Big Daddy Kane or TPC - Who Will Dominate The Upcoming Series?

[Athlai]

so you're saying aus new ball bowlers are more dangerous than NZ's?

not sure I agree with that. Southee & Boult (if fit) have more experience than Hazlewood & Pattinson (the latter who can easily be **** on a bad day)

Probably more that our openers are considerably worse. The Warner factor really.

 

[hendrix]

plus an extra batsman as a buffer

 

[Athlai]

Hendrix slowly coming to the realisation that Guptill is as good as Latham.

 

[Burgey]

Williamson will probably score more runs than Smith, who very likely won't get a hit that often.

 

[TheJediBrah]

That is true. I can also imagine Smith being in the "throw wicket away for declaration" situation more often,

 

[Flem274*]

Kane won't need to bat

 

[Burgey]

Hendrix slowly coming to the realisation that Guptill is as good as Latham.

Kane won't need to bat

These statements are incongruent.

 

[Stace]

so you're saying aus new ball bowlers are more dangerous than NZ's?

not sure I agree with that. Southee & Boult (if fit) have more experience than Hazlewood & Pattinson (the latter who can easily be **** on a bad day)

Sorry for the late reply, this is what I had in mind..

Probably more that our openers are considerably worse. The Warner factor really.

plus an extra batsman as a buffer

I like the top 3 AUS have and think KW will be in before the 5th over in every innings.

 

[Gob]

Williamson. He is a better batsman than smith in all formats of the game.

Lol

 

[kiwiviktor81]

Lol

Indeed, Smith is much better at beach cricket

 

[Gob]

Indeed, Smith is much better at beach cricket

And test cricket

 

[kiwiviktor81]

We'll see how he plays lateral movement first.

 

[Gob]

We'll see how he plays lateral movement first.

I have seen it and I aprove it

 

[TheJediBrah]

Lol

Williamson does have a better record than Smith in domestic NZ cricket

that's one version of the game

 

[harsh.ag]

TPC proving us wrong again. WAG.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Er, KDub will get a triple tomorrow and win the match.

 

[Zinzan]

Trent Boult is going to bowl full, fast and on leg stump to Smith. He will average less than 20 in this series.

Ouch-ey, didn't notice this at the time.

 

[Jord]

Still time for Williamson to make hay on this wicket tomorrow.

I've been impressed with Steve Smith, he's come in with the innings on the line quite a few times in the tests and performed really well. I still think he's an absolute walking wicket against good fast swing bowling though and I can see why Viktor thought Boult would get him. If Boult had been bowling what he bowled in the last few years, fast accurate bowling that swung back from outside the off stump of Smith, I think he'd have trapped Smith frequently in the series.

 

[harsh.ag]

Still time for Williamson to make hay on this wicket tomorrow.

I've been impressed with Steve Smith, he's come in with the innings on the line quite a few times in the tests and performed really well. I still think he's an absolute walking wicket against good fast swing bowling though and I can see why Viktor thought Boult would get him. If Boult had been bowling what he bowled in the last few years, fast accurate bowling that swung back from outside the off stump of Smith, I think he'd have trapped Smith frequently in the series.

Update your priors

 

[Zinzan]

Smith has definitely gone up in my estimations throughout the test series.

So much so, I'd now have a slightly ahead of Root & KW as test bats for now. The latter two have been great obviously, but the way Smith just keeps tonning up anywhere and everywhere has been fairly remarkable.