate your view is idiotically narrow-minded, I suppose.
In the test arena, my narrow minded view about Vettori our oh so great captain is not idiotic.
He's really not.
Oh for god's sake, the match was over. There was no point in playing sensibly anymore. Vettori was just having trying to have a bit of hit and giggle before the end.
If Fleming was in the same situation, faced with the prospect of getting another 200 runs with two "bunny-looking" batsmen, of course I would.
And if Vettori had "bothered" to stay in, it's highly unlikely Southee would have batted the way he did. And if he had, and had got out, then you'd be having a go at home for not sticking with his captain.Sure it's no Astle but good god Southee's hitting towards the end was as close as it gets if Vettori had bothered to stay in.
Tell me then, who is?
Southee's hitting was hit and giggle. I don't think anyone was expecting that innings.Hit and giggles belong in 20 20. A test aint over till you get 10 wickets. Or at least that's what I thought. Where is the tenacity to never say die in a situation like that?
Sure it's no Astle but good god Southee's hitting towards the end was as close as it gets if Vettori had bothered to stay in.
Sometimes I think winnable tests are the ones we should be putting in the sort of tenacity and character to win considering how dire we are in tests to start with. It's just so we can stop the numbness we feel when we are away from home getting "as per usual" test spanking.
Southee's got no technique whatsoever. He could've got out at any time. No one, literally no one, could've predicted that he'd start wacking sixes. And even if Vettori had stayed in, it's kind of difficult to have seen Southee keep riding his luck for another 130 runs.Hit and giggles belong in 20 20. A test aint over till you get 10 wickets. Or at least that's what I thought. Where is the tenacity to never say die in a situation like that?
Sure it's no Astle but good god Southee's hitting towards the end was as close as it gets if Vettori had bothered to stay in.
Vettori has really just started his captaincy in tests. I don't think anyone has called him a great captain, and he his very much in a 'wait and see' period.
Oram's been a failure with the bat for the past two years in test cricket. Vettori is light years ahead of him, McCullum is making more runs (even if he's spending about the same amount of time at the crease), and Taylor is also now ahead of him in my esteem. Probably our most experienced, with Fleming and Styris gone, and that in and of itself is of a lot of value, but he's still a long way from the top.
Actually extreme provincial bias (ironic) would have easily made me more receptive to a ND debutant having a go. Vettori is the senior statesman. The least he could have done is stay in with a not out on a flat deck. If he got out to a Sidebottom special, I have no qualms. Commentators use "uncanny" to describe Vettori batting, I call it "ticking timebomb" in tests.
Didn't realise how true this was. He has been rather disappointing with the bat in the last 2 years in test cricket (mind you, he's played just 9 tests in those two years).
Taylor is 23 and we are calling him our most experienced batsman. I'm going to try and stop moping about the lack of any adequate batsmen aside from the picked hopefuls on a whims.
Setting aside the fact that just patting the ball back to the bowler and waiting for the opposition to skittle your tail is based on fairly questionable logic, don't you think then that that reasoning suggests Tim Southee played attrociously?
