John Bracewell
John Bracewell
John Garry Bracewellis a New Zealand cricketer and coach. He played 41 Test matches between 1979–80 and 1990, as well as 53 One Day Internationals. He has been the coach of the New Zealand cricket team since the autumn of 2003. His brother Brendon also played Test cricket, and his brothers Douglas and Mark also played at first-class level. John Bracewell is the uncle of test representative Doug Bracewell and first-class representative Michael Bracewell...
batting cricket domestic felt return work
We felt they should return to domestic cricket to work on their batting before being reconsidered for selection.
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Mills is recovering from his groin strain but does not have enough recent cricket to be considered for section. He will be returning to club cricket this weekend before the team for the remainder of the one-day series is announced.
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He will be considered for a return to international cricket later in the summer,
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He is focused on playing in the World Cup and will have plenty of opportunity to return to form and full match fitness over the domestic season,
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He has shown great commitment in returning to full fitness this season and I believe that he had the ability to push towards the World Cup, if that is what he desired.
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If selected he'll return for Central Districts as a batter in the next (State Championship) round (next week). So we're hopeful there will be progress.
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The selectors were unanimous in the decision to select Hamish. We acknowledge his recent lack of form but believe he will turn it around. We were also conscious of the need to retain continuity within the squad and not to make wholesale changes.
altitude games
We've timed part of our altitude conditioning with the warm-up games but don't see that as an issue.
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He's admitted a couple of times that he's struggled to stay in the battle when teams have gone hard at him, but he has certainly progressed in that area in test matches and hopefully will do on this tour.
option terms
If we haven't got an option in terms of captaincy over there (West Indies), then I think we're being silly.
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Lou continually said that he didn't see himself as an opener and would prefer to bat in the middle order.
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Now we have to rethink that because they are a lot fresher then we expected them to be at the end of the season.
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We sat down for a long chat about the issue and it was a pretty tough hour for both of us, because we go back a long way,
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Undoubtedly, yes. It would've been (hard to retain him).