[Match Thread] New Zealand v Zimbabwe: 3rd ODI

[hhm]

My feeling is, NZ have just 4 bastmen(5 if you wan to include the halfbaked 19yr old who gave Jarvis the treatment last match), then a LONG tail to follow in my view(yes I know they're effective allrounders with the bat).

So instead of persisting with spinners, for all their effectiveness, if you wan to win a match, bring on your premier fats bowler right now when two wickets have fallen and you have big chance to pick a few more wicket and peg them back!

[hhm]

Not mcu happening besides a patient rebuilding process by the Black Caps, and effective accumulation against the spinners! So what did I miss?

i know many people including hhm will disagree but i do think jarvis has improved as a bowler on this tour, seems to be able to swing the ball both ways and move the ball of the seem. The main issue is with is length

He's still poor. When you;r enot taking wickets with new ball, old ball and fetching a lot that's what we call you - poor!

Vitori?
Ordinary

true - but you can see potential ... who selected him? blame them - poor lad

Has it occured to you that there are some here(e.g BRM) who actually still believe we struck gold?

It seems we have learnt nothing from the first two games. Our bowling is inept. This is where i was saying we not very tactical as a squad. We expect things to happen rather than making things happen ourselves.

Precisely what what we're suffering from! There is something at the back of our coaches' minds that somehow our bowlers will actually start taking wickets!

[hhm]

Surprise, surprise! Nowhere to hide! Jarvis is actually being bowled again - in a powerplay!

[zimbos_05]

My feeling is, NZ have just 4 bastmen(5 if you wan to include the halfbaked 19yr old who gave Jarvis the treatment last match), then a LONG tail to follow in my view(yes I know they're effective allrounders with the bat).

So instead of persisting with spinners, for all their effectiveness, if you wan to win a match, bring on your premier fats bowler right now when two wickets have fallen and you have big chance to pick a few more wicket and peg them back!

Very easy to say and do, but when they not bowling with the good line and length and not really troubling any batsmen at all, what the point. Chigumbura and Vitori are always down leg. The spinners have limited the scoring to an extent and its the pace bowlers who have got us in this situation.

We underestimating New Zealands batting attack and instead of bowling smartly, we bowling ineffectively hoping something can happen without putting any thought into field placings and where we pitching the ball.

[Jemisi]

Finally something goes Jarvis' way.

[Jemisi]

Another shocker. Chigs can't complain too loudly, he's sinned plenty himself.

[Jemisi]

What a joke

[hhm]

So instead of persisting with spinners, for all their effectiveness, if you wan to win a match, bring on your premier fast bowler right now when two wickets have fallen and you have big chance to pick a few more wicket and peg them back!

Very easy to say and do, but when they not bowling with the good line and length and not really troubling any batsmen at all, what the point.

With Jarvis' wickeet, and potentially another dropped one off Vitori, I hope you understand what I meant. That's what your seamers are there for!

[Jemisi]

Probably a little too late

[hhm]

Probably a little too late

That's what you get when match after match, you've got two inexperienced&incompetent guys running in from either side, with separate new balls in hand, but no idea what to do with them!

An ineffective display!