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2022-2023 New Zealand First-Class Draft

Kippax

Kippax

Cricketer Of The Year
Ferguson selected for Auckland if @Chewie @Flem274* @Athlai are keen to recruit him.

No Sears or Bhula in Wellington's squad, or Guptill or Briggs for Auckland, so Athlai's team would activate the new player added.
 
Kippax

Kippax

Cricketer Of The Year
Pleased to see Bowes continued his bold scheme to escape the journeyman brokie matrix, attacking every knock with speed until he succeeds.

Athlai is piling up plenty of runs to keep his nose in front though (Solia and Santner).
 
Kippax

Kippax

Cricketer Of The Year
It seems unfortunate that Ataraxia's bench is looking the way it is on the sheet. I can't find the post in this thread where he's confirmed he genuinely wanted the bench to be looking like that.

Lister is confirmed as out for another round due to illness. I may have to intervene here and slot in Milne at the top of the Ataraxia bench.
 
Kippax

Kippax

Cricketer Of The Year
Straw Man is still on a razor's edge with that. He'd want CdG to not gain 12 more bowling points than batting points from this point. Otherwise he cops a loss of 252 (Fisher's points).

With Athlai's team, Delport isn't getting picked. If he did play before the end of the season, the loss for Athlai is likely to be only 70-odd points (Sears' or Younghusband's points). Santner currently 262 batting and 185 bowling, so that would need to flip for Athlai to cop the loss of a second player.
 
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Kippax

Kippax

Cricketer Of The Year
Yes, Auckland picking three specialist spinners seems symptomatic of them doing a psych-out job on themselves before a game has even begun, on account of Molyneux Park's reputation for being a real drag for first-class play, like batting on a muddy riverbed.

Stuff

www.stuff.co.nz www.stuff.co.nz

Plenty of money was put into an upgrade though, you see.
www.odt.co.nz

Renovation, extension of Molyneux Park wicket under way

They are digging in at Molyneux Park. But this is no stodgy, head-down effort at the crease. We are talking heavy machinery, big holes, shovels,...
www.odt.co.nz www.odt.co.nz

So Chapman's weakness still can't be hidden by the slow Kakanui track, he gets bounced out by Jacob Duffy.
 
Kippax

Kippax

Cricketer Of The Year
Also, Delport did make a very compelling case for some shoehorning back into this Shield XI -

 
Kippax

Kippax

Cricketer Of The Year
I really wish they'd made a simple tweak to that team name, so one of my best guys could've been involved in the tour without any phone calls to ICC admin. Dean Foxcroft's XI, or if that's too much, just New Zeal XI.
 
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Kippax

Kippax

Cricketer Of The Year
After Robinson and Cumming really failed to deliver the goods, it's great to see a future braai guy making an 80 on debut and now 108* in his fourth innings at the level.

 
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vandem

State Captain
NZ A vs Aust A games listed as first class on NZC website, will we add these into the draft calculations?

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Kippax

Kippax

Cricketer Of The Year
Chewie said:
hmm Sneddon's batting has meant that I lose all of his points unless he bowls really well in the next round
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The rule was never written for secret Sneddens like this. I feel bad about it. Check out those lofted cover drives for six though.
 
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