2020/21 New Zealand Domestic Season

[Chewie]

Sodhi is at no 8 and he does average exactly 21 1/3 in both test cricket and FC cricket before this match so I don't think that is too unreasonable.

 

[kaetor]

Glenn Phillips having a bit of fun against Otago, 80* off 57. Scored almost 2/3 of the team's runs at the moment!

 

[Immenso]

Glenn Phillips having a bit of fun against Otago, 80* off 57. Scored almost 2/3 of the team's runs at the moment!

On this news, cricketweb poster Immenso Google Earths Queens Park Invercargill to check out the length of the square boundaries ...

 

[Immenso]

Yeah, shorter square than straight.

 

[Immenso]

Sodhi is at no 8 and he does average exactly 21 1/3 in both test cricket and FC cricket before this match so I don't think that is too unreasonable.

It's Sodhi's poor white ball batting record that colours perceptions he is worse bat than he is.

Still, would have thought he'd be improving that batting by now. At age 19/20 I would have judged him to become a good number 8 eventually.

 

[Bahnz]

Sears employing a bit of Wagnerball to get rid of Sodhi. Nice.

 

[nzfan]

Sears takes a lot of poles. Very good strike rate in all formats. Georgeson, another under 19 player looks quite good. Quality of shot selection is quite good. Looked at some of his shots from the previous game and he looks pretty good. Looks like a long term prospect. Bowls few trundlers as well. Not bad by firebirds picking another player that can bat all right and bowl as well.

 

[nzfan]

Finn Allen is in good demand. News is out he's signed up for vitality blast with Lancashire. It's a great way to spend the winter. Looks like he's going to be on the road for a long time. Amazing for a young cricketer.

 

[The Hutt Rec]

Brilliant to see a player from the Super Smash with no international experience get these sort of opportunities, as well. Shows that the cricketing world is starting to pick up on the quality we have on these shores.

 

[nzfan]

He might as well make a debut vs Bangladesh I think. Don't think any of the IPL signed players are leaving our shores anytime soon. Most likely only after the Bangladesh T20 series is over. Still puzzled why he wasn't included in the plunket shield.

 

[NZTailender]

Man Bhula just didn't think that ball from Gibson would swing huh

 

[straw man]

Damn that is a good take by C Fletcher off Schmulian.

Another top catch yesterday by Van Beek.

 

[Bahnz]

Loving having sound for the Wellington v ND feed so that we get to hear Wagner's wicket celebrations.

 

[ataraxia]

Lol at the all-run four by Johnson off Wagner.

 

[straw man]

First FC hundred for Johnson - well played.

 

[ataraxia]

What a ball from Younghusband.

 

[Kippax]

Southland cricket officials embarrassed by drainage problems

Southland cricket officials admit to being embarrassed as drainage problems at Queens Park halted play in its only first-class game of the summer.

www.stuff.co.nz

Southland cricket officials admit to being embarrassed as drainage problems at Queens Park halted play in its only first-class game of the summer.

That's despite players and officials being greeted to blue skies in Invercargill.

The Otago Volts and Auckland Aces teams were scheduled to start their four-day Plunket Shield fixture at Queens Park at 10.30am on Thursday.

However, when the umpires inspected the ground they found it was too dangerous to start despite the perfect day weather-wise.

An area at the duck pond end of the ground remained soft underfoot following a downpour earlier in the week.

Play eventually got started at 1.15pm but that was after it was agreed that the boundary close to the area of question be bought in (bought in, brung on, done good) to avoid the soft part.

Southland Cricket Association chairman Gerry Ward admits the situation was embarrassing given the costs the teams had forked out to get to Invercargill and the quality of players on display.

New Zealand Cricket staff were also in Invercargill assessing the venue on Thursday.

Ward feared it could jeopardise Invercargill’s chances of securing future first-class fixtures in the future.

The drainage problems at the Invercargill City Council-owned Queens Park ground have been ongoing for many years. SCA leases the ground from the council.

The council carried out drainage improvements in 2015 which Ward said they were very thankful for. He added it had made significant improvements to the majority of the ground.

However, the drainage work carried out did not extend to the area of the ground which is currently causing problems.

Another part of the problem was that a row of tall trees kept the area of ground in shade for the majority of the day and made drying difficult.

Ward said they had approached the council on various occasions in recent years about the prospect of cutting some trees down to help with drying but nothing had yet been sorted.

In 2016 an entire day of the Otago-Canterbury Plunket Shield game was lost at Queens Park despite the weather being fine for the majority of the day.

 

[The Hutt Rec]

Amazing this sort of fiasco can still happen in 2021 ...

 

[Kippax]

Canterbury are the champs as early as tonight btw, if ND can't get six more wickets in nine overs.

The winter signings of Finn Allen (ADHD kids and low-IQ beefcakes rubbing their hands together, eyeing up a potential one-format future for cricket) and Daryl Mitchell (Aussie-raised young dad takes up residence in the most conservative city in NZ, injects a bit of badly needed gumption and boldness to their lineup) ended up summing up this NZ domestic season quite well.

 

[Immenso]

So, when do we start taking Michael Bracewell's bowling seriously?