NT Team Thread

[darkmatter]

Cheers baggy for the support. I can fully understand people who may disapprove of this usage of the T20 comp, but I see it as nothing more than a way of getting a bit of extra juice into future players. Both tour 1 and 3 this year will feature players who are in contention for the upcoming World cup next season. Tour one was a pretty competitive team and that league could have went anyway. As a minor country I believe our best chance is to progress in the one day games and treat the T20, like many other countries do, as an experience league.

Regarding the Moore,Davis debate it is a close call. Gray will probably still go on the world cup at 29, so there is a chance I'll be taking 3 keepers, so it would be those three.
Moore is the better bat, Davis will be a better keeper, considering he's ahead in keeping primary (and younger, but I won't really factor that into the WC choices).

Burgendy, Collins, Angle and Rios are already among some of our better players, and would make most tours anyway. Our bowlers - particularly our pace ones - are hindered by a lack of power, but Youssiff really is the logical player to ween in, as we cannot pick Martinez forever.

With hindsight even perhaps Spencer over Moore wasn't a correct call, but Spencer and Barry really do have long term futures. Barry in particular is already better than Zhirkov is now, and he has been pushed out of the youth side of the USA squad.

[Philly]

I think today's match was fairly decisive (even though we lost a few late wickets in the chase).

[egan]

Brilliant win guys. Equation is pretty simple for tomorrow, we need to beat Canada and Bermuda needs to beat Netherlends.

Best of luck.

[spark]

Well done on the fantastic win against Bermuda. Let's hope we can sneak into 1st place. Good luck!

[darkmatter]

End of over 17 (4 runs) - USA(93-0) RR 5.47

End of over 17 (3 runs) - Netherlands(75-2) RR 4.41

Not looking too bad, Bermuda are a useful outfit, so with a couple more wickets they could really pile some pressure on.