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    ***Official*** New Zealand in South Africa

    So, after this knock, Flem's stats become even more skewed: home 47 77 2 2474 192 129 97 32.98 2 17 away 54 94 8 3978 274* 262 202 46.26 7 24 Anyone else reckon NZ should try playing a few home games at neutral venues...
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    ***Official*** New Zealand in South Africa

    Bad luck Fleming, but what else would you expect? Sawn off in his 100th! Typical Kiwi result, dammit. Remember in Australia '00-'01. He'll have to rise again on the third day at the rate we're losing wickets.
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    Unusual result in Aus v NZ test

    I think it's a wee bit unfortunate that you've backed yourself into a corner over this issue. Is it really such a difficult thing to acknowledge that Vettori is a fine, and at times match-winning bowler when he has confidence and is used correctly? It seems to me that, at bottom, you agree that...
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    Unusual result in Aus v NZ test

    From what I remember, the pitch there has often had cover-related problems, so the spinners very occasionally get a look-in in something more than a stock-bowler/cannon-fodder/twiddle-fingers-while-the-seamers-clean-up capacity.....
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    Unusual result in Aus v NZ test

    I take it you're more of a bowler then!
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    Unusual result in Aus v NZ test

    Hasn't done too badly against Sri Lanka
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    Unusual result in Aus v NZ test

    Well, regardless of whether Vettori is as a "world class" bowler or not, I think the following stats (courtesy of cricinfo) tell quite an interesting story. But firstly - and this is not an apology, just a statement of fact - Vettori is an unlucky bowler. According to "the numbers game"...
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    Beige Brigade Interview

    Nice interview James; had a good chuckle here and there. Cheers. Just out of interest, was it face to face or via email? I'm assuming email?
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    **Official** New Zealand v Australia

    Oops, sorry. If this has been gone over before then it's my mistake. Was just wanting to know whether people who live a bit closer to the action tend to share this view about the Bracewell/Fleming situation or not.
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    **Official** New Zealand v Australia

    Yes, but what I'm wanting to get at is the devaluation of Fleming's role in the planning and selection processes. He - and it's not only Martin Crowe who's noticed this, I think Ian Chappell said something similar during the tests in Australia - has led New Zealand best, and performed best...
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    **Official** New Zealand v Australia

    Well, after three days of tense, exciting cricket it all turned to manure. The frequency with which this manure appears is now getting ridiculous. I was interested to hear some of Martin Crowe's comments on Xtra today, and he was saying that it looked to him (though not in these words) that...
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    Gutsiest Innings

    Bob Blair in tandem with Bert Sutcliffe. Read the guff, from an article by Lynn McConnell on Cricinfo. Part of NZ cricket folklore. If there was one moment in his career more memorable than several outstanding contenders, it had to be Boxing Day at Johannesburg in 1953 when the New Zealanders...
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    *Official* New Zealand in Bangladesh Thread

    Thanks Kent. An example of good critical thinking. This is the actual quote: "I've always thought this is one of the strongest teams, if not the strongest, that New Zealand's sent away" (cricinfo). You are right. Different in a rather important way from how I'd remembered it. My real...
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    *Official* New Zealand in Bangladesh Thread

    Fleming said NZ wanted to show patience for the first three days and then see what happens. But Flem and Astle out to cut shots with the ball keeping low? Is that showing patience? Admittedly, I'm only following on cricinfo (which despite its name hasn't been providing much), but it seems to...
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    *Official** New Zealand in England

    Here are the stats for Richardson scores between 70-99 with NZ batting first in first innings of match. This is from a total of 31 test matches. 99 1 lbw 1 W 2nd Test v Zim in Zim 2000/01 at Harare [1511] 75 1 run out 1 D Only Test v Zim in NZ 2000/01 at Wellington [1524]...
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    *Official** New Zealand in England

    Sorry everyone, I should've kept my nervous reflections to myself. At least he got out to a howling decision rather than a lapse of concentration... But small consolation. For a player who bats time, all he needs to do is get a few more singles in the post lunch session and he'll be knocking...
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    *Official** New Zealand in England

    One of the (relatively) disappointing things about Richardson is that this is his danger period. I don't have the stats, but the number of times when I've been following matches that he's got out in the last 15-20 overs, having batted all day and having scored somewhere between 70 and 99, seems...
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    *Official** New Zealand in England

    Some solid thoughts there ANZAC. It will be interesting to see how much of an influence Fleming's captaincy will have. One concern I have that he used to have a tendency to misuse Vettori, by setting defensive fields, by mystifyingly asking for leg-stump lines, and by not always showing...
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    *Official** New Zealand in England

    Must have been quite an innings by Hick. Bracewell's called him a flat-track bully in the past, so I think he's made his point! I must say though that there is a great deal of papp smeared throughout this thread! I'm tempted to get stuck into some of the Brits who've been writing in here...
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    What attracted you to cricket?

    When I was a kid we didn't have a TV so I didn't really watch much cricket, but we went camping one Christmas/New Year on the west coast of the south Island (NZ) and it was a terribly windy day with sand flying everywhere. Somone had a radio going, and it was the last day of the third test...

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