West Indies tour of NZ

@canefan said in West Indies tour of NZ:

BCs about as proficient under the high ball as the ABs

I blame fucking Specsavers!

Probably owned by England!

Wiffed a slow ball

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

I'll take it

Made hard work of that

@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.

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.

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

Some village cricket fielding there.

Will Jordan would have caught those.

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.

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

@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

@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.

@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.

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

@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.

Nicholls is very maligned for a guy who has had a good career for NZ. Has scored two limited overs hundreds this month alone.

He seems to have troughs and then save his arse with a big hundred but he's hardly alone there. Not to mention he does a lot better at home. He deserves his recall.

I had a scan through the ford trophy score cards and there isn't really anyone else really pressing their claim, so the call up for Nicholls makes a but more sense. Maybe Josh Clarkson (also scored a century) could have been worth a try, but he's probably more of a fit in the Bracewell/Neesham role than batting in the top order. Another chance for Tom Bruce? He struggled when he got his last chance but a long time has passed. Not sure if he's still eligible though, I vaguely recall seeing something about him switching to Scotland but I didn't check.

Nicholls is almost comically dominant at NZ domestic level though - I feel like every time I check a score card he's scored another ton. It's a shame that he never really pushed on at international level.