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Just played through a few more games on my ICC 2012 New Zealand save (2015 season)
Ranked 3rd in Test. 5 in ODI and T20
In the batsmen rankings for tests, 1-Kane-Williamson(avg 45),2-Ross Taylor(51),3-Jesse Ryder(41), 5-Dean Brownlie(51),6-Martin Guptill(40), 9- Brendon McCullum(38). Also have a wicket keeper regen averaging 150 after 8 matches!
BJ Watling was recently dropped, after averaging 37 with 5 hundreds after 40 matches.
In ODI's 1-Brendon McCullum, 3-Kane Williamson,6 Martin Guptill
In T20s 1-Kane Williamson, 6-Martin Guptill, 7-Ross Taylor. I just tried williamson for the first time in T20, he is averaging 99 with a SR of 140 after 10 matches batting at 3! and to think i had never considered batting him in this format before.
The bowlers are not dominating the rankings (no bowlers in top 10 for any format) but consistently bowl very well, defending modest totals of 225 and bowl out top batting units such as South Africa for under 300-350. Matt Henry is a beast in ODIs for me, rubbish economy but has taken 17 5-fors in 25 games.
In tests Daniel Vettori, Doug Bracewell, Small, Henry and a couple of regens average under 30, with Boult and Wagner averaging mid 30s (although the computer keeps wanting me to select them), making it very hard to pick a pace quartet.
The team is far from perfect, for starters apart from the aging Dan the Man who has won many a match for me i lack a spinner. Furthermore while there are a couple of decent spinnners at first class, there is not a single allrounder spinner (discounting Woodcock who sucks and is old) While i have managed adequately without a spinner in the past, the teams are balancing out really nicely with over powered regens appearing everywhere and players like Lyon and Finn turning into beasts (Finn took 8 wickets one T20 match!). What makes it even worse is every second home pitch seems to favor spin.
I also suffer from the age old problem, to many middle order batsmen, not enough top order or decent all rounders. Munro, Broom and a regen are handy, but are not good enough to be selected above someone else, so remain in training for LO's where they are adequate but bowl to many lose deliveries
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