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***Official*** West Indies in New Zealand 2013/14

Zinzan

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Yay, I get home just in time to see the very last ball of the day and Sky end their broadcast straight away. No highlights of even the wickets, that would be too much to ask. At least I get a piddly 30 mins highlights package later tonight...
 
NZTailender

NZTailender

I can't believe I ate the whole thing
It's funny because even with Rutherford's quickness, Fulton's patches of slow scoring made it seem like we wouldn't break 300 by days end. I'll be disappointed if the current partnership doesn't double tomorrow. Time for Ross to hit a double himself.
 
_Ed_

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_Ed_ said:
Seems a long way away all of a sudden, with Taylor's jittery start and McCullum's abysmal form. If neither of them fire, it's all on Fulton, Anderson and Watling.
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Let's be honest - not my best prediction.
 
Athlai

Athlai

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I get excited at the idea that we may be able to argue we have the best top order batsman in the world at a certain position. I'm just waiting for a retirement or two to start heralding Taylor as the World XI #4
 
hendrix

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lol cricinfo comment:

This same NZ side was crushed in BD now they r dominatting against WI bowling in bouncy track which were troubling ind flat track bullies!it shows to the world that indians batting avg why is high.even taillender batters like pujara dhawan nd kohli looks like real test cricketer.
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hendrix

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NZ can score on on this flat track. What they did in Inda where all test matches are finishing in 3 days. That is the real test and not these flat tracks of new zealand and colombo.
 
Hurricane

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Maximas said:
Lol, picking fast bowlers on merit of which side of the pitch they run down? That's worse than me
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In the 1980s it was typical to pick one left armer at most. It was somewhat of a minor talking point when Aussie picked Bollinger and Johnson in the same test some years ago. Now New Zealand have 3 left armers and some commentators are wondering if it is too many. One day twenty years from now we will see a bowling attack of 4 left armers somewhere (as unlikely as that is since most people are right handed). There is a prevailing thought that Right handed bowlers are better at getting out right handed batsman and you need more right handed bowlers. There is some truth to it when you consider some of the stats/dismissal patterns that bowlers like Zaheer Khan have. What confused me was Doull talking out of his ass saying that since WI had so many left handers we needed to play Bracewell. At the end of the day I would personally take the better bowler - but if two bowlers were similar in ability then I would consider the balance of the attack. There was a day when the balance of the attack outweighed how good the bowler was though.

Dan said:
Can't think of a single way in which this is true, tbh. I guess Bracewell's best right now > Faulkner's best right now, but by every other metric I think Faulkner is far better (ceilings and all that, as well as consistency). Though in fairness I don't rate Bracewell at all, and do rate Faulkner somewhat
Neither should be anywhere near a Test team.
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Faulkner has a hideous action though so doesn't deserve to be compared to anyone except Marty Kain.

Bahnz said:
Well batted Brendon.
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Guess his back must have improved if it was to blame for his Bangers innings like he inferred.

hendrix said:
A side note to this side note - I really think Taylor in particular is a batsman who'd benefit from a reverse sweep in his arsenal. Despite being a decent player of spin, he often lacks scoring options when it's not bouncing and he can't cut balls. He has no 3rd gear, along the ground boundary stroke. There are single options and six options, but nothing in between.
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With the current perception of the reverse sweep as a low percentage trick shot you won't see him adding it to his test match repertoire any time soon. No coach will advocate it "worth his salt" or more accurately who wants to keep his job and who is politically astute. Again 20 years from now everyone will reverse sweep. I am not calling Canadian cricket anything to aspire to as Hamilton could probably beat them, but FWIW my friend who went to the Canadian trials and was a good spinner said he couldn't bowl to anyone there because they all reverse swept every ball. And they all did it. The reverse sweep is coming to a test match near you on a frequent basis..

_Ed_ said:
Yes Ross! Brilliant ton.
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Prince EWS said:
Back in my day
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You mean when you were 17? you are 23 right? :p:p:p
 
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