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Originally Posted by al Furqaan
no, incomparable in my opinion.

looking back, that was very much a B side at best. roach, sammy, and bernard were there only decent players. and maybe one of their spinners, forgot. u need at least 7-8 first string players to even begin to consider it a "real" side. this NZ team has all first stringers, and the only guys missing are oram and styris (who are more than balanced by the absence of mash and tamim).

oram is out of the team during 50% time of his career. styris was on and off, though he is a good performer but he does not get auto selection. i think both missed several series in their soil or outside.NZ team never thought they will need them to beat BD.