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***Official*** Pakistan in New Zealand 2016/17

Blocky

Banned
Audience numbers aren't great during test matches and for as much as our board makes positive noises about wanting more test cricket, they do stupid things like agree to give away tests in return for ODIs in India.
 

Zinzan

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what part of NZ are you located out of?
Auckland.

Lol, there's some hyperbolic drivel on cricinfo's fan coverage.....

"Stories: "Surely Australia would give their left leg to have Ronchi eligible for them now, even at 35, how the wheel turns."
 

Blocky

Banned
Ronchi should really have played at #5 here...

We show SO much faith in Guptill, Southee, Boult, Sodhi, Craig and recently Taylor... yet one of the performing batsmen in the last test series with a good first class average and some level of success (although not recently) in other international formats is dropped on a whim.
 

Zinzan

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Ronchi should really have played at #5 here...

We show SO much faith in Guptill, Southee, Boult, Sodhi, Craig and recently Taylor... yet one of the performing batsmen in the last test series with a good first class average and some level of success (although not recently) in other international formats is dropped on a whim.
Just because Ronchi proved to be a decent horses for courses pick for India, doesn't mean it makes any sense to pick him at the start of the NZ home season on wickets likely to favour swing and seam bowling. Not least given he's nearly 36.
 

Black_Warrior

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Kiwi hardcore cricket fans like Tests, but NZC bank managers like T20s and ODIs.
You mean the 5 of you on CW? :p


Even the last Pakistan-New Zealand series was 2 tests. The fact is that test cricket outside of Big 3 playing each other does not make money. Australia is losing money big time this summer over the 6 test matches.
 
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Zinzan

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Max: "I live 10mins away from the ground and it currently has stopped drizzling, the sky is still overcast but there seem to be more patches of bright sky, so fingers crossed!"
 

Blocky

Banned
Just because Ronchi proved to be a decent horses for courses pick for India, doesn't mean it makes any sense to pick him at the start of the NZ home season on wickets likely to favour swing and seam bowling. Not least given he's nearly 36.
Considering the alternative is Nicholls who hasn't shown any level of dominance anywhere, including first class...
 

Zinzan

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Considering the alternative is Nicholls who hasn't shown any level of dominance anywhere, including first class...
I'm not a big fan of Nicholls either, but thought he at least showed enough spine and technique against good pace bowling in that 2nd Test against SA to give a crack on home pitches likely to conducive to pace bowling, above a 35 year old with no real future & really doesn't have a better case than anyone else in these conditions.

You're telling me you're going to lose sleep over Ronchi being left out?
 

_Ed_

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Covers coming off, apparently. Now we just have to hope that no more showers blow across while they're preparing the ground...
 

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