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**Official** New Zealand Domestic Season 2013/2014

Kippax

Cricketer Of The Year
Yep, new coaches being announced etc. -
Cricket: South African takes over as CD coach - Sport - NZ Herald News

Heinrich Malan | South Africa Cricket | Cricket Players and Officials | ESPN Cricinfo


Also, you can refer back to this OP for the videos below from 2012/13, upped by someone who clearly lacked funding for good arthritis meds at the time....

Wells gets bowlers to try Kippax theory - YouTube

Jesse Ryder, "Look at All the ****s I Give" - YouTube

Adam Milne, Pre-Xmas Plunket Wickets - YouTube

Mitchell McClenaghan, Pre-Xmas Plunket Wickets - YouTube

Ish Sodhi, Pre-Xmas Plunket Wickets - YouTube

Tim Johnston, Pre-Xmas Plunket Wickets - YouTube

Matt Henry, 1/27 vs. South Africa, Feb 2012 - YouTube

Jacob Duffy vs. Borgas, HRV Cup Final - YouTube

Dusan Hakaraia, 141* on Debut - YouTube

Craig Cachopa, 145 vs. Central Districts - YouTube

Hamish Rutherford, 162 vs. Northern Districts - YouTube

Tom Latham vs. England XI - YouTube

Daryl Mitchell, 136 vs. Wellington - YouTube

Ben Wheeler & Adam Milne vs. Canterbury - YouTube

Papps' 40 Boundaries - YouTube

Jono Hickey, First Week for ND - YouTube

Some Bennett comeback footage - YouTube

Tim Southee vs. Brodie / Pollard / Boam - YouTube

Latham's Bouncer - YouTube

NZ Domestic Seamers A-Z *Updated* - YouTube

Northern Districts 2012/13, "****ed Right Off the Bat" - YouTube

Joe Carter, 2012 Quad Series - YouTube

Will Young, 2012 Quad Series - YouTube

Seifert opening in 2nd inns - YouTube

Rakitha Weerasundara 36(42) - YouTube

Dane Watson, 4/31 vs. Australia U19 - YouTube

Jimmy Neesham, 124 vs. Northern Districts - YouTube

Corey Anderson, 167 vs. Otago - YouTube
 

Kippax

Cricketer Of The Year
https://twitter.com/HeinrichMalan

Haha, a very motivational "the future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams" type by the looks. Mitch would enjoy it if he returned to CD. The more hard case rural jocks probably won't be too happy with this fit though.

Duggeh, Bevan, Milney, listen to me, "adversity is the diamond dust with which heaven polishes its jewels.". :cool:
 

Flem274*

123/5
Maybe he's like the army where they come out with all the cool quotes and pictures of tanks in the ads and then when you sign your life away you get screamed at every morning at 5am because your freshly made bed has a crease in it.
 

Flem274*

123/5
Any rumours of moves other than Carlchopa -> Auckland btw?

I suppose I can indulge in some brainless offseason speculation as well.

Auckland are going to be spoilt for middle order batsmen this season if they retain them all. That's probably a good thing since Hopkins or Munro at number five looks one spot too high. Of course if they go for five specialists in the top five then someone has to go out of CdG and Munro unless they think three specialist bowlers is enough. I think three specialist bowlers then two fifth bowlers is asking for it, especially if they have nicked Cachopa back to make it three fifth bowlers.

Two openers, Cachopa, Cachopa, Kitchen, Munro, Hopkins would be my top seven. CdG and Hakaraia ready and waiting. Looking forward to seeing if Bartlett can continue to impress as well. I guess there is a chance Auckland will have the services of Bruce Martin more often than Bucko will like, Bates will be around, McClenaghan and Mills should play a fair few games and Chris Martin hasn't officially retired has he?

Northern Districts need a clean out of the batting. They'll probably get one too since Marshall has gone and Yovich can't be far off. Joe Carter, Bharat Popli and Jono Hickey appear to be Howsie favourites and they ripped it up in A cricket so Collapsing Districts should contract them. Seifert will probably get in as well. Carter, Flynn, Wilson, Mitchell, Popli/Hickey, Anderson, Seifert looks raw but might make a name for itself. Bowling wise they should tempt Mathieson back north with more game time. Their success with producing bowlers has been a double edged sword and Southee/Boult won't turn out for them too often this season I suspect. Arnel and Aldridge aren't far off retiring either so a promising quick in the bank to complement Verma, Baker and Anderson would be a good move.

I don't think we will defend our title this year. If Carl Cachopa has made the move then our middle order looks fragile. Sinclair needs to Sinclair it, Young needs to announce himself and the new guy (Hay? Was our best batsman in the A tournament iirc) needs to contribute as well. Kruger regaining the batting form that saw him so beloved by PEWS toy would be great too. However if we can keep Milne and Wheeler on the park, we will win more often than we lose. I liked how KNB moved himself up the order when he became captain but I think he's much better used down the order to smash stuff.

Will make up stuff about the other teams later.
 

Kippax

Cricketer Of The Year
Yeah Steve to make a cameo on that Carlchopa rumour and other moves if he can.

The new ND coach Pamment is very familiar with Seifert via one-on-one technical work they've done, so it's possible that will see him shielded from play for a bit longer than otherwise.
 

Flem274*

123/5
Just found out about this series.

New Zealand Cricket - New Zealand Under-19 team to play in Tri-Series | Team named

Jeremy Benton (Canterbury)
Nick Blundell (Central Districts)
Leo Carter (Canterbury)
Henry Collier (Central Districts)
Cameron Gibbons (Northern Districts)
Shawn Hicks (Auckland)
Alec Hodgson (Otago)
Jack Hunter (Otago)
Kyle Jamieson (Auckland)
Ken McClure (Canterbury)
Graeme Tryon (Central Districts)
Tim Seifert (Northern Districts)
Dane Watson (Auckland)
Kurtley Watson (Northern Districts)
Rakitha Weerasundara (Wellington)

Two of those CD surnames look familliar.

Wellington can't be impressed at only having one rep either.
 

Bahnz

Hall of Fame Member
Just found out about this series.

New Zealand Cricket - New Zealand Under-19 team to play in Tri-Series | Team named

Jeremy Benton (Canterbury)
Nick Blundell (Central Districts)
Leo Carter (Canterbury)
Henry Collier (Central Districts)
Cameron Gibbons (Northern Districts)
Shawn Hicks (Auckland)
Alec Hodgson (Otago)
Jack Hunter (Otago)
Kyle Jamieson (Auckland)
Ken McClure (Canterbury)
Graeme Tryon (Central Districts)
Tim Seifert (Northern Districts)
Dane Watson (Auckland)
Kurtley Watson (Northern Districts)
Rakitha Weerasundara (Wellington)

Two of those CD surnames look familliar.

Wellington can't be impressed at only having one rep either.
No doubt. Auckland shouldn't be satisfied by continually being matched or outdone by CD and ND either.
 

Kippax

Cricketer Of The Year
Cricket | CD take risk on new head coach Malan | Stuff.co.nz

"Heinrich was able to demonstrate very clear thinking around what the strengths of our current squad are and what needed to be done with each of them individually in each of the formats.

"He cleary demonstrated that he'd done a lot of homework on what we needed to be doing and then presented a plan as to how we could go out and perform and be successful."

Wicketkeeper Kruger van Wyk, who was briefly a team-mate of Malan's, South African-born batsman Carl Cachopa and How all tapped into their own networks, as CD sought to see if Malan stacked up.

"Everyone spoke very highly of him...and the feedback was all very consistent," said Henderson.



Henderson said previous CD coaches have been asked to do the virtually impossible, which had contributed to the relatively high attrition rate. But Malan will not be convener of selectors, nor have any talent-spotting and coaching responsibilities across CD's eight districts.

He will concentrate solely on cricket and the Stags, leaving people like manager Lance Hamilton and director of cricket Craig Ross to deal with all the off-the-park stuff. Malan will also be supported by specialist skills coaches Shane Bond, Mark Greatbatch and Mike Shrimpton, as well as psychologist Gary Hermansson.

From a playing perspective, Henderson said "if he was a betting man" he'd take a punt on the Stags retaining all of last summer's squad.
Cricket: CD pick young buck | Hawke's Bay Today
 

Flem274*

123/5
Sounds like we've gone all out in the specialist coaching department. I'm surprised Bond has time to do some work with a domestic side.
 

Hurricane

Hall of Fame Member
Crowe interviewed by Deaker today. Just talk to us about batting Martin. So he did.
Phenomenal stuff. Some of it too rich to take in one sitting you would have to sit down with him and query him to make sure you understood what he was saying.

Some good tips about the advantages of playing the ball late so it won't go in the air. And playing with a straight bat to avoid lbws.

He felt our batsman were to blame for getting bowled out for 68 at Lords.
 

Kippax

Cricketer Of The Year


New Zealand Cricket - Pitch marquee first for NZC at Lincoln

Wonder how W33ra will be looking in this marquee. I'll be disappointed if he hasn't been strutting around getting chix to watch his video as a first-year Massey student; I want some macho caning of short balls and a sort of Unmukt/Wagner duel with that **** Fotia, when the video comes back.

Pitch marquee first for NZC at Lincoln

A 45 metre long by 12 metre wide aluminium framed marquee has been erected at the New Zealand Cricket High Performance Centre in Lincoln, in what is an innovative new way to help players train during winter.

The aluminium framed marquee covers two wickets which had been previously prepared with the use of growth lamps. The lamps are used day and night and are specifically designed to assist in drying the wickets, while simultaneously promoting grass growth.

The pitches support both pace and spin bowlers and have already been used by the White Ferns at their recent training camp. The NZ Winter Training Squad and NZ U-19 squad will also use the facility.

“The project has allowed for players to train outside during the winter, which is almost unheard of in New Zealand due to the cold climate,” said NZC’s General Manager Ground and Facilities Ian McKendry.

“It has produced a number of challenges, but the feedback so far has been excellent and the potential to be able to play on grass all year long is huge.”

“This is the first step, but it’s an exciting new direction for off-season training.”

The marquee is scheduled to come down on June 24.
 

Flem274*

123/5
I can't believe they haven't thought of this before.

But still, thank ****ing christ we're ditching the concrete. Maybe our players health insurance will decrease in price now.
 

straw man

Hall of Fame Member
I applaud the creation of these types of facilities. Cricket in NZ has always been disproportionately affected by the weather imo and facilities like this sprinkled round the country should make a huge difference to that.

I like the photo - looks like fairly cheap, rudimentary technology, the kind that could be replicated elsewhere without too much difficulty. There will no doubt be teething problems (most likely with getting the conditions consistent right for grass growth and with pitch wear and tear) but if there are a few clever people involved they'll find ways round that. Looks like it needs lighting for use in the winter though.
 

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