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2025-26 New Zealand domestic season
- Thread starter Smudge
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Super Smash schedule releasing tomorrow. The rest of the schedules give us a roughly 6-week window from the week of Christmas to the end of January. I'm guessing it's a Christmas Eve or Boxing Day start, though I can't tell you where they'll put the finals this year. I like the predetermined Finals venue mostly because having the men's & women's comps together opens up the door to too many shenanigans if you have a more traditional setup where 1 hosts the Final, 2 hosts 3, winner faces 1. The Basin set an OK benchmark last season, but you have to move around. Hagley, anyone?
HeathDavisSpeed
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Saw some folks playing cricket today. Proper game, hard ball stuff. Concrete wicket, unmown outfield. You could almost smell summer in the air if it hadn’t been 11 degrees Celsius.
ataraxia
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Looks like they're packing more cricket in the mid-part of the season than last year. Better weather for the FC stuff is always nice.
Also, there's generally 5 days between FT games in Oct/Nov but only 3 in Feb. I wonder whether that's just putting more of the cricket in the summer (sensible) or if it's also to allow for rain reschedulings.
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I called it! Boxing Day start, Finals at Hagley.
I just hope this year's Boxing Day Northern Derby isn't washed out. You want to start the season with an actual game.
On the whole, it's a decent schedule. Packs the whole of January, starts Boxing Day, games on Wellington & Auckland Anniversary Days in Wellington & Auckland, 13 games under the lights in primetime (including both men's Finals), 37 days from first ball to trophies. I'm pretty happy with it.
It's slightly worrying there isn't a broadcast deal beyond this season, with Sky not taking it on. My complaints about Sky over the years aside, I do hope it's resolved. It would be a shame to go backwards in terms of increasing Super Smash's profile.
I just hope this year's Boxing Day Northern Derby isn't washed out. You want to start the season with an actual game.
On the whole, it's a decent schedule. Packs the whole of January, starts Boxing Day, games on Wellington & Auckland Anniversary Days in Wellington & Auckland, 13 games under the lights in primetime (including both men's Finals), 37 days from first ball to trophies. I'm pretty happy with it.
It's slightly worrying there isn't a broadcast deal beyond this season, with Sky not taking it on. My complaints about Sky over the years aside, I do hope it's resolved. It would be a shame to go backwards in terms of increasing Super Smash's profile.
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Immenso
International Captain
A good thing for Adams being at Otago, is there are quite a few interesting young seamers down there with high potential celings; McKay, Clarke, and (although not contracted) Hart.Slightly left-field from the Volts but I don't mind it.
Josh Tasman-Jones named coach with Andre Adams a very experienced assistant coach. Stead stays on in an advisory capacity.
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Former Otago top-order batter Josh Tasman-Jones knows his first challenge will be to win people over. The 35-year-old has been appointed Volts...www.odt.co.nz
Plus Georgeson seems an interesting player, who has mystified us initially as to how he was so successful with seemingly nondescript pace etc. I suspect he's probably ahead of the curve with the wobble ball compared to peers? E.g. I'll never know until he's televised at a high enough level with slow-mo etc.
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Worst thing about that Zimbabwe tour is that it made me feel like the season was upon us but we still have a bit of time before domestics start
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Impressed he's got hold of an Excalibur bat.
I first noticed the end of the Dream11 era yesterday when I saw them repost the schedule on Instagram. KFC is still the presenting sponsor, but I think they'll be looking at new name sponsors behind the scenes & may announce one in November or December before the season starts.Confirmed.
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Heaphy gives a terrific impression in interviews and will probably have a good career, but this is quite a good example of how young players can be prolific runscorers in NZ domestic without possessing any strong back-foot shots at all, even if the pitch itself isn't slow and low.
NZ domestic teams, they see the discomfort/awkwardness at 1:45 and 2:37 and 4:20 and 4:40 and 5:28, but opportunities to whack spinners who aren't getting much turn, or clip legside rubbish from a medium-pace swing bowler into a short boundary three times in an over, the friendliness is never too far away.
NZ domestic teams, they see the discomfort/awkwardness at 1:45 and 2:37 and 4:20 and 4:40 and 5:28, but opportunities to whack spinners who aren't getting much turn, or clip legside rubbish from a medium-pace swing bowler into a short boundary three times in an over, the friendliness is never too far away.
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A November 2024 excerpt from Dylan Cleaver's paywalled Substack.
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Curtis Heaphy (CD): I was talking to a man of Central persuasion recently who seemed genuinely flummoxed that Mitch Hay had been anointed as the next test wicketkeeper as of right. To paraphrase his exasperation, it went along the lines of: “Our current one is better and the next one might be too.” At a month shy of 33, the current one, Dane Cleaver, has most likely missed the boat, though all he has done for the past decade is score runs — close to 5000 of them as it stands. The next one is touted to be Heaphy, who came through the same hothouse that is Palmy Boys’. Heaphy has taken his opportunity at the top of the order, which, if he does intend to return to keeping, is a smart piece of career management, similar to what both BJ Watling and Tom Blundell did. He needs a couple of big digs to put his name in lights, but initial glances suggest he’s a serious player.
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Curtis Heaphy (CD): I was talking to a man of Central persuasion recently who seemed genuinely flummoxed that Mitch Hay had been anointed as the next test wicketkeeper as of right. To paraphrase his exasperation, it went along the lines of: “Our current one is better and the next one might be too.” At a month shy of 33, the current one, Dane Cleaver, has most likely missed the boat, though all he has done for the past decade is score runs — close to 5000 of them as it stands. The next one is touted to be Heaphy, who came through the same hothouse that is Palmy Boys’. Heaphy has taken his opportunity at the top of the order, which, if he does intend to return to keeping, is a smart piece of career management, similar to what both BJ Watling and Tom Blundell did. He needs a couple of big digs to put his name in lights, but initial glances suggest he’s a serious player.
Kippax
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A new look for the NZC live scorecards (Cantab trial game).
ataraxia
International Coach
Seems a bit overdone, but it looks like every ball has a video link which is cool.