NZ are improving ever so slightly. Bolt/Southee remind me of the GeoffAllot/Dion Nash new ball pair of the late 90s/early 200s - dangerous swing bowlers.
But it was only last year in the Caribbean Windies beat NZ 2-0. Granted, NZ were a bit under strength with the bat, but the bowling attack is just about the same really.
Windies obviously are a poor test team - but ability wise they are on the same level as NZ IMO, so how do they get trashed just as badly as India beat them??
Maybe it was the swing of NZ conditions compared to last year, but i think the deeper reasons is their selectors which seem very clueless:
- They keep picking Sammy is test when he is not a test cricketer
- Lead bowler Roach is out, but yet Rampaul is back fit but they only picking him in ODI's. What does that mean, is he not for tests or do they somehow only view him as a ODI bowler only now?
- I heard Simon Doul saying on commentary a few times how glad NZ batsmen are that Narine isn't playing - yet the windies selectors have him on the bench.
- How could they be picking the horribly out of form Gabriel & not Jason Holder who has been bowling well all year in ODI's.
Crazy stuff. Cricket Selectors are like football managers, if they don't pick the right team balance - opposition will obviously take advantage of the weaknesses created.
