***Official**** Sri Lanka in New Zealand 2014/2015

[Blocky]

You're probably just trolling at this point, but I adopted a similar stance once for very similar reasons

By the end of my club days, I didn't even bother moving the foot across.

For a guy with a reputation of laziness and laughing when he drops his sitter in the slips once per series, you'd think he'd show a bit more energy at the crease.

Someone needs to give Taylor a reason to want to prove them wrong so he goes back to training and giving a ****.

 

[Prince EWS]

2011-2013, if you wanted to book a lane in Seddon Park invariably you'd be frustrated at the amount of times "R Taylor" was on the sheet with throwdowns, bowling machine and bowlers.

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2013-2015, if you wanted to book a lane in Seddon Park, feel free.

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Whatever he changed then doesn't look to have done him any harm.

 

[Prince EWS]

By the end of my club days, I didn't even bother moving the foot across.

It was about 40 degrees and I was buggered after 20 minutes and had stopped moving my feet entirely, so I adopted that stance to force me to do so (and conserve energy by not standing up straight between deliveries). Doubt it's why Taylor's doing it though.

 

[Blocky]

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Whatever he changed then doesn't look to have done him any harm.

Well, like Mike Tyson mentioned in his biography - the training he did in his peak when his trainer Cus D'Amato was still around meant that even when he couldn't be ****ed training, was on cocaine, shagging whores the night before his fights he was still better than anyone else for two years because it took that long for the training to residually wear off.

Taylor is kind of in the same position, he's got brilliant hand eye co-ordination and in that regard is generally world class. He did a **** tonne of training in particular due to being insulted by the thoughts that he had no ability outside of his slog sweep and part of that training was to get his footwork moving more - but he was a lot more upright at the crease, didn't have the plonking foot and was quick to get back against spin bowling compared to where he's at now.

 

[Burgey]

This match is really well poised. Hope it turns out a cracker.

 

[Blocky]

It was about 40 degrees and I was buggered after 20 minutes and had stopped moving my feet entirely, so I adopted that stance to force me to do so (and conserve energy by not standing up straight between deliveries). Doubt it's why Taylor's doing it though.

Well if I continue pointing out how lazy he is and how past NZ captains have blasted him for "not giving a ****" or in the case of Vettori, marching into his dressing room after CD pulled off a win against ND with Taylor playing a leading hand, sledging the players (due to the whole "You're in Hamilton, you should play for ND" shtick he gets) to blast Taylor and say the words "Wish you showed half as much passion as this playing for your country"

In my case, my back was buggered and I was usually spent if we were bowling first, plus most club bowlers don't make you pay for **** footwork.

(and no, I don't actuallythink Taylor has changed his stance solely due to being lazy. I think it's a degeneration in his technique through not enough time at the crease and no where near the same level of training )

 

[viriya]

I think people are missing that Herath has got himself in Taylor's head.. just look at the batting stance he tried vs him..

 

[Blocky]

This match is really well poised. Hope it turns out a cracker.

Sri Lanka still comfortably ahead. We require McCullum to do a 2014ish knock or Williamson to show he learnt from Sanga around why you don't give away scores in the 60s and 70s.

I think people are missing that Herath has got himself in Taylor's head.. just look at the batting stance he tried vs him..

He was batting this way in Pakistan too.

 

[Blocky]

For instance, the ball that Williamson just rocked onto the back foot and easily struck to the sweeper for a single wasn't that much different to the ball Taylor got "beaten by the flight" of - i.e "Plonked his lazy foot forward, thrust the bat out and looked surprised when he didn't middle it"

 

[viriya]

Seeing how people have skewered Rutherford for not being test class reminds me of Mark Richardson.. he had a great record and I remember him getting stuck in.. why did he retire so early?

 

[viriya]

He was batting this way in Pakistan too.

Nvm then.. Jeremy Coney and Butcher had me thinking otherwise.

 

[Blocky]

Nvm then.. Jeremy Coney and Butcher had me thinking otherwise.

Both of them need to think through what they're saying considering Taylor was batting this way in the first match where Herath wasn't playing and that Taylor batted that way in the first innings where Herath didn't bowl many balls at him.

 

[Blocky]

Seeing how people have skewered Rutherford for not being test class reminds me of Mark Richardson.. he had a great record and I remember him getting stuck in.. why did he retire so early?

The main reason was that it was just post a world cup year, his own domestic team wasn't selecting him in their limited overs side meaning he only got to play first class cricket at a decent level and simply wasn't getting enough cricket in to feel like he could keep performing to a high standard.

 

[Hurricane]

Herath is amazing. Best orthodox spinner I have seen ever.

 

[viriya]

Russell Arnold talking about how he dropped Henry Olonga when Murali had 9/51 vs Zim on this day 12 years ago.. ****er denied Murali the best figures of all time (Laker had 10/53).. It was a sitter that he claims "flew past him".

 

[viriya]

The main reason was that it was just post a world cup year, his own domestic team wasn't selecting him in their limited overs side meaning he only got to play first class cricket at a decent level and simply wasn't getting enough cricket in to feel like he could keep performing to a high standard.

A 45 average NZ opener.. he might even make the all-time NZ XI?

 

[Blocky]

Game over.

 

[Athlai]

Well if I continue pointing out how lazy he is and how past NZ captains have blasted him for "not giving a ****" or in the case of Vettori, marching into his dressing room after CD pulled off a win against ND with Taylor playing a leading hand, sledging the players (due to the whole "You're in Hamilton, you should play for ND" shtick he gets) to blast Taylor and say the words "Wish you showed half as much passion as this playing for your country"

In my case, my back was buggered and I was usually spent if we were bowling first, plus most club bowlers don't make you pay for **** footwork.

(and no, I don't actuallythink Taylor has changed his stance solely due to being lazy. I think it's a degeneration in his technique through not enough time at the crease and no where near the same level of training )

Source: not found.

 

[Blocky]

A 45 average NZ opener.. he might even make the all-time NZ XI?

Easily. He and Wright would open for NZ Alltime XI.

There was always a concern he didn't convert enough but he got a tonne of starts in pretty tough conditions - that was the era of the green seamer in NZ.

 

[viriya]

Great review.... /s