2019/20 New Zealand First-Class Season Draft (Division 1)

[Athlai]

Chewie and Kippax up. I’m up at 2pm too

 

[Chewie]

Beghin

 

[Kippax]

Shipley.

 

[Athlai]

Logan van Beek

 

[Bahnz]

Logan van Beek

van Beek has already been selected by Chewie.

 

[Kippax]

Get more enthused about choosing between the 70th and 71st most potent red ball cricketer in New Zealand, Athlai and Bahnz, ffs.

 

[Athlai]

Oh weird. I had actually made my pick but it appears it didn’t send through or I got 30 second owned. Ollie Newton

 

[Kippax]

A couple of picks from Phlegm, one from Howsie and one from Bahnz remaining.

Astle, Todd | Canterbury
Blundell, Tom | Wellington *
Boult, Trent | Northern Districts
de Grandhomme, Colin | Northern Districts
Ferguson, Lockie | Auckland
Guptill, Martin | Auckland
Henry, Matt | Canterbury
Latham, Tom | Canterbury
Munro, Colin | Auckland
Neesham, James | Wellington
Nicholls, Henry | Canterbury
Raval, Jeet | Auckland
Santner, Mitchell | Northern Districts
Sodhi, Ish | Northern Districts
Southee, Tim | Northern Districts
Taylor, Ross | Central Districts
Wagner, Neil | Northern Districts
Watling, BJ | Northern Districts
Williamson, Kane | Northern Districts
Young, Will | Central Districts *

Auckland

Allen, Finn
Anderson, Corey **
Beghin, Graeme
Brown, Jamie
Cachopa, Craig
Chapman, Mark
Delport, Louis *
Ferns, Danru
Horne, Ben
Jamieson, Kyle **
Lister, Ben
McEwan, Matt
O’Donnell, Robert
Phillips, Glenn
Solia, Sean
Somerville, Will

Canterbury

Bowes, Chad
Boyle, Jack
Carter, Leo
Coburn, Blake
Ellis, Andrew
Fletcher, Cameron
Hazeldine, Andrew
Latham, Jackson *
McClure, Ken
McConchie, Cole
Murdoch, Stephen
Nuttall, Ed
Sheat, Fraser
Shipley, Henry
Williams, Will
van Woerkom, Theo

Central Districts

Bracewell, Doug
Bruce, Tom
Clarkson, Josh
Cleaver, Dane
Hay, Greg
Leopard, Christian
Ludick, Willem
Milne, Adam
Noema-Barnett, Kieran
Patel, Ajaz
Rance, Seth
Small, Bevan
Smith, Ben
Tickner, Blair
Wheeler, Ben
Worker, George

Northern Districts

Baker, James
Bocock, Peter
Brownlie, Dean
Carter, Joe
Cooper, Henry
Devcich, Anton
Fisher, Matthew
Flynn, Daniel
Gibson, Zak
Hampton, Brett
Kuggeleijn, Scott
Mitchell, Daryl
Popli, Bharat
Randell, Brett
Seifert, Tim
Walker, Joe

Otago

Bacon, Matt
Broom, Neil
Chu, Max *
Craig, Mark
Duffy, Jacob
Finnie, Josh
Foxcroft, Dean */**
Hawkins, Cam *
Kelly, Nick **
Kitchen, Anaru
Phillips, Dale *
Rae, Michael
Renwick, Mitch
Rippon, Michael
Rutherford, Hamish
Smith, Nathan

Wellington

Bennett, Hamish
Bhula, Jakob *
Bracewell, Michael
Colson, Fraser
Conway, Devon
Fletcher, Andrew
Gibson, Jamie
Johns, Lauchie
McPeake, Iain
Newton, Ollie
Nofal, Malcolm
Patel, Jeetan
Ravindra, Rachin
Sears, Ben
van Beek, Logan
Younghusband, Peter

If you want to copycat Div 2's concept of auto-subbed bench players, there's R13 and R14 -

 

[Flem274*]

chad bowes and james baker

 

[Athlai]

Auto subs are for the weak. Real drafters play the season with an average of 8 players or less

 

[Bahnz]

Christian Leopard

 

[Howsie]

I’ll take a flyer on Josh Clarkson finally getting some first class cricket under his belt

 

[Kippax]

I'll take Rae.

Neil Broom is going to come out of red ball retirement, but we'll keep him off limits, seeing I misled everyone initially with the red font and cross out.

 

[Kippax]

Last call to bolster yourself with a 13th man.

Unpicked players who may be slightly more in their head coach's plans than anticipated, now that first round squads have been published: Colson, Sears, Nofal (Jeets will miss all three pre-Xmas rounds), Muller, D. Phillips, Hawkins, Kelly, Williams, Hazeldine, Field, B. Smith, Wheeler.

 

[Athlai]

Ravindra - playing
Guptill - playing
Flynn - playing
M Bracewell - playing
Kitchen - not playing
Seifert (+) - playing
KNB - not playing
Patel - not playing
Somerville - playing
McEwan - playing
Boult - playing

Newton - playing

9 out of 12. Thats positively remarkable for me.

 

[Howsie]

I see my first pick couldn’t even make his first class team to start the season....

 

[Chewie]

I think like only half my team is playing...

 

[Athlai]

This whole season I'm going to wonder if I picked Devon Con Weigh everytime I look at a scorecard. It's hard to really explain how annoyed I am that I didn't get him.

 

[vandem]

This whole season I'm going tm wonder if I picked Devon Con Weigh everytime I look at a scorecard. It's hard to really explain how annoyed I am that I didn't get him.

Aha, Conway was my round 2 pick in div 2. But I missed on Foxcroft, who is the other player I thought would be a good "moneyball" pick.

 

[straw man]

Aha, Conway was my round 2 pick in div 2. But I missed on Foxcroft, who is the other player I thought would be a good "moneyball" pick.

All the Safs from last season seem good picks frankly and have started well again - Conway scores a whole lot of runs while Foxcroft, Nofal and Ludick score runs and have a knack for taking wickets with part-timers.

I'm surprised noone picked up Nofal in this draft. No-fail never fails.