@Virgil said in Tri Series PAK/NZ/SA:
@Cyclops said in Tri Series PAK/NZ/SA:
Kane the second fastest ever to 7000 ODI runs - quicker than Kohli. Slightly surprised by that as ODIs always felt like the weaker format for him.
Took Kane 14 years to reach this mark, Kohli did it in 7...
159 innings in those 14 years vs 161 innings for Kohli in those 7. Another indicator of how much less cricket we play though.
Looking to the Champions Trophy, who's our starting side based on these games? I'm tempted to open with Ravindra and Conway. Drop the out of form Latham and move Young down to four. Conway can keep. Or move Conway down to four so we open with a right hand / left hand combination.
We should go with the below.
@Canes4life said in Tri Series PAK/NZ/SA:
Looking to the Champions Trophy, who's our starting side based on these games? I'm tempted to open with Ravindra and Conway. Drop the out of form Latham and move Young down to four. Conway can keep. Or move Conway down to four so we open with a right hand / left hand combination.
We should go with the below.
- Conway (WK)
- Ravindra
- Williamson
- Young
- Mitchell
- Phillips
- Bracewell
- Santner
- Henry
- Sears
- O'Rourke
Looks good aside from what I’ve bolded. He’s just got his first decent score in yonks. Do we want to put that burden on him too ?
Ferguson will play ahead of Sears if fit, but I doubt they can risk him with the hamstring injury.
@MN5 said in Tri Series PAK/NZ/SA:
@Canes4life said in Tri Series PAK/NZ/SA:
Looking to the Champions Trophy, who's our starting side based on these games? I'm tempted to open with Ravindra and Conway. Drop the out of form Latham and move Young down to four. Conway can keep. Or move Conway down to four so we open with a right hand / left hand combination.
We should go with the below.
- Conway (WK)
- Ravindra
- Williamson
- Young
- Mitchell
- Phillips
- Bracewell
- Santner
- Henry
- Sears
- O'Rourke
Looks good aside from what I’ve bolded. He’s just got his first decent score in yonks. Do we want to put that burden on him too ?
It's either include him as a batsman/keeper, or drop him/Young and keep Latham.
@Canes4life said in Tri Series PAK/NZ/SA:
@MN5 said in Tri Series PAK/NZ/SA:
@Canes4life said in Tri Series PAK/NZ/SA:
Looking to the Champions Trophy, who's our starting side based on these games? I'm tempted to open with Ravindra and Conway. Drop the out of form Latham and move Young down to four. Conway can keep. Or move Conway down to four so we open with a right hand / left hand combination.
We should go with the below.
- Conway (WK)
- Ravindra
- Williamson
- Young
- Mitchell
- Phillips
- Bracewell
- Santner
- Henry
- Sears
- O'Rourke
Looks good aside from what I’ve bolded. He’s just got his first decent score in yonks. Do we want to put that burden on him too ?
It's either include him as a batsman/keeper, or drop him/Young and keep Latham.
Yeah when those are the alternatives perhaps you have a point.
How long is Ravindra injured for? Conway was at his worst once he hit 70ish whether it was nerves approaching 100 or he realized his appalling calling almost got Kane out, his nerves came back. Looked very awkward from then on.
Still better than Latham at the moment. Geez, has anyone done last 10 innings for Latham in all formats, I suspect he doesn't average 10 across them
Latham, hope youre reading this lol
The last thing NZ should do is give the gloves to Conway,He is just sorting out that footwork and has some runs under his belt.
Throwing 50 overs at him as WK is not what he needs,He needs to build on that innings concentrate on that not drain him in the field for 50 overs in the heat, then expect him to open the batting and score runs.
That would be a very poor selection.
@Chris agree completely. He'll never have the footwork of someone like Kane but he was moving his feet more than I have seem him in a long time last night, great to see. I opined when he was selected that hopefully the shorter forms will force him into a more positive mindset and that seemed to be the case, albeit against a pretty poor bowling lineup. But the innings should do him a world of good.
@Chris said in Tri Series PAK/NZ/SA:
The last thing NZ should do is give the gloves to Conway,He is just sorting out that footwork and has some runs under his belt.
Throwing 50 overs at him as WK is not what he needs,He needs to build on that innings concentrate on that not drain him in the field for 50 overs in the heat, then expect him to open the batting and score runs.
That would be a very poor selection.
Who keeps then ?
@bayimports said in Tri Series PAK/NZ/SA:
How long is Ravindra injured for? Conway was at his worst once he hit 70ish whether it was nerves approaching 100 or he realized his appalling calling almost got Kane out, his nerves came back. Looked very awkward from then on.
Still better than Latham at the moment. Geez, has anyone done last 10 innings for Latham in all formats, I suspect he doesn't average 10 across them
Latham, hope youre reading this lol
His dismissal was unlucky, he hit the shit out of that cut. Problem was he hit it directly to the fieldsman
Hopefully he has gained alot of confidence
@KiwiMurph said in Tri Series PAK/NZ/SA:
It's almost like they should have taken a punt on Hay.....
They've got no choice but to just hope like hell Latham finds form now, omitting Hay was just another stupid, overly conservative decision, very frustrating.
@Canes4life said in Tri Series PAK/NZ/SA:
Looking to the Champions Trophy, who's our starting side based on these games? I'm tempted to open with Ravindra and Conway. Drop the out of form Latham and move Young down to four. Conway can keep. Or move Conway down to four so we open with a right hand / left hand combination.
We should go with the below.
- Conway (WK)
- Ravindra
- Williamson
- Young
- Mitchell
- Phillips
- Bracewell
- Santner
- Henry
- Sears
- O'Rourke
As honking as Conway taking the gloves is, I'd argue squeezing Young in at 4 and shifting Mitchell down is worse.
That guys is cricket's answer to David Havili. A solid player, able to fill many roles, but ultimately one who goes missing when the heat really comes on.
Across 31 Test Innings against AUS/SA/IND/ENG he has 3 scores above 60
Across 9 ODI Innings against AUS/SA/IND/ENG he has a high score of 33
@MN5 said in Tri Series PAK/NZ/SA:
@Chris said in Tri Series PAK/NZ/SA:
The last thing NZ should do is give the gloves to Conway,He is just sorting out that footwork and has some runs under his belt.
Throwing 50 overs at him as WK is not what he needs,He needs to build on that innings concentrate on that not drain him in the field for 50 overs in the heat, then expect him to open the batting and score runs.
That would be a very poor selection.Who keeps then ?
Latham he kept well in this game v SA.
They have to back him like they did with Conway and he scored runs again.Latham is one of our best players of Spin we have,Batting at 5 will suit him,7 one day 100s is hard to throw away.
Every one has form dips, at the moment Ravindra is losing his head once he score 25/30 and gets out But back him as well.Young is back to losing his off stump and is getting in trouble the last 2 games.
Back the experience if it's proven.
Especially going in to the champions trophy,If Latham and some others need replacing do it in the next series that doesn't mean as much.
On another note I expect to see Matt Boyle in this team soon a great 131 v Wellington in the Ford Trophy the other day.To back up a very good 20/20 comp as leading run scorer.
He is one of the hardest and cleanest hitters I have seen to come out of NZ along with Jacobs.
@bayimports said in Tri Series PAK/NZ/SA:
Still better than Latham at the moment. Geez, has anyone done last 10 innings for Latham in all formats, I suspect he doesn't average 10 across them
cricinfo does a rolling last 10 matches in each player's profile:
For international innings, it is:
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Latham is this years Southee, there on reputation and doing his overall record no good by hanging around
one 50+ score in there (so better than I remembered), would I be right in saying though he hasnt hit triple figures anywhere in internationals since that massive 200 odd 3 years+ ago (sorry should search myself lol)
I hope he finds some form again, but it looks pretty bad right now
@frugby said in Tri Series PAK/NZ/SA:
@Canes4life said in Tri Series PAK/NZ/SA:
Looking to the Champions Trophy, who's our starting side based on these games? I'm tempted to open with Ravindra and Conway. Drop the out of form Latham and move Young down to four. Conway can keep. Or move Conway down to four so we open with a right hand / left hand combination.
We should go with the below.
- Conway (WK)
- Ravindra
- Williamson
- Young
- Mitchell
- Phillips
- Bracewell
- Santner
- Henry
- Sears
- O'Rourke
As honking as Conway taking the gloves is, I'd argue squeezing Young in at 4 and shifting Mitchell down is worse.
That guys is cricket's answer to David Havili. A solid player, able to fill many roles, but ultimately one who goes missing when the heat really comes on.
Across 31 Test Innings against AUS/SA/IND/ENG he has 3 scores above 60
Across 9 ODI Innings against AUS/SA/IND/ENG he has a high score of 33
Dave is a lot more successful at cricket than rugby, who knew!
@Chris said in Tri Series PAK/NZ/SA:
On another note I expect to see Matt Boyle in this team soon a great 131 v Wellington in the Ford Trophy the other day.To back up a very good 20/20 comp as leading run scorer.
He is one of the hardest and cleanest hitters I have seen to come out of NZ along with Jacobs.
Agree. I was impressed with him during the 20/20 season. If he has the doggedness of his uncle Dave to go with his hitting ability he could turn out to be a very good player.
By my standards I watched quite a bit of the 20/20 this year. I was heartened by some of the young talent coming through. I think we have some good players in the pipeline.
@Crazy-Horse said in Tri Series PAK/NZ/SA:
@Chris said in Tri Series PAK/NZ/SA:
On another note I expect to see Matt Boyle in this team soon a great 131 v Wellington in the Ford Trophy the other day.To back up a very good 20/20 comp as leading run scorer.
He is one of the hardest and cleanest hitters I have seen to come out of NZ along with Jacobs.Agree. I was impressed with him during the 20/20 season. If he has the doggedness of his uncle Dave to go with his hitting ability he could turn out to be a very good player.
By my standards I watched quite a bit of the 20/20 this year. I was heartened by some of the young talent coming through. I think we have some good players in the pipeline.
Yeah I agree a bit of talent coming through.
@Bones said in Tri Series PAK/NZ/SA:
@frugby said in Tri Series PAK/NZ/SA:
@Canes4life said in Tri Series PAK/NZ/SA:
Looking to the Champions Trophy, who's our starting side based on these games? I'm tempted to open with Ravindra and Conway. Drop the out of form Latham and move Young down to four. Conway can keep. Or move Conway down to four so we open with a right hand / left hand combination.
We should go with the below.
- Conway (WK)
- Ravindra
- Williamson
- Young
- Mitchell
- Phillips
- Bracewell
- Santner
- Henry
- Sears
- O'Rourke
As honking as Conway taking the gloves is, I'd argue squeezing Young in at 4 and shifting Mitchell down is worse.
That guys is cricket's answer to David Havili. A solid player, able to fill many roles, but ultimately one who goes missing when the heat really comes on.
Across 31 Test Innings against AUS/SA/IND/ENG he has 3 scores above 60
Across 9 ODI Innings against AUS/SA/IND/ENG he has a high score of 33Dave is a lot more successful at cricket than rugby, who knew!
What’s the Rugby equivalent of 200 on debut ? Did Havilli manage that ?
Can we get some other equally ridiculous sporting comparisons while we’re at it ?
South Africa miss another final and cant defend 350, good confidence builder for PAK or NZ winning the final
1 Devon Conway, 2 Will Young, 3 Kane Williamson, 4 Daryl Mitchell, 5 Tom Latham (wk), 6 Glenn Phillips, 7 Michael Bracewell, 8 Mitchell Santner (capt), 9 Jacob Duffy, 10 Nathan Smith, 11 Will O'Rourke
No Henry, no Sears - not desperate to win this one - though, I'm far from convinced Henry, Sears, O'Rourke is our best ODI pace trio. Henry definitely is.
@Chris-B Ben Sears has been ruled out of the tournament due to a hamstring injury.
He is replaced in the Champions Trophy squad by Jacob Duffy.
@Daffy-Jaffy Aha - hadn't heard that, but actually, I'm not too disappointed.
I'm inclined to think Duffy is a better option at present.
Babar Azam out to a simple caught and bowled by Smith. Babar looked a bit perplexed that it happened.
57/3
122/3 after 30.
We're on top, but a good time to use the pressure to grab a couple of wickets.
Is Latham's funk over? Great bowling figures from Santner.
It would be just like NZ to lose the game to Pakistan that really matters.
@Bovidae said in Tri Series PAK/NZ/SA:
Is Latham's funk over? Great bowling figures from Santner.
It would be just like NZ to lose the game to Pakistan that really matters.
One top game does not indicate a trend
