***Official*** New Zealand in Zimbabwe & Zimbabwe/New Zealand/India ODI Tri-Series

[NZTailender]

Taibu and Taylor looking class. Good to see a strong partnership...

Taylor for a 100 today...

 

[andyc]

Yeah, I really hope these two make NZ bat again.

 

[NZTailender]

Jinxed them

 

[NZTailender]

Wow, Mahwire is a little batting surprise packet.

Pull your finger out Martin

 

[Magrat Garlick]

What odds would you have got before the series that NB Mahwire was to be Zimbabwe's highest-averaging batsman?

 

[NZTailender]

That's if Mpofu gets out...otherwise it'll drop

WHich he probably will.

 

[NZTailender]

ROFLMAO!!!

61.1 Vettori to Mahwire, one run, driven to long-on and gets his 50!,
Mpofu runs towards him after completing first run, throw towards
keeper and McCullum whips off the bails, Mppofu is in shock, so
this match is over with a drama!

 

[Magrat Garlick]

That's if Mpofu gets out...otherwise it'll drop

WHich he probably will.

Actually, 99 runs divided by 3 would have given him an average of 33 - two higher than Taylor.

What a farce.

 

[Prince EWS]

ROFLMAO!!!

Thats clearly not funny.

Very unsportsmanlike from New Zealand.

Thats more of a disgrace that Zim's batting in the first test!

 

[NZTailender]

Thats clearly not funny.

Very unsportsmanlike from New Zealand.

Thats more of a disgrace that Zim's batting in the first test!

 

[marc71178]

ROFLMAO!!!

Sounds immoral to me

 

[luckyeddie]

Sounds immoral to me

Personally, I think it reflects New Zealand's thorough professionalism and dedication to the rules.

I bet they kick beggars too.

 

[aussie]

nice to Shane Bond back with a bang, now NZ look to have the building of a strong bowling attack for sure now.......

 

[Prince EWS]

nice to Shane Bond back with a bang, now NZ look to have the building of a strong bowling attack for sure now.......

They still need to get rid of Martin. He got hammered by the Zimbabwean tail.

 

[Neil Pickup]

Big round of applause for ZC's latest allrounder, Blessing Mahwire...

 

[aussie]

They still need to get rid of Martin. He got hammered by the Zimbabwean tail.

well its not first time he got some severe tap form Pigeon & Dizzy at the gabba last summer, time to get Tuffey back methinks.........

 

[AndrewM]

well its not first time he got some severe tap form Pigeon & Dizzy at the gabba last summer

That never happened. Period.

 

[Scaly piscine]

I can't believe NZ keep picking Martin personally, I mean he contributes absolutely nothing with the bat despite him being well into his 31st year - he's obviously done virtually no work whatsoever in the nets and so why would you want someone like that, at that age, who's a mediocre bowler anyway as a fairly regular player in your national team?

 

[AndrewM]

I can't believe NZ keep picking Martin personally, I mean he contributes absolutely nothing with the bat despite him being well into his 31st year - he's obviously done virtually no work whatsoever in the nets and so why would you want someone like that, at that age, who's a mediocre bowler anyway as a fairly regular player in your national team?

Consistency in selection.

His record points to putting in the odd good performance. There is simply no one else with any experience to slot in the test bowling line-up. I, along with a couple others (on this forum anyway) am an advocate of Daryl Tuffey's re-selection. Bond and Tuffey, with Martin/Franklin, Oram and Vettori is a useful bowling attack. If they bring back Tuffey, Franklin should take Martin's place. He has youth on his side.. and is a more dangerous bowler than Martin.

His batting is completely and utterly irrelevant. I was going to suggest asking Glenn McGrath, but apparently he is the world's most prolific number 11.

Thats like suggesting you shouldn't select Marcus Trescothick, because he offers nothing with the ball.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Consistency in selection.

His record points to putting in the odd good performance. There is simply no one else with any experience to slot in the test bowling line-up. I, along with a couple others (on this forum anyway) am an advocate of Daryl Tuffey's re-selection. Bond and Tuffey, with Martin/Franklin, Oram and Vettori is a useful bowling attack. If they bring back Tuffey, Franklin should take Martin's place. He has youth on his side.. and is a more dangerous bowler than Martin.

His batting is completely and utterly irrelevant. I was going to suggest asking Glenn McGrath, but apparently he is the world's most prolific number 11.

Thats like suggesting you shouldn't select Marcus Trescothick, because he offers nothing with the ball.

Of course there's no one else with any experience because they haven't picked them in the first place, consistently selecting someone who's old and rubbish will just mean NZ will continue to be useless in the present and the future. If NZ pick a 20-21 year old instead at least they could pay dividends in the future - Martin in 5 years time could be even worse (if that's possible). Also Franklin should be miles ahead of Martin in any selection (who is better in just about every way I can think of). To say of Martin 'his batting is completely and utterly irrelevant' is stupid in the extreme and it's nothing like suggesting you shouldn't select Trescothick because EVERYONE bats in an innings. It's no coincidence that the two best teams - Australia and England have bowlers who put a lot of effort into improving their batting.