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Phoenix played in such a negative way in the first 70 minutes you would of thought Ricki Herbert was still coaching them… wasn’t until the last 15 to 20 minutes that they started to play positively, moving forward from the back at good pace where Burns scored 2 very well taken goals to win the game.
1. Perth Glory {p11} – 28pts
2. Melbourne Victory {p11} – 22pts
3. Adelaide United {p11} – 20pts
4. Wellington Phoenix {p11} – 19pts
5. Sydney FC {p11} 17pts
6. Melbourne City FC {p10} – 12pts
7. Brisbane Roar – {p10} – 10pts
8. Central Coast Mariners {p11} – 7pts
9. Newcastle Jets {p11} – 7pts
10. Western Sydney Wanderers {p9} – 3ptsTop effort by NZ to come from behind to win ODI series… superb batting by Williamson through that series & great to see another bowler come through in Henry.
Both Bracewell & Wagner spray the ball all over the place too much for me,
Would of replaced them with Milne & Henry in the test squad, bloody annoying they’re not letting Milne rip into Sri Lanka in the tests, must of been a very close call between Craig & SodhiTest Squad for Boxing Day –
Brendon McCullum (c)
Trent Boult
Doug Bracewell
Dean Brownlie
Mark Craig
Tom Latham
James Neesham
Hamish Rutherford
Tim Southee
Ross Taylor
Neil Wagner
BJ Watling
Kane WilliamsonYeah, Milne has tended to be a bit injury prone, suppose that’s going to happen though with the pace he bowls at, I’d expect him to get less injuries now, he’s a bit older, has bulked up more so looks stronger, he was very skinny a couple of years ago.
I’m all for giving some fringe players a crack, just reckon they’ve being using too many.
Agree with Hansen, far too much is made of RWC’s
AB’s have that awe about them due to having an excellent win record year in & year out & playing very positive rugby… RWC’s are knock-out tournaments over only a 3 to 4 week period, played just once every 4 years, surrounded with all the commercial & media bullshit that comes with it.
5th ODI
Tonight – 11.50pm
Sky Sport 1.Milne has proven to be a huge weapon in our attack, was absolutely outstanding ! averaging 150k in his 1st 5. overs & again very accurate, could of easily had 3 or 4 wickets, went for only 38 out of a total of almost 300 runs.
We must have the two best swing bowlers in the world… in ‘ tests ‘ I’d like to see Milne open the bowling with one of them, giving us extreme pace at one end & swing at the other, then bring the other swing bowler on as 1st change.
That now makes it 2-2… the way this series is going the final ODI match might end up being a draw.
Well, can only give my opinion & this is meant to be a sports forum… including questioning something that you don’t feel is right.
Of course those players would get some benefit from the 4 day stuff, but like professional cricketers all round the world players are well use to changing quickly from one form of the game to the other, which is why most of our top players are still playing in the ODI series, it’s just a mindset attitude.
They haven’t played for about 2 weeks, so the only conclusion I can come to is they were sent home for a bit of a rest, which is a joke anyway.
Don’t really buy the preparation thing… only way that would work properly is by having all the main players back playing in the plunket Shield.
Doesn’t matter that the WC is going to be played in different conditions, any match preparation under real pressure situations has to be taken advantage of.
You say yourself those players are not too tired, As for modern sports science some of it is absolute rubbish ! there’s no point whatsoever wrapping players up in cotton wool to try and keep them fit if they’re already fit and not tired etc, no logic in it, players can just as easy get a bad injury while practising.
The way cricket is played the fact is batting teams do spend a quite a bit of time sitting on their arses in the stands, maybe sports science can make it easier by supplying them with lazy-boy chairs ? only trouble is someone would have to wake a player up when it’s their turn to bat.
If you were talking about playing rugby I’d agree… but with cricket being nowhere near as physical as that sport have to disagree, also in the ODI’S teams spend half the match sitting on their arses in the stands & NZ don’t play that many tests compared to Aussie, England, Pakistan, India & South Africa.
This ODI series is hardly pointless, say for argument sake we did manage to win the series it would give us a slight mental edge against them leading up to the WC & any edge you can get in any sport over a good team has to e a good thing.
It’s not about Pakistan using less players in tests or ODI’s, it’s about picking your best team for the form of the game you’re playing.
My point was to have all our best players available… Southee & Boult being our best opening bowlers in all forms of the game & clealy the same can be said about McCullum as one of our very best batsmen in all forms, Pakistan have got it right by playing their best squad, also playing bloody musical chairs is ludicrous, using that system you’re always going to struggle for continuity & momentum & lets face it bowlers aren’t going to get too tired in this form of the game where they only bowl 10 overs each, as said, there’s no excuse whatsoever for sending those key players home early.
Got a real thrashing in this mornings ODI… on most occasions on their wickets you can’t afford to bowl consistently short, it was obvious after 4 0r 5 overs our bowlers needed to adjust their lengths, but were too dumb to read the situation, so kept getting smashed to all parts of the ground.
As Merrick was saying this morning that would have to be the biggest 1-1 massacre ever, crap finishing by the Phoenix, But shockers do happen as long as it doesn’t occur too often, would of been a total embarrassment if they’d lost to the Mariners.
As said before reckon Merrick still doesn’t have the balance right… don’t rate Rodriguez, I’d drop the bloke & put McGlinchey in midfield & either play Cunningham or Boyd as a striker along side Burns & Krishna, then we’d get a lot more flow between the midfield & strikers.
No wonder McGlinchey looks like he’s caught in two minds a fair bit of the time with Merrick playing him as a striker & also having him sweeping back as a midfielder, that’s bloody ridiculous ! Christ, you play a player where you’re going to get the best out of him.
1. Perth Glory {p10} – 25pts
2. Melbourne Victory {p10} – 22pts
3. Adelaide United {p10} – 20pts
4. Sydney FC {p10} – 17pts
5. Phoenix {p10} – 16pts
6. Brisbane Roar {p10} – 10pts
7. Melbourne City FC {p9} – 9pts
8. Central Coast Mariners {p10} – 7pts
9. Newcastle Jets {p10} – 4pts
10. Western Sydney Wanderers {p9} – 3ptsRead more at http://www.a-league.com.au/#bq3Mwbwe8plGZhG0.99
Great that we’re back to playing more tests on Boxing Day.
With all the other regulars still playing in the ODI’s it’s a bit mind-boggling
they sent the other 3 players back home to prepare for the home series.
