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tooextracool
International Coach
yeah that seems to be a problem with him,something that we'll see quite a bit from him in his career......he just tends to get a bit carried away from the bounce he gets and bowls it too short. its something that caddick used to do very often as well.PY said:Harmison is on the money again, as soon as he realised that you need to pitch the bloody thing up.
Took him 5 overs though.
tooextracool
International Coach
wasnt really a spectacular ball though, sloppy footwork from richardson, failing to get his foot to the pitch of the ball.twctopcat said:
well at least he pitched it up though!
Myself inculding have been saying that spinners will play no part in this match, but iam starting to wonder now.
The area has been very wet of late and the pitch has been under covers for a long long time in the last week or so and it's made the surface pretty damp and the bowlers footmarks after just over an hour are very very prominate, anyone who lands the ball in them will certianly get grip.
NZ lose their first wicket! - Oh and now Hoggard has just had a edge dropped, was a sitter too That's three drops now already and it's starting to look like a TV reply of the Bang v WI Test match where everything is dropped!
And to top it all off rain is in the air it seems
The area has been very wet of late and the pitch has been under covers for a long long time in the last week or so and it's made the surface pretty damp and the bowlers footmarks after just over an hour are very very prominate, anyone who lands the ball in them will certianly get grip.
NZ lose their first wicket! - Oh and now Hoggard has just had a edge dropped, was a sitter too
That's three drops now already and it's starting to look like a TV reply of the Bang v WI Test match where everything is dropped!And to top it all off rain is in the air it seems
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tooextracool
International Coach
thorpe and butcher really are poor fielders.....must be spending some time with edwards
luckyeddie
Cricket Web Staff Member
The Thorpe catch was a dolly, the Butcher one exceedingly difficult.
tooextracool
International Coach
we've seen enough evidence in the last test and in the WI that butcher is a horrible,horrible slip fielder
tooextracool
International Coach
thank god you got rid of that obnoxious rob key avatarRich2001 said:Myself inculding have been saying that spinners will play no part in this match, but iam starting to wonder now.
The area has been very wet of late and the pitch has been under covers for a long long time in the last week or so and it's made the surface pretty damp and the bowlers footmarks after just over an hour are very very prominate, anyone who lands the ball in them will certianly get grip.
NZ lose their first wicket! - Oh and now Hoggard has just had a edge dropped, was a sitter too
And to top it all off rain is in the air it seems
Agree here with Eddie, the Butcher catch was very hard... diving forward at full lenght in the slips is one of the least favourite things to do as any slip fielder will tell you.luckyeddie said:
As for the slips Trescothick, Thorpe, Flintoff are all top catchers with Collingwood @ Gully/Backward point if he plays makes a pretty solid catching group.
If you do need a fourth slip I don't really have a problem with Butcher... A intresting one might be M.Vaughan this guy is a gun when it comes to reflex catches but always drops the easy ones, might be an idea to give him a go as you can't field in many more spots where you have less time to think.
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tooextracool
International Coach
that really is the problem....both thorpe and butcher arent exactly 'reliable' slip fielders and that leaves just tres and flintoff.twctopcat said:
either fletcher gives them intensive slip catching practice
or they put someone who has really no experience there(strauss or vaughan i guess)btw is pieterson a slip fielder?
luckyeddie
Cricket Web Staff Member
You can trust mine though - I heard the interview with Simon Taufel before the toss of the coin - and it was said then.marc71178 said:
Actually, you can't trust me. I'm either stupid or know nothing about the game.
I lost my anger about that when I realised just about every fringe NZ player is in the UK anyway. The perils of being the second or third-favourite sport in a country of only 4 million people is probably more accurate. (if it weren't for Canterbury's dry summer climate, we'd be lucky to have the cricket depth of Wales!)marc71178 said:
Anyway, I can see NZC's argument - why pay for having 6 over-qualified drinks boys at every match on the most expensive cricket tour in the world, when they could be earning their own money by actually playing some cricket there?
It's not like Kyle Mills bowling about 30 f/c overs in the last 5 weeks has made him any better off than a guy who's been bowling to club cricketers every Saturday.
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I'll doubt he would have bothered to be honest, he has just spent the previous day making the trek up the map, and had he gone he would have had about a 6 hour drive traffic depending getting back meaning he would only just be getting to the ground by about now and we have been bowling for over a hour and a half now.marc71178 said:
And Iam not sure but isn't the rule he must be back by the end of day 1 for that to count?