I mean Bazball had Baz. Human proof you can ramp a six. That’s lazy shorthand. Chief never ramped a six in football equivalent. Newcastle are more like that than us! Milligan scored from halfway maybe iirc. Hence having a bench full of attackers to bring on.
We’re just NZ cricket with an injured Williamson, but without any first or second generation African reinforcements. We don’t have Stokes or Crowe, though maybe Rufer is a Roger Twose equivalent. Or perhaps even Fleming. We’ve got James Franklin. And Shayne O’Connor. Perhaps even Chris Martin.
There’s no one guiding it home like Grant Elliot or Watling. There’s no angry ambition, composure matched with skill and desire, no Cairns, no Hadlee, no Baz, no Kane, no Lucas. No one top of the league. No one opposition fear…yet at least.
We’re the poorer cousins. Maybe not the poorest. But middling. Maybe we can get an Astle or perhaps a fit James and Eze might be that. We don’t have Jimmy Anderson or Starc or anyone top drawer. No Steve Smith, no Ross Taylor, no one averaging over 45 and possibly no one averaging over 40.
We’re just NZ cricket with an injured Williamson, but without any first or second generation African reinforcements. We don’t have Stokes or Crowe, though maybe Rufer is a Roger Twose equivalent. Or perhaps even Fleming. We’ve got James Franklin. And Shayne O’Connor. Perhaps even Chris Martin.
There’s no one guiding it home like Grant Elliot or Watling. There’s no angry ambition, composure matched with skill and desire, no Cairns, no Hadlee, no Baz, no Kane, no Lucas. No one top of the league. No one opposition fear…yet at least.
We’re the poorer cousins. Maybe not the poorest. But middling. Maybe we can get an Astle or perhaps a fit James and Eze might be that. We don’t have Jimmy Anderson or Starc or anyone top drawer. No Steve Smith, no Ross Taylor, no one averaging over 45 and possibly no one averaging over 40.