A long lost relative of Roger Ramjet, Guptill has a jaw that a small South American village could be re-located to. Guptill is the sort of player that just when you decide he is utter shit he plays a brilliant shot off a top bowler to change your mind. Then he goes out, and you want to give him a hug. If you put a knotted sweater around his neck he would look like he should be in some film about Harvard or Yale. Due to a forklift accident he lost three toes. He doesn’t like it when you race up to him,take his shoes off and rub them. Sadly.
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Trev Barry wash up
Sorry about the pun.
I don’t usually wrap up one day series, and I wont do this one.
I will say sucks to be you New Zealand, 2 zip up, work their way back to 2 all, and then rain fucks up their finish.
That must smart.
This has been an interesting time for the players though, there has been some fresh faces, some character arcs, and forced rests.
Martin Guptil may have a stupid name (it’s not funny or cool to say, yet still odd enough to mention) but he showed on debut he can bat, well last night he showed he can smack, slap, and carry his team. The rest of the series he struggled a bit, but there is class and dash in him.
Callum Ferguson jumped the queue by finding form at the exact right time, and then kept his spot by getting some of the best luck of any debutante ever. Hard to say whether he made more runs, or got more dodgy LB decisions, but once he was let go at the Gabba, he was a force of furious destruction.
Ben Hilfenhaus has been talked up for a long time, but when he finally gets in he is very up and down. His good is unplayable, his bad is anal fodder, and no one is any surer about him now than they were before.
Tim Southee came into the series with a decent effort against Australia in the test series behind him, but in the one dayers he has been easier to score from than Tara Reid. He also has only 3 wickets in the series, and without the new ball he looks like a change bowler.
Brad Haddin took his chance at the top of the order, the one that most people thought he would have had by now. He really isn’t, and has never been, a good middle or lower middle order white ball batsman. At the top of the order he took over, and Warner might have to wait a while for a recall now.
Iain O’Brien needs a swab. In England he was a medium slow bowler who filled up an end. Now he is almost genuinely quick, and he took 10 wickets in this series, the Australian’s seemed to score off him easily, but if he can keep taking 2 wickets a match the kiwis will keep him around.
James Hopes has gone from a bits and pieces all rounder to the man Ponting throws the ball to during a drama. He has also batted in the top order, and his forehead is still awesome.
The greatest story has to be Grant Elliott, who has managed to turn himself from Jacob Oram’s hamstring replacement, into an international all rounder. No one is sure how, but he has.
One day you might say, “as kiwi as Grant Elliott”.
Guptill, the best ranga who made a hundred for new zealand yesterday
Look closely at the photo too, there is something wrong with this guy, this photo looks wrong, are they super natural forces pulling at his genitals or something?
This guy made ton on debut, and it was the best one day hundred Vettori had seen that day, or this year, or something like that.
The bigger question is are ginger/ranga/rednut cricketers trying to take over the sport.
And what are the authorities doing to stop this?
At least he doesn’t bowl medium pace.
That would be horrible.
I may have put a hex on him.
Don’t get to used to him either, sure he made a hundred in his first knock, and he is only 22, but how many kiwis make big scores on debut and then become herpes on society, too many.
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