Thursday, October 16, 2008

New Zealand's future

With Kiwis touring Bangladesh it would be interesting to see how some of their younger players like Ryder, Southee, How will perform, yes Bangladesh is a weak side and Kiwis should win comfortably but Kiwis are in a transition period what with the retirements of Fleming, Astle, Macmillan, Richardson etc during the last two years or so, they have also lost their premier strike bowler Bond as he has joined ICL, even players like Vincent have joined ICL and one has to say players like Martin, Styris are not getting younger.So it is an interesting phase where Vettori has been given the responsibility to rebuild the side.

Yes Kiwis have some promising players like Guptil, Hay, Boult, Broom, Nathan Mccullum as well as Fulton all of whom have done reasonably well playing for the A team which is at present touring India and add to that list players like Flynn, Bennett etc who are also said to be ok.

So how do you look at the future of Newzealand's cricket? With players like Brendon McCullum, Vettori, Oram etc still around and a bunch of younger players who look like are promising New Zealand's future seems to be in safe hands.

1 comment:

mikesiva said...

Excellent blog, GB....

I feel taht for NZ to move forward, they have to stop sacrificing new, young players who are just not good enough in the top order. Vettori as captain needs to shoulder some of the responsibility, and push himself up the order. He's an allrounder, for heaven's sake!