Its Summer! - the Fever Cricket Thread.

 

New Zealand innings (50 overs maximum) R M B 4s 6s SR MJ Guptill c Younis Khan b Wahab Riaz 21 27 17 3 1 123.52 6.4 nicely taken by Younis at short midwicket. Guptill is dismissed again the run of play, in extremely soft fashion. He shakes his head in disappointment, he's missed out on a pitch full of runs. Riaz wisely lands another one short of driving length and Guptill stays back in the crease and looks to work it to the leg side. He can't keep it completely down, though, and Younis was on the move even as he played the shot, tumbling to his left to take a neat catch. 40/1
<!--<div ="lvpyrpup" id="lvpyrbat1"> <div id="lftbg"></DIV> <div ="plyerpfl"> <ul> <li><a href="" target="_blank">View profile</A></li> <li><a href="/new-zealand-v-pakistan-2010/engine/current/match/473926.html?view=hawkeye;batsman=Martin%20Guptill;innings=" target="_blank">View hawkeye</A></li> </ul> <span ="hideHwkTooltip('lvpyrbat1'); return false">x</span> </DIV> </DIV>--> JM How c Umar Akmal b Abdul Razzaq 13 33 29 2 0 44.82 7.6 How tragic! How has picked Umar Akmal at the midwicket fence with pin-point accuracy. Almost scientific precision. Short ball, it was there for the pull and How connected cleanly. That seemed headed for a flat six, but Umar was waiting with glee. 44/2
<!--<div ="lvpyrpup" id="lvpyrbat2"> <div id="lftbg"></DIV> <div ="plyerpfl"> <ul> <li><a href="" target="_blank">View profile</A></li> <li><a href="/new-zealand-v-pakistan-2010/engine/current/match/473926.html?view=hawkeye;batsman=Jamie%20How;innings=" target="_blank">View hawkeye</A></li> </ul> <span ="hideHwkTooltip('lvpyrbat2'); return false">x</span> </DIV> </DIV>--> LRPL Taylor c Younis Khan b Wahab Riaz 4 10 5 1 0 80.00 8.3 three wickets in three overs, New Zealand are disintegrating. And like the previous two, this is another wicket gifted away. Riaz explores a fuller length, lands it enticingly for the drive outside off and Taylor takes him on, attempting the big booming cover drive. He was so eager to get four, he did not get across enough and just threw his hands at it. The result was a thick outside edge that flew to Younis at slip. 44/3
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you are joking right, his bowling was one of the highlights, cramped their batting up nicely.....bowlers were never at fault in that game, our top five let us down hugely.

 

I'm thinking

 

Ryder

McCullum

Guptil

Taylor

Styris

Franklin

Vettori

Oram

McCullum N

Southee

Bennett

 

Omissions

Williamson - Has good potenial but isn't scoring quickly enough for selection to be warrented

How - Simply not a good enough player

Wouldn't have selected both players in squad. Would have picked McGlashen as keeper cover and as a lower order batsmen and Nicol as another spinning option and opening bat cover.

Woodcock - Deserves his spot in sqaud but doesn't offer enough as a batsmen which affects the balance of the XI.

Mills - Good bolwer but not better than Bennett and Southee

 

Come on black caps. Let's even up the series.

 

Find it hard to disagree with this. He took 6&1/2 overs to score 12. Add those overs to the end, and we would have made it comfortably.