jcas0167
International Debutant
Nice. I'd probably play both Wagner & Mitch and leave out Brownlie.
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*Official* New Zealand Domestic Cricket Season 2012/2013
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Kippax
Cricketer Of The Year
Possible they'll surrender its FC status to make it one of those 'any 11 bat, any 11 field' jobs, I guess.
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straw man
Hall of Fame Member
To make it as trial-like as possible would prefer something like:
Fulton
Flynn
Rutherford/Carlchops
Taylor
Munro
Ronchi
B. Martin
Wagner
Gillespie
Jeets
Mitch M
Don't care that it's a long tail.
Brownlie doesn't need a game though Taylor does. N McCullum does not need to be included for reasons known to all reasonable test cricket followers.
straw man
Hall of Fame Member
grumble grumble grumble, knew I'd regret that and sure enough five minutes later...
Who else is better though? Dylan Cleaver doesn't seem to write as much any more. I like that stuff.co.nz has a lot of articles about domestic cricket however their opinion pieces don't tend to be as good.
Who else is better though? Dylan Cleaver doesn't seem to write as much any more. I like that stuff.co.nz has a lot of articles about domestic cricket however their opinion pieces don't tend to be as good.
Would have to think so, but would suck to lose him for the sharp end of the Williams Cup if he does.
jcas0167
International Debutant
Paul Strang moving on from Auckland at the end of the season. Seems to have enjoyed a very successful tenure in T20 and 50 overs competitions. I suppose Matt Horne will be the favourite to take over.
Cricket: Strang steps down as coach - Sport - NZ Herald News
Cricket: Strang steps down as coach - Sport - NZ Herald News
Kippax
Cricketer Of The Year
Hesson and Littlejohn with these early bird selection policies eh. Jeets completely out of contention for the first test you'd presume.
Athlai
Not Terrible
Also FFS guys we can't have 2 7s. McCullum moving to 5 means that with Taylor and Williamson at 3 and 4 that we'll have to get rid of one of Brownlie or Watling. Why can't people do the math?
Sure none of us wants a Nicol or some **** opening when Watling or Baz could make a better go of it anyday of the week but that isn't what will happen. They are all playing for the same lower middle order positions and one of Brownlie, Watling or Ronchi will have to miss out.
Sure none of us wants a Nicol or some **** opening when Watling or Baz could make a better go of it anyday of the week but that isn't what will happen. They are all playing for the same lower middle order positions and one of Brownlie, Watling or Ronchi will have to miss out.
straw man
Hall of Fame Member
Why can't people do the English word for maths?
Everyone knows Ronchi will miss out unless Hesson does a massive backflip. Which, given that Hesson's word has as much worth as a concrete parachute, would not be out of the question, except that McCullum would be disadvantaged in this case so it won't. Wouldn't put it past them to go back on the 'Watling will bat in the middle order' statement though. Will probably claim that they never said it, or that it was interpreted incorrectly, or that Ross Taylor had a gun at Hesson's back when he said that.
... sorry... post started normally but then went off into ranty territory.
Kippax
Cricketer Of The Year
What, like a 20-strong provisional test squad?
Watling
McCullum
Taylor
Williamson
Guptill
Brownlie
Ronchi
Bracewell
Southee
Boult
Mitch
Res: Rutherford, Flynn, Gillespie, Butler, Mills, Milne, Henry, Jeets, Nethula.
Kippax
Cricketer Of The Year
Imagine if Butler were to have remarkable figures again in Wgtn btw, then we see Ellis back for the ODIs just because we made a rod for our own back during a home tour. Hesson's learnt very little from Taylor in Colombo obvs.
Athlai
Not Terrible
Good squad. Harsh on Aldridge maybe.
Two weeks ago G was struggling to make the ND lineup. I don't think it is hard on him at all to not be involved in a test squad of 20.