Namibia v New Zealand (THIS WILL BE A FUN GAME) at the Magnificent Sharjah Cricket Stadium-- 11/5 Friday (D), Match #36, Group 2

[bill8164]

Think this will be a comfortable win now

You'd think so, wouldn't you?

 

[thierry henry]

That was wild, Namibia did that entirely to themselves

 

[straw man]

Great rescue job from Neesham and Phillips - one of the better T20 innings I've seen Neesham play.

We would have to mount a dedicated exploration of where Namibia's bowlers went wrong, and ignore where they went right, to concede these. Spinners and pace bowlers bowling off-pace length will be damn hard to hit.

 

[bill8164]

It'll be interesting if this pitch brings potentially someone like Phillips to roll his arm over given how well the Namibian spinners bowled.

 

[thierry henry]

Watto acting like clear wides aren’t wides so that he can pretend he used to bowl

 

[thierry henry]

Getting nervous

 

[_Ed_]

Getting nervous

It worked again.

 

[thierry henry]

It worked again.

I have powers

 

[thierry henry]

That’s the ball Santner can bowl which makes me baffled why I’ve never seen that in subcontinent conditions in tests

 

[straw man]

Take that man to India to play in a test match.

/still joking

 

[thierry henry]

Watto nets analysis

Milne - ****
Santner - good

 

[bill8164]

Oh geez Ish, that was fortunate.

 

[The Hutt Rec]

Is Sodhi’s erratic bowling due to concussion, or just standard Sodhi erratic bowling …

 

[_Ed_]

This is dreadful from Ish.

 

[thierry henry]

Is Sodhi’s erratic bowling due to concussion, or just standard Sodhi erratic bowling …

How could you ever know?

 

[White Ball]

Wiese is the key here

 

[thierry henry]

What’s weird is a few posters at this very forum were singing Sodhi’s praises after the India game…classic case of watching the result and not what the bowler is actually doing

 

[thierry henry]

Second game in a row where Southee has bowled back of a length pace on in his second spell and been weirdly hard to play. Tricky old bugger.

 

[The Hutt Rec]

We’ve definitely got to start giving Southee some credit for his t20 resurgence at some point.

 

[thierry henry]

We’ve definitely got to start giving Southee some credit for his t20 resurgence at some point.

I just think his enduring success in general is misunderstood. He has nothing obvious in the way of stand out physical attributes. Just a skilful bowler.