***Official*** New Zealand Domestic Season 2015/16

[Kippax]

CD Stags Plunket Shield team named | Voxy.co.nz

Manawatu top order batsman Mitchell Renwick comes into the side for the first time replacing Dean Robinson, along with Hawke’s Bay medium fast bowlers Kurt Richards, playing for the first time since his debut match in the 2007/08 season, and Liam Dudding who will be on debut. Both come into the side on the back of strong performances for Hawke’s Bay in the Hawke Cup.

Doug Bracewell, Andrew Mathieson, Adam Mine, Seth Rance, Ross Taylor and Ben Wheeler and are all unavailable due to injury whilst Navin Patel is unavailable due to university commitments.

Cricket: Bay duo's selection sign of progress - Sport - Hawke's Bay Today News

"Dudd's doing a lot with the ball whereas Kurt is more of a bounce bowler so if the pitch has a greenish tinge at McLean Park it'll suit Dudds," Schaw said as CD battle a paucity of first-class seamers through injuries and unavailability.

 

[Kippax]

Knights: Daniel Flynn (c), Dean Brownlie, Joe Carter, Bharat Popli, Anton Devcich, Daryl Mitchell, Tim Seifert, Scott Kuggeleijn, Ish Sodhi, Jimmy Baker, Tony Goodin, Brett Hampton.

Canterbury: Leo Carter, Michael Davidson, Peter Fulton (c), Chad Bowes, Ken McClure, Andrew Ellis, Todd Astle, Cameron Fletcher, Logan van Beek, Tim Johnston, Kyle Jamieson, Hamish Bennett.

 

[straw man]

I'd like for our up and coming A team to be

1. B Smith (slowly being won over)
2. M Bracewell
3. R O'Donnell+
4. Bharat Popli
5. W Young
6. T Bruce
7. Seifert+
8. I Sodhi
9. B Wheeler
10. J Duffy
11. E Nuttall

Looks good. Realise you've gone for under-25s or so, but for a full A-side might include a couple more established but not-quite NZ test players like Astle and Milne, even Neesham (Bruce would be lucky to make a four-day A-side at the moment), plus a token 35-year-old senior batsman if you want to follow the formula.

Anyone know when an A-tour might happen?

 

[Jord]

ND are still easily the strongest province; I hate saying it as an ex Wellingtonian and now Aucklander but ND have their best batting talent in the test side in Watling and Williamson, not to mention Southee and Boult from a bowling perspective too. I think Otago are underachieving and Auckland are overachieving this season.

 

[Jord]

Just realised I left Anderson out of that too; I guess that's a sign of how forgettable he's been recently.

 

[Jord]

I'd like for our up and coming A team to be

1. B Smith (slowly being won over)
2. M Bracewell
3. R O'Donnell+
4. Bharat Popli
5. W Young
6. T Bruce
7. Seifert+
8. I Sodhi
9. B Wheeler
10. J Duffy
11. E Nuttall

Interesting fielding idea - have two wicket keepers; position one at first slip and the other at leg slip.

 

[NZTailender]

Looks good. Realise you've gone for under-25s or so, but for a full A-side might include a couple more established but not-quite NZ test players like Astle and Milne, even Neesham (Bruce would be lucky to make a four-day A-side at the moment), plus a token 35-year-old senior batsman if you want to follow the formula.

Anyone know when an A-tour might happen?

This is more of a development side than a true A-side, otherwise I'd have included Rutherford, Astle, Neesham and maybe Munro.

 

[NZTailender]

Interesting fielding idea - have two wicket keepers; position one at first slip and the other at leg slip.

ahha whoops, meant for O'Donnell to be captain.

 

[Jord]

If our goal is to improve our test ranking over time and improve our players abilities, we should really want our NZ A side playing at least 10 4 day matches each year on top of existing first class commitments. It's so under developed and under funded. We don't have a strong enough first class scene to prepare players there.

 

[Kippax]

NZA level could be too late for most of them to expand their small horizons tbh. They always say they were humbled by the foreign conditions and learnt a lot from an A tour, but it's rare for our guys to return to New Zealand and actually stump up with visible improvements to match the platitudes.

 

[Immenso]

When was our last Youth Test? 2008 during Kane Williamson's time?

Buchanan ruined our last almost one-off Youth Test in about 2013.

As discussed in other threads, this Youth World Cup cycle NZC did absolutely nothing for 23 months, so only 4 Youth ODIs in the cycle leading up to the world cup, and all within a fortnight of the tournament starting.

Would be great to have good programmes for both. If only one money for one, then I favour an expanded A programme.

Money for none?

 

[Kippax]

Yeah that's one of the sad things about modern sports administration; the reluctance to allocate money towards something that will probably bear some fruit for a CEO that isn't going to be you, five or six years down the road. You can see why David White would sooner allocate money to a white ball NZA tour of England and Scotland the winter before the World Cup, or upping the participation numbers of very young kids, rather than refining the NZ U19s.

 

[Dan]

Kippax, have you got any footage of Hamish Bennett pre-2013?

 

[Kippax]

2010/11 against Pakistan at home? -
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[Kippax]

Use IE if you've got it. Otherwise I'll put a minute or so of video in the thread shortly.

 

[Kippax]

 

[Jord]

Ole Windmill; what happened to him? Outside of actually not being good enough to play international cricket but being fast enough that NZ selectors had to try him.

 

[Kippax]

Ole Windmill; what happened to him? Outside of actually not being good enough to play international cricket but being fast enough that NZ selectors had to try him.

Required a similar sort of back surgery as Shane Bond and Matt Henry. Remodelled his action under Bond's guidance and was very good in the Plunket Shield with good bounce and heavy ball bowling in 2013/14. Has struggled too often with minor injuries to build up any decent pace and form since.

Wired up Hamish Bennett glad to be back | Stuff.co.nz

"It just entailed removing a stress fracture, going down to Bunnings and putting in about three screws and some titanium wire just to hold the back together, and get some bone out of the hip and put it into the back. She's pretty complicated stuff," Bennett said.

"I had some bones growing into my spinal cord and shutting down the bottom half of my body. I probably should have had the operation about seven years earlier, it was misdiagnosed."

 

[Dan]

Not a patch on Carl Frauenstein, tbh.

 

[Howsie]

Ole Windmill; what happened to him? Outside of actually not being good enough to play international cricket but being fast enough that NZ selectors had to try him.

I still remember that spell in bowled to Kohli during his last ODI in 2014? Was pretty impressive tbh, was all over him.

I quite liked Bennett, he was raw when he broke into the NZ side but he had some good tools. Just a shame he couldn't stay on the park.