***Official New Zealand Domestic Season 2021/22***

[Athlai]

And I will rejoice

 

[Kippax]

Young Indian viewer has been demanding the Ish Sodhi Test comeback, in my YT channel's comments.

"If he was good enough for tests back in 2014, why not he get good enough now? Santner is a proven dud, belongs in 1980s Rick Astley video".

 

[Fuller Pilch]

We're never gonna give you up Santa.

 

[Moss]

Hope they stick with Somerville as the second spinner, not that he's a world beater but really don't want them to rely once again on Santner or even go back to Sodhi. Has done the business in partnership with Ajaz on earlier tours. Didn't particularly like what I saw of Cole in the Bangladesh T20s but should be in the frame I suppose. Ravindra's bowling is a real bonus and hopefully makes CdG redundant for this tour.

Batting more or less settled with a good mix of opening options and an experienced middle order, though the number of lefties in there makes it aa very favourable matchup for Ashwin.

 

[straw man]

Ajaz, Somerville and I don't like any of our third options so just kidnap Tastle and bundle him onto the plane imo.

 

[Flem274*]

I'm very concerned neither of our spinners have had much of a bowl.

Also I think this is a tour for the spin bowling allrounder over CdG. It should be Ravindra or McConchie but it will be Santner.

 

[Bahnz]

Wellington also missing the hard edge brought by the alphas Bennett and van Beek. Without them all they've got are a collection of good club bowlers, a promising youngster in Smith, and 4 overs of hellfire followed by rapidly diminishing returns once the ramen and energy drink that fuels Sears' spindly frame is burnt out.

 

[Kippax]

If anything South African seam bowling culture is more open to the guy who comes in and bowls at 128 and keeps it on a sixpence, not less. It's guys like Sears that try far too hard to prove a point.

 

[straw man]

Wellington also missing the hard edge brought by the alphas Bennett and van Beek. Without them all they've got are a collection of good club bowlers, a promising youngster in Smith, and 4 overs of hellfire followed by rapidly diminishing returns once the ramen and energy drink that fuels Sears' spindly frame is burnt out.

Don't know that Canterbury's bowling had any alphas and they still absolutely dominated the match. If the question is why didn't Wellington do the same on a wicket with seam movement, while fielding five seamers, then the first one I'm looking at is the clear leader of this attack in Iain McPeake. By far the most experienced but took 0/66 and 0/39.

 

[Kippax]

Yeah McPeake really is just one of those 'bantz' burly everyman types who'll tend to clog up the Wellington cricket pipeline and stick around for years and years.

 

[Kippax]

That sort of trash seen above is just a reflection of how little cachet being a longer-format pro cricketer actually has now, I suppose. All of the Adam Leonards trying for low 140s pace and to maybe make something of themselves in Firebirds T20, all of the reasonably young and lively Wellingtonians are actively pushing this burly everyman McPeake forward to the front of the stage, until late November.

 

[NZTailender]

That sort of trash seen above is just a reflection of how little cachet being a longer-format pro cricketer actually has now, I suppose. All of the Adam Leonards trying for low 140s pace and to maybe make something of themselves in Firebirds T20, all of the reasonably young and lively Wellingtonians are actively pushing this burly everyman McPeake forward to the front of the stage, until late November.

"Corridor of Uncertainty Over Whether This Guy Should Keep Bowling"

 

[nzfan]

Don't know that Canterbury's bowling had any alphas and they still absolutely dominated the match. If the question is why didn't Wellington do the same on a wicket with seam movement, while fielding five seamers, then the first one I'm looking at is the clear leader of this attack in Iain McPeake. By far the most experienced but took 0/66 and 0/39.

No Alpha but Sheat and Williams are absolute wicket taking machines. Add to that Henry and you have probably the best attack suited for Basin and Hagley Oval. Maybe not so much on other decks but they play fair number of games on these.

 

[Flem274*]

Eh, stop buying into pop-psych guys. It's early season NZ with a stupid ball - anyone who can keep it in the corridor is going to slaughter, unless you're bowling in that CD-Otago game evidently.

McPeake is perfectly fine. He's not Wellington's best bowler but he's certainly better than a carefully selected 16 seconds from one game.

The ugly truth is you need reliable depth like McPeake or you end up like NZ 2008 - 2011, where the gap between the best 3 players and the worst 3 players in the first 11 (let alone the squad) is wider than your mum.

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Shane van McPeake is solid imo. No star but perfectly serviceable at FC level

 

[Immenso]

I thought McPeake seemed quite floaty in that last game. This observation just from the video scorecards, so from the boundaries. Even from the front on camera.

Normally I have him classified in my head as a hit the deck reasonably hard sort of bowler.

 

[nzfan]

McPeake is a tall bowler, not quick but does get some bounce but performs 3rd/4th seamer role quite well most of the times. Has reasonable record but I prefer Ollie Newton to him. Newton is quicker by few Ks and also has the ability to bowl more attacking lines. Goes for runs but picks poles.

 

[Kippax]

Travis Muller would've been far better to retain in Wellington than McPeake. It's a shame that he turned up in town just when Wellington was in a 'locals good, foreigners bad' phase after usually being the reverse of that. Now he has to toil away on the dreary tracks down south and make the most of any trip up north he gets.

 

[Bahnz]

Sears bowled like an absolute drain this morning. Couldn’t land it on a beach towel let alone a handkerchief.

 

[nzfan]

Yeah you get either gold dust or saw dust from Sears sometimes. Firebirds bowlers looking a bit tired already, Canterbury couldn't cash in on the start.