West Indies tour of NZ

Jamieson is much better in ODI's, good 10 tonight.

booboo

@Gunner you asked for 15...
Comfortable yet?

Gunner

@booboo not the way this over is going…

booboo

Still in it the Windies

Gunner

Advantage Black Caps, but that can still change ball to ball…

booboo

32 from 12

2.6 perball

Chris B.

16 per over for the last two.

Surely not! 🙂

No Quarter

Absolutely atrocious fielding may cost us

Gunner

I’ve never seen so many skied balls missed so bloody badly.

Like a comedy show that isn’t funny.

booboo

Don't bowl widess. Idiots

canefan

Is there something wrong with these lights?

Gunner

Henry puts one in the slot and deservedly smashed over the long off boundary.

The short or wide ball been working so well, why would you not stick to it?

No Quarter

Just gotta keep Greaves off strike...

Gunner

These fluffybunnies need to give themselves an uppercut for their shit catching in the last 10 overs.

canefan

BCs about as proficient under the high ball as the ABs

No Quarter

Danger man back on strike, its all on

Gunner

Do not bowl a wide or no ball…

No Quarter

Bad luck, these 2 have done well to get them close. We just hold on, phew

canefan

Made hard work of that

Gunner

@canefan said in West Indies tour of NZ:

BCs about as proficient under the high ball as the ABs

I really didn’t want to like this… but had to.

frugby

That was largely because of that odd three over spell by Bracewell. I'd wager if Santner bowled through there with the quicks rotating and we win that by 50+ runs. They were about to hit out, and then we brought a pie chucker on which got them going.

Chris B.

Brave by Duffy to bowl the slower ball - ball 5.

Bovidae

Some village cricket fielding there.

Bones

Will Jordan would have caught those.

African Monkey

Close on the scoreboard, but it wasn't that close. We were always in control, a bit of a dour fixture with a rather dour crowd. Still, it's a win.

frugby

Nicholls called in as injury cover for Mitchell. These selectors are giving the All Blacks a run for their money with how conservative they are

SouthernMann

@frugby said in West Indies tour of NZ:

Nicholls called in as injury cover for Mitchell. These selectors are giving the All Blacks a run for their money with how conservative they are

As a top order option he is heads and shoulders above others in terms of recent form. His start to the Ford Trophy has been brillant

frugby

@SouthernMann That is the concern, but he isn’t a long-term solution.

I’d liked to have seen Robinson get a crack in the ODIs

Surely Chapman gets picked first anyways and Nicholls is simply the backup for a last minute injury.

Chris

@frugby said in West Indies tour of NZ:

Nicholls called in as injury cover for Mitchell. These selectors are giving the All Blacks a run for their money with how conservative they are

He deserves the call up the form batsmen in domestic cricket, last innings international ODI was 150 and two 100s this season for Canterbury in the Ford trophy.
I would rather see a batsmen selected on form that a promise that may never come.

frugby

@Chris I'd argue that Nicholls' returns at international level in the past 36 months makes his domestic form somewhat redundant.

Chris

@frugby said in West Indies tour of NZ:

@Chris I'd argue that Nicholls' returns at international level in the past 36 months makes his domestic form somewhat redundant.

A guy who has come off 150 in his last match for NZ and is outscoring all the other domestic batting by a fair distance is who I would be picking ahead of a hope.