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***Official*** New Zealand Domestic Season 2017/18
- Thread starter Kippax
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straw man
Hall of Fame Member
Another FC hundred for Seifert. Having seen his wicketkeeping he's not going to push Blundell out as backup test wicketkeeper to Watling. Could potentially push for a batting-only role, however Nicholls has closed the door on he, Young and others getting a middle order test spot now.
Still, keep scoring runs and eventually he'll become a fixture for NZ in one form of the game or another.
Still, keep scoring runs and eventually he'll become a fixture for NZ in one form of the game or another.
Blain
U19 Captain
Don't know why McClure is batting so low, golden duck.. Injured in the field? God Canterbury's batting is a mess. I really hope they can snag a Leopard/Clarkson/Allen/Ravindra in the off season, the club batters just don't look up to it. I like all those young guys, and need to play domestic cricket next season.
Only 4 real wickets. Ump decision for Fletcher ct behind is one of the worst I have ever seen. Fletcher limbo-ed a short ball, kept gloves down, gloves were at waist level when ball passed shoulder high !
Prince EWS
Global Moderator
Looks like some innings from Seifert. 124 in a game where the next three highest scores (in the entire match) were 61, 59 and 39.
Prince EWS
Global Moderator
I think I like it more than the likely alternative -- six or seven frontline bowlers in a team.
When you have a situation where someone is one of your best four or five bowlers and one of your best four of five batsmen (actually not really the case with ND here, but has definitely been what's caused this situation before), it means you can end up with players without huge roles in your team, and to me I'd rather them be #7 batsmen than specialist sixth bowlers. The days of Yovich batting five followed by a keeper and another five specialist bowlers were worse than Kelly having a specialist #7 batting role IMO.
I do think ND tend to be a bit silly with this, as in the previous game they picked Bocock to bat #8 and Mitchell bowled first change - that was ridiculous - but in this game I do think it was basically fine, especially given how the pitch played. They wouldn't have found any use for another bowler, and the partnership Kelly had with Seifert was pretty important even though Kelly only scored 30.
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Flem274*
123/5
yeah fair but they could have at least played the supposed specialist batsman higher than one of the three allrounders.
Anderson scoring 60 at #3 on a green seamer was seriously unexpected. Sometimes it's easy to forget there's a seriously good player hidden by that clunky mechanical technique.
Anderson scoring 60 at #3 on a green seamer was seriously unexpected. Sometimes it's easy to forget there's a seriously good player hidden by that clunky mechanical technique.
Immenso
International Vice-Captain
One round to go.
Auckland v Wellington (at Eden Park)
Central Districts v Northern Districts (at McLean Park)
So neither of the 2 teams left in the hunt are playing the cripple at the bottom of the table.
CD have home advantage. Wellington playing an Auckland team who's batting has disintegrated in the late part of the season.
Should be a classic end to the season.
Auckland v Wellington (at Eden Park)
Central Districts v Northern Districts (at McLean Park)
So neither of the 2 teams left in the hunt are playing the cripple at the bottom of the table.
CD have home advantage. Wellington playing an Auckland team who's batting has disintegrated in the late part of the season.
Should be a classic end to the season.
Immenso
International Vice-Captain
Did you now that Todd Astle has bowled 803 deliveries this NZ season. 133 overs.
26.5 overs a month.
Hasn't been injured at all.
#permanentsquadman. #awesomemanmanagement, #awesomeseasonscheduling
97 balls (or 12%) of his season's work was done on the 5th day of the Auckland test.
(this excludes the NZA tour to India in Sep.Oct)
26.5 overs a month.
Hasn't been injured at all.
#permanentsquadman. #awesomemanmanagement, #awesomeseasonscheduling
97 balls (or 12%) of his season's work was done on the 5th day of the Auckland test.
(this excludes the NZA tour to India in Sep.Oct)
Immenso
International Vice-Captain
Doing what?
Immenso
International Vice-Captain
The last round was a shocker. I thought they'd opened a decent gap (but the point scoring system is impossible to process in your head).
Wellington would have got bugger all batting points, but would have still got full bowling points.
CD got full batting and bowling points plus the outright.
I honestly think Auckland's batting is now so custard that Wellington could get plenty of bonus plus an outright win, even away from home.
But CD in box seat, at home, plus their playing 11 just looks class all the way through.