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WAG. Great call bar Scotty the HottyTrue dat. Although I could still see scotty and jimmeh help us to limp to a completely sub-par 220.
WAG. Great call bar Scotty the HottyTrue dat. Although I could still see scotty and jimmeh help us to limp to a completely sub-par 220.
This was beegees thing not mine.This. This. This.
The sooner we get it through our heads that NZ does not have to revolve around "a hardworking honest team with a few stars who beat good opposition on their day" the better. It seems to date back ages, and just because up until 1980 we were that sort of side, it does not mean we have to be one now or should aim to be one.
That 1980 side was not a team full of **** with a few jems Hurricane or whoever rated it. Crowe and Hadlee were world class, Wright barring his first two seasons averaged 40+ in an era of great bowlers, and Coney likewise started ****e but became a very good batsman, better than average. Check out his crazy home record. Smith was a world class keeper as well, not to mention for 19 tests we had a certain John Fulton Reid in the middle order aka the other Reid.
Interestingly enough, our best cricketer of the 2000s, Shane Bond, utterly refutes this hardworking untalented triers revolving around good players bull****. After the 2007 WC semi, Hadlee gave him a telling off for talking NZ up in an interview saying NZ play best as underdogs, and good old Bondy ignored him. He believes we fail because players cruise through the lower ranks on natural ability then hit test cricket and realise you have equals and you need to work for everything, but often the NZ players don't. I'm inclined to agree.
That Laura Mcgoldrick is a keeperYup, why else do you think he's hosting that tv show
This was beegees thing not mine.
Must be true then. One scorecard says so.That said I took a look at the scorecard from that 1985 game and the players to a man performed to the ratings that beegee gave them. Edgar was out for 17 - Crowe got 188.
Unless he bat's in the top three Franklin ain't getting near the test team bowling at 120K.Yeah, Franklin's comfortably one of New Zealand's best players in both formats now - especially Tests. Just needs to get his head right and stop being such a flake.
awtaunless he bat's in the top three franklin ain't getting near the test team bowling at 120k.
FIGJAM.WAG. Great call bar Scotty the Hotty
I agree, we should put him in he cant be much worse than what we have and he has legit pace which is why mckay was there in the first place. The batsmen in county cricket must be pretty overrated if Franklin can have the record he does against them. I want Wagner in there as soon as he is eligible as well.FIGJAM.
We really are awful at the moment aren't we. I haven't been paying much attention to the ODI's, but getting slapped around by the India 1.5 XI just six months out from the WC is a bit dispiriting. It's just about time to call it a write-off and start building to the next one (if there is a next one) on this kind of form.
It's hard to see how everything's gone so spectacularly wrong in the last 12 months. The only player that we're genuinely missing from the side that made it to the CT final is Bond, and while that is a large loss, he played less of a roll in our success at that competition than you'd think. I'll be interested in how we do against Pakistan at home. That'll be a decent marker of where this team is.
Team for world cup.
Ryder
Guptill
Taylor
Styris
Williamson/Elliot
McCullum
Oram
Vettori
Mills
Tuffey
MILNE!!!!!! WHO CARES IF HE'S 18, DOESN'T SWING IT, DOESN'T YET HAVE THE PACE TO TROUBLE INTL BATSMAN AND WILL PROBABLY DEVELOP A STRESS FRACTURE THAT WILL TURN HIM INTO GRAEME ALDRIDGE BY THE TIME HE'S 23!!! GETTIMINDATEAM!!!!!!!!!!!!
FIGJAM.
We really are awful at the moment aren't we. I haven't been paying much attention to the ODI's, but getting slapped around by the India 1.5 XI just six months out from the WC is a bit dispiriting. It's just about time to call it a write-off and start building to the next one (if there is a next one) on this kind of form.
It's hard to see how everything's gone so spectacularly wrong in the last 12 months. The only player that we're genuinely missing from the side that made it to the CT final is Bond, and while that is a large loss, he played less of a roll in our success at that competition than you'd think. I'll be interested in how we do against Pakistan at home. That'll be a decent marker of where this team is.
Team for world cup.
Ryder
Guptill
Taylor
Styris
Williamson/Elliot
McCullum
Oram
Vettori
Mills
Tuffey
MILNE!!!!!! WHO CARES IF HE'S 18, DOESN'T SWING IT, DOESN'T YET HAVE THE PACE TO TROUBLE INTL BATSMAN AND WILL PROBABLY DEVELOP A STRESS FRACTURE THAT WILL TURN HIM INTO GRAEME ALDRIDGE BY THE TIME HE'S 23!!! GETTIMINDATEAM!!!!!!!!!!!!
I agree, we should put him in he cant be much worse than what we have and he has legit pace which is why mckay was there in the first place. The batsmen in county cricket must be pretty overrated if Franklin can have the record he does against them. I want Wagner in there as soon as he is eligible as well.
Can think of few reasons,I completely forgot there was a match today - just checked the scorecard on cricinfo. Looks like it was kinda one-sided. I really don't know what the issue is with New Zealand; they have a good side on paper, but they are struggling to produce the goods.