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NZ domestic season 2023/24

Bahnz

Hall of Fame Member
Bryan Young is another who changed - from a keeper to an opening bat and quality slip fielder.
Was always impressed with how good Young was at slip. I was a keeper when I played, and on the occasions someone else took the gloves I was put in at slip and I just couldn't do it. I just found it so much harder when the mental default wasn't expecting to get the ball more often than not.
 

BackFootPunch

International 12th Man
The discussion earlier in the thread about the vaunted CD pace quartet from 2010 sent me on a wee trip down memory lane looking at the NZ team from the U19 WC that year.

Check out this scorecard. Reckon they had enough allrounders in that side? I count two(!) specialist batsmen, Latham and Cachopa, in the top six. I can't remember if Ben Smith was in the squad or not, but he got runs at the national tournament. Henry Nicholls and Tom Bruce were around too, but don't think they were in the mix for the WC team.
 

The Hutt Rec

International Vice-Captain
Are super smash umpires completely banned from making an on-field decision around stumpings and run outs or something? Some of the ones they’ve gone to the video for this season have been out (or in) by about five metres …
 

ataraxia

International Coach
C00per bowling full and wide to Latham and Nicholls was slightly contrived ODI middle overs stuff.
 

Zinzan

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Wait.. Mitchell Hay who?

Where's Howsie when I need intel on a young domestic player?
 

NZTailender

I can't believe I ate the whole thing
Henry Nicholls looks like the epitome of the typical kiwi bloke who parks his giant ute (despite working a corporate job) over broken yellows to walk into a cafe in jandals, shorts and singlet to order coffee whilst very loudly trying to make his weekend sound great to the disinterested barista
 

Flem274*

123/5
Henry Nicholls looks like the epitome of the typical kiwi bloke who parks his giant ute (despite working a corporate job) over broken yellows to walk into a cafe in jandals, shorts and singlet to order coffee whilst very loudly trying to make his weekend sound great to the disinterested barista
...I live in a region with loads of these guys and he absolutely doesn't.

You can want him dropped from NZ without this real stretch of a diss.
 

NZTailender

I can't believe I ate the whole thing
...I live in a region with loads of these guys and he absolutely doesn't.

You can want him dropped from NZ without this real stretch of a diss.
It was an observation, and he absolutely does look like every bloke I've seen do that.

I also once made a similar observation about Devon Conway but go off I guess.
 

SteveNZ

Cricketer Of The Year
Wait.. Mitchell Hay who?

Where's Howsie when I need intel on a young domestic player?
Back Foot Punch deserves the accolades for this one. And I'm all in on him - good looking young man, shots all round the ground, does it in style. He's got the gloves in the SteveNZ XI
 

SteveNZ

Cricketer Of The Year
ND are going to get badly pantsed tonight.
That was a disgraceful display of death bowling. I don't mind if guys get hit at the death, it's a hard art, but it was brainless. No plan at all. Allowing Hay and Nicholls to hit downwind, would go hole for one ball, miss horribly and hardly ever go there again, just a giant pile of rubbish. I am thinking about retraining as a death bowling coach, so many teams require my services.

Although the worst part of that innings was when Jeet Raval misfielded one through his legs and not only did the cameraman make it his obligation to find the only two Indian fans in the ground, the producer cut to it. Dire.
 

Zinzan

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Little doubt that the answer is both. Both seem to be of the highest quality
Just had a quick look at the TV one stream and like what I see. Kid is not only a keen striker, but isn't afraid to play the dinky dilscoop strokes etc & at 23 will likely fill out a bit more over the next couple of years & get a bit stronger. Good signs.
 

NZTailender

I can't believe I ate the whole thing
Conway looks like a high school mathematics teacher who is having problems controlling his class.
Ha, this is true! My original observation

Been trying to figure out his face for a while and it's finally clicked: Devon Conway looks like your typical commuter cyclist giving you a dirty look because you haven't given enough space when overtaking
 

BackFootPunch

International 12th Man
Just had a quick look at the TV one stream and like what I see. Kid is not only a keen striker, but isn't afraid to play the dinky dilscoop strokes etc & at 23 will likely fill out a bit more over the next couple of years & get a bit stronger. Good signs.
Genuine keeper too. Made his way as an excellent keeper through age group reps etc and the batting has really come along in the last few years.

He’s also an excellent human being. As a teenager he was one of the more hardworking, polite ones going around.
 

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