And another bowler injured, lol, any Ferners in the area that fancy rolling the arm over today?
@No-Quarter said in West Indies tour of NZ:
On Fleming, he was one of the most naturally talented players we've produced I think. I can remember him hitting peak Shoaib Akhtar bowling 155 - 160kmph for boundary after boundary when the rest of our team didn't look like they could even see the ball in time. He was the king of soft dismissals though, which are lapses in concentration really. As others have alluded to, he was made captain very early and had a lot on his plate from then on, not sure if that really helped him refine his game as much as he could have.
That conversion rate though, the guys on either side of him ( Pujara and Ali ) in the list of all time run scorers both got 19 tons to his nine.......
@No-Quarter said in West Indies tour of NZ:
And another bowler injured, lol, any Ferners in the area that fancy rolling the arm over today?
Who's out now ?
I say bring Jezza Coney in from the commentary box for some dibbly dobbly.
@No-Quarter said in West Indies tour of NZ:
@MN5 Rae went down in pain, but is made of tougher stuff and has run it off. Given his age and unlikely to play much once others return from injury, he'd probably bowl with a broken leg if it meant he could snare another test wicket.
Yeah he won't play another test after this one, hopefully he can survive the last day.
Even so, draw looking bloody likely here. The Windies have no batting superstars, most of them aren't even test standard on paper but NZs fill in attack won't be good enough to knock them over.
Interesting pitch this one, I really felt there was plenty of movement on offer with the new ball, but both sides were not disciplined enough, and once the shine wore off it became very difficult to prize wickets out. Not an absolute road though, all batsmen have worked hard for their runs.
The score probably wouldn't suggest it being an absolute road if we had our three frontline seamers playing though.
Gee, Latham needs to get more catchers in close around the bat. Put some serious heat on these guys.
A tale of two batsmen here.
One is playing a T20 ( slight exaggeration for effect ), the other is playing a test match in the 1960s
@No-Quarter said in West Indies tour of NZ:
And another bowler injured, lol, any Ferners in the area that fancy rolling the arm over today?
The juniors will be on standby by the end of the day at this rate...
Te Puke lads are on the bank after winning the Bay Cup over the weekend. Possibly no sleep since Saturday night by the looks of it, but maybe that's an advantage for bowling relaxed and injury free...
Where’s the short leg when you need it?
Fuck sakes Latham, why are we not just all out attacking these fullas?
If I had any hair, I’d be ripping it out.
Campbell with a brain fart.
He’s blocked everything, his mate who was scoring at the other end gets out, then the next over has a big slog at one and has himself caught at long on.
87-0 to 87-2 in the space of 5 deliveries.
