Zinzan
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Indeed, and after losing to Bangers in the last CT in England after hammering them at home earlier that seasin should ensure they're cognisant of this possibility.
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3rd Match - New Zealand v Sri Lanka
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thundaboult
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Like someone above said, boult and santner feel like they will do good. I have a lot of faith in Lockie as well....he hasn't looked all that great since the start of IPL but I believe he will come good here. Way too much talent to be kept down for long.
Zinzan
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By too much talent, are you referring anything more than the fact he's fast?
I was really disappointed that he couldn't land a yorker to save himself in the IPL, the reason he then lost his overseas spot to that dude Gurney who hasn't been able to make either the ODI or T20 English side for 5 years.
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Explain.
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IIRC, they played WI in their last pool game and deliberately batted really slowly in the chase to boost WI's net run rate. NZ then had to beat Scotland in super-quick time to progress.
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this nz team, despite having 4 world class players (gup, kane, ross, boult), is pretty meh. ferguson, latham and santa are trustworthy, but they don't yet have the oomph to carry a knock out game. the rest are extremely untrustworthy or unproven.
i feel the 2007 team was a bit of a missed opportunity to reach the final tbh. shane bond with vettori at the end is enough to reduce a team to match sticks and the conditions were perfect for our batsmen who preffered the odi spinners (fleming, taylor, styris, mcmillan, oram etc)
we ran into mahela on a rare odi gem day and murali has always had the number of nz batsmen not called stephen fleming.
with the conditions in 2007 i think we could have made our team a bit better by swapping out the franklin/mason/gillespie spot for chris harris. oram and even styris/mcmillan were such trolls on those pitches. harris would have been perfect but nz wanted to shift towards #intent bowling.
i feel the 2007 team was a bit of a missed opportunity to reach the final tbh. shane bond with vettori at the end is enough to reduce a team to match sticks and the conditions were perfect for our batsmen who preffered the odi spinners (fleming, taylor, styris, mcmillan, oram etc)
we ran into mahela on a rare odi gem day and murali has always had the number of nz batsmen not called stephen fleming.
with the conditions in 2007 i think we could have made our team a bit better by swapping out the franklin/mason/gillespie spot for chris harris. oram and even styris/mcmillan were such trolls on those pitches. harris would have been perfect but nz wanted to shift towards #intent bowling.
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The Hutt Rec
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Lol Andrew Jones had an ODI average of 42 going into the 92 World Cup and was almost up to 45 by the end of the second to last round robin game vs England.
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Jezroy
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Was it Bumrah that did that? I must send him a gift of some sort.
mr_mister
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Did you not know about this? It prompted Steve Waugh's famous line in the presser, 'we're not here to make friends we're here to win the world cup'
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Zinzan
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Lol, Came back to me as soon as it was mentioned. Don't worry, also had to be reminded recently about NZ sacrificing 2 points for not travelling to Kenya in the '03 WC.
mr_mister
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It was about carrying over 2 points to the Super Six stage. Nothing more.
morgieb
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It also was the fact that they beat us in the group stage (as did Pakistan). So in the Super Sixes stage the West Indies going through would've given us more breathing room than in real life (where after the Pakistan game every game was effectively sudden death).
