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

[Athlai]

People in glass houses...

Tour Match: Cricket Australia XI v New Zealanders at Sydney, Oct 29-31, 2015 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo


First game of the tour and all that

And it was super embarrassing. We got slaughtered by aussie posters and we got slaughtered in the first Test.

 

[kiwiviktor81]

Time to sticky this and lose the NZ in Aussie thread

 

[Hurricane]

NZC PRESIDENT'S XI vs SRI LANKA

Here is the scorecard - can one of our experts on spin bowling like ***** - make some comments on Tim Johnston's release. Not his flight or turn, just his release, it looks a bit different to me.

 

[jcas0167]

Joel Harden seemingly quite talented with the bat. Son of an English county player or something I think? More riches for Phlegm and Cribb on the way, hot on the heels of Clarkson.

Yep, there was a bit of discussion about his dad and English professionals on the NZ scene in 80/90's.

His father played for CD as an overseas pro when TV One began showing the Shell Cup semis and final on TV.

He was light years ahead of the average NZ domestic player at controlling the middle overs of a one-day innings. Which I assumed at the time was pretty normal for a good English pro, they played a lot of one day cricket, and therefore it was really surprising how bad their national team was at it.

Harden gave me a bit of an inferiority complex on that an average pro nowhere near England selection could look so good in our comp.

 

[Jeet]

Pretty fragile batting if that is the case -with an out of form Watling at 6 and Craig slogging at 7.

Really hope they pick Santner and four quicks - slightly better batting and much more controlled bowling.

Santer does look promising

 

[cnerd123]

NZC PRESIDENT'S XI vs SRI LANKA

Here is the scorecard - can one of our experts on spin bowling like ***** - make some comments on Tim Johnston's release. Not his flight or turn, just his release, it looks a bit different to me.

Heh. Wouldn't call myself an expert. Can't tell a lot about his bowling just form two clips either. It does look like he is spinning the ball 'up' - release it with an upwards aiming trajectory, giving him some really nice loop and letting the ball drift and dip more.

Reminds me a bit of Ramesh Powar:

 

[Hurricane]

Heh. Wouldn't call myself an expert. Can't tell a lot about his bowling just form two clips either. It does look like he is spinning the ball 'up' - release it with an upwards aiming trajectory, giving him some really nice loop and letting the ball drift and dip more.

Reminds me a bit of Ramesh Powar:

There's a clip for each wicket he took. So 5 in total. Yes he does seem to float the ball upwards. I checked out his height which is 185 cms. So he shouldn't need to be doing so based in his height anyway.

Check out his fingers and the work he does on the ball during the release...if not then thanks for looking.

 

[cnerd123]

Didn't realise there were clips on the scorecard. I was going off Kippax's vault footage in the thread.

Can't tell anything about his grip from those angles. Looks like he's not using the orthodox spinners grip, that he is somehow releasing it from between index finger and the thumb, but really can't tell.

He's definitely not using his full height when he bowls, does a very good job of looping it. Got some turn. Can't really tell how many revs on the ball but it looked like a decent amount.

 

[Kippax]

 

[cnerd123]

Yea he spins it with index and thumb; not the orthodox grip.

 

[Kippax]

I wonder who in New Zealand is teaching them all this trick of bending their front arm into a right angle and using it a bit like crosshairs.

 

[Hurricane]

I wonder who in New Zealand is teaching them all this trick of bending their front arm into a right angle and using it a bit like crosshairs.

There have been other international bowlers (off spinners) who have done it and I am just trying to place who.

 

[Hurricane]

Chris Kuggelijn maybe?

 

[Hurricane]

I am becomng obsessed I have Tim Johnston on loop. He has a very odd release. He pushes his fingers forward and not around the ball.

 

[cnerd123]

Similar to Ashwin too.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

I wonder who in New Zealand is teaching them all this trick of bending their front arm into a right angle and using it a bit like crosshairs.

wonder what equations he put that through. Shouldn't have gotten through the first stages of the design process imo.

 

[NZTailender]

Is this our next great spinning hope?

 

[Kippax]

Uncapped Fernando to replace injured Prasad | Cricket | ESPN Cricinfo

 

[Kippax]

I presume he won't crack the final XI in either Test, but this guy you've seen in Kippax vids is Vishwa Fernando -

 

[NZTailender]

He's like a Sri Lankan Neil Wagner.