English Cricket Summer Tests 2016 - NZ & Aus
Discussion
Posting 300+ and losing, well I can kind of live with that. Should have been able to bat the 50 though.
Feels like we are still looking for a world class bowler for the ODI team. Need someone who can hold up an end, and keep the batsman down at 4 an over plus a couple of big wickets every innings. Think Malinga, Mourkel, Flintoff or Dernbach.
Honestly feels like we have made progress in building a side that plays a modern ODI style, No shame in losing to NZ they have a very effective ODI outfit, but we are at least competing with them.
Think we will win another one in this series.
Feels like we are still looking for a world class bowler for the ODI team. Need someone who can hold up an end, and keep the batsman down at 4 an over plus a couple of big wickets every innings. Think Malinga, Mourkel, Flintoff or Dernbach.
Honestly feels like we have made progress in building a side that plays a modern ODI style, No shame in losing to NZ they have a very effective ODI outfit, but we are at least competing with them.
Think we will win another one in this series.
Not sure Finn has got it these days. He is expensive and doesn't strike often enough to compensate.
Bowls too many slot balls, and doesn't seem to have a change of pace.
We need someone that can break established partnerships, or at least bring control.
Alderman, Fraser, McGrath - Ie not the absolute quickest, but very hard to play against. Finn just doesn't yet have that consistency.
Think Wood could yet prove to be quite effective in this format.
I don't know about this. Lots of tears for bowler stats, but I watched an interesting piece on the C5 show last night.
It shoes three different ball release positions from Finn and Stokes, the cutter, a back of the hand release and a knuckle ball (scrambling the seam)
There are variations out there for good bowlers, I think Wood only went for 5 an over yesterday, so it is possible.
Black caps skip said, England scored 34 boundaries off too short bowling, so the case for better bowling is surely still in the hands of the bowlers ?
Rashid can hardly complain about being smashed for 28 off an over, they were utter pies, too short, no spin and lacking any kind of pace.
Leithen said:
Can someone please explain Duckworth fking Lewis to me? NZ score at 5 an over and we're given a shortened innings at 7 an over.
What the fk?
It is to do with wickets, so shortened innings, but we are unlikely To be bowled out, so we can fling the bat a bit more from the start. What the fk?
I do agree though, looks a little steep and spoils the work done by the bowlers.
hornetrider said:
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