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

[Bahnz]

Haha, Ajaz pissing on Latham's immaculately pruned season stats. That'll teach the youngster for trying to win matches with horrible slogs.

 

[hendrix]

Haha, Ajaz pissing on Latham's immaculately pruned season stats. That'll teach the youngster to try and win matches with horrible slogs.

was just about to say the same thing.

#Should'veopenedwithTastle

 

[Blain]

Look forward to seeing Astle have another shot for NZ in the Windies. Awesome to see him step up when it counts.

It looks like he has sped up his delivery a little, which what made so him easy to play in Sri Lanka. He was turning it, but not fast enough at around 75kms to really beat the bat too much.

 

[Bahnz]

McKay dropped by Crachopa with 10 minutes left. Sounds like Quinn is bowling well.

Edit: Martin gets Woodcock to wrap things up.

 

[Days of Grace]

Plunket Shield Combined XI 2013/14

Combination of most runs, most centuries, highest averages for batsmen, and most wickets, most 5-fers, and lowest averages for bowlers

1. Latham (no. 1 run scorer)
2. Guptill (no. 2 highest ave.)
3. Bracewell (no. 2 run scorer)
4. Ryder (joint most centuries)
5. Franklin (no.3 highest ave., joint most centuries)
6. Neesham (no. 3 lowest ave)
7. van Wyk (most runs and highest ave for wicketkeepers)
8. de Grandhomme (no. 1 lowest ave)
9. Astle (no. 2 most wickets)
10. Wagner (no. 2 lowest ave)
11. Gillespie (no. 1 most wkts)

Candidates to get into the team for highest batting averages and lowest bowling averages must have scored 400 runs or taken 20 wickets respectively.

Not a bad XI. Bats all the way down to no. 10 and has 7 bowling options!

 

[Immenso]

Fantastic performance by Astle. 14 wickets.

 

[Days of Grace]

Has anyone else taken that many wickets in a match in the last five years in domestix?

 

[ohnoitsyou]

Also you would think that 5 double tonnes in a season wouldn't occur too commonly

 

[Binkley]

So the Plunket season is over now. Good to see two youngsters in Tom Latham (948 runs at 79) and Michael Bracewell (845 runs at 52.81) at the top of the batting charts. And young Joe Carter slipped under my radar with an excellent debut year (674 runs at 44.93). Also nice that test hopefuls like Flynn (775 at 43.05), Brownlie (733 at 40.72), Raval (683 at 40.17), Guptill (672 at 74.66) and Munro (599 at 49.91) kept themselves in runs.

The bowling tables are a little too dominated by players whose representative days have sailed on by for my tastes. I can't see any of Gillespie (42 wickets at 32.90), McKay (35 at 30.62), Aldridge (25 at 26.40) or Arnel (24 at 39.45) playing for New Zealand again. I am particularly sad that CD's wonderful crop of youngsters didn't get much game time (Wheeler - 15 wickets at 29, Small - 11 at 18.62, Milne 8 at 41.75). Nice to see Tastle so high on the back of a decent season and a hell of a good last game though (37 at 30.48). And Scott Kuggeleijn (29 at 31.82) and Hamish Bennett (28 at 26) did well too.

 

[Kippax]

 

[Kippax]

Power Papps beats Redmond by 196 runs.

 

[Bahnz]

Bah.

By the way, do you think this latest performance will turn out to be a career killer for Nethula? 1/150 in a match where the other two specialist spinners picked up 21 wickets at about 20 apiece. If so, it's a pretty sad end for a guy who posed some fairly interesting questions to Amla at Napier just a couple of years ago.

 

[Flem274*]

From what I've gathered from other posters in this thread over the season it sounds like he doesn't have the mental game to be a success as a leggie right now. Bit of a shame.

Should reinvent himself as a batsman obv.

 

[Prince EWS]

Power Papps beats Redmond by 196 runs.

Ford Trophy counts as well IIRC.

 

[SteveNZ]

Bah.

By the way, do you think this latest performance will turn out to be a career killer for Nethula? 1/150 in a match where the other two specialist spinners picked up 21 wickets at about 20 apiece. If so, it's a pretty sad end for a guy who posed some fairly interesting questions to Amla at Napier just a couple of years ago.

His P-poor attitude and superior desire to sample the finer parts of West Indian life than earn a Test debut a couple of years ago sealed that long ago.

 

[Bahnz]

Ford Trophy counts as well IIRC.

Yeah that was my understanding too, though with a 200 run deficit it's hard to see SoR1 catching up.

 

[Kippax]

I bet you $10 Papps scores more PS and FT runs combined this season than Redmond anyway.

Ah, I see what you did there.

Rance is on the road
Gaylard's on the streets
You can feel it in the air
Summer's out of reach
Injured Milne, injured Henry, the sun goes down alone
I drove by Dougeh's house, even though, he's not home

PEWS can tell you his love for Papps will still be strong
After the boys of summer have gone

 

[straw man]

The bowling tables are a little too dominated by players whose representative days have sailed on by for my tastes. I can't see any of Gillespie (42 wickets at 32.90), McKay (35 at 30.62), Aldridge (25 at 26.40) or Arnel (24 at 39.45) playing for New Zealand again. I am particularly sad that CD's wonderful crop of youngsters didn't get much game time (Wheeler - 15 wickets at 29, Small - 11 at 18.62, Milne 8 at 41.75). Nice to see Tastle so high on the back of a decent season and a hell of a good last game though (37 at 30.48). And Scott Kuggeleijn (29 at 31.82) and Hamish Bennett (28 at 26) did well too.

There's certainly more than a fair amount of yuck in those bowling tables. CDG taking 30 at 20.8, KNB taking 15 at under 20 etc, lots of older military mediums and all the spinners bar Astle struggling. Though the older crowd dominate the wicket tallies as much through matches played as anything else - not absent for NZ duty or through injury which continues to blight our younger quicks.

Breakthrough season for Bennett - certainly deserving of NZ consideration though I'd still much prefer to see him in ODIs than tests. Good season for Kugglejuggle as well - looks more fluent and starting to take wickets like a bowler rather than a number 8 batting allrounder; still scored 438 at 36.5 too.

After topping the wicket charts I wouldn't object to seeing Gillespie in the NZ test squad in the next 12 months, though more so if one or two other fast bowlers are injured.

 

[Bahnz]

Adam Milne should be back before too long shouldn't he? Was ruled out for about 6 weeks iirc, which should see him making a return around mid-March.

 

[SteveNZ]

There's certainly more than a fair amount of yuck in those bowling tables. CDG taking 30 at 20.8, KNB taking 15 at under 20 etc, lots of older military mediums and all the spinners bar Astle struggling. Though the older crowd dominate the wicket tallies as much through matches played as anything else - not absent for NZ duty or through injury which continues to blight our younger quicks.

Breakthrough season for Bennett - certainly deserving of NZ consideration though I'd still much prefer to see him in ODIs than tests. Good season for Kugglejuggle as well - looks more fluent and starting to take wickets like a bowler rather than a number 8 batting allrounder; still scored 438 at 36.5 too.

After topping the wicket charts I wouldn't object to seeing Gillespie in the NZ test squad in the next 12 months, though more so if one or two other fast bowlers are injured.

Take your points on those bowlers, but to be fair when Lord de G is fit and firing he's a level above that. He can hit 130, do it with a heavy ball and nip it either way - unfortunately his knees haven't always played ball. If he could offer the runs he needed to in order to play international cricket, he'd be quite handy with the ball too. Look at the nut that got Papps on a flat one.