ashley bach
International Captain
As long as Stead remains in charge things aren't getting any better. The clean-out needs to start with him.
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*Official* Australia tour of New Zealand Feb-Mar 2024
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TheJediBrah
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I'd like to see something like this for the India Test:
Marsh/Head
Smith
Labuschagne
Green
McSweeney
Hardie/Webster/O.Davies
Carey
Sutherland
Cummins
Lyon
Haze
Didn't want to be completely boring so some bold choices like leaving one of Marsh or Head out and the other opening (Mitch Marsh, young Shaun not quite ready yet). Depending on Green/Marsh/Hardie/Webster's bowling we could even potentially play another bat (Head or Marsh I guess) instead of Sutherland
Marsh/Head
Smith
Labuschagne
Green
McSweeney
Hardie/Webster/O.Davies
Carey
Sutherland
Cummins
Lyon
Haze
Didn't want to be completely boring so some bold choices like leaving one of Marsh or Head out and the other opening (Mitch Marsh, young Shaun not quite ready yet). Depending on Green/Marsh/Hardie/Webster's bowling we could even potentially play another bat (Head or Marsh I guess) instead of Sutherland
Justo
U19 Debutant
Called it. Never any doubt.
Nintendo
Cricketer Of The Year
You rate mcsweeney that highly? I like him but even at his recent best I don't know if he's ready for test cricket yet. Needs a big 1000+ run 50 average shield season first.
Socerer 01
International Captain
having two non specialist openers face off against Bumrah with the new ball is a recipe for disaster
TheJediBrah
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Keep in mind this is taking to account that we're like 7 months away, that's a long time. If we'er picking the Test team tomorrow it might look different
Anyway I think McSweeney looks really classy. Would rather see him grind out 40 (125) than Head threaten to win a game with a big ton but actually make 15 (20) every knock
I mean first Bumrah has to be fit then. Please no jinxes.
Spark
Global Moderator
He's just notched up a ton on a pitch which is honestly difficult to distinguish from the outfield against the form side in the country, fwiw
Skyliner
International 12th Man
A poor first innings, and then a failure to really capitalise on a strong position in the second dig. Ultimately too few runs on that deck.
I thought early on it didn’t look like being our day: Rachin dropped Marsh, then Marsh had one trickle back and miss his off stump by a millimetre, then Henry had Carey out LBW on field only for it to be showing as missing on DRS.
Some analysis from the TVNZ website as well:
www.1news.co.nz
‘The Black Caps may rue not bowling Phillips earlier. In a sign of desperation, Scott Kuggeleijn began bowling short (Neil Wagner style), with fielders on the boundary and no slips in place, but his over went for 10 and there will be questions too about why Sears wasn’t brought on earlier and indeed why he didn’t bowl shorter and more aggressively to Cummins.
As the post mortems begin, there will be a feeling that New Zealand wasted a golden opportunity to set Australia a higher total yesterday.’
I thought early on it didn’t look like being our day: Rachin dropped Marsh, then Marsh had one trickle back and miss his off stump by a millimetre, then Henry had Carey out LBW on field only for it to be showing as missing on DRS.
Some analysis from the TVNZ website as well:
Australia triumphant as Carey crushes Black Caps
They started the day full of the hope of a rare Test win, instead New Zealand finished with more disappointment and the reality of a series sweep.
‘The Black Caps may rue not bowling Phillips earlier. In a sign of desperation, Scott Kuggeleijn began bowling short (Neil Wagner style), with fielders on the boundary and no slips in place, but his over went for 10 and there will be questions too about why Sears wasn’t brought on earlier and indeed why he didn’t bowl shorter and more aggressively to Cummins.
As the post mortems begin, there will be a feeling that New Zealand wasted a golden opportunity to set Australia a higher total yesterday.’
Starfighter
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Tassie are missing a few bowlers though.
Spark
Global Moderator
They are but this is the sort of pitch that can make any seam-up trundler look like a god
jcas0167
International Debutant
Dismal, didn't think that Danny Morrison inspired win in 1993 would best the last one at home for over 30 years.I knew NZ's record against Australia is bad but it wasn't clear how bad before I looked it up. This is the last 30 years:
Team records | Test matches | Cricinfo Statsguru | ESPNcricinfo.com
stats.espncricinfo.com
Even Bangladesh have done better ffs. And this despite a big chunk of it coming st a time when NZ had their best team ever. It just doesn't even look real.
A key component of winning the WTC was Jamieson. Could go through his career not playing Australia in a test. I had pretty much written the Black Caps off once he was out of this series.
quincywagstaff
International Debutant
Re: NZ's long-term Test record against Australia, they did pretty well from 1997 to 2002 under Fleming. Australia were clearly the better side in that period but they showed enough fight and some inventive captaincy to be competitive mostly.
It really went downhill from the 04/05 Oz tour starting with the match of the McGrath/Gillespie partnership. With the exception of Hobart 2011 they've been constantly overawed and disappointing, even with sides much stronger on paper than they had in the late 90s.
It really went downhill from the 04/05 Oz tour starting with the match of the McGrath/Gillespie partnership. With the exception of Hobart 2011 they've been constantly overawed and disappointing, even with sides much stronger on paper than they had in the late 90s.
Socerer 01
International Captain
reducing this to just being mentally dominated absolves some of the blame that should be attributed to the NZ team imo
Athlai
Not Terrible
Yeah I quite fancied our chances with Jamieson in the team, hell Conway looked like he was even finding his way to form again.
Still all that said lots of promising takeaways from the series even if 2-0 is a disappointing result. Henry looks every bit ready to lead the attack, Sears and O’Rourke showed they have a lot of promise. Phillips showed that he should be genuinely thought of as an allrounder.
Would be nice to have a reply series in the next 2 years
Nintendo
Cricketer Of The Year
Good knock, but he's still only averaging 40~ this season and 35 last season. Decks have been dog**** and he's playing in a questionable lineup, but I still don't think on current ability hey'll average much more than current marnus (~30-35) and marnus's cieling is still way higher.
Spark
Global Moderator
Yeah I'm of the same mind but tbf he's not in a dissimilar position to where Marnus was when he first got picked, basically on eye test.
Nintendo
Cricketer Of The Year
Marnus got picked as a #5/6 spin bowling allrounder for pakistan initially though, didn't he? Langer just decided to throw him in at 3 for the late home summer after that because he liked his attitude. Mcsweeney could go over to county cricket and make a million runs like marnus did though, I think he has that level of ability in him based on grade performances and his development recently.
Socerer 01
International Captain
wasnt he at 3 because he was ****ing awesome at Glamorgan?