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Posted March 01, 2015 20:40 · last edited March 18, 2021 07:29

paulm wrote:
ConanTroutman wrote:
ballane wrote:

No way are the Aussies man for man better than us. Classic game and if we do meet again in the finals we certainly wont want to let the Aussies back into the game the way we did yesterday because i cant see them letting it slip a 2nd time.

They've got 8 batsmen in the top 30 of the ICC's ODI rankings, we've got 3 (and one of those is 30th). We've got 4 bowlers in the top 30 and they've only got 3, but all 3 of theirs are rated higher than ours. They're also number 1 on the team rankings while we're 5. https://www.icc-cricket.com/player-rankings/overvie...

We've been in good form, and this Aussie team isn't as good as they were 10 years ago by any stretch, but they do have a lot of quality players. 

Some of our players have improved so drastically in a short-ish amount of time that the rankings don't necessarily reflect how good our side is

For example I think Boult is bowling a bit better than his ODI ranking of 56 suggests

Man for Man - I think Aussie are a better team at the moment but believe there are inches in it, not miles.

Team v Team - We are the better team. There is no sniff of internal issues that plague Australia at the moment, no player is more important than the other and the overall balance of the Blackcaps team is superior with genuine spinners and all rounders + we are the best fielding team in the world at the moment and that is often the difference in a game.

Verdict - there are players in world cricket who could take a game away from us (Johnson, Sharma, AB, Dilshan, Finn...hahaha - jokes) but if we play to a game plan and take these players out as a factor, we're a top 3 side at the moment.

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paulm wrote:
ConanTroutman wrote:
ballane wrote:

No way are the Aussies man for man better than us. Classic game and if we do meet again in the finals we certainly wont want to let the Aussies back into the game the way we did yesterday because i cant see them letting it slip a 2nd time.

They've got 8 batsmen in the top 30 of the ICC's ODI rankings, we've got 3 (and one of those is 30th). We've got 4 bowlers in the top 30 and they've only got 3, but all 3 of theirs are rated higher than ours. They're also number 1 on the team rankings while we're 5. http://www.icc-cricket.com/player-rankings/overvie...

We've been in good form, and this Aussie team isn't as good as they were 10 years ago by any stretch, but they do have a lot of quality players. 

Some of our players have improved so drastically in a short-ish amount of time that the rankings don't necessarily reflect how good our side is

For example I think Boult is bowling a bit better than his ODI ranking of 56 suggests

Man for Man - I think Aussie are a better team at the moment but believe there are inches in it, not miles.

Team v Team - We are the better team. There is no sniff of internal issues that plague Australia at the moment, no player is more important than the other and the overall balance of the Blackcaps team is superior with genuine spinners and all rounders + we are the best fielding team in the world at the moment and that is often the difference in a game.

Verdict - there are players in world cricket who could take a game away from us (Johnson, Sharma, AB, Dilshan, Finn...hahaha - jokes) but if we play to a game plan and take these players out as a factor, we're a top 3 side at the moment.