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

[NZTailender]

Amazing that last round all teams won by an innings. What's even more amazing is that Otago was won of those winners.

 

[The Hutt Rec]

Did you now that Todd Astle has bowled 803 deliveries this NZ season. 133 overs.

26.5 overs a month.

Hasn't been injured at all.

#permanentsquadman. #awesomemanmanagement, #awesomeseasonscheduling


97 balls (or 12%) of his season's work was done on the 5th day of the Auckland test.

(this excludes the NZA tour to India in Sep.Oct)

Pretty sure Astle was injured for the first half of the Plunket Shield.

 

[The Hutt Rec]

Wellington have completely botched it by:

a) not getting the last two wickets last round
b) selecting an awful side for this round

Bracewell averaging 21 this season and has played every game as captain! One fifty, high score of 58*!

 

[jcas0167]

Yeah, couldn't believe that Nofal didn't retain his spot.

 

[Immenso]

Pretty sure Astle was injured for the first half of the Plunket Shield.

ah, crap

 

[vandem]

Wellington have completely botched it by:

a) not getting the last two wickets last round
b) selecting an awful side for this round

Bracewell averaging 21 this season and has played every game as captain! One fifty, high score of 58*!

Wellington have completely botched it by:

a) delaying a declaration until Conway got his 14th FC century, so leaving CD an impossible target of 372 from 57 overs, then not getting the last two CD wickets last round
b) selecting an awful side for this round

 

[SeamUp]

Final Round of Plunkett Shield starts

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Michael Bracewell
Hamish Bennett
Tom Blundell
Devon Conway
Iain McPeake
Stephen Murdoch
Ollie Newton
Malcolm Nofal
Michael Papps
Jeetan Patel
Ben Sears
Logan van Beek
Luke Woodcock

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George Worker
Greg Hay
Ben Smith
Will Young (c)
Tom Bruce
Willem Ludick
Dane Cleaver
Doug Bracewell
Ajaz Patel
Adam Milne
Seth Rance
Blair Tickner

 

[Athlai]

Why is Rob Nicol copyrighted?

 

[Howsie]

Ben Sears isn’t 30 yet is he?

 

[The Hutt Rec]

Wellington have completely botched it by:

a) delaying a declaration until Conway got his 14th FC century, so leaving CD an impossible target of 372 from 57 overs, then not getting the last two CD wickets last round
b) selecting an awful side for this round

Well that's one way of looking at it, but they had 19 overs to take the final two wickets, they should have done it.

 

[Flem274*]

corey j in at 8/2 on a green top against milne/rance/bracewell/tickner. nows his chance to show he belongs in the black caps.

yay a sears sighting

solia has been steadily working his way up the order. opener now.

wellington look like they're going to run with van beek at 7 and jeets at 8? seems very short.

 

[Athlai]

corey j in at 8/2 on a green top against milne/rance/bracewell/tickner. nows his chance to show he belongs in the black caps.

yay a sears sighting

solia has been steadily working his way up the order. opener now.

wellington look like they're going to run with van beek at 7 and jeets at 8? seems very short.

Jeets was at 7last week. This is a great improvement

 

[SeamUp]

Auckland looking for the next Neil Wagner

Danru Ferns
Louis Delport

Actually looking at Wagner's FC debut scorecard the other day. 5 Future test players in it. Not too bad. http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/...-northerns--saa-provincial-challenge-2005-06/

 

[Flem274*]

anderson can't seize the chance. if seifert tons up here it will cement him as my first choice middle order reserve for nz.

 

[Kippax]

Well, this potentially exciting final round has become ****ed right off the ND bat. Never change, Howsie's heroes.

 

[vandem]

... if seifert tons up here it will cement him as my first choice middle order reserve for nz.

Don't think there will be any centuries, looks like the mower broke down and they couldn't find anyone to fix it over Easter ....

 

[Flem274*]

haha, can't wait for moaning about the pitch after the slow dirty trash decks ND used all T20 competition for devcich and co to bowl nude straight breaks on.

wellington staring down the barrell. at this rate guptill will be coming in with the score well over a hundred. apart from the test today is a great day so far.

 

[Howsie]

Feel for Popli. He’s pretty much just a FC batsman, hasn’t had the best season but his career record is still handy enough. Devcich ****s off to go play some cricket somewhere and then just rocks back into the team when he gets back. Someone who for the most part has no interest in this form of the game and certainly doesn’t take it seriously enough.

 

[Flem274*]

yeah and he's coming off being the mvp batsman last summer

guptill-bunce is flying today

 

[vandem]

haha, can't wait for moaning about the pitch after the slow dirty trash decks ND used all T20 competition for devcich and co to bowl nude straight breaks on....

No moaning. CD playing to their strengths. Arnel and Baker would have been a handful this morning but would have backed CD to only lose 2-3 early wickets, not the tumble that ND had.