Kippax's Firebirds and Wellington Club Cricket Thread

[Kippax]

Contributing four players to the latest New Zealand U19 squad suggests I should really start overseeing an earnest little ****er of a thread like this. That lengthy period of adopting an 'everything's a big self-sabotaging, self-parodying joke' mentality with Wellington is potentially over.

All the stuff that I occasionally refrain from posting in the NZ domestic thread (due to it being of localised and niche interest), I'll post in here.

 

[Kippax]

The current Wellington club cricket batting and bowling leaderboards (encompassing one-dayers and two-dayers) -

 

[Prince EWS]

Decentralisation of CW, yay.

 

[Kippax]

 

[Prince EWS]

I should do this for NSW. But I also should have done this for Zimbabwe for several years and haven't, so there's that. Maybe Brockley should do this for NSW.

More on topic: I didn't know Peter Connell was back/still playing NZ club cricket. Looks like he did well too.

 

[Kippax]

Current scorecard from the T20 final, taking place at the Basin Reserve right now. You'll see Lance Dry, if you can get there.

 

[harsh.ag]

Jamie Gibson looks to be a proper all-rounder!

 

[cnerd123]

CW needs more threads dedicated to cricket that no one would care about if not for said thread.

 

[The Hutt Rec]

Is Hamish Bennett still alive?

Sad to see the mighty Taita not featuring at the Basin in the final this year.

 

[harsh.ag]

Btw, what is a 2-dayer?

 

[The Hutt Rec]

Btw, what is a 2-dayer?

Club cricket equivalent of a test. First innings used to be restricted to 55 overs when I played, not sure if that’s still the case (I was a few grades down also).

 

[Flem274*]

Btw, what is a 2-dayer?

a game played on weekends that fits around work and pub commitments

 

[Prince EWS]

CW needs more threads dedicated to cricket that no one would care about if not for said thread.

Sounds weird but I actually totally agree. You copped a lot of **** for the amount of posts you made in the Blitz thread, and I copped some **** for stickying it too, but it looks such it brought a potentially awesome asset (Cutler) to the forum.

"If you build it, they will come", as they say.

 

[vcs]

Maybe if we could be arsed to post enough **** in the IPL threads, Lalit Modi or Srinivasan or someone might sign up

 

[cnerd123]

Not to mention its great when people who are bored and free are browsing the forum, stumble in, and suddenly find themselves watch/following a game they would never have even heard of otherwise.

 

[Prince EWS]

Btw, what is a 2-dayer?

Club cricket equivalent of a test. First innings used to be restricted to 55 overs when I played, not sure if that’s still the case (I was a few grades down also).

Yeah, it varies by country/region/association. When I played in Sydney there definitely weren't over restrictions -- there were just two types of "winning". To just win normally you had to get a first innings lead in a game that was drawn on the second innings (or quite commonly that the captains agreed to not bother having a second innings for), or to win "outright" you'd have to win across two innings in two days. Different amounts of points were available depending on the type of win. Where I played you could theoretically just bat for two days and that'd be a draw, but different associations have different rules, ranging from basically playing an OD game on the first day to merely only allowing a team to bat for one whole day.

They tend to either be played over two consecutive Saturdays or across a weekend.

 

[harsh.ag]

Ah. So it's a bit like Max cricket stretched out over 2 days with more overs per innings.

Sounds good.

 

[Prince EWS]

Ah. So it's a bit like Max cricket stretched out over 2 days with more overs per innings.

Sounds good.

It really depends. When I played it was more or less just Test/FC rules on a dodgy pitch over two days, and you got league points for a first innings lead. Lots of variants have some sort of limited overs component though.

 

[The Hutt Rec]

It really depends. When I played it was more or less just Test/FC rules on a dodgy pitch over two days, and you got league points for a first innings lead. Lots of variants have some sort of limited overs component though.

Yeah the uncovered green af pitches tend to lead to pretty fast innings a lot of the time! If the lines weren’t painted on you’d have difficulty finding most of the blocks I played on.

 

[ch00baka]

The current Wellington club cricket batting and bowling leaderboards (encompassing one-dayers and two-dayers) -

Where is Lance Dry?
Your statistics must be incorrect i'm afraid.