**Official** New Zealand Domestic Season 2013/2014

[Kippax]

They did get Cairns onto the comms team ftr.

 

[vandem]

ND vs Auck game looks like a cracker, if I wasn't busy I'd head down the line to watch the last day. Looks like Aucks will be chasing 300-ish on the last day against Vettori + Sodhi. (Although the ever-present ND batting collapse hasn't yet happened today).

 

[Kippax]

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Daniel Flynn goes for 13 needlessly swinging away down the leg side at a stray Bartlett bouncer, ND are 20-1, trying to set a total

Well crafted 50 from Brad Wilson, sound at the crease, accumulating without being risky

Knights lose two wickets in an over, Carter goes after another promising knock before a terrible shot by Mitchell sees him depart for a duck

Bruce Martin will not play test cricket again #prediction. Has been tossing up his customary two pies an over here today

This #PlunketShield game has gone through four different balls so far, the short boundary means sixes are just a flick off the hip away

 

[Kippax]

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I've missed watching Dan Vettori bat. Casually wandering outside offstump, slapping the ball everywhere, always a crowd pleaser

Knights go into tea at 181/4, Watling looking excellent on 35 and Vettori on 13. Will be looking for a strong last session to set a total

 

[straw man]

Daniel Flynn goes for 13 needlessly swinging away down the leg side at a stray Bartlett bouncer, ND are 20-1, trying to set a total

Now entering the Wilderness. Just like How, Cumming, Fulton and a few others dropped by NZ for the second or third time who then captained their domestic sides and had a few poor years with the bat. Will dominate FC in the 2017/18 season and get recalled to the NZ ODI side, batting at 6.

I've missed watching Dan Vettori bat. Casually wandering outside offstump, slapping the ball everywhere, always a crowd pleaser

Yeah Vettori hasn't been mucking around his two innings so far. Tbf it's probably the best way to get himself into some form and test out that achilles all in one.

 

[Kippax]

"I used to look at Vaughn Johnson as a courageous sort of person, but I don't look at him that way any more, as far as cricket's concerned. He had four fit bowlers and a spinner and just he didn't back his bowlers. He gave up after day 2."

"Perfect pitch for Jesse. We dropped him on 16, down on confidence in the second dig, it could've been a terrible trip for him".

"[New Zealand] can't play spin mate. Everyone around town says it's mental, I say it's technical."

- Siddons

 

[Flem274*]

Siddons may or may not have a point in those ramblings (spin one is spot on imo), but he's hardly one to shoot his mouth off after #boomergate and #chuckergate.

Good to see Watling continuing to get the job done. I'm a bit annoyed Mitchell has gotten out tamely twice by the sounds of things, and Flynn's decision making sounds dubious, but overall Vettori taking 5fer, Cachopa getting a half century at number three and Carter getting a couple of starts on debut is healthy.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Wow. Watling's in great form. If only there was some international cricket on at the moment in which he could capitalise on this purple patch.

 

[Mike5181]

Sodhi's destroying Bartlett atm. 46644

 

[ohnoitsyou]

WATLING Proving that he does have a finishing game.

 

[Kippax]

Siddons may or may not have a point in those ramblings (spin one is spot on imo), but he's hardly one to shoot his mouth off after #boomergate and #chuckergate.

There were more 'Franklin's been shafted' allusions in the interview as well. "He's just been left to shake his head at what's become of his career".

"I gave a few tips to the Kiwis this time, but I was pleased to see it's a couple of my guys in the Bangladesh side who've been doing well".

 

[Hurricane]

KJ is a legit allrounder :statingtheobvious.jpeg:

 

[Hurricane]

Michael Bracewell on TV now for those who havn't seen him.

 

[Flem274*]

Otago falling to pieces before my eyes. Wtf. 4 wickets since I've sat down to watch.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

So...Let me get this straight...

Sky TV and NZC have united to put on floodlights at provincial grounds. Hagley Oval, Nelson, University Oval.

But Wellington are still playing all their games (or at least the majority) at the Wetspac Stadium? If they're gonna pay to put on floodlights, surely it'd make more sense (and probably be much, much cheaper) to wheel those mobile lights out at the Basin Reserve and have the few thousand fans that turn up look as if they fill the place rather than have an empty stadium.

That really is lobotomised thinking.

 

[Prince EWS]

I think I'd sooner pay money to watch cricket at the Basin in the dark than the Cake Tin under light anyway.

 

[Hurricane]

So...Let me get this straight...

Sky TV and NZC have united to put on floodlights at provincial grounds. Hagley Oval, Nelson, University Oval.

But Wellington are still playing all their games (or at least the majority) at the Wetspac Stadium? If they're gonna pay to put on floodlights, surely it'd make more sense (and probably be much, much cheaper) to wheel those mobile lights out at the Basin Reserve and have the few thousand fans that turn up look as if they fill the place rather than have an empty stadium.

That really is lobotomised thinking.

I think you should change your location from the O'brien reference to a basin reserve one.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

I think I'd sooner pay money to watch cricket at the Basin in the dark than the Cake Tin under light anyway.

EXACTLY. Urgh. There is no worse ground for watching cricket than the Wetspac.

I didn't see a single HRV Cup game last season because they were all played there. In contract, I watched about 3/4 of them the year before when they were at the Basin. Mizzle, wind or shine - the Basin is vastly superior.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

I think you should change your location from the O'brien reference to a basin reserve one.

Cheeky bugger.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

De Boorder should have stumped Cachopa there anyway. Would have been out by a mile.