Hope we have a Black Caps thread
Thought on the next 4 years/World Cup in SA
Possible line ups
1. Allen
2. Ravindra
3. Williamson
4. Mitchell
5. Conway
6. Bracewell
7. Seifert/Cleaver
8. Santa
9. Jaimeson
10. Henry
11. Boult/Mitchell McClenaghan type specialist death bowler/the new Henry/Boult/Ferguson of 2024
I have Bracewell there so our bowling unit looks like - Henry/Jaimeson/Santa/Bracewell, 5th bowlers shared between Ravindra/Mitchell, unless Phillips keeps then he replaces Seifert. Ravindra has a lot of upside to become the legit 2nd spin frontline bowler in 4 years
This is probably one of our best top 5 batting unit so they really need to develop a couple of pacers to do that batting unit justice. Allen was introduced prior to 2023 world cup cycle so he's likely a shoe in for 2027, like Philips, Mitchell and Chapman made it after debuting around 2016-2017 seasons missing the 2019 world cup.
We need to let the keepers battle it out, and reduce Jaimeson to white ball and learn, as his body won't cope with test matches, hope Henry doesn't drop off like Boult did, and invest in a couple of young pacers so one of them will be ready to go, we used to have Henry, Boult, Southee, Fergey, Milne coming through and they were young too, WTF happened in the last 4-6 years, we literally have no new legit international seamers, not even a De Grahomme who was amazing
I've got Boult there if nobody came through, he will be playing T20s around the world going forward and gets even better at deaths bowling so might as well use him as Mitchell McClenaghan who exclusively bowls from the middle to deaths overs. Henry can be the other death bowler he has improved and 4 more years of wisdom he should be fine as the 2nd death bowler.
They need to blood players younger too, instead of picking them when they're 27/28, first world cup they'd be 32 and at risk of dropping off in 4 years time like Dutch did
Hopefully the boys who saw the Dream Big NZ of 2015 campaign will start to come through for the next cycle too