Blaze
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Huh?Voltman said:Reeeeeowwww.
Huh?Voltman said:Reeeeeowwww.
Break down of the squad, to the best of my knowledge. So if anybody can see if I have put a player in the wrong categoery, just tell me and I will change it.Blakey said:Who are the four pace bowlers he mentions?
Is there a promising spin bowler coming through the ranks?
SouthernMan said:Im sure I have some wrong but I think thats a basic run down. So we could have 4 specalist batsmen in the playing XI the two all rounders, keepers at 7 spinner and three pacemen?
Good to have pace - however most important is accuracy. Do you think the Academy is or will do a good enough job to help these guys develop Bondlike accuracy as well as maintain fitness?Blaze said:That sounds encouraging then.
(although I could only find 4 specalist batsmen).“There are five specialist batsmen (including a back-up wicket-keeper), two medium pace all-rounders, four pace bowlers, four spinners (including two top order batsman), and a specialist wicket-keeper.
Derek is the keeper.SouthernMan said:I was breaking it down to this (although I could only find 4 specalist batsmen).
The two all rounders I picked had both scored runs and had taken wickets through out the tournament. When I was looking through to see if De Boorder took any wickets I found nothing to proove that he did, so he can remain a specalist batsman. Plus isn't he a wicket keeper?
Thanks for attempting to make some sense for me out of this shocker SM.SouthernMan said:Wellington need to have a good hard look at themselves, the pitch kept abit low at times but nothing out of the ordinary. So to bat as badly as they did is an absolute disgrace. But saying that McSkimming did bowl quite well, he bowled a very good consistent line and put all the batsmen under alot of pressure. Then when the Otago batsmen came out they showed how to bat on the pitch (not that there was anythiong wrong with it), all they did was just got their feet to the pitch of it and they played it with ease. Hold your heads in disgrace Wellington.
Ming said:What kind of speed does McSkimming bowl? 120s or 130s?
Darrin said:I dont know what anyone else thinks but the following has been my gripe for the last 10 years and not much has improved during that time. But the standard of first-class batting around the country is an absolute disgrace. Just look at the scores today. We have 4-day cricket but why?, no-one has the ability to bat for any length of time to produce a decent score. I mean one-side today opened with hitchcock, what a joke!
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I think you will find that it was a good move for the south island teams to move their matches away from those 2 major venues. The boundaries are too small and the wickets out at Hagley or wherever they play in Christchurch are generally excellent. It is a non issue in the South Island IMO. The wickets are pretty good wherever they play down there. I could be wrong about University Oval though?James said:I think NZC had to take some of the blame here too. They take domestic cricket is so many minor venues, just look at the schedule - http://www.nzcricket.co.nz/display.aspx?pri=40&sec=229&cid=5339&provider=0&tpl=1 where the pitches aren't obviously of a suitable standard.
Where's Jade Stadium - isn't used. Where's Carisbrook - isn't used. The list could go on...
For our domestic game to improve we need to start using our top pitches rather than the mine fields that are being served up in these small towns.
You'll obviously agree with my above post then because that's what I believe is causing this to happen.Blaze said:Today's games were One Dayers?
But I here what you are saying. Something that annoys me more is when you see the likes of Tama Canning etc opening the bowling or taking bags of wickets. To move forward we need to manipulate our pitches so that medium pacers get very little assistance from the pitch and don't succeed as much as they have in the past. This will in turn mean that batsmen are more likely to score more runs as bowlers will have to bowl really consistantly well to get rewards. Michael Mason and Ian O'Brien failed at international level because there is such a big diference between the pitches at domestic and international level. They bowled the length that had worked for them at domestic level and got carted because international wickets are harder and better to bat on.
Judging by the scores today you wouldn't have thought so and some games from last season are starting to ring in my mind too.Blaze said:I think you will find that it was a good move for the south island teams to move their matches away from those 2 major venues. The boundaries are too small and the wickets out at Hagley or wherever they play in Christchurch are generally excellent. It is a non issue in the South Island IMO. The wickets are pretty good wherever they play down there. I could be wrong about University Oval though?