The ICC Super Series

[Richard]

New Zealand have certainly been one of the luckier sides of recent years in Test-cricket - though that luck has finally run-out from The Third Test of the South Africa series.
In ODIs, they've got plenty of good players.

 

[Duncan]

New Zealand have certainly been one of the luckier sides of recent years in Test-cricket - though that luck has finally run-out from The Third Test of the South Africa series.
In ODIs, they've got plenty of good players.

Hasn't New Zealand been crap in tests... they even managed to lose to Pakistan at home.

 

[marc71178]

Right so again it's all luck then, rather than working well together as a team.

 

[Richard]

You're a complete dimwit if you think otherwise.
"Playing as a team" doesn't cause rain, flat pitches or abandoned Test-matches.

 

[marc71178]

Which of rain, flat pitches or abandoned games hit this so called superb team of 57 then?

Oh yes, that'd be none of them.

 

[Richard]

I don't know how many hit West Indies '57, I wasn't talking about them.
New Zealand, however, benefited from their opponents being hit with all three - and it made them look a hell of a lot better than they were. It had precisely nothing to do with "playing as a team".

 

[aussie]

With the super-series sqauds being announced during the lunch break, i'm going to play the guessing game and try to pick the squad that might be announced:

14-man ODI sqaud:

1. Brian Lara * - Captain
2. Virender Sehwag
3. Graeme Smith
4. Rahul Dravid
5. Inzamam Ul-Haq
6. Kumar Sangakara + - Keeper
7. Andrew Flintoff
8. Chris Cairns
9. Shaid Afridi
10. Shaun Pollock
11. Shoaib Akhtar
12. Muttiah Muralitharan
13. Makhaya Ntini
14. Jaques Kallis
15. Steve Harmison
16. Sachin Tendulkar
17. Chaminda Vaas
18. Daniel Vettori
19. Abdur Razzaq
20. Yousuf Youhana or KP

13-man Test Squad:

1. Brian Lara * - Captain
2. Virender Sehwag
3. Graeme Smith
4. Rahul Dravid
5. Jaques Kallis
6. Inzamam Ul-haq
7. Kumar Sangakara + - Keeper
8. Andrew Flintoff
9. Shaun Pollock
10. Shoaib Akhtar
11. Muttiah Muralitharan
12. Anil Kumble
13. Steve Harmison
14. Sachin Tendulkar
15. Daniel Vettori
16. Makhaya Ntini
17. Michael Vaughan
18. VVS Laxman
19. Younis Khan
20. Brendon McCullum

 

[superkingdave]

isnt it 20 man squads for both forms?

 

[aussie]

isnt it 20 man squads for both forms?

ok well i'll edit it.

 

[superkingdave]

i think they are naming 20 for each today, then reducing it later - interesting to see if Harmison gets added to the ODI squad after his perfromances against the Aussies

 

[aussie]

i'm 95 % sure that Harmison will be picked, the 5% is for the possible stupidity of the super series selectors.

 

[superkingdave]

well he wasn't included in the initial selection for the ODI's but they did say that people not on the list still had a chance - which makes a mockery of the selections in the first place

 

[aussie]

pretty much so

 

[Neil Pickup]

OK, who decided that McCullum was a better choice than Sangakkara?

 

[superkingdave]

brought in Harmison in the ODI squad i see, aridi in aswell

 

[Steulen]

I guess there will be a lot of sleepless nights for Brendon McCullum and Mark Boucher at the prospect of having to keep to Murali.

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

What's the squad exactly? Can't find it on cricinfo yet.

 

[superkingdave]

http://content.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/212468.html

 

[superkingdave]

Test

Flintoff
Vaughan
Harmison
Dravid
Tendulkar
Sehwag
Kumble
McCullum
Vettori
Akhtar
Y Khan
ul Haq
Kallis
Ntini
Pollock
Smith
Boucher
Murali
Lara
Chanderpaul

 

[superkingdave]

OD

Flintoff
Harmison
Pietersen
Dravid
Tendulkar
Sehwag
McCullum
Vettori
Akhtar
ul Haq
Afridi
Razzaq
Kallis
Gibbs
Ntini
Pollock
Murali
Sagakarra
Lara
Gayle