Matches (17)
T20 World Cup (4)
SL vs WI [W] (1)
WI Academy in IRE (1)
T20 Blast (8)
CE Cup (3)
The Surfer

Poor technique let New Zealand down

New Zealand lost the second Test to Pakistan in Wellington by 141 runs, getting bowled out for 99 in first innings

Nishi Narayanan
25-Feb-2013
New Zealand lost the second Test to Pakistan in Wellington by 141 runs, getting bowled out for 99 in first innings. Apart from Ross Taylor, all other top-order batsmen have looked out of depth. Tim MacIntosh, Martin Guptill, Daniel Flynn and Peter Fulton all have massive issues with their footwork - issues so large that if they aren't ironed out they will never make the grade, writes Mark Richardson in the Herald on Sunday.
Flynn has gone backwards over the last year and whoever is responsible for that should be ashamed of themselves. Here is a young man with a great attitude and a ton of determination but a technique that is doomed to failure. It's beyond me how he has been allowed to develop this over complicated method that results in no forward movement and lbw after lbw. Fulton looks like a dead man walking at the crease right now and epitomises our woes. Here's a player brought back into the test arena on the back of great first-class form - and does not look any better than last time he was there. There's a swag of these players littering our game right now. I'd suggest these players actually analyse how they are scoring their first-class runs; not how many they are scoring.

Nishi Narayanan is a staff writer at ESPNcricinfo