ECB announce NZ 2008 tour

[Fiery]

Haha, I'm a realist mate

I hope it's not real

 

[James]

I hope you'll come back and say I told you so next year though.

 

[Fiery]

I hope you'll come back and say I told you so next year though.

Don't worry, I will now

 

[Flem274*]

Don't worry, I will now

You tell em Fiery. Our batting has lots of competition for places and their bowling isn't that great. Harmison and Plunkett don't particularly frighten me. Our bowling is a bit iffy if we don't have the first XI on the park and their batting is pretty good.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

I dunno Flem. I can't think of a much more difficult test for a batsman than facing two fairly quick bowlers who can't hit the cut strip more than 3 or 4 times an over, but bowl a delicious pearler once every 3 or 4 overs. You just can't get your eye in against such erratic bowlers, and when they get that pearler to come down, you aren't gonna be able to do much about it.

One thing we will need to challenge the Brits is for someone to perform the Mark Richardson role - he did brilliantly on the last tour to the UK, and there's no player in the current squad capable of frustrating bowling attacks to expertly.

 

[Flem274*]

I dunno Flem. I can't think of a much more difficult test for a batsman than facing two fairly quick bowlers who can't hit the cut strip more than 3 or 4 times an over, but bowl a delicious pearler once every 3 or 4 overs. You just can't get your eye in against such erratic bowlers, and when they get that pearler to come down, you aren't gonna be able to do much about it.

One thing we will need to challenge the Brits is for someone to perform the Mark Richardson role - he did brilliantly on the last tour to the UK, and there's no player in the current squad capable of frustrating bowling attacks to expertly.

Sounds like your bowling Heath.

I can fustrate bowlers, I got dropped 4 times in one over once. I'm no Richardson though.

 

[Fiery]

I dunno Flem. I can't think of a much more difficult test for a batsman than facing two fairly quick bowlers who can't hit the cut strip more than 3 or 4 times an over, but bowl a delicious pearler once every 3 or 4 overs. You just can't get your eye in against such erratic bowlers, and when they get that pearler to come down, you aren't gonna be able to do much about it.

You did base your whole career on this notion after all

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

I can fustrate bowlers, I got dropped 4 times in one over once. I'm no Richardson though.

Haha. Reminds me of a club match where I kept giving this medium pacer catching practise for caught & bowleds... He dropped me five or six times. Classic. I detonated his stumps later on... I doubt he was too impressed!!

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

You did base your whole career on this notion after all

You know, Fiery. You're just a bully. I can rise above this

 

[Flem274*]

Haha. Reminds me of a club match where I kept giving this medium pacer catching practise for caught & bowleds... He dropped me five or six times. Classic. I detonated his stumps later on... I doubt he was too impressed!!

 

[Fiery]

You know, Fiery. You're just a bully. I can rise above this

 

[Smudge]

I don't see us winning a test either. Tests are often decided on one session and it always seems to be our side who don't grab the initiative. Maybe that's my glass half-empty approach to NZ cricket though.

 

[Perm]

I doubt New Zealand will be able to win a Test, England's batting lineup looks too strong and I can see our batting really crumbling against some decent bowlers (Hoggard, Flintoff, Panesar). Bond is about the only one who fills me with any enthusiasm and it wouldn't surprise me if he was injured.

 

[Craig]

So who is more pessimistic? New Zealand or English cricket fans?

 

[Smudge]

We are!!

(well, we've got to win something, so this is as good as anything)

 

[Xuhaib]

Haha, you Kiwis are really starving for test cricket, this series is still a year off but there are already 54 posts in this thread.

 

[slugger]

just imagine how mathew sinclair feels...what a year to be discarded...

 

[Craig]

Haha, you Kiwis are really starving for test cricket, this series is still a year off but there are already 54 posts in this thread.

TBH this feels like something completely different. Now a four Test series would be in uncharted waters and a five Test series, well...(New Zealand has played one for about 36/37 years )

 

[Richard]

Nice warm up before the South Africans, can’t see New Zealand winning a test but they are a decent outfit. Really hoping Bond's fit.

haha, patronising bollocks

Not sure why that'd qualify as patronising for a SAfrican fan, TBH.

 

[Craig]

I think he was implying that New Zealand are crap?