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

[Mike5181]

3rd seamer watch:

Kuggs - picking up wickets and keeping it tight. Interesting development. Can bat too.
Milne - hasn't done anything yet
Bennett - looking superb and getting wickets
Gillespie - par. Hasn't been booming, but hasn't been "booming" either.
Neesham - He's really not far off being a genuine 3rd seamer. Much closer to a Cairns/Flintoff role than Anderson, certainly. But would be batting 8. Which would be nice.

Wheeler deserves consideration, I think. He looks as promising as a lot of those listed. Henry too, but I guess he's injured again since he's not playing.

It's interesting to see Mitch going for a few as well, looks like Jaime How smacked him around a bit.

 

[straw man]

3rd seamer watch:

Kuggs - picking up wickets and keeping it tight. Interesting development. Can bat too.
Milne - hasn't done anything yet
Bennett - looking superb and getting wickets
Gillespie - par. Hasn't been booming, but hasn't been "booming" either.
Neesham - He's really not far off being a genuine 3rd seamer. Much closer to a Cairns/Flintoff role than Anderson, certainly. But would be batting 8. Which would be nice.

Duggeh - frustrating
Henry - average A tour, ok but not exceptional start to domestic season, has another niggle
Wheeler - continues to be there or there abouts without really staking a claim
McClenaghan - just returned to FC for Auckland and with a few decent performances would be a test consideration
Butler - injured, I think
Small, Bartlett, Verma - have talent but a long way to go

Bennett - looking superb

The Aesthetics of Test Cricket just died a little.

Also I agree with Hurricane that Bennett would need to do a lot to prove fitness for test cricket.

 

[Prince EWS]

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Yeah today's the day!

 

[hendrix]

Wheeler deserves consideration, I think. He looks as promising as a lot of those listed. Henry too, but I guess he's injured again since he's not playing.

agreed.

The Aesthetics of Test Cricket just died a little.

Also I agree with Hurricane that Bennett would need to do a lot to prove fitness for test cricket.

I suppose, but then Bracewell and the rest of the seamers are still young and injury prone. Can't really blame the guy too much for getting injured. It happens.

In any case, it's absolutely crucial that we get someone better than Wagner and the current iteration of Bracewell. We've only scored 600 4 times in our whole cricketing history. We're simply not going to have enough runs to carry someone like Wagner, especially with Sodhi still developing.

 

[straw man]

Otago declare their first innings at 93/6. Itstl

 

[Kippax]

Must've seen four bowling points on a green top against ND as very low-hanging fruit.

 

[BackFootPunch]

Otago declare their first innings at 93/6. Itstl

Must have decided they're no chance of getting batting points and don't want ND to get anymore bowling points

 

[straw man]

Heh, the perverse incentives of a points-for-milestone based system. Risky as there are still 2.5 days to go and only a light shower forecast, so if ND bat well Otago would be in danger of losing outright.

 

[hendrix]

Must have decided they're no chance of getting batting points and don't want ND to get anymore bowling points

that's so yuck if it's true.

 

[Kippax]

Ellis makes a ton in a really important situation against Gillespie/Arnel/McKay/Jeets, shameful.

 

[BackFootPunch]

Heh, the perverse incentives of a points-for-milestone based system. Risky as there are still 2.5 days to go and only a light shower forecast, so if ND bat well Otago would be in danger of losing outright.

Nah only the rest of today and tomorrow to go so it'd be tough for them to lose outright I reckon. Though if ND keep batting as they have been they may be able to declare and put a fair bit of pressure on.

 

[straw man]

Oh yeah, domestic FC is only 4 days

Though with ND already 96/0 they're in a very good position to declare 150 runs ahead and try bowl Otago out.

 

[Mike5181]

Will Young

 

[straw man]

If Neesham is going to push for a test spot he can't be batting below N McCullum and bowling fewer overs than Wells and Ryder for Otago.

 

[Immenso]

Check out M Bracewell's run out of Joe Carter, sharp.

Watched Will Young's boundaries, impressive. He loves the pull shot (which stood out about him ever since kippax's videos of the U19s)

Watched the full spell of Bennett , it was good quality, quick, couldn't tell from the behind-the-keeper camera if was any swing, but was definitely getting movement off the seam.

 

[Kippax]

Papps, what a front-foot hero he is. 16 to win, Arnel is a genuine rabbit though.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

**** you, Wellington. Getting so close and then losing to complete a wonderful hat-trick of Heef-unfriendly cricketing outputs today.

 

[Kippax]

560 minutes, 183*.

 

[Kippax]

Hah, CD's coach took a catch.
http://scoring.blackcaps.co.nz/livescoring/match1849/scorecard.aspx

 

[Kippax]

Otago and ND really doing some emergency agribusiness for a result, will still come up short. JimmyGS 5/65 off 11.