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

[Chubb]

Do we think Otago's new coach, former Zimbabwe batsman and world-class fielder Dion Ebrahim, has had much of an impact as yet? I thought he was a good appointment but then I always support Zimbabweans in cricket.

 

[Kippax]

I thought Duffy started the season looking the worse for Rob Walter not being there to keep on his case, but I'm sure Ebrahim being CD's assistant coach as recently as last season would've helped in their plans for their last couple of games.

 

[vandem]

Update from NZ XI vs CD XI (from CD facebook page)

CD XI 1st innings notes:
Ben Smith 65, Tim Pringle 22-8-41-6 as Kippax posted above. de Grandhomme didn't bowl. Fergus Lellman batted for CD XI then bowled for ND XI.

ND XI 2nd innings notes:
Cooper 63 retired. Raval out cheaply again last night. Lellman 4 x sixes in 29 (44). Rance fitness appears OK with 10-2-19-1 after 1st innings 14-4-22-1.

CD XI need 325 to win this afternoon.

 

[NZTailender]

Haha, Wiggins' agricultural attempt to pull one off the top of off and getting bowled. Such a Hawke's Bay kid's shot.

Otago really gets so much more of a kick out of their Shield wins than everyone else. Everyone thinks that if domestic four-dayers were to ever be concentrated into four strong teams, perhaps as the eventual and appropriate response to diminishing youth interest, then Otago would just have to go. But it actually turns out, it could be the 2030 Wellington and 2030 Auckland that stays at home, practicing their switch hits and slower balls.

2 teams per island imho

 

[Kippax]

I imagine Wellington's kids would sooner glue themselves to Kent Terrace, rather than be living in 2030, playing a domestic cricket four-dayer, getting a fractured hand like Ollie Newton just did. We'll see.

A gluey, gritty protest against the demands placed on the scrawny to bowl more than 24 deliveries a day. Or on beefcakes to be batting for more than 50 a day.

 

[Kippax]

Pringle wheels down another 8 overs, takes 3/24.

 

[NZTailender]

Is this where we board the Tim Pringle hype train

 

[Kippax]

Nah, he could be good, but let's note Bevan Small was their No. 3.

 

[Prince EWS]

Nah, he could be good, but let's note Bevan Small was their No. 3.

Top scored too.

 

[Prince EWS]

I'm glad he's doing well because he's got really good fundamentals to his action as a spinner.

It definitely doesn't always work out though, especially in New Zealand - lets not forget my Tim Johnston hype train.

 

[Kippax]

He does have the home venues the aspiring NZ spinner seems to need (Seddon Park and Bay Oval). Now he just needs to put Freddy Walker out into Jono Boult's pasture.

 

[Kippax]

Jono Boult actually his first spin coach after giving up left-arm pace.

Bay teen breaks Williamson's records

Youngster says breaking marks set by Black Caps skipper is 'huge honour'.

www.nzherald.co.nz

22 Nov, 2017 04:00 PM

Tim Pringle is making a habit of knocking off records made by Black Caps captain Kane Williamson.

Earlier this month Pringle made his debut for Bay of Plenty senior men's team aged 15 years and 74 days, which beats Williamson's record as youngest on debut of 15 years and 111 days set back in 2005.

At Otumoetai Intermediate Williamson scored 426 runs in the preliminary Northern Districts qualifying games for the New Zealand Cup. Pringle, also playing for Otumoetai Intermediate, scored 429 runs in six innings without being dismissed in the qualifying games to beat Williamson's run tally.

"Obviously it is a huge achievement so far and a huge honour for me as Kane is one of my idols as well. It is quite cool to break that [age] record," Pringle said.

When Pringle started bowling on debut against Northland the batsmen were unaware he only took up bowling spin a month earlier. As initiations go it was tough but he passed with flying colours, taking two wickets off the 20 overs he bowled.

All his cricketing life he had bowled left-arm pace but decided his major strength of batting would be compromised if he continued to bowl pace. So Pringle took up spin under the guidance of experienced Northern Districts and Otumoetai Cadets spinner Jono Boult.

"[Boult] has helped me a lot and been my main coach so far which is great. It is a strange step from pace to spin but it is tough to bowl pace and then bat so that is the reason behind it," Pringle said.

With his high arm action and natural height there is obvious similarity to Daniel Vettori at delivery but it is far too soon for any comparisons.

But the early signs are positive that he may end up a top-order batsman who can fill one of the spin bowling slots as he progresses.

Pringle is back living in Tauranga after 18 months away on a cricket scholarship in Auckland. He spent six months at Otumoetai College this year and will soon move to Tauranga Boys' College, where Bay of Plenty senior men's coach Charles Williams is on the staff.

He just loves being back home.

"It is more positive environment in Tauranga for sure. Everyone has been really supportive. Dave Johnson has been a huge help to me with my batting. He is Kane's coach as well and has heaps of experience. He is quite calm so it is awesome to have him around.

"Also ND set up a programme over the winter with Daniel Flynn who has been helping me as well."

Bay of Plenty Cricket Association coach Johnson has high hopes for Pringle.

"I think he is going to be a very good top-order bat. He is still very young and I never want to put handles on anyone really. He is also very lucky he has more than one string to his bow," Johnson said.

"He is a very promising player and very passionate about the game. That is the key with any of these good kids going through Tauranga Boys' at the moment. It is quite exciting for the region."

 

[Prince EWS]

Looks like they were hyping up his batting much more at that point.

 

[Kippax]

Yeah I think putting him at No. 9 (as ND did in that warm-up) was correct. It's no work of art, but takes it too seriously and you may leave runs on the table in you were to debut him at 10.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Post more scorebooks and see if you can guess what the previous match was based on the indentations on the paper.

 

[Kippax]

Yeah I think putting him at No. 9 (as ND did in that warm-up) was correct.

I've now watched a little bit more of the batting he did at age 17. I'm going to revise what I said to "debut him as a domestic No. 9 if you're very conservative. He's that guy who'd love you so much more if you believed in the club form and played him at 7".

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Is this where we board the Tim Pringle hype train

The great NZ spinner hope hype train

 

[Kippax]

No Pringle to watch tomorrow. It seems both Walker brothers got a waiver out of lockdown and they felt an obligation to let a contracted (albeit much lower ceiling) player defend his turf.

 

[Kippax]

Perhaps even Kuggeleijn navigated those stringent demands for permission and accreditation better than the Stags did. It's a puzzle.

 

[Kippax]

Perhaps loaning out of players should become more of a thing in NZ.

I mean, we're denied that Pringle debut, yet CD's pool of longer-format aspirants has become so shallow, Ma'ara Ave plays for them as a specialist No. 7 bat.