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2024–25 NZ domestic season

ataraxia

ataraxia

International Coach
Immenso said:
In a Waddle/Coney podcast a month or so ago.
A section of that was an interview with Wellington coach Shane Jurgensen.
In which he he mentioned the work they were doing with Abbas on his bowling, that they were wanting to get more out of his bowling in T20s. I can't remember specifics , except were talking about working on strength. maybe conditioning.

Anyway, bowling for Abbas was very much on the radar. I think there were comments on here this season wondering if he was giving it up as a serious part of his cricket.

Check out On The Front Foot podcast if you want a source more precise than my garbled memory.
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Incidentally, Wellington's bowling coach is Azhar Abbas...
 
Immenso

Immenso

International Vice-Captain
in Hawke Cup news ....
Hawkes Bay v Taranaki will be the first challenge match.

Taranaki will make its first Hawke Cup Challenge since 2017/18, after having won the right to challenge Hawke's Bay on behalf of the rest of Zone 2.

They will be off to Napier at the end of this month for a rematch with Hawke's Bay - whom they defeated in the opening round of the Furlong Cup this season.

Taranaki had headed into the last round of Central Districts Cricket's Furlong Cup at Pukekura Park yesterday needing only to keep opponent Manawatū at bay in the home two-dayer to ink in the Challenge against the current holder on the opposite coast of CD.

They sealed the deal by defeating Manawatū on the first innings, by 65 runs
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www.nzc.nz

Taranaki eyes up Hawke Cup

Taranaki will make its first Hawke Cup Challenge since 2017/18, after having won the right to challenge Hawke's Bay in the upcoming first Challenge of the summer in Napier
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Immenso

Immenso

International Vice-Captain
So ... that Jacobs six was ommitted from the nzc youtube highlights package.

But. If you want to catch up with the match, minus the allegedly best bit of action on the day (who knows, I still haven't seen it ...) here you are. Bump up the drone-bots views by a click or two and reward them for their ineptness:

 
Zinzan

Zinzan

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Immenso said:
So ... that Jacobs six was ommitted from the nzc youtube highlights package.

But. If you want to catch up with the match, minus the allegedly best bit of action on the day (who knows, I still haven't seen it ...) here you are. Bump up the drone-bots views by a click or two and reward them for their ineptness:

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Just more evidence that whoever puts these highlight packages together knows nothing about cricket.
 
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Canbat

Cricket Spectator
Interesting and honest chat with Jacob Duffy on the roar podcast on the Southland tribune website around his bowling and what happened a couple of years ago when he fell out of favour and how he has managed to increase his pace in the past couple of years. Starts about 15 minutes in.
 
ataraxia

ataraxia

International Coach
Smith and Henry are back today. Canterbury now have 11 guys who have played T20Is for NZ in their squad – and Matt Boyle. I hope they play all five pacers just for the laughs.
 
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SteveNZ

International Coach
Immenso said:
So ... that Jacobs six was ommitted from the nzc youtube highlights package.

But. If you want to catch up with the match, minus the allegedly best bit of action on the day (who knows, I still haven't seen it ...) here you are. Bump up the drone-bots views by a click or two and reward them for their ineptness:

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Outrageous. Why wouldn't a six be on the highlights? I truly don't get it. Are NZC told to make sub-par highlights so it doesn't cannibalise TVNZ's package?
 
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kaetor

U19 Cricketer
Bahnz said:
Lol @ Tom Bruce's average and SR in this season's super smash.
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Still never understood why he never got a decent run for NZ, has consistently been one of, if not the best bat in NZ domestic cricket for the last half a decade. I guess his county stint might have been held against him.
 
Immenso

Immenso

International Vice-Captain
kaetor said:
Still never understood why he never got a decent run for NZ, has consistently been one of, if not the best bat in NZ domestic cricket for the last half a decade. I guess his county stint might have been held against him.
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Never felt he was that close TBH.

Having an outstanding (FC) season 6 months after a settled NZ were crowned as WTC wasn't very good timing. Although that is when Taylor retired and Nicholls started to wobble. (The transition of the test team, Dunno about the other formats)

But he played a lot for NZ A at ListA and has a poor record. The path to the team is through NZA > then JAMODIs and JAM20s. That is where his path stumbled.

I'm not saying he would have been mud, there is still an element of unknown. But in retrospect it was Mitchell and Ravindra who took the test spots that became available, and Young who became 'the extra'. Phillips in the white ball (and Conway became eligable 1 year before Bruce started peaking) . I can understand why he never got an extended run.

Eventually Chapman has gotten the interspersed 'decent run' in the JAM stuff that Bruce might have got if he was 5 years younger.
 
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kaetor

U19 Cricketer
I actually fully agree that Bruce could well have gone the way of many NZ batsmen of the recent era, like the Michael Papps, Jamie How, Peter Fulton types... In many ways to me it is a 'what if' situation. It's just hard watching someone who is just that clearly better than most everybody else - perhaps so because it puts the performances of other players who are potential NZ call ups in perspective.

I honestly expected Chapman to be a total dud, but lately he's been looking the goods!
 
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