**Official** New Zealand v World XI

[BlackCap_Fan]

BANG!!!

First six! Clean, lovely hit. Charged down the wicket, length ball(ish) and it goes a fair way back. 68/1.

 

[Fiery]

Dirtbag is going nuts here. Just smacked Klusener 30 rows behind the sightscreen.

 

[MoxPearl]

sincalirs going for the 6's now lol

 

[BlackCap_Fan]

Sinclair having some fun now. Lovely lofted cover drive for six. 50 partnership now off 44 deliveriees.

 

[Tim]

Apparently Bracewell's latest method is for every player from 1-11 to practice hitting 6's at training.

 

[Fiery]

Apparently Bracewell's latest method is for every player from 1-11 to practice hitting 6's at training.

Sounds like a good idea to me.
It worked for Flem!
Apparently Daryl Tuffey can smack the ball just as far as anyone batting both left and right-handed.

 

[Ming]

It sounds to me like you're a huge fan of Cumming. The stats just don't support your argument. I haven't even heard him mentioned as an option in the media; quite rightly too IMHO.

I'm not a huge fan of Cumming. Well, I'm sure it's the media that selects the Test team rogerramjet.

I'm just suggested Cumming as an option as an opener, a batsman who has been very consistent with the bat this season.

 

[Tim]

Cumming has probably been the most consistent opener so far in the State Championship. He may have a slightly lesser average than others...but the key is that he's at least getting a decent score every match rather than hitting 3 hundreds & a fifty and then trailing off.

 

[Tim]

Crowd building up nicely, should be almost full for the 2nd innings when more people come from work at 5.

 

[Fiery]

He's too old and already shown he's not good enough.
Do we really want to pick a 30 year old who has proven he wasn't up to international class in the 10 one-dayers he played. I know you'll say test match cricket is different but I've seen enough of him in domestic cricket as well to know he's a fairly ordinary sort of player. Much better off investing in someone younger like How or bringing back Papps or even Vincent. Cumming would be about 6th in line if I was a selector, but I'm not so you could prove me wrong. I hope not.

 

[Tim]

Maybe Fleming & Sinclair should do the job against Australia..and then for the Sri Lankan series would should seriously start looking at Papps & How.

Sinclair is not an opener..I know he's wanting to play whenever he can, but I think the right call needs to be made between him & the selectors that he shouldn't be opening in tests.

Unfortunately we don't have an 'A' series at home this season so How & Papps would have to rely on State Championship form.

 

[Ming]

He's too old and already shown he's not good enough.
Do we really want to pick a 30 year old who has proven he wasn't up to international class in the 10 one-dayers he played. I know you'll say test match cricket is different but I've seen enough of him in domestic cricket as well to know he's a fairly ordinary sort of player. Much better off investing in someone younger like How or bringing back Papps or even Vincent. Cumming would be about 6th in line if I was a selector, but I'm not so you could prove me wrong. I hope not.

Maybe I could use your tune:

"Oh Vincent has been tried in nearly 50 ODIs and only has an average of 20, and his Test record is inconsistent, He's been tried and shown he's not good enough. Do we want to pick him who hasn't proved himself in the 50 ODIs he has played?"

I would never consider Vincent as a Test opener again, he's a middle order batsman.

I would play Fleming and Sinclair opening against the Aussies as well, and wait until April to blood another opener.

 

[Richard Rash]

Crowd building up nicely, should be almost full for the 2nd innings when more people come from work at 5.

It's a public holiday in welington

 

[Tim]

that's right..well there shouldn't really be any excuses then for Wellingtonians to not fill up the stadium.

 

[Fiery]

Maybe I could use your tune:

"Oh Vincent has been tried in nearly 50 ODIs and only has an average of 20, and his Test record is inconsistent, He's been tried and shown he's not good enough. Do we want to pick him who hasn't proved himself in the 50 ODIs he has played?"

I would never consider Vincent as a Test opener again, he's a middle order batsman.

I would play Fleming and Sinclair opening against the Aussies as well, and wait until April to blood another opener.

I would hope we never have to consider Lou Vincent as an opener either or in the middle order but he's a far superior batsman than Craig Cumming which doesn't say much for his chances. I agree with you that Fleming and Sinclair should open the batting against Australia in the tests. I would have considered Astle to open with Flem but now that Oram is gone my top 6 would be:

Fleming
Sinclair
Fulton
Styris
Astle
McMillan

 

[BlackCap_Fan]

Cairns is gone; spooned it straight to Warne at cover(I think) off Klusener. Warne in the attack now.

 

[Richard Rash]

NZ strugling..Marshell gone

 

[Tim]

thank god Doug Cowie doesn't really umpire internationals anymore...he's a bit of a disgrace.

 

[MoxPearl]

mcullum gone... hes the best sportsman ever i rekon

 

[MoxPearl]

that's right..well there shouldn't really be any excuses then for Wellingtonians to not fill up the stadium.

The weather...

i was going to go with a group of ppl.. but we decided not to due to the weather

turned out nice thou now