***Official*** New Zealand Domestic Season 2017/18

[Athlai]

C'arn ND

...eww

 

[SeamUp]

ND bucking the trend in the 3rd innings.

 

[Meridio]

Wellington making a complete mess of this. Following well in the footsteps of their test playing compatriots in blowing golden opportunities.

 

[straw man]

Would be mildly amusing if both CD and Wellington lose outright in the final round as they battle for the title.

Been a great season for the bowlers, let me put some stats up. Most seasons the FC cricket after Xmas gets progressively more and more batsman friendly, but this year that's not the case.

 

[straw man]

Bowling stats by average, including all those with more than 14 wickets and anyone else I felt like including.

IS Sodhi (ND)          28 at 13.92
HK Bennett (Well)      33 at 13.96
LV van Beek (Well)     33 at 15.3
IG McPeake (Well)      35 at 17.94
LH Ferguson (Auck)     26 at 18.03
SHA Rance (CD)         22 at 18.04
BG Lister (Auck)       23 at 19.95
BM Wheeler (CD)         8 at 20
AY Patel (CD)          42 at 21.16
KA Jamieson (Cant)      7 at 21.85
MJG Rippon (Ot)        17 at 22.05
JS Patel (Well)        30 at 23.03
JD Baker (ND)          33 at 23.09
JA Duffy (Ot)          29 at 23.62
MD Rae (Ot)            26 at 24.73
MB McEwan (Auck)       36 at 24.77
DAJ Bracewell (CD)     23 at 24.78
BJ Arnel (ND)          20 at 25.35
BM Tickner (CD)        29 at 26.48
N Wagner (Ot)          24 at 26.54
OR Newton (Well)       19 at 27.84
SC Kuggeleijn (ND)     23 at 28.6
BP Coburn (Cant)       15 at 31.6
JDS Neesham (Ot)       10 at 33.3
MJ Henry (Cant)         3 at 35
MD Craig (Ot)          20 at 37.5
AF Milne (CD)          15 at 37.8
AM Ellis (Cant)        10 at 44.3

edit: Final round wickets not yet included, which will give a boost to Van Beek, Ferguson, Kuggeleijn

 

[Prince EWS]

JavaScript Patel, WAG.

 

[straw man]

<insert javascript is **** joke here>

 

[straw man]

Batting. Cutoff 300 runs unless I felt worth mentioning.

Jesse Ryder

JD Ryder (CD)               640 at 71.11   HS: 175
GR Hay (CD)                 756 at 68.72   HS: 140
TC Bruce (CD)               362 at 60.33   HS: 89
MHW Papps (Well)            796 at 56.85   HS: 316*
TL Seifert (ND)             648 at 54.00   HS: 167*
DAJ Bracewell (CD)          305 at 50.83   HS: 97
LJ Woodcock (Well)          665 at 47.50   HS: 151
GH Worker (CD)              228 at 45.60   HS: 111
HR Cooper (ND)              398 at 44.22   HS: 136
D Cleaver (CD)              473 at 43.00   HS: 88
WA Young (CD)               611 at 40.73   HS: 162
GD Phillips (Auck)          350 at 38.88   HS: 104
DC de Boorder (Ot)          528 at 37.71   HS: 140*
KJ McClure (Cant)           436 at 36.33   HS: 210
AP Devcich (ND)             355 at 35.50   HS: 116
BD Schmulian (CD)           389 at 35.36   HS: 203
B Popli (ND)                373 at 33.90   HS: 84
CD Fletcher (Cant)          468 at 33.42   HS: 100*
DR Flynn (ND)               493 at 32.86   HS: 157
JDS Neesham (Ot)            412 at 31.69   HS: 93
HD Rutherford (Ot)          537 at 31.58   HS: 142
NT Broom (Ot)               346 at 31.45   HS: 48
AK Kitchen (Ot)             424 at 30.28   HS: 76
MS Chapman (Auck)           333 at 30.27   HS: 76
CJ Bowes (Cant)             482 at 28.35   HS: 93
TA Blundell (Well)          198 at 28.28   HS: 43*
DG Brownlie (ND)            311 at 28.27   HS: 82
CE McConchie (Cant)         452 at 28.25   HS: 99
SM Solia (Auck)             297 at 27.00   HS: 59
BJ Watling (ND)             242 at 26.88   HS: 77
BS Wilson (Ot)              348 at 26.76   HS: 111
BJ Horne (Auck)             384 at 25.60   HS: 75*
MB McEwan (Auck)            321 at 24.69   HS: 55
ML Guptill-Bunce (Auck)     414 at 24.35   HS: 78
SJ Murdoch (Well)           365 at 24.33   HS: 114
MD Craig (Ot)               245 at 22.27   HS: 46
MG Bracewell (Well)         294 at 21.00   HS: 58*
RR O'Donnell (Auck)         311 at 20.73   HS: 84
MA Pollard (Cant)           205 at 20.50   HS: 62
JA Raval (Auck)             232 at 19.33   HS: 73
SC Kuggeleijn (ND)          128 at 16.00   HS: 35
AM Ellis (Cant)             150 at 15.00   HS: 53
BS Smith (CD)                90 at 15.00   HS: 49
C Cachopa (Auck)             78 at 13.00   HS: 24
RJ Nicol (Ot)               163 at 12.53   HS: 39

 

[Prince EWS]

Ryder, Hay, Bruce, Papps.

Wtf I love 2018 now.

 

[straw man]

Don't forget Doug Bracewell and Woodcock rounding out the top 7 - it's a pretty miserable list if you're looking for NZ prospects.

 

[Prince EWS]

Don't forget Doug Bracewell and Woodcock rounding out the top 7

Nah, I unironically like Ryder, Hay, Bruce and Papps. I only ironically like Woodcock.

 

[Athlai]

Whaaaat? How can you only ironically like Woodcock. He's everything thats great about NZ domestic cricket. A bits and pieces no rounder that converts themselves into an opener and consistently gets inexplicably good results. If they had exactly the same numbers and were a 25 year old, the whole country would be crying out for their Blackcaps call up, but since it's Luke Woodcock and we all know it's Luke Woodcock, no one says anything.

It's great.

 

[thierry henry]

Wait I thought Ryder had mostly been sucking in NZ domestics for a while now?

 

[straw man]

Yeah I thought he mostly had but iirc has led the run charts most of this season - huge runs before Christmas. Isn't even playing this round, don't know why not.

 

[straw man]

Whaaaat? How can you only ironically like Woodcock. He's everything thats great about NZ domestic cricket. A bits and pieces no rounder that converts themselves into an opener and consistently gets inexplicably good results. If they had exactly the same numbers and were a 25 year old, the whole country would be crying out for their Blackcaps call up, but since it's Luke Woodcock and we all know it's Luke Woodcock, no one says anything.

It's great.

On a similar note, I included Andy Ellis in both the bowling and batting charts as he's a benchmark, even though he's had a bad season.

 

[The Hutt Rec]

Yeah I thought he mostly had but iirc has led the run charts most of this season - huge runs before Christmas. Isn't even playing this round, don't know why not.

Moving house again?

 

[Athlai]

On a similar note, I included Andy Ellis in both the bowling and batting charts as he's a benchmark, even though he's had a bad season.

Andy Ellis IS The benchmark.

 

[Kippax]

hey kippax, could we get some greg hay analysis at some point if it's not too much drama?

because statistically he should be next opener in line. he won't be because they refuse to acknowledge he exists, but he should be.

Oh he's on Lesson's radar, as of last month. Worker is their preference, sure, but on the radar.

 

[Bahnz]

Haha, check out the text book Guptill dismissal to van Beek. Needs to be linked to every time the "Guptill might actually work if we bat him at 5" argument is made.

 

[Athlai]

Haha, check out the text book Guptill dismissal to van Beek. Needs to be linked to every time the "Guptill might actually work if we bat him at 5" argument is made.

Guptill will replace Raval again. It has been foretold.