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***Official*** New Zealand Domestic Season 2014/15

jcas0167

jcas0167

International Debutant
Immenso said:
I grew up in the BOP and every year Mount or Tauranga Domain would get a few Shell Cup games but never a Shell Trophy match as the pitches weren't FC standard even by the standards of the day. Each year the local cricket administrati would lament that the quality of the match (180 v 160) wasn't a good advert for the several thousand holidaying people who would attend.
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I think at one point in the 90's a score of 180 was quite defendable at Blake Park at the Mount. Barry Cooper's slow medium bowling was hugely effective.
 
Hurricane

Hurricane

Hall of Fame Member
jcas0167 said:
I think when I first went to a Shell Cup game (about 90/91?) Maynard was outside the pavilion at Blake Park reading the newspaper. I approached him for an autograph, but he said he was concentrating. I didn't appreciate he was next in to bat & probably didn't want a procession of kids approaching for autographs. :ph34r:

I never saw Graeme Hick play for ND, but he obviously made a huge impression & was a prolific scorer. I remember Chris Kuggeleijn wrote an article saying Hick was the best timer of the ball he'd seen.

Martin Speight was another english pro who did pretty well for Wellington in the early 90's in Shell Cup.
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Loving this thread atm. Didn't know we had other old timers kicking around.

I watched Hick play for ND. It was always his backlift that caught the eye - he would twist the plane so that the face was facing point.

We weren't even at all subtle about our attempts to get him to move here and play for the blackcaps. It was standard practice for the Waikato Times to include the fact that he is definitely not moving here (but he has been approached) in every fricking article about him of which there were plenty because cricket sold newspapers back then even provincial cricket. Every century equalled another headline and another article.
No efforts were left untried to convince him. And every available Hamilton lass from 16 years up and had some lipstick smacked on and was twirled around in front of him. We will find him a nice Kiwi girl was the goal. But he just didn't think that way. England was always his goal.
 
Zinzan

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Hurricane said:
Loving this thread atm. Didn't know we had other old timers kicking around.

I watched Hick play for ND. It was always his backlift that caught the eye - he would twist the plane so that the face was facing point.

We weren't even at all subtle about our attempts to get him to move here and play for the blackcaps. It was standard practice for the Waikato Times to include the fact that he is definitely not moving here (but he has been approached) in every fricking article about him of which there were plenty because cricket sold newspapers back then even provincial cricket. Every century equalled another headline and another article.
No efforts were left untried to convince him. And every available Hamilton lass from 16 years up and had some lipstick smacked on and was twirled around in front of him. We will find him a nice Kiwi girl was the goal. But he just didn't think that way. England was always his goal.
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I've never forget reading an article as a young fella in about 1989 discussing the prospect of how good NZ's batting lineup would look if we had Hick and 3 & Crowe at 4. This is of course before we discovered Hick was 1) going to play for England & 2) was only going to be 'goodish' at test level.

But you're right in that he was Bradmanesque at NZ FC level. IIRC he averaged about 94 in a full domestic season in 1988/89.
 
Hurricane

Hurricane

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Zinzan said:
I've never forget reading an article as a young fella in about 1989 discussing the prospect of how good NZ's batting lineup would look if we had Hick and 3 & Crowe at 4. This is of course before we discovered Hick was 1) going to play for England & 2) was only going to be 'goodish' at test level.

But you're right in that he was Bradmanesque at NZ FC level. IIRC he averaged about 94 in a full domestic season in 1988/89.
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Love this post, Thanks for that... 94 aye...
 
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SteveNZ

Cricketer Of The Year
Howsie said:
How is Andy Mathieson treating ya?
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He looks a new bowler this season, and results seem to bear that out - 13 List A wickets this season at 21, at a clip just over 6 but I'd wager he's played on some real roads. Plus a fair showing in the T20s games he played, and a good Plunket Shield trot v Auckland.

Always go to the stats Flem. And if you have to for some reason look in the future, he's for some reason called Panda Mathieson on cricket archive
 
jcas0167

jcas0167

International Debutant
Massive raps back in 2011 on Christian Leopard who scored 70 today for CD under 17's.

The initiated in cricketing circles here are touting Christian Leopard as the next phenomenon from Hawke's Bay since the explosive days of Jesse Ryder.

No, in fact, Napier Technical Old Boys (NTOB) stalwart Craig Findlay says make that weight for weight, age for age better than ex-club mate and current Black Caps batsmen Ryder as well as Kane Williamson, of Northern Districts.

Pheew ... that's definitely a huge call from Findlay but his father, Harry Findlay, has watched a lion's share of talent pass through the annual Riverbend cricket camp in the Bay for the past three decades.

"Harry's seen Jesse and Kane and he reckons this kid is much better then those two were at his age," Craig Findlay, who co-ordinates the camp, says.
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Forget Tiger, Leopard's on prowl - Sport - Hawke's Bay Today News

Seems he took last season off to concentrate on athletics, but has returned to focus on cricket. Cricket: NOBM opt for reverse psychology in qualifier - Sport - Hawke's Bay Today News
 
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SteveNZ

Cricketer Of The Year
Tempting to say far too early to predict, but in all honesty there hasn't been too many youth-grade prodigies that you thought absolutely would make it, but didn't.

I remember seeing Jesse and Ross in a CD age-group side, and you knew they would. Tim the same, Kane the same etc. I can't remember one guy who dominated at that age group (and when I say that, I mean playing for NZ) but didn't go on. Someone can certainly correct me if so.

A guy like Richard Sherlock perhaps, but that was body as much as anything.
 
Chubb

Chubb

International Regular
Nick and Daniel Pile in the Wellington team are good prospects, Nick is a very fine young batsman and Daniel a left arm spinner. He played one day of a game for me this year and took 7-61 then took 4 for the seniors last weekend. Both are eligible to play for England too so county cricket might be an option. The wicketkeeper Turner is another tidy young player.

I used to play with Nathan Smith from the Otago team in Oamaru. He was 12 or 13 & the fastest bowler in the second grade. I was keeper and opening bat so I could tell. Another one who is going to go far.
 
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jcas0167

jcas0167

International Debutant
SteveNZ said:
Tempting to say far too early to predict, but in all honesty there hasn't been too many youth-grade prodigies that you thought absolutely would make it, but didn't.

I remember seeing Jesse and Ross in a CD age-group side, and you knew they would. Tim the same, Kane the same etc. I can't remember one guy who dominated at that age group (and when I say that, I mean playing for NZ) but didn't go on. Someone can certainly correct me if so.

A guy like Richard Sherlock perhaps, but that was body as much as anything.
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I remember Jarrod Englefield was highly rated & made the under 19 team which featured Oram, McMillan & Vettori when he was 16. He later captained the under 19's to the Youth WC final (team also had Marshalls, Vincent, Mills, Franklin, McGlashan). Later that year he did pretty well against the touring Indian team while playing for CD. He didn't quite kick on though and I think moved overseas in his mid 20's. Generally though, those guys do seem to invariably end up playing for NZ.
 
HeathDavisSpeed

HeathDavisSpeed

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jcas0167 said:
I remember Jarrod Englefield was highly rated & made the under 19 team which featured Oram, McMillan & Vettori when he was 16. He later captained the under 19's to the Youth WC final (team also had Marshalls, Vincent, Mills, Franklin, McGlashan). Later that year he did pretty well against the touring Indian team while playing for CD. He didn't quite kick on though and I think moved overseas in his mid 20's. Generally though, those guys do seem to invariably end up playing for NZ.
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Went to Holland, didn't he?

In local club news, Taita qualified for the Wellington T20 final tonight. Good stuff.
 
BackFootPunch

BackFootPunch

International 12th Man
Chubb said:
Nick and Daniel Pile in the Wellington team are good prospects, Nick is a very fine young batsman and Daniel a left arm spinner. He played one day of a game for me this year and took 7-61 then took 4 for the seniors last weekend. Both are eligible to play for England too so county cricket might be an option. The wicketkeeper Turner is another tidy young player.

I used to play with Nathan Smith from the Otago team in Oamaru. He was 12 or 13 & the fastest bowler in the second grade. I was keeper and opening bat so I could tell. Another one who is going to go far.
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He's only got better since then too. Hell of an impressive young cricketer.
 
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