2025-26 New Zealand domestic season

[Immenso]

Second all time wicket-taker for CD, but still over a hundred away from O"Sullivan:

 

[SteveNZ]

Not bad for a guy who used to bowl left arm mediums when he started his senior playing days at Suburbs

 

[SteveNZ]

We have to be looking at Tim Robinson as a Test option in the next 12-18 months, right? We picked him on the basis of one big T20 knock and that's panned out well. He just seems to have that attitude that can translate into international success. Showed v Australia he has the stuff.

Not sure you'd open him but definitely a thought for the middle order once Mitchell goes

 

[Immenso]

Robinson looks to have dropped down to 5 or 6 this season for Wellington.

In Robinson and Jacobs. And to a lesser demonstrated extent also with Boyle and Stackpole. We are building up depth in the happy/slappy number 5 role.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Robinson looks to have dropped down to 5 or 6 this season for Wellington.

In Robinson and Jacobs. And to a lesser demonstrated extent also with Boyle and Stackpole. We are building up depth in the happy/slappy number 5 role.

Wellington don't know their batting order though. All and sundry seem to have a go at opening, and then next week they're down at 7. Wellington to me are all over the show this year.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Robinson looks to have dropped down to 5 or 6 this season for Wellington.

In Robinson and Jacobs. And to a lesser demonstrated extent also with Boyle and Stackpole. We are building up depth in the happy/slappy number 5 role.

Could also be GP at 5, Abbas 6 (handy to have his left armers), Hay 7 - with Ravindra moving to 3 when Kane retires (if RR tightens up), and one of those you've mentioned at 4.

 

[Immenso]

Id have higher long term batting ambitions for Abbas than a 6.

 

[jcas0167]

Id have higher long term batting ambitions for Abbas than a 6.

He looks like a 3 or a 4?

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

He looks like a 3 or a 4?

Only if he puts the bowling ambitions away, I think.

 

[Immenso]

He looks like a 3 or a 4?

A 4/5

 

[Immenso]

In an almost scandalous display of a lack of depth, after Rae's callup to the test team. Canterbury appear to have run out of blackcaps seam bowlers and have called up a domestically uncapped player (Callum Cameron) to be probable 12th man.

Also, Cam Paul returns this round.

 

[ataraxia]

Cameron gets a debut. Not sure where McKenzie is (dropped? injured? called up to the test team?) or Matt Rowe.

Also a debut for Wellington spinner Elliot Seddon in Whangarei. About time they decided to play two spinners.

Meanwhile, Ben Lister is 12th man for Auckland in favour of including 2 specialist spinners and 0 specialist pacers at Hagley. Doesn't augur brilliantly for a potential Black Caps call-up.

CD pacer and hitter Oscar Mabin also gets his debut.

 

[straw man]

really looking forward to the upcoming Severin Mycock partnership for Wellington

edit: ruined by Naylor.

 

[vandem]

... Meanwhile, Ben Lister is 12th man for Auckland in favour of including 2 specialist spinners and 0 specialist pacers at Hagley. Doesn't augur brilliantly for a potential Black Caps call-up....

Lister is returning from injury, first PS game last week, I assume 12th man this round due to workload management.

 

[ataraxia]

Looks like a howler from Cotton to dispose of Jacobs. Hardly anything hitting Jacobs' back thigh is out and that was a long way up and he was outside his crease.

 

[ataraxia]

Tom Jones finding a new, unexplored mode of dismissal.

 

[straw man]

Looks like a howler from Cotton to dispose of Jacobs. Hardly anything hitting Jacobs' back thigh is out and that was a long way up and he was outside his crease.

Yeah that's a shocker.

What's the story with Davey anyway? A couple more cheap wickets today means he has the lowest FC bowling average on the entire list I posted over in the other thread. But he's 32 and is only playing his 20th FC match for his 66 wickets. Can't be just a late bloomer as he was in NZ U19s years ago. Any idea why he took so long to break into domestic cricket?

 

[Immenso]

I think i reas somewhere a few weeks ago when Mabin was 12th man, that he is the first Wanganui player to play for CD in crazy long time.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

I think i reas somewhere a few weeks ago when Mabin was 12th man, that he is the first Wanganui player to play for CD in crazy long time.

Looks like a decent-sized unit with a bustley sort of action.

Whereas Cameron looks spindly and his wicket of Stackpole was a gift, really.

 

[Flem274*]

Yeah that's a shocker.

What's the story with Davey anyway? A couple more cheap wickets today means he has the lowest FC bowling average on the entire list I posted over in the other thread. But he's 32 and is only playing his 20th FC match for his 66 wickets. Can't be just a late bloomer as he was in NZ U19s years ago. Any idea why he took so long to break into domestic cricket?

Very medium from memory