Friday, March 31, 2006
Time for Braces to Bugger Off
The NZ Cricket selection panel really is full of crap, and it's time for someone - namely a Mr John Bracewell - to be shown the door. First, he couldn't pick an opening combination if he fell over them (although how hard would it be to memorize the following: "Don't put anyone with the last name "Marshall" in to bat as an opener"?)
The moron looks set to drop Scott Styris (test average of 40.02 and 18 wickets in 24 test matches too) so he can play Jacob Oram, but he only needs to "make room" because he insists on Hamish Marshall opening. Plus it seems fairly certain he instructed Fleming not to bowl Styris in the second and third tests, notwithstanding his success in taking 2 top-order West Indies wickets in the first test.
And now it looks like NZ Cricket is set to lose Matthew Sinclair because, well, they prefer to keep James Marshall and Craig Cumming among their 30 contracted players.
Let's deal with Sinclair first: sure, he's had more troubles than successes in recent years, but right now he's the most in form batsman in the country (or possibly a close second to Nathan Astle). He scored 656 runs for Central Districts in the State Championship at 54.66, with three centuries and four half-centuries.
Now let's deal with the other chumps: James Marshall (averages 23 in tests, 7 in ODIs, and hasn't represented the Black Caps since August 05, when he managed to amass 15 runs in two turns at bat against Zimbabwe); Craig Cumming (averages 26 in tests, 15 and ODIs and hasn't represented the Black Caps since March 05).
Fuck, enough said: here's my team
1. J. How
2. L. Vincent
3. M. Sinclair
4. S. Fleming [cover: H. Marshall]
5. N. Astle
6. S. Styris [cover: J. Oram]
7. B. McCullum
8. D. Vettori
9. J. Franklin
10. S. Bond
11. C. Martin
The moron looks set to drop Scott Styris (test average of 40.02 and 18 wickets in 24 test matches too) so he can play Jacob Oram, but he only needs to "make room" because he insists on Hamish Marshall opening. Plus it seems fairly certain he instructed Fleming not to bowl Styris in the second and third tests, notwithstanding his success in taking 2 top-order West Indies wickets in the first test.
And now it looks like NZ Cricket is set to lose Matthew Sinclair because, well, they prefer to keep James Marshall and Craig Cumming among their 30 contracted players.
Let's deal with Sinclair first: sure, he's had more troubles than successes in recent years, but right now he's the most in form batsman in the country (or possibly a close second to Nathan Astle). He scored 656 runs for Central Districts in the State Championship at 54.66, with three centuries and four half-centuries.
Now let's deal with the other chumps: James Marshall (averages 23 in tests, 7 in ODIs, and hasn't represented the Black Caps since August 05, when he managed to amass 15 runs in two turns at bat against Zimbabwe); Craig Cumming (averages 26 in tests, 15 and ODIs and hasn't represented the Black Caps since March 05).
Fuck, enough said: here's my team
1. J. How
2. L. Vincent
3. M. Sinclair
4. S. Fleming [cover: H. Marshall]
5. N. Astle
6. S. Styris [cover: J. Oram]
7. B. McCullum
8. D. Vettori
9. J. Franklin
10. S. Bond
11. C. Martin
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