nz man4man better than australia

[Richard]

You have said NUMEROUS times before that Shane Bond can't swing the red ball. Even though Bond yorked Lara in WI with a ripper of an inswinging yorker. You just don't back up what you say.

Somehow it seems I missed this... no, I didn't. I said it was a possible reason for his relative lack of big-time success in Tests. I never said it was something I was certain about, because until fairly recently (long after this post I'm replying to) I'd only ever watched 2 Bond Tests.

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Somehow it seems I missed this... no, I didn't. I said it was a possible reason for his relative lack of big-time success in Tests. I never said it was something I was certain about, because until fairly recently (long after this post I'm replying to) I'd only ever watched 2 Bond Tests.

Haha, only Richard could reply in a serious fashion to a post from 3 years ago as though expecting a reply.

I must say it's funny in retrospect having rated Fleming above Hayden in ODIs in this thread. Was probably justified all the way up until the '07 WC though.

 

[Richard]

Haha, only Richard could reply in a serious fashion to a post from 3 years ago as though expecting a reply.

I wasn't really expecting a reply, but I don't appreciate idiots like that Ray (Ming\Mingster) putting about nonsense which may give false impressions of me to the masses, without me putting a correction out there.

I must say it's funny in retrospect having rated Fleming above Hayden in ODIs in this thread. Was probably justified all the way up until the '07 WC though.

Not sure about Fleming, but Astle, yes. Hayden really rather turned a corner with his last innings before WC2007 and showed capability he never had before in the short game.

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Not sure about Fleming, but Astle, yes. Hayden really rather turned a corner with his last innings before WC2007 and showed capability he never had before in the short game.

Yeah I agree with that. I was never a particularly big fan of Hayden in ODI cricket. He was a decent contributor but he always had some glaring flaws in his game in the shorter form, and I wasn't a fan of him being brought back into the team when he was. Certainly proved me wrong though, he's been remarkably good since the WC.