Predict National Side 2011

[Flem274*]

Err

Lou Vincent
Aaron Redmond
Ross Taylor
Peter Fulton
Jesse Ryder/Scott Styris
David Houpapa
Brendan McCullum
Daniel Vettori
Kyle Mills
Mark Gillespie
Hamish Bennet

A bit of a guess really. Depends on who kicks on from their first few domestic seasons and who stays in good nick.

Well, all bar one has played tests

I quite like that team, though I do hope Oram is still around then, which unfortunately bumps Anderson, but Oram is a top player so I hope we have him available as long as possible.

Mills will probably have that last spot, and bat ahead of Southee too probably.

I'll have a go.

Tests

Jamie How
Martin Guptill
Peter Fulton
Jesse Ryder
Ross Taylor
Brendan McCullum
Jacob Oram
James Franklin
Dan the Man
Kyle Mills
Tim Southee/Trent Boult/Iain O'Brien/al the other nearlies.

I predict Flynn, Hay, Myburgh, Anderson, Broom amongst others to be on the fringes.

ODIs

Ryder
McCullum
How
Taylor
Styris/Fulton
Oram
Elliott
Franklin
Mills
Vettori
Southee

I love Elliott, he's gonna be the next best thing to Chris Harris imo. Doesn't look much but he's proven to be a real pain in the arse so far and shut me up when I blasted the selectors for picking him for ODIs. The same fringe players to be floating around, being fringe players.

Wasn't terrible. The ODI side was almost bang on.

 

[NUFAN]

1 Phil Jaques
2 Shane Watson
3 Ricky Ponting
4 Michael Clarke
5 George Bailey
6 Adam Voges
7 Brad Haddin
8 Mitchell Johnson
9 Daniel Cullen
10 Shaun Tait
11 Ben Hilfenhaus

6 from 11 is a pass mark I think.

Watson opening was the best call. The middle order bats really haven't kicked on and the SACA bowlers really feel away probably quite soon after my post.