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NZ under GrahamB (ICC 2005)

thewizard1o1

International Debutant
Great Series win! Ryders innings in the last game must have been good to watch. Need to sort out your fast bowling attack a bit thou...OS and SLA are your top bowlers by quite a bit.

Good luck next season (and where are you off to next?)
 

Graham

3rd Umpire
One thing that's different from ICC2002 is that your own spinners are more effective when you're playing as an international side. I don't think that opposing spinners dominate quite as much as they did, but still early days of course!

Jesse Ryder's innings was good, but Peter Fulton scored much more quickly with his 81. Ryder held things together after Fulton's departure.

I'm into the 2006 season now, but can't see any newly generated players yet. Maybe because there's no retirements obvious this time round! 8-)

I'll continue on with NZ as I'd like to suss out and confirm my suspicions about changes to the game.

Next up a tour to Aussie. Man will that be a challenge. I'm not optimistic! :mellow:
 

Graham

3rd Umpire
NZ Squad for Australian tour 2006

Openers
S.Fleming
M.Papps
T.McIntosh

Other Batsmen
P.Fulton (captain)
M.Sinclair
C.Harris
J.Ryder
K.Mills (all rounder RM)
J.Oram (all rounder RM)
J.How

Keeper
C.Nevin

Pace Bowlers
I.O'Brien (RM)
M.Gillespie (RFM)
J.Franklin (all rounder LFM)
M.Walker (all rounder RM)
D.Tuffey (RFM)
M.Orchard (all rounder RM)

Spin Bowler
B.Walker (LS)


Some difficult decisions to make with players unlucky to miss out being:
M.Horne (opening batsman)
N.Astle (allrounder)
H.Marshall (wk)
C.Hampton (newly generated wk)
B.Martin (SLA)


First up a three day match v Victoria.
 

Somerset

Cricketer Of The Year
Congrats on that ODI series win - good luck for the Aussie series though because you'll certainly need it!
 

Graham

3rd Umpire
Somerset said:
Congrats on that ODI series win - good luck for the Aussie series though because you'll certainly need it!
Cheers mate. :D

Yeah - I'm a bit worried about this tour, that's for sure! :p
 

Graham

3rd Umpire
thewizard1o1 said:
Nevin? :cry:

Good luck!
Yeah - Nevin gets another chance mainly due to his better player stats and Hamish Marshall's poor current season form. Also the newly generated keeper would be a bit much of a risk so early and his stats aren't quite as good as Nevin's anyway!


:)
 
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