Kippax's Firebirds and Wellington Club Cricket Thread

[Kippax]

Haseeb Hameed coming to Taita to play a few games in Jan/Feb.

Playing for Wellington Black right now in the anniversary weekend three-dayer, at your place.

This used to be a City vs. Hutt encounter, they're now just going for two balanced teams.

 

[Immenso]

Which of the 2 halves of the association is too weak to warrant scrapping the traditional match? Hutt or City?

 

[Kippax]

Yeah I don't think there is a big discrepancy at the moment. Last year's three-dayer saw Hutt take an 80-run lead on the first innings, then Lauchie Johns scored a big rearguard hundred at No. 7 to save the game for City.

There must be some 'let's just make sure they're always equal, forever' creeping Marxism afoot in Cricket Wellington's meetings, I'd imagine. Juniors and women have been dubbing their internal contests as Wgtn Gold vs. Wgtn Black for years.

 

[Kippax]

Rachin's not happy to be merely chupping in as a modest apprentice at this level these days, anyway. 5/61 and now a slow 72*(169).

 

[Immenso]

^^ How did this finish? (I don't have CricHQ)

 

[Kippax]

Ravindra's actually lost runs since my update.

The new attempt to capture live video from some grounds continued, in a very piecemeal and half-baked sort of way. McLachlan jumping into shot to loft RR for six down the ground, then just some boundaries from RR -

 

[Prince EWS]

Ravindra's actually lost runs since my update.

Good news though, they were transferred to the better prospect.

 

[Flem274*]

Good news though, they were transferred to the better prospect.

weerasundara meme forever

 

[The Hutt Rec]

Ravindra in the Firebirds squad tomorrow with Hose out injured. Fingers crossed he gets a game.

 

[Kippax]

One of the three formats now completed for the summer in club cricket, and it's Easts who've taken it out again.

They're fading down Dry and Connell etc. almost imperceptibly and fading up new match-winners in Jamie Gibson, Lauchie Johns and Jed Wiggins, so they've really got the best chance of their stacked trophy case just rolling on and on. Gibson (25) exactly the type of cricketer who's likely to keep putting in these muscular MVP showings at club level without ever being elite enough in either department to be pinched away by the Firebirds very often. Sort of a similar player to ND's Brett Hampton, with hitting not quite as clean as Hampton's.

 

[Kippax]

 

[nzfan]

Finally someone to upstage Deepak Joon. Still not ahead of Joon, just ahead by average. Great to see Raki Weerasundara do well in club. I'm sure Kippax will be happy to see that. What are the chances he will make first class debut for Firebirds next year?

 

[Kippax]

Yeah seven years after a batsman's U19 WC is often the time for a bit of flourishing year of success. So we're currently in the year of Will Young and Joe Carter, which has actually panned out as true, to some degree. Still time for RW to be the Andrew Fletcher figure of the early 2020s.

That huge improvement in strike rotation needed for RW just isn't happening for him though tbh, as seen when Nofal completely dotted him up at the Hutt Rec last week. Reads on length just aren't getting any earlier and the feet just aren't getting any more nimble for the nudge into a gap, even with the winter trips to India.

 

[nzfan]

Yeah seven years after a batsman's U19 WC is often the time for a bit of flourishing year of success. So we're currently in the year of Will Young and Joe Carter, which has actually panned out as true, to some degree. Still time for RW to be the Andrew Fletcher figure of the early 2020s.

That huge improvement in strike rotation needed for RW just isn't happening for him though tbh, as seen when Nofal completely dotted him up at the Hutt Rec last week. Reads on length just aren't getting any earlier and the feet just aren't getting any more nimble for the nudge into a gap, even with the winter trips to India.

So what's this India trip after all. I checked out the facebook page and looks like Hutt hawks contribution is almost topping the charts in local Cricket. So many high profile players from domestic Cricket have been on these trips in winters over the years. Following their facebook page I realized most of the outstanding age group cricketers over the last few years were part of this group and honing their skills in India in winter.

So much so that Jimmy Neesham, Tom Blundell etc went with Hutt Hawks to India to make the black caps. Maybe not directly related but definitely the junior names have all been mentioned on their facebook page. That is one amazing and brilliant initiative.

 

[The Hutt Rec]

So what's this India trip after all. I checked out the facebook page and looks like Hutt hawks contribution is almost topping the charts in local Cricket. So many high profile players from domestic Cricket have been on these trips in winters over the years. Following their facebook page I realized most of the outstanding age group cricketers over the last few years were part of this group and honing their skills in India in winter.

So much so that Jimmy Neesham, Tom Blundell etc went with Hutt Hawks to India to make the black caps. Maybe not directly related but definitely the junior names have all been mentioned on their facebook page. That is one amazing and brilliant initiative.

Edgar goes as well, so it all feeds into the Firebirds set-up.

 

[Kippax]

Tim Campbell (Wellington College's star at their successful 1st XI Cup in December) with 101* for Karori vs. Taita. Defending pace under his eyes and turning third man into a Kane-style profitable area, which was very promising to see. 770/13 across the two days at Fraser Park, outfields browning off here in Wellington now.

Northants' rookie signing Charlie Thurston finally came good in a big way for Easts, scoring 242* vs. Hutt District. He averaged 21 in the completed one-day comp (as seen above).

Not a lot of footage available of Johnsonville's Gareth Severin yet, but he's also scoring well (second behind Thorn Parkes in runs at the U19 nationals, Campbell 11th).

Other news: Upper Hutt's slow left-armer Bhavik Patel (22) completed a rare eleven-fer in second division Hazlett Trophy.

 

[Kippax]

Three-dayer in Palmy North underway.

Toole is a 21yo South African by way of Melbourne. Coached by Jacob Oram at Massey since arriving in NZ in 2016.

CENTRAL DISTRICTS A
BL Wiggins, TAD Zohrab, BS Smith (c), BD Schmulian, K Noema-Barnett, MTMMJ Ave (wk), AS Gill, BJ Small, FJM Murray, NA Patel, LR Dudding, RL Toole

WELLINGTON A
LI Georgeson, C Ravi, TM Johnson (c), RK Weerasundara, MA Pollard, JD Gibson, PF Younghusband, LR Johns (wk), AD Ridley, JW Hartshorn, JS Wiggins, PF Smith

https://scoring.nzc.nz/livescoring/match651e7e9c-2a9b-43ef-ac3a-98a01e5f51b0/scorecard.aspx

 

[nzfan]

Wellington side looks strong...

Pollard - Firebirds and former NZ A player
LR Johns - Firebirds
AD Ridley - Firebirds
TM Johnson - FIrebirds
JD Gibson - Firebirds

5 firebirds players including current and former players.

C Ravi is a good player, JS Wiggins is a very good bowler and LI Georgeson NZ U19 player. Kippax's favorite RK Weerasundara isn't a bad player either.

Similarly very strong CD A outfit as well, lots of stags players. TAD Zohrab is their new U19 player.

 

[Kippax]

Hmm perishing to Bevan Small, and not the awesome 2011/12 version of that guy either. Well probably not. I'll now close the tab and hope to see something better from us later.

 

[Kippax]

Here's the one from Saturday night that nzfan was referencing in the domestic thread, 12 Shield points on the line.