*Official* New Zealand domestic season 2022/23

[Bahnz]

The ease and consistency with which Latham scores runs opening the batting in the Shield is another reason to be worried about the standard of current domestic bowling attacks.

 

[ataraxia]

Very surprised Wellington is on top like this lol, wonderful centuries. 47 over gap between boundaries for Rachin.

lol at the Randell engine room 90 thanks to Toole's by-his-standards-blistering 15 (80)

 

[SteveNZ]

The ease and consistency with which Latham scores runs opening the batting in the Shield is another reason to be worried about the standard of current domestic bowling attacks.

To be fair, he dines out on reasonable international attacks too, and certainly in the past has shown an ability to get to 20-30 against good attacks. I don't think it says much about domestic bowlers, more he feels very comfortable mentally scoring domestic runs.

I've always thought his issues were mental, nothing to do with how his technique holds up against good attacks. Doesn't really have a dominant mode of dismissal that exposes his technique, consistently gets out in different ways across a number of series'.

 

[straw man]

Excellent start to Thorn Parkes' domestic career in a low-scorer.

Annoying there aren't any clips from the CD/Canterbury game after day 1.

 

[straw man]

Parkes out for 58

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Important runs here for Otago. Duffy smashing it.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

100 for Latham.

 

[straw man]

Important runs here for Otago. Duffy smashing it.

Three sixes in an over off Somerville, nice.

Wonder if ND will avoid wasting their platform second time round against Wellington. Almost even-stevens now and they really should be able to dominate this Wellington attack.

 

[straw man]

Latham treating Bracewell, Tickner, Randell and Ajaz like they're Bangladesh at the Basin.

 

[Bahnz]

ND have to be moving into favourites territory now. Wellington showing off the perils of employing a county attack on a Basin seamy road.

Always nice to see Otago mugging one of the big boys.

 

[Kippax]

This would've been an ideal situation to get that controversial loan player system from last season back in action. Some of those Auckland A bowlers like Samrath Singh and Yahya Zeb do have a bit of speed.

 

[Kippax]

Jordan Sussex another option. Cleaned up Greg Hay and had 3/36 match figures on first-class debut late last season, now has to bide his time.

 

[straw man]

Popli hundred

Also good chance for Colin to go boom.

 

[Kippax]

Travis Muller continuing to love a North Island pitch with 7/69 match figures.

EPOO+Basin record for him is now 19 wickets @ 18, Uni+Molyneux record a far less respectable 11 wickets @ 60.

 

[straw man]

Travis Muller continuing to love a North Island pitch with 7/69 match figures.

EPOO+Basin record for him is now 19 wickets @ 18, Uni+Molyneux record a far less respectable 11 wickets @ 60.

Yeah his bowling looks quite handy. Think Otago would like more from him with the bat though.

McPeake picks up 9 for the match, top for the round so far beating Duffy's 8. Though McPeake did little with the (first) new ball in both innings, instead made later breakthroughs - put a spanner in the engine room.

 

[Prince EWS]

put a spanner in the engine room.

 

[straw man]

Nasty ball from Henry to get Young, nipped back a long way. Thought at first a tough umpire's call but on closer viewing was fair.

Would be really good if the nzc video clip viewer had a 0.5x speed or frame-by-frame flick-through control.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Quite the collapse from ND this morning, but it is much more overcast today in Wellington - also a bit of rain in the air. Could be making things a bit more spicy.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Would be really good if the nzc video clip viewer had a 0.5x speed or frame-by-frame flick-through control.

Just pause the video and click the length bar at the bottom - you can manually operate it as pseudo-frame-by-frame for those purposes.

 

[straw man]

Just pause the video and click the length bar at the bottom - you can manually operate it as pseudo-frame-by-frame for those purposes.

I do that - it's pretty clumsy though, hard to get a sense of ball trajectory