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Milne’s performance in this series has been spectacular, although the selectors will be extremely wary of his injury record when deciding how much cricket he can play.
Worth remembering at this point that another reason some players went home was to give fringe World Cup candidates a chance to compete for positions.
Yeah, Milne has tended to be a bit injury prone, suppose that’s going to happen though with the pace he bowls at, I’d expect him to get less injuries now, he’s a bit older, has bulked up more so looks stronger, he was very skinny a couple of years ago.
I’m all for giving some fringe players a crack, just reckon they’ve being using too many.
Just for the record, Milne has had one injury that has kept him out of international cricket. As to his performances in UAE – STELLAR!! But lack of wickets suggest he’s not that great. I see this as a positive really as the ball simply doesn’t seam there due to the nature of the pitches. Back in New Zealand he will be our number one strike weapon (if he gets the new ball)
Who you trying to kid? I only went back two years:
Dec 2012: withdrew from T20 series in South Africa with achilles injury
Jan 2013: went to South Africa for ODI series, suffered recurrence of achilles injury
Jan 2014: abdominal strain playing India, missed remainder of series
July 2014: unavailable for NZ A trip to England with elbow injury
October 2014: missed South Africa ODIs with same elbow injuryOh those injuries, all interrelated. I think you’ll find he’ll be right for the next ten years now.
Top effort by NZ to come from behind to win ODI series… superb batting by Williamson through that series & great to see another bowler come through in Henry.
Both Bracewell & Wagner spray the ball all over the place too much for me,
Would of replaced them with Milne & Henry in the test squad, bloody annoying they’re not letting Milne rip into Sri Lanka in the tests, must of been a very close call between Craig & SodhiTest Squad for Boxing Day –
Brendon McCullum (c)
Trent Boult
Doug Bracewell
Dean Brownlie
Mark Craig
Tom Latham
James Neesham
Hamish Rutherford
Tim Southee
Ross Taylor
Neil Wagner
BJ Watling
Kane WilliamsonNZ 84 for 2 after the first session… both openers went out to very poor shots, while Rutherford was there played within himself which was good to see, huge pressure on him to keep his place, didn’t get in line with the ball, so ended up leaving a big gap between bat and pad to get bowled, really basic mistake.
Massive total of 429 for 7 on the first day, mainly due to McCullum, Hope we can score another 70 or so to get past the 500 mark, crazy stuff by Watling near stumps by not going for the review, had nothing to lose & as the replay showed he wouldn’t of been out.
With that win we have now won 5 tests this calendar year… bring on the horse-scratchers from across the ditch.
McCullum’s a shocker when it comes to winning coin tosses… if they win it hope they put us into bat, let’s get a good first innings score & apply the squeeze on Sri Lanka again.
2nd Test { Basin }
Sat-3rd Jan – 11am
Sky Sport 1.Great stuff, Sri Lanka got sucked in again by putting us into bat… groundsmen have being watering the pitches to give them a pretty green look, but for quite a few years now our pitches having being seaming around that much.
First session we were 90 odd for 2… both openers were out to rubbish shots, hanging out the washing.
Taylor looks so awkward squaring up when defending, surely needs to be getting more side on to the ball.
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FFS ! are our batmen trying to undo all the good work over the last couple of years ? all 4 wickets have been given away, especially McCullum, what the fuck was he thinking ? facing his first ball played right across it cannoning the ball into his stumps, vital now that Williamson can stay there with the others hopefully batting with some bloody sense for us to get a good total.
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Our own fault We’re well behind the 8 Ball… really wasted the opportunity of been 2 for 130 in 1st innings, hope they redeem themselves.
Unlike the rest of the top order Williamson {242 not out} and Watling {142 not out} showed great character & patience to dig us out of a huge hole & put pressure back on them, can’t see Sri Lanka getting 345 tomorrow {needing 115 per session} if we can bowl tightly & keep chipping away at their wickets could make it 2 zip.
NZ v Sri Lanka { Hagley Oval ChCh }
1st ODI : Sun-11th Jan – 11am
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