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***Official*** Sri Lanka in New Zealand
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The Baconator
International Vice-Captain
He's been called up to provide additional cover for Fleming apparently. From nzcricket.co.nzJames said:
Sportsgirl
School Boy/Girl Captain
I agree what a joke, why didn't they bring in someone like Jesse Ryder or Ross Taylor to expose them to the environment???Voltman said:
sportychic33
State 12th Man
With the withdrawl of Fleming, top order batting should be very interesting to watch. One debutant in How batting with Vincent who can be either up or down in his form, although he has been more up recently than others in the batting lineup. Then we have Marshall who looks horribly out of form, then another relative newbie in Fulton who I am not to sure about. Based on that, I wouldn't be too surprised if it is down to the likes of Styris, Cairns, Oram and McCullum to get the majority of the runs again.
But I could be wrong and New Zealand's top order as inexperienced and underperforming (Marshall) as it is might surprise us all and do what a top order is expected to do and score some runs.
But I could be wrong and New Zealand's top order as inexperienced and underperforming (Marshall) as it is might surprise us all and do what a top order is expected to do and score some runs.
sportychic33
State 12th Man
I think that they put Astle back in the squad as they probably want to gradually blood young players not bring a whole lot in at one time, and by the looks of our top order ofSportsgirl said:
How
Vincent
Marshall
Fulton
I would prefer having Astle there as cover as we know that he is a proven performer in international cricket, even though he isn't in the greatest of form currently and he has a vast number of years experience over the afore mentioned top order or the possibles like Ross Taylor or Jesse Ryder.
Mate I live in the North Island . If SL team had looked promising I would have cared to go to Queenstown and Christchurch for this long weekend since I am not working as well.dinu23 said:
But I would be stupid to waste a thousand dollars and suffer more pain seeing my favourite Team lose. Nah , I will watch it on sky in the comfort of my sofa , with a few cold ones, to drench my sorrows. (and the added option of switching onto movies if it looked dreadful at any stage !!)
May reconsider going to Napier for next weekend , if things were different ! ( but seems unlikely)
Yeah right, that does showup against the Aussies , chased 3 won 1.Ming said:
Go and check ODI records of games played in NZ and you will find Teams chasing have lost quite a lot more than winning. The difference is huge .
All over the world chasing sides have a very poor record !!