I haven't figured out how to do it on stats guru, but I'd wager that although he's got some top 5 players out, they've generally scored plenty of runs against him first anyway so I doubt his average against good players is all that crash hot. And he's generally released all the pressure with boundary balls too.
His average against top order players can't actually be that bad considering how few lower order wickets he receives. There was an article in Otago about it, indicating that he was often getting the lions share of the top order out and not being brought back to bowl at the tail. That was certainly the case in the Windies where Wagner hardly got any overs at the true tail, they were throwing the ball to Sodhi to try and get some confidence building overs in.
I never said that there wasn't.
Well I guess history is on his side...
I take it your'e not a Jeets man then? Imo, if would be great if the Seddon park groundsmen could replicate that pitch for first class games. Having a proper turning track will do wonders for our spinners and Sodhi in particular.
Dunno. He's progressing alarmingly quick, in one of the T20 finals he bowled a couple of match changing overs; great length, quick, turn, variation (probably one of the best spells of spinning bowling i've ever see from a Kiwi), but theres still to many hit-me-balls there.
Yeah you could see that by looking for the most recent Canterbury vs. ND game in the vault, Daemon. Hamilton's been offering a bit of that this season under the new curator though, nothing like that in Auckland or Wellington.
fancy uploading this to your playlist for those of us who haven't figured out the vault?
He's had his chances and by all rights should have converted them, however the disgraceful scene of a guy with a first class century backing away so massively to any fast bowler in his last couple of digs for NZ doesn't show me he has the heart to be a champion cricketer, irregardless of some decent performances on and off for Warwickshire. I'm also not a fan of selecting any cricketer who's primary job is to bowl when they can't take domestic wickets for less than 30 considering our less than handy domestic batsman they get to bowl at.
He couldn't even take Hawke Cup wickets for less than 30 - he's just another Brooke Walker, Tarun Nethula, Greg Loveridge et all that realistically has no business being thought about for representitive cricket, let alone NZ cricket. I've seen at least a dozen NZ spinners at club who bowl some very good deliveries, but there is too much rubbish and not enough thought in between it. Horrible selection by NZ, considering he has no history of performance in longer form cricket.
