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Sunday, March 23, 2008

Matthew Sinclair in love scandal with NZ Selectors 

I swear to god, something must have gone on there. The guy hasn't made any bloody runs of note in over 5 years and yet year after year gets picked for "his big chance" and year after year fails, gets dropped, gets reselected, fucks our innings up again and gets dropped. As Martin Crowe angrily joked, if he gets selected for the England tour then he's making a comeback.

In the last 19 completed NZ innings our top 5 and innings totals are as follows:
119/168
113/198
173/311
191/470
115/177
216/393
260/357
165/188
117/136
83/118
90/172
75/130
156/286
113/206
103 (out of 119/5)
78/119
117/283
237/593
(121 for 3)
45/327
26/120

that's an average for our top five of 130. Ordinarily when you are 130 for 5 you might expect to be dismissed for around 230. Our innings totals have averaged at 250 which means our bottom 5 partnerships are netting only 10 runs less than our top 5.

Ideally you might expect a side to be about 250 for 5 and bowled out for 360 or thereabouts but we have been so utterly shit with the bat for so long now its unbelievable. We've told Astle, Styris and Fleming to fuck off and now we are left with a bunch of guys who can't bat to save themselves or anyone else.

The tour to England should be a horror show. A train slamming into an existing train wreck, followed by a logging truck, dump truck and then nuked from above.

And part of it all is Sinclair who has not made a test century since 2001, 21 tests ago. The best he's done in that time is 74. Last time I looked that means HE'S DONE FUCKEN NOTHING TO HELP NZ WIN A TEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

His test scores from lowest to highest...
0
0
0
0
1
1
2
2
2
3
3
4
4
6
6
7
7
7
8
8
9
9
10
12
17
17
18
19
19*
20
21
23
23
23
24
24
27
29
29
34
35*
36
37
39
43*
44
47
50*
69
74
76
150
204*
214

That is so grim it's not funny. Especially when you consider the bottom 3 scores came in his first 12 tests and in the 20 since he's averaged 21.43 coming in in a position that you should have the best batting conditions.

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Comments:
Dear God, I knew his form was poor but had no idea it was that bad.

Mind you the cupboards are looking pretty bare right now. Who replaces him? (or Matthew Bell for that matter)?

BTW Go the Bulldogs!
 

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