Posts by LegBreak
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And to rub salt into the wounds of the Vettori situation, Sachin comes on to bowl and immediately gets it turning sideways.
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Funny thing is, way back, people used to say he wasn't a one-day bowler, and there's no doubting his record there ...
Sadly, that's not a coincidence.
I know whch Daniel Vettori, spin bowler, I'd rather have.
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No, it’s not what you’re thinking. Too much money in the game these days to let the bookmakers get their hands into matches like this anymore.
More down to Indian bravado (setting silly score, then expecting Franklin to bat like he’s 10 grades below them) than anything else.
Either that or their famous BCCI Jumbo has got held up in Singapore or something.
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One of my favourite NZ cricketers of all time was a thinking player, a good batsman who captained and bowled slow. Vettori also fits those criteria now.
You miss Geoff Howarth too?
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They rave about him because he’s a good ODI bowler.
Sums it all up really.
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ScottY,
You’re partly right. Our batsmen have traditionally been weak against top-class spin; Cult Hero Jesse being a prime example of this. Twice in the series now he’s been totally undone by Harby.
But really, Vettori hasn’t been a decent attacking test spinner in favourable conditions for around a decade. His best returns have normally been early in a test and on seaming pitches or against Australia.
That is, when the batsmen have been going after him,
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I love the Basin, I really do.
But the insidious erosion of areas where you can actually watch the game over recent years has annoyed me. An extra food stand here (good work on getting in there this year Tulsi), a new scoreboard there, and this year’s irritating innovation of a (poorly attended) corporate tent encroaching over a sizable part of the old terraces has meant that the ground capacity has shrunk without anyone really noticing.
That’s a large reason for why it seemed so crowded on Saturday.
And yes, I did get it wrong on the ban on playing in the middle at lunchtime. Perhaps that was just a one-off from last year as a way of repelling our English friends.
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Morris dancers way too light to do the damage I’ve got in mind.
Rodeo?
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Also, if you are going to doctor a pitch at half-time in a test (rugby terminology deliberately thrown in so the likes of Hadyn take interest) why would you need to water it?
I’d introduce an hour’s worth of bull-fighting.
Without the violence of course.
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You don’t need to doctor it.
You just need to let it take its natural course and let it crumble a bit. Just like test pitches have done for 120 years.
But you don’t want it so compacted and glued up that it dies on the 4th morning, because that’s what happened in Napier.