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Not in first class cricket he hasn't. James Franklin over last couple of seasons for Wellington has been averaging close to 50 with the ball. Now that alone doesn't prove anything in regards to what competition is stronger, the conditons over there would be a lot more favourable to swing...

Eh, how painful was last nights chase, or should I say predictable, I think I went ten from ten in guessing how much each batsmen would make and how they would lose their wicket. I think what hurts more as a fan at the moment is not that this team should be doing a lot better then it is...

That may be but it's still first class cricket and it's a lot better then sitting at home in New Zealand during the winter. As I said earlier Martin Guptill's only ever scored one 100 for Auckland in first class cricket, even if the standard isn't that high hopefully scoring a few big 100's...

Cricket: Guptill signs with Derbyshire - Sport - NZ Herald News Huzzah, he's actually going over to play in the County Championship as well and not just the 20/20 competition. It should do Guptill the world of good, considering he'd only been averaging low 20's with the single 100 for...

If Wellington could field a team that strong every game I reckon they would go close to winning just about every trophy available during the season. Unfortunately that isn't possible and they have zero depth at the moment, hence being cellar dwellers for the last few seasons.

Jamie How is a shocker I'll give you that, especially as it looks as though he made the team because he can apparently keep "a" little bit. Williamson and Woodcock were no brainers for mine however. ---------- His strike rate of 60 while not being anywhere near good enough looks...

I'm not particularly fond of Andy McKay but to say he's failed at the international level is harsh.

Yep, so why wouldn't this apply to Hamish Bennett? In Bangladesh he was a good 5-6k's quicker then Andy McKay who in New Zealand was regularly around the 140+ mark but in Bangladesh struggling to hit 140. Likewise in the test series against India, Bennett was clocking in at over 140K whereas Tim...

Adam Milne? He hasn't even played one day cricket for Central Districts yet. How do we know if he's able to even keep those types of speeds we saw in the 20/20's up during the course of a 50 over game? Which at this point in time is his only real asset.

1. Shane Watson 2. Brad Haddin 3. Ricky Ponting 4. Michael Clarke 5. Cameron White 6. Michael Hussey 7. Dan Christian 8. Mitchell Johnson 9. Nathan Hauritz 10. Brett Lee 11. Doug Bollinger With Tim Paine, Callum Ferguson, Shaun Tait and Xavier Doherty rounding out the rest of the...

Even then I'd still be hesitant to take along to the world cup, his career record in the subcontinent is terrible, 11 matches 169 runs @ 16 striking at under 50, those are some really terrible numbers. Elliott's a decent player of spin but when the pitch is lacking pace he really struggles at...

I wouldn't say he's reinvented himself, Flynn's always been an aggressive batsmen, at youth level and domestic level. When he first broke into the New Zealand team early 2008 he did so on the back of some huge 100's scored at quicker then a run a ball. International cricket, especially test...

Ah, no he wont, he can't. He still has to get a NOC from the WICB even without a central contract.

Shaun Pollock and Chris Cairns anyone? To have Shakib and Vettori included in the poll but not these two is a bit of an insult it must be said. Chris Cairns especially seems to be very underrated on PC which is quite a shame, was a better all rounder then Andrew Flintoff for mine.

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Test series, I thought he was just pulled out of the tour game? Unless something has changed over the last 12 hours.

Indeed. That team probably needs a hit out just as much as Pakistan does however, except for a few 20/20's here and there none of them have played any proper cricket in over a month.

I've seen Afridi bowl his "quicker" ball in the 130's before so personally I'm not surprised, although with Kyle Mills chucking the odd ball down in the mid 130's you'd have to question the radar just a little bit. I doubt it'd be on the fritz by four plus kmph however. ---------- New Zealand...

DWTA, I don't think I've watched a more pointless series tbh, even the selectors didn't seem to take it seriously with some of the selections, players like Brownlie and Milne for example weren't exactly picked because of their exploits in domestic 20/20 cricket. On Adam Milne, I'm sort of...

Tamim Iqbal, James Anderson perhaps? I came up with - 1. Virender Sehwag 2. Tamim Iqbal 3. Hashim Amla 4. Sachin Tendulkar 5. Jacques Kallis 6. AB de Villers 7. MS Dhoni 8. Graeme Swann 9. Dale Steyn 10. Zaheer Khan 11. James Anderson