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2024–25 NZ domestic season

straw man

Hall of Fame Member
Today might have been a missed opportunity for Northern to shuffle the batting order, against a test-class seam attack and with your two in-form openers gone for ducks, perhaps promote your experienced ex-test opener to stabilise the innings ...
Yeah there's promoting youth, but Pomare and Lellman at 3 and 4 was not it against bowling at Canterbury's level. Admittedly ND's batting lineup just looks too weak today, full stop.

Meanwhile M Boyle has both timing and a heap of power.
 

Immenso

International Vice-Captain
Why is Canterbury vs nd being played in Wellington?
It is a finals week-end. Grand final tomorrow. At the same venue. Both mend and womens comps.

Unfortunately Wellington didn't make the top 3. Although they have in the womens.

But underneath that, the reason for a finals week-end is all about cost minimization. Of setting up the TV outside broadcast equipment. With that decision being easier to swallow due to a little bit of venue certainty in a congested calendar. Plus the double headering of the womens and men's on same day, which gets weird when women may play a neutral final based on tv camera being at the men's venue.
 
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Immenso

International Vice-Captain
Tbh, I don't understand how ND ever qualified second. Even with or without Santner (e.g. what the teams looked like before the blackcaps started filtering back in), they look very weak on paper.

I guess kudos to them for overperforming?
 

Immenso

International Vice-Captain
I guess Tim Southee is still on his full NZC central contract (because he hasn't retired until after the WTC final ...)

Playing ILT20 I believe, rather than fortifying these callow ND boys' frail batting with his renowned batting fortitude.
 

SteveNZ

International Coach
I guess Tim Southee is still on his full NZC central contract (because he hasn't retired until after the WTC final ...)

Playing ILT20 I believe, rather than fortifying these callow ND boys' frail batting with his renowned batting fortitude.
Remember, that's loyal Tim Southee as he was hailed as during his retirement tour. He's only been as loyal as his options
 

jcas0167

International Regular
What a tournament for Matt Boyle. His brother who will he playing for CD tomorrow had gone pretty well too. Canterbury might have the strongest attack in Super Smash history.
 

SteveNZ

International Coach
What a tournament for Matt Boyle. His brother who will he playing for CD tomorrow had gone pretty well too. Canterbury might have the strongest attack in Super Smash history.
Dude is going to play for NZ for sure, he just has that effortless power and looks poised as hell at the crease.

No doubt it's the best attack in Super Smash history, maybe NZ domestic history. Who does it take on? Current day NSW line-up would eclipse it, with Starc/Cummins/Haze/Lyon/Bird/Abbott
 

Immenso

International Vice-Captain
No doubt it's the best attack in Super Smash history, maybe NZ domestic history. Who does it take on? Current day NSW line-up would eclipse it, with Starc/Cummins/Haze/Lyon/Bird/Abbott
No doubt about SS history.

I was wondering if a 1990s Canterbury team could match it 'on paper' in List A.

Best I could see was a Cairns, Bond, C Martin in the same side in 2003, but Cairns was playing as a specialist batsman.
 

wellAlbidarned

International Coach
Tbh, I don't understand how ND ever qualified second. Even with or without Santner (e.g. what the teams looked like before the blackcaps started filtering back in), they look very weak on paper.

I guess kudos to them for overperforming?
ND are a classic T20 home fortress side. The low slow turners of seddon and the bay oval suit their army of finger spinners and nullify opposition pacers.

they don't look good on paper and will get pantsed away from home on spicy decks (see the last two games) but they defintely have clear plan
 

ataraxia

International Coach
ND are a classic T20 home fortress side. The low slow turners of seddon and the bay oval suit their army of finger spinners and nullify opposition pacers.
I think there's a good dolloping of luck there as well. A season or two back they still had Pringle and Joe Walker (and Sodhi), both a fair way in front of Freddy Walker, yet did not do very well.

Edit: well i suppose they won two in a row just ND things
 

wellAlbidarned

International Coach
I think there's a good dolloping of luck there as well. A season or two back they still had Pringle and Joe Walker (and Sodhi), both a fair way in front of Freddy Walker, yet did not do very well.

Edit: well i suppose they won two in a row just ND things
in the past decade ND have won 20 out of 30 games at seddon park. That's an exceptional home record.
 

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