**Official** New Zealand Domestic Season 2013/2014

[Flem274*]

I love Watling but in a best case scenario, McCullum keeping and batting at 7 is better. Better keeper, better batsman.

i judge mccullum based on what he did as a keeper bat. it's cheating to take current batting and his old keeping. might as well judge franklin based on present batting and old bowling. get him in the test team!

atm he's the best (parore and smith push him close) but i can see watling getting his name in there.

edit: watling is already a better batsman than old mccullum. mccullum is the best gloveman i've ever seen us play though (i never saw smithy obv) and is a better batsman now than watling is. if he could still keep wicket he would be a beast.

 

[hendrix]

i judge mccullum based on what he did as a keeper bat. it's cheating to take current batting and his old keeping. might as well judge franklin based on present batting and old bowling. get him in the test team!

atm he's the best (parore and smith push him close) but i can see watling getting his name in there.

yeah that's fair.

McCullum's career has been a bit of a waste, at least early on.

 

[Bahnz]

edit: watling is already a better batsman than old mccullum. mccullum is the best gloveman i've ever seen us play though (i never saw smithy obv) and is a better batsman now than watling is. if he could still keep wicket he would be a beast.

Nah, McCullum, especially in his last couple years as a keeper batsman, was a better bat than Watling is. If he hadn't crocked his back and dicked around opening for a couple of years I reckon his average would be pretty close to 40 by now.

 

[ohnoitsyou]

swear that was off the top of the bat

 

[jcas0167]

I must say, NZ domestic cricket commentators are the best. These guys need to be on Sky.

Agree, a lot of good domestic commentators around.

Happy I put $20 on ND about 10 minutes ago paying $1.90

 

[Kippax]

Blocky protege, wac.

 

[hendrix]

fair bit to like about Santner, could be a good NcCullum replacement down the line.

 

[Kippax]

Happy I put $20 on ND about 10 minutes ago paying $1.90

Yeah Wellington's death bowling options and fielding, 10 minutes ago was the right time.

 

[Flem274*]

Blocky protege, wac.

fair bit to like about Santner, could be a good NcCullum replacement down the line.

was just thinking he looks like he has potential to be a useful international number eight, as much as i hate to admit it.

 

[hendrix]

jeets. god i love you.

 

[Bahnz]

Finally Ronchi does something right.

 

[hendrix]

 

[Bahnz]

God it's great to watch Jeets on a pitch that gives him a chance.

 

[Hurricane]

God it's great to watch Jeets on a pitch that gives him a chance.

He looks QUALITY right now.

 

[hendrix]

he's always been quality.

 

[Flem274*]

no he hasn't

 

[Hurricane]

he's always been quality.

No.

Around 2007 he was a crass bowler.

On that last tour to India he was decent/useful - today, and probably it is the pitch perhaps, he is looking better than Swann. Just purely on the dip and drop he is getting despite pushing the ball through.

 

[Bahnz]

Still reckon that if we ever take a 2nd spinner on tour, Jeets should be the first choice.

 

[hendrix]

think we've been through this a few times but he's had about the shortest leash of any NZ bowler, and has never, ever bowled in conditions to suit him.

 

[Bahnz]

Hah, that had to be the most low-key bit of commentary to a batsman being bowled that I've ever heard. Is that Jacob Oram? If so he should lay off the quaaludes.