*Official* New Zealand vs Pakistan 2022/23

[Moss]

Useful. Hope that gets Henry in the zone when it's his turn with the new ball.

 

[ataraxia]

Fun fact: selectively ignoring the Ferguson test, current Southee (ignoring his early career goodness) is the worst batter of all NZ test cricketers since Chris Martin

 

[trundler]

Stop

Will come back to this when NZ take that lead

 

[Meridio]

Hasn't Ajaz been batting at number 7 (maybe even 6?) a bit this season for CD? But he's at number 11 here. Obviously Southee's batting is a meme and gets brought up a bit here but it really is a bit ridiculous that he's at 9 above these two.

 

[Howe_zat]

Yeah I'm not convinced this is a road really. Think NZ have a pretty much par score. Median first innings score in Pakistan when choosing to bat first this century is 357.

 

[SteveNZ]

Hasn't Ajaz been batting at number 7 (maybe even 6?) a bit this season for CD? But he's at number 11 here. Obviously Southee's batting is a meme and gets brought up a bit here but it really is a bit ridiculous that he's at 9 above these two.

Ajaz must've had nose bleeds at 7, he's OK technically but can't play short pitched bowling. And yeah, egos are a thing with cricketers. Southee should've been 10 or 11 for the past 10 years of his career, but no one ever had the balls to do it.

 

[Kenneth Viljoen]

Abrar Ahmed he gets wickets hey , Pakistan need to stick with this talent he has a good attitude to the game .

 

[ataraxia]

Hasn't Ajaz been batting at number 7 (maybe even 6?) a bit this season for CD? But he's at number 11 here. Obviously Southee's batting is a meme and gets brought up a bit here but it really is a bit ridiculous that he's at 9 above these two.

8 iirc. #7 rings a little bell, but that was probably due to injury. Dougeh normally does that job. But yeah definitely should be batting higher for NZ, esp. in Asia

 

[Athlai]

Abrar is not going to have a career imo

 

[ataraxia]

8 iirc. #7 rings a little bell, but that was probably due to injury. Dougeh normally does that job. But yeah definitely should be batting higher for NZ, esp. in Asia

On reflection, maybe that was last season. Randell has been very good with bat this season. Still better than Southee.

 

[Flem274*]

I don't think Ajaz has been that high but he's gone from bunny to sometimes cameo maker for Central.

CD have like 17535 bowlers who can bat so if he batted 7 that's hilarious.

 

[ashley bach]

Henry is a class above Southee with the bat. Timmy needs to let his ego go and slip himself back to number 10.

 

[trundler]

Abrar is gold dust. Only going to get better. Your young leggie going for runs on an off day isn't something to be concerned about. As exciting a prospect as there can be.

NZ have too many already.

 

[ataraxia]

Well more importantly Ajaz saved a test in India with the solidest defence you'll ever see. Legend. He also did something in the other test that series ftr

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Great partnership this

 

[_Ed_]

This is fun.

 

[Moss]

Hasan and Naseem making a common mistake of not bowling full and straight to Henry.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Hasn't Ajaz been batting at number 7 (maybe even 6?) a bit this season for CD? But he's at number 11 here. Obviously Southee's batting is a meme and gets brought up a bit here but it really is a bit ridiculous that he's at 9 above these two.

I thought it was 8, but could be wrong.

 

[Howe_zat]

Yup this stand has ticked them over into favourites. 2.62 (vs 2.75 for the draw) and dropping

 

[Bahnz]

Henry is a class above Southee with the bat. Timmy needs to let his ego go and slip himself back to number 10.

Henry’s always looked a much more solid batsmen both defensively and offensively than Timmy. Not far off being a test standard #8.