kiwis prepare with a bye

When New Zealand booked a warm up game they would have been pretty happy.

Plying themselves against the shield champions seemed like a good plan.

The shield champs aint what they used to be.

The side is young, and lacking stars.

That is not much help for a team that just played against Bangladesh.

17 year old Josh Hazelwood has been brought into the side for his debut.

He is called the being labelled the new McGrath.

Actually technically he is the new, new, new McGrath, with Clarke and Noffke gaining the first two places.

Why because he is 6 foot heaps, skinny as fuck, Glenny was 17 once, comes from the bush and doesn’t bowl left arm orthodox.

The team has three teenagers, a bunch of players under 23, and a few old dudes that no one cares about.

Hardly a brutal warm up for the Kiwis.

Victoria got over 400 with a collapse or two against a similar line up, except for the 2 teenagers that have been added.

NSWales isn’t laying off to lull the Kiwis into a false sense of anything, they just have injuries, and ofcourse more than a few players in India.

This is New Zealand’s only tour match, and then straight to the gabba for the 1st test.

Their squad is pace heavy, which is interesting since one of the tests is in Adelaide.

Jeetan Patel, New Zealand’s Andy Bichel, has missed out, but Iain O’Brien had been included.

I think that is a good thing, as I have never seen a more exciting cricketer ran O’Brien.

He is like Wasim Akram, Douggie Walters and Wes Hall all in one sexy slim line package.

Also Gareth Hopkins and Grant Elliott have both been picked, I still get the two confused, I know one is a keeper with an average record, and the other a South African with a low patriotism count.

I think this will be a far more talked about series than Australia in India, what do you think?www.cricketwithballs.com... We constantly get sodomized down the legside