***Official*** New Zealand Domestic Season 2017/18

[Kippax]

https://twitter.com/Shirsh9

[straw man]

Timely from Worker after a poor tour, on 96* currently.

Will likely collapse in a heap though 124 from 17 overs with 5 wickets in hand is doable in theory.

[NZTailender]

Absolute shocker of a tour from our great specialist bat hopes.

We're going to see a lot more of Nicholls, aren't we?

[Kippax]

P.S: I should get on to the pooch to get your Jodie Barrett videos mate, will do over the weekend.

I encourage everyone to bombard nzfan with tons of rare and wonderful requests, until he caves in and just throws me into the video vault, where I belong.

[Kippax]

Chapple Cup -
https://www.crichq.com/competitions/...s/34350/rounds



Leopard opening the batting and not bowling any overs this weekend. Another Hawke's Bay vs. Manawatu final tomorrow, like it usually is at the Chapple Cup, but it looks like Nelson are getting pretty strong now and could've made it, if Josh Clarkson had been around. Willem Ludick used to bat down at No. 8 for South Africa U19 in 2016, but he becomes a class act in a 'land of the blind, one-eyed man is king' sort of way.

[Kippax]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/...-cup-challenge

Nelson also lamenting the significant loss of Central Stags batsman Josh Clarkson who is out for several weeks after fracturing his forearm during a recent Stags practice match.

And to further accentuate Clarkson's misfortune, he'd been standing at the non-striker's end at the time

However, the Griffins have been boosted by the arrival of South African allrounder Evan Jones from Marlborough who'll join fellow South African Willem Ludick in the Nelson lineup.

The two Pretorian allrounders arrived in Nelson last February, Ludick linking up with Nelson club Athletic College Old Boys and Jones joining Blenheim's Renwick club. Both players duly made their representative debuts for their respective provinces although Jones has opted to play his cricket in Nelson this season with the Wanderers club.

They are currently in the process of registering as New Zealand players in a potential bid to attract Central Stags contracts. Both are on three-year working visas.

A former South Africa under-19 representative, Ludick was part of Nelson's seam attack during last season's Hawke Cup campaign and will assume the captaincy in Napier. Offspinner Jones enhances Nelson's slow bowling resources as a foil for left-arm spinner Felix Murray.

[Kippax]

C Munny back in pole position to be Guptill's opening partner. Or maybe Hesson would entertain fielding two bats who try to Finch it up and establish that RR while the ball's hard and new, KW down to 4.

[Kippax]

The Board Of Control For Cricket In India

C Munny falls early for just 8.

[Kippax]

I see Dane Watson moved away from Nethula and is now trying to get on the scene via Phlegm's boys (Marty Kain retired).

[Kippax]

Don't try to be a hero here, Bevan! Just stay out of the hospital wards and be fit for a bit of Plunket Shield.

[Kippax]

Anyone can bowl that slogger Tryon, that's alright.

Ian Smith's son played the big innings to anchor the chase for Hawke's Bay, finished 102*.

[Kippax]

Basil Thampi deceiving and destroying I see, making the whole Seifert vs. Blundell thing seem fairly moot.

[Kippax]

It's almost like Wellington may actually play Ravindra quite a lot, after his Year 13 exams are out of the way and after the U19 WC. A refreshing new leaf being turned over by the Firebirds.

[nzfan]

Here you go mate, the video you were after. Couldn't find time enough to get all of his action during the tourney but I suppose this is all right? Pretty decent all rounder I'd say, the bowling looks great. Good action and loading.

BTW how can I make the above not show a link but show as a video?

[Kippax]

Making it http rather than https sometimes helps, then you just bookend that YouTube link with (video) and (/video), except with the squarer kind of brackets, [.