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  1. Kippax

    2022-2023 New Zealand First-Class Draft

    https://www.cricket.com.au/news/plans-for-australia-a-tour-of-new-zealand-2023-ashes-preparation-andrew-mcdonald/2022-07-12 Plans for ‘A’ tour of NZ ahead of 2023 Ashes Players on the fringe of the Australian XI could be tested with a Dukes ball in New Zealand at the back-end of the upcoming...
  2. Kippax

    2022-2023 New Zealand First-Class Draft

    Also, Delport did make a very compelling case for some shoehorning back into this Shield XI -
  3. Kippax

    2022-2023 New Zealand First-Class Draft

    Yes, Auckland picking three specialist spinners seems symptomatic of them doing a psych-out job on themselves before a game has even begun, on account of Molyneux Park's reputation for being a real drag for first-class play, like batting on a muddy riverbed...
  4. Kippax

    2022-2023 New Zealand First-Class Draft

    Straw Man is still on a razor's edge with that. He'd want CdG to not gain 12 more bowling points than batting points from this point. Otherwise he cops a loss of 252 (Fisher's points). With Athlai's team, Delport isn't getting picked. If he did play before the end of the season, the loss for...
  5. Kippax

    2022-2023 New Zealand First-Class Draft

    It seems unfortunate that Ataraxia's bench is looking the way it is on the sheet. I can't find the post in this thread where he's confirmed he genuinely wanted the bench to be looking like that. Lister is confirmed as out for another round due to illness. I may have to intervene here and slot...
  6. Kippax

    *Official* New Zealand domestic season 2022/23

    https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxpu0Hi-vVjoKmcGT73IC_xKE509kavy8v
  7. Kippax

    *Official* New Zealand domestic season 2022/23

    That's kind of a nationwide trend though tbh, bucked only by Dean Foxcroft. For youthful domestic batting that isn't very flaky, you must recruit from the braai.
  8. Kippax

    *Official* New Zealand domestic season 2022/23

    Yes Wellington really had their fingers crossed for Sears and Smith, that just hasn't worked out very well due to injury. Bowling coach is actually Abbas' dad now, he knows all the under-23 pacers in the country very well through his links to the NZ pace academy clinics, we'll see what he comes...
  9. Kippax

    *Unofficial* New Zealand Black Caps Thread

    More Charlie Brown returns delivered with the ball by Ravindra though, I see. 0/121 off 23 against Auckland in the current round.
  10. Kippax

    *Unofficial* New Zealand Black Caps Thread

    Should you be comparing those two though? You're well aware of Southee's personality, how someone like him would've felt after the loss to Bangladesh on a very flat one in Tauranga, how he'd scoff at the Dooka returns he's seeing from the domestic guys who can't bounce anyone out.
  11. Kippax

    2022-2023 New Zealand First-Class Draft

    Pleased to see Bowes continued his bold scheme to escape the journeyman brokie matrix, attacking every knock with speed until he succeeds. Athlai is piling up plenty of runs to keep his nose in front though (Solia and Santner).
  12. Kippax

    *Official* New Zealand domestic season 2022/23

    Actually there are two catches on that club scorecard credited to TJ. Batting order wasn't listed accurately because they were only 40/1 at stumps.
  13. Kippax

    *Official* New Zealand domestic season 2022/23

    Johnson is just injured, isn't he? Wasn't in the 13 to travel, didn't turn out for Hutt District.
  14. Kippax

    2022-2023 New Zealand First-Class Draft

    Ferguson selected for Auckland if @Chewie @Flem274* @Athlai are keen to recruit him. No Sears or Bhula in Wellington's squad, or Guptill or Briggs for Auckland, so Athlai's team would activate the new player added.
  15. Kippax

    2022-2023 New Zealand First-Class Draft

    Keen for someone to register for the ODT digital edition or use a paywall bypass to post this article in the thread. https://www.odt.co.nz/sport/cricket/volts-have-catching-do
  16. Kippax

    *Official* England in NZ 2023

    Kuggeleijn would launch far more successful short ball assaults on the Bang/SL visiting teams we get so often in a standard summer schedule. Southee and Henry sort of have the new ball modes of getting wickets covered.
  17. Kippax

    *Official* England in NZ 2023

    Yes Southee will just get Kuggeleijn in for Wagner now. Another classy Christian man joins Ross Taylor in taking his final bow, to be replaced by...well, a specimen more befitting the Andrew Tate mood of the age.
  18. Kippax

    2022-2023 New Zealand First-Class Draft

    So is anyone with one bench space left taking Abbas? Sears update: Bowled four overs in a club 50-over final yesterday.
  19. Kippax

    2022-2023 New Zealand First-Class Draft

    Blundell can only eke out another 100 pts max for him, but I can see a path for Athlai to take it out. Sears probably needs to stay injured, and this would let Athlai fill out his bench with the new Firebirds prodigy (perhaps crucially, not raised in Wellington...) to emerge today. Team owners...
  20. Kippax

    *Official* New Zealand domestic season 2022/23

    Yes it's called a bloodline. If it were horse racing you'd just take this as a given. Because it's humans, you think it must be some big evil systemic oppression that's keeping these pampered privately-schooled sons of IT millionaires like Rachin Ravindra down.

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