hendrix
Well-known member
For NZ:
- Opening combination. Guptill struggles to rotate the strike against good bowling, and McCullum is anything but consistent.
- Lack of left handers in the top order. This is not a weakness per se, but allowing accurate bowlers to settle into a line and length early means that you have to go after good balls. This is why it's quite important for McCullum to go hard.
For Australia:
- Lack of a quality spinner/middle overs stifler. I'm not actually sure whether this is a major weakness if Johnson and Starc come back and take wickets in their second spells. But if Watson can re-capture his LO bowling economy that would be a major string to their bow.
For South Africa:
- Lower middle order. I do rate Duminy very highly but after him there's not clarity in the roles of 6 and 7. Are they sloggers with a licence? Or do South Africa need someone who can hold his wicket there?
Someone finish the rest.
- Opening combination. Guptill struggles to rotate the strike against good bowling, and McCullum is anything but consistent.
- Lack of left handers in the top order. This is not a weakness per se, but allowing accurate bowlers to settle into a line and length early means that you have to go after good balls. This is why it's quite important for McCullum to go hard.
For Australia:
- Lack of a quality spinner/middle overs stifler. I'm not actually sure whether this is a major weakness if Johnson and Starc come back and take wickets in their second spells. But if Watson can re-capture his LO bowling economy that would be a major string to their bow.
For South Africa:
- Lower middle order. I do rate Duminy very highly but after him there's not clarity in the roles of 6 and 7. Are they sloggers with a licence? Or do South Africa need someone who can hold his wicket there?
Someone finish the rest.