Ben on...rating the Black Caps

With the Black Caps losing again, Richard Boock has regained his mojo and is writing with venom, lambasting the team for being a bunch of lemmings. He has also put numbers to his disappointment of the players individually. Jonathan Millmow has also rated the players. It is interesting to compare their respective assessments.

Player    Boock Millmow    Player    Boock Millmow
Bond      8     8.5        Mason     3     5
Fleming   5     7          Oram      4     6
Franklin  3     7          Patel     5     7
Fulton    7     7          Styris    9     9
Gillespie 1     4          Taylor    3     5
Marshall  4     –          Tuffey    –     –
McCullum  4     6          Vettori   5     6
McMillan  4     6          Vincent   –     –
Martin    –     –

Boock is, not surprisingly much harsher (avg. ~4.5) than Millmow (avg. ~6.5). And pretty blinkered as well. If he can't see, for example, the great work that Franklin did supporting Bond at the top of the innings he's clearly just an inveterate bellyacher. And if the joint "best gloveman at the World Cup" can only rate a measly 4, Boock's standards are clearly too high.