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

[straw man]

A shame O'Donnell didn't get any strike in the last over

 

[Kippax]

 

[Kippax]

 

[hendrix]

Very McCullum-esque

 

[Zinzan]

Very McCullum-esque

My thoughts exactly.

 

[hendrix]

My thoughts exactly.

Yeah and it's not just the scoops and reverse flicks etc, it's the slog sweeps and the way he tries to really bash the ball. I always felt the word "swashbuckling" really described McCullum's style and it's pretty apt here too.

 

[Ghost]

Seifert's fastest century from last night under threat from Ryder

 

[_Ed_]

Good to see Clarkson with a quick-fire 28 as well. I haven't given up on him.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

Yeah and it's not just the scoops and reverse flicks etc, it's the slog sweeps and the way he tries to really bash the ball. I always felt the word "swashbuckling" really described McCullum's style and it's pretty apt here too.

dat ability to generate massive power from weird and unbalanced positions with fast hands

 

[_Ed_]

Sky chose the wrong game to televise today.

 

[Immenso]

Good to see Clarkson with a quick-fire 28 as well. I haven't given up on him.

Why would anyone have given up on him?

 

[Kippax]

Because his high 40s average and SR of 150 is the pits. If you're laying on that kind of icing early in your career, CD will get you lurking down the order just underneath Doug Bracewell, apparently.

 

[Kippax]

Farewell, Tim Seifert. Luckily the ambit of my ND circus music will still have Devcich, for years and years.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

was expecting more of a compilation tbh

 

[Kippax]

I heard someone say they were really starting to find Nicol's offies underrated. I thought they were kidding.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

ah, excellent. Another swashbuckling midget lefty who can pull like a dream but will slash it to gully nine times out of ten.

 

[Kippax]

I think L Johnson of Otago was 16 and made that team last year.

Yeah I should check out Llew Johnson's batting. I know he's got a lot of column inches about him already in the South Island sports pages. I'll have to check out if it's one of those 'we have little else to fill our paper's pages with, other than the latest from Jacob Duffy or Nathan Smith' sort of deals.

 

[The Hutt Rec]

There’s a new “announcer” at the Basin for the Super Smash and he’s cranking the music up between every goddamn ball, this is awful.

 

[Kippax]

Just one conceded by van Beek into the gale southerly, by the looks. Should've really kept the more lumbering Bennett bowling downwind.

 

[Kippax]

Seifert swipes across the line of a straight one, when he knew missing it would lock in the classic 4/9 ND middle-order collapse. Rocks or diamonds stuff.