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

Kippax

Kippax

Cricketer Of The Year
There will be someone new in the PS team to bring down to the Basin next week, with Guptill on duty obvs. Someone contracted, in form.
 
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SteveNZ

Cricketer Of The Year
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SteveNZ

Cricketer Of The Year
hendrix said:
nah, that's not really fair, tbh. Should've retired on 50, let alone 307.
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50?!?!? Wow. Sarcasm, right?

It was a competition game - St John's were asked if they wished to drop down to Div 2 and declined, so they stump up on a Saturday and if they cop a flogging, they should wear it. Not cry foul to the media. Hell, if they'd taken their catches he'd be out for 40.

The part that concerns me the most is: 'His team (St John's) were demoralised and had not learned anything from last Saturday's flogging although they had beaten Tech when Findlay wasn't playing for them early this season'. Firstly, Superman's alter ego is Clark Kent, not Craig Findlay. He's 42, doesn't train and wasn't like he was a gun at the peak of his powers at any rate - he was a bowling all-rounder that batted at 8-9. And they haven't learned how to bowl to a decent player as a result?

As far as I'm aware, declaring in a limited-overs match is not within the laws. Perhaps Findlay could've retired earlier, but why should he have to - he's playing in a premier competition, which I would've thought befitted his standard of ability. If he was playing 4th grade, sure.
 
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HeathDavisSpeed

HeathDavisSpeed

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Fully agreed. If you're playing premier cricket, you have to cop it when you play teams considerably better than you. In the Hawke's Bay, that means copping a flogging in the field. In Wellington, that means consistently being bowled out for double figure scores. There's no real difference here. I'm only disappointed he retired at all.

EDIT: e.g. Wainui have copped some fearsome floggings CricHQ | Wainuiomata Cricket Club., Premier (e.g. versus Collegians) and so have Naenae CricHQ | Naenae Old Boys Cricket Club., Premier (e.g. versus Johnsonville). That's cricket.
 
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Flem274*

Flem274*

123/5
Two schools back home have first teams in the top club grade. Because school teams are allowed adults in the top grade (which meant teachers could play if they were good enough), first eleven club cricketers here (some of whom are obviously very young) had to deal with a school team that sent out Peter Ingram to open the batting and Tim Weston at number three. Hawera (who were just a normal club team, not a school) had Dion Ebrahim at number three during that period as well.

Ingram scored a double ton in a 50 over game once, and the opposition copped it on the chin.
 
Athlai

Athlai

Not Terrible
HeathDavisSpeed said:
Fully agreed. If you're playing premier cricket, you have to cop it when you play teams considerably better than you. In the Hawke's Bay, that means copping a flogging in the field. In Wellington, that means consistently being bowled out for double figure scores. There's no real difference here. I'm only disappointed he retired at all.

EDIT: e.g. Wainui have copped some fearsome floggings CricHQ | Wainuiomata Cricket Club., Premier (e.g. versus Collegians) and so have Naenae CricHQ | Naenae Old Boys Cricket Club., Premier (e.g. versus Johnsonville). That's cricket.
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Probably only retired because his legs gave out TBF.
 
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RxGM

U19 Vice-Captain
It's only demoralising if it happens every week.. and than your playing in the wrong grade.

Strikes me as odd that Auckland are playing both there imports in a dead rubber, when players like Kitchen are on the sideline.
 
Kippax

Kippax

Cricketer Of The Year
Otago Volts Eye Jason Holder For T20 Final | Stuff.co.nz

New Zealand internationals have been ruled out of Twenty20 finals weekend in Hamilton, but towering West Indies paceman Jason Holder could be a surprise starter for Otago.

Black Caps team management confirmed no one from the ODI squad to face India, to be named today, would be released. That means Tim Southee, Corey Anderson and Kane Williamson will sit out Northern Districts' home semifinal against Canterbury.

And Otago players Brendon McCullum, Nathan McCullum, Jesse Ryder and Jimmy Neesham won't be risked in Saturday's final due to its proximity to the first ODI in Napier the following day.
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Kippax

Kippax

Cricketer Of The Year
Cricket | Northern Knights Chief Not Banking On... | Stuff.co.nz

Meanwhile, if Seddon Park puts on a good show, it will get a "big tick" as a future host if the finals weekend concept continues, according to New Zealand Cricket's general manager of domestic cricket, David Cooper.

Last year the six major associations made the decision to move the majority of games to night fixtures to make the most of television viewer number opportunities, so having finals games played in those Friday/Saturday night time slots was a natural continuation of that.

"Obviously it meant that some associations didn't have a venue that could be available," Cooper said. "And of the four major associations that had venues that could hold night games, realistically the only one that was practical in this window when we did the scheduling was Seddon Park."

The boutique ground was also a factor, with NZC not so keen to see the likes of big stadiums Eden Park and Westpac Stadium host a potentially neutral final.

The six associations will review the finals weekend concept at the end of the season.

"Obviously if Hamilton turn out in force on Friday night and support the Knights and the preliminary final, and regardless of the outcome of that game, turn up on Saturday to watch the final, it would put a big tick against Seddon Park as an ideal venue and underline it as a preferred venue for finals of domestic cricket, but there's other factors that'll weigh into that of course," Cooper said.

Profits from the weekend will go into NZC's professional pool, which is used to pay the costs of running the domestic competitions.
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Prince EWS

Prince EWS

Global Moderator
So annoying that even though I can bet on Pakistani domestic one dayers of all things on betfair now, they still don't have HRV Cup odds.
 
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