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Recent content by Kippax

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    2023-2024 New Zealand First-Class Draft: 'Beat the Braai Guys' Edition

    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pDAAgObq-ANsNyMygOpsYiAfsOovvaTsVnOiHZ6g9mo/edit#gid=0 Was there a selection-based path to victory for the Braai Guys before the season began? There was, despite the two most famous players offering very little to the cause. The Phillips brothers...
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    ***Official***Match #32 - New Zealand vs South Africa - November 1st - Pune (D/N)

    Lack of South African rejuvenation of the NZ player pool from 2017-2023 is starting to make itself felt. You never want to see a cricket scene fall into a state that it's in some ways turning Scott Kuggeleijn into a talismanic figure on scorecards underneath the top tier.
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    2023-2024 New Zealand First-Class Draft: 'Beat the Braai Guys' Edition

    Some changes were permitted today (uncertainty of NZ World Cup squad no longer providing selection dilemmas to the teams).
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    *Official* Australia A in New Zealand 2022/23

    How about cajoling Ben Sears into thinking some thoughts that are a bit meatier and heartier in nature, eh? He should've just cut his oh-so-fragile Katherine Mansfield path all the way to a London residence back in 2018, the way things are going for him lately. At least he might've encountered...
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    *Official* Australia A in New Zealand 2022/23

    NZ stats mavens have successfully put forward a player from outside Central Districts for once, and this may complete the full set. Underneath Francis Payne, these would be the top mavens, esteemed mavens. Neil Broom it was, bringing up 5000 @ 41 in 2012/13.
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    *Official* Australia A in New Zealand 2022/23

    I see Jones made about 2500 runs at ~36 uncapped. I think identifying a third player down from Bruce (nearly 5000 at 49) and Hay (5000 at 43) would be challenging. Peter Ingram got to 4000 at about a 40 average uncapped. Potentially a 'city slickers done me wrong' Stags trifecta if I were to...
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    *Official* Australia A in New Zealand 2022/23

    One for the NZ stats mavens: When Tom Bruce surpasses 5000 first-class runs at his 48 or 49 average and remains uncapped as a Test player, who would be the Kiwi with the next best average in that category (to score his first 5000 and earn no Test caps). I'm not trying to suggest Bruce should...
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    2023-2024 New Zealand First-Class Draft: 'Beat the Braai Guys' Edition

    Locking day. I'll revise the unlocking day to 31 December, pushing that well beyond when the Bangladesh Tests might be taking place.
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    *Unofficial* New Zealand Black Caps Thread

    Yes I'll find it crazy that Chapman can't crack a NZ World Cup squad to play on Asian pitches. Ravindra's best deliveries on a slow and grippy Asian pitch are of a higher grade than Chapman's, but I'd still favour the latter. Ravindra's just always been their anti-Jesse Ryder, I suppose...
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    *Unofficial* New Zealand Black Caps Thread

    Well the 2021 Bangladesh tour did show that Ravindra is someone NZ could feasibly get a cheeky 2/30 off 10 out of, on the right pitch at the right time. Also, one of only two chances at most for Ravindra to play an ODI World Cup in a country he's been making junior and senior cricket...
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    2023-2024 New Zealand First-Class Draft: 'Beat the Braai Guys' Edition

    New Zealand A squad v Australia A Muhammad Abbas (Wellington) (first-class only) Adi Ashok (Auckland) Tom Bruce (C) (Central Districts) Leo Carter (Canterbury)* Josh Clarkson (Central Districts)* Henry Cooper (Northern Districts) (first-class only) Jacob Duffy (Otago) Cam Fletcher (Auckland)...
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    2023-2024 New Zealand First-Class Draft: 'Beat the Braai Guys' Edition

    Any updates from ND about Fisher, @vandem? After what happened last spring, is there a chance he'll become very scarcely seen in this format until a few T20 windfalls have come his way?
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    2023-2024 New Zealand First-Class Draft

    @Chewie is viewing and posting elsewhere, Vandem. This comp probably needs to get going for the NZA game starting on 28th to count. Anyone who's entering, send three bids for position to: http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/conversations/add?to=vandem For any rookie NZ first-class drafters, the...
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    2023-2024 New Zealand First-Class Draft: 'Beat the Braai Guys' Edition

    Some news during the week that Jamieson's not fully out of the frame to crack the NZ World Cup squad. The top slot on the bench could be a shrewder place to put him until the mid-season swaps, or that WC squad is posted with him not in it. Ravindra (0.5x) M Hay Parkes Seifert + Abbas Clarkson...
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    2023-2024 New Zealand First-Class Draft

    Consider waiting on Chewie to not get caught out by the pre-September start, as well. He's entered for maybe 5-6 seasons straight.

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