We've lost the toss again.
Yessss!
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Far out, Pakistan 16-0 after 9 balls.
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My wicket!
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Southee gets Rizwan caught behind, 33-3
It is being broadcast live on YouTube.
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Monkey Magic
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Good to see extras not being such a heavy scorer compared to the windies series.
Hope Conway makes up for his drop when he gets a chance to bat
Hope Conway makes up for his drop when he gets a chance to bat
No problems, it's turning into an interesting game.
I get not available in my country for that.
That`s a shame. YouTube here is broadcasting live both the T20 series and the America's Cup.
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This is an impressive partnership.
We have a dedicated thread for shit like that. https://forum.planetrugby.com/viewtopic ... h#p6760688
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mrbrownstone
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Might have to revise that. On form you'd have Seifert in and Guptill out. Seifert's averaging 52 striking at just under 140 in T20s this year.mrbrownstone wrote: Fri Dec 18, 2020 12:47 pm We made harder work of that than we probably should have at 40/5, but a win's a win.
The question is, are we any closer to knowing what our best T20 side is? We're about 10 months out from a T20 World Cup (in theory at least), and for my money we only have 4 nailed on, 'must pick' players:
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3. Williamson (c)
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7. Santner
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10. Ferguson
11. Boult
In India, Ish Sodhi will almost certainly be there too, then it's probably a toss up between Jamieson/Southee/Henry/Astle/A.N.Other spinner depending on the pitch. Jamieson surely the preference. Hopefully no sign of Wheeler, Tickner, Duffy, Rance, Kuggeleijn, Bennett et al. that we've had to use recently. Will be interesting to keep an eye on Milne in the BBL.
The bigger question is what to do with the batting. Since 2017 the following batsman/all rounders have either debuted or been in the mix: Guptill, Munro, Conway, Siefert, Phillips, Chapman, Taylor, Bruce, Blundell, Kitchen, Mitchell, Neesham, CDG. Maybe a few others I've missed.
Realistically Bruce, Blundell, Kitchen are unlikely to be in the mix. The problem is then strucuring your order: Guptill, Munro, Conway, Seifert, and Phillips are all probably at their best batting in the top 3.
I still think Guptill and Munro are probably our best opening pair (they're our two highest ranked batsmen if you put any stock in ICC rankings). It's then anyones guess from there - Seifert and Phillips don't really deserve to be dropped on recent performances, Conway looks very good (he might do alright at 5 where he can accumulate/accelerate as needed - taking Roscos place who hasn't been great in T20s for a while). It's then a bit of a dogfight between Neesham/CDG/Mitchell.
Personally I think I'd go with:
1. Guptill
2. Munro
3. Williamson (c)
4. Phillips (wk)
5. Conway
6. Neesham
7. Santner
8. Jamieson
9. Sodhi
10. Ferguson
11. Boult
Squad: Seifert, CDG, Ajaz Patel, Henry (maybe Milne if he shows some form in the BBL and stays on the field).
Harsh on Seifert tonight but where do you put him?
Not necessarily confident in some of those picks, and obviously depends on Munro actually wanting to play for us and not in the BBL, and Guptill rediscovering some sort of form.
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ScarfaceClaw
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Porkstornys smashing the rapist all over the park. Looks like game over here.
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It is strange being a BC's supporter but feeling nothing but joy at watching Kuggeleijn getting carted around the park.
Still can't believe that he is in the set up.
Still can't believe that he is in the set up.