marc71178
Eyes not spreadsheets
I’m more shocked that he didn’t include both of them to be honest.
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Who do you have pegged for your 4 semi finalists?
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Zinzan
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Cynical.
You feel Taylor's undeserving of that mantle and it's only Kiwi bias that his name was mentioned?
Borges
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Yes. It is Botham every day of the week and twice on a Sunday.
marc71178
Eyes not spreadsheets
Oh I agree he should be in the mix for it along with a number of others. Kohli aside I think you could make arguments for anything up to another 10 players on current form.
cnerd123
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Yea while watching him may suggest that he is some sort of crazy strokemaker, he does actually just play a lot of run-a-ball accumulation/rotation kind of innings. It's hard to see him do well in a team where he has to strike at 150.
Groundking
International Debutant
Nah, he can't score quickly enough and we already have Root in the team that can anchor the innings.
Groundking
International Debutant
Morgan is averaging 57.88 with a SR of 108.09 this year....
Smith is inferior because he averages 10 less. Pretty simple. Not a bad record at all but Root's is pretty great.
Root is as much better than Smith at ODIs as Smith is better than Root in tests.
Howsie
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Eh, Kohli is obvioulsy on a tier by himself, but you could probably make a case for Taylor being on his own one below him to.
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Zinzan
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I don't know, Sharma's stats looking slightly better if I'm honest. Better SR & more hundreds.
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I'm looking at it from more of a longer-term perspective. Anyone can have periods where they look great, in a period of the last 3/4 years it's at least close. (though I will say I thought he was doing worse than a mid-90's SR since about 2015) He also has the advantage of English grounds being a fair bit smaller than Australian ones.
EDIT: Had a look at the stats, Morgan's actually quite a bit ahead of Smith (46.17 @ 98.21) vs (42.89 @ 83.24). Certainly was not expecting a SR gap that large, though I did remember Smith had a big slump at ODI level pre-ban.
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taylor is nzs best odi batsman ever and it's not close. kane scores 70s then finds a brand new way to throw it away, taylor scores 100s.
kane is quality and in tests he's nzs best ever, but if i had to pick one for an odi team it's definitely taylor and that's not my bias talking.
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Arachnodouche
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Ind, Eng, NZ, Aus. Would hate for either Pak or SL to sneak through due to rain and NRR. Let them have to play all their hard matches