Kippax
Cricketer Of The Year
2023/24 New Zealand First-Class Draft
Drafting to start on Friday 11 August.
August 2023 to April 2024:
Aus A vs. NZ A (away) 1st
Aus A vs. NZ A (away) 2nd
Shield Wk. 1 (pre-Christmas Shield rounds coincide with the ODI World Cup)
Shield Wk. 2
Shield Wk. 3
Shield Wk. 4
Ban vs. NZ (away) 1st
Ban vs. NZ (away) 2nd
Additional NZ A or NZ XI (must be official first-class)
NZ XI vs. SA
NZ vs. SA 1st
NZ vs. SA 2nd
Shield Wk. 5
Shield Wk. 6
NZ vs. Aus 1st
NZ vs. Aus 2nd
Shield Wk. 7
Shield Wk. 8
- A team of eleven, with five reserves who are activated for games missed to injury, illness, suspension, retirement, most types of absence (e.g. with a Test squad (not LOI or T20I), personal reasons, a mainstay or kingpin domestic bowler given a week of rest. Not including: Player dropped on merit, T20 contracts, touring with a NZ limited overs squad, international player workload concerns.
- There must be a realistic game on the schedule that's missed by the unavailable player for the replacement player to become active. He's then deactivated by the starting XI player becoming active or available for selection again at major association level or higher (any format).
- A player's highest eight points hauls during the season will count towards his total.
- Active bench players will take an injured/unavailable starting XI player's spot for the purposes of the eight-game limit, reducing the starting XI player's game limit to a revised number under eight.
- Any spin bowler not selected on merit for any given Plunket Shield match can be classified as unselected (UNS) and a player on the reserve bench is to be made active in his place.
- The replacements won't operate on a 'similar type of cricketer' basis. If your highest bench player is inactive in first-class play, the next player down will be made active.
- Points gained in Tests against Bangladesh (away), Australia and South Africa will carry a 1.5x prestige bonus.
- Only four players selected in the playing XI can score bowling points at 1x. Two more can be nominated to score bowling points at 0.5x.
- Your five reserves can be as tilted towards batting points or bowling points as you wish. Activated reserve players will score bowling points at 1x.
- A reserve wicketkeeper who becomes active will not gain his wk catching/stumping/run out points unless it's your designated wicketkeeper who is injured/unavailable.
- Your designated wicketkeeper is the only player who can collect the wicketkeeping catches, stumpings and run outs on a scorecard.
- A designated wicketkeeper who fails to collect a wicketkeeping dismissal in a match where 300.1 overs (minimum) were bowled will accrue a -16 penalty (this is placed in the fielding column).
- Drawn matches, also matches with a forfeited innings, with fewer than 100.1 overs bowled will be recorded as a 0.25 entry in the games played column, fewer than 200.1 overs bowled will be a 0.5 entry, fewer than 300.1 will be a 0.75 entry. Substitutions can also be denoted by 0.25 (before the 101st over), 0.50 (before the 201st), or 0.75 (before the 301st).
General scoring system
Batting Points:
Each Run Scored: 1 point
Blunter's Bonus: Only the players placed at 1, 2 or 3 in your batting order are eligible for this bonus, also one nominated top-order reserve player (the 1, 2 or 3 must be INJ, UNA etc.). One bonus point per FIVE deliveries faced (with wides disregarded, as per the 'B' column on scorecards) within the first 30 overs of any innings of a match.
The NZC video stream (rewindable) or Cricinfo's scoring can be useful for determining how many deliveries a batsman had faced as he entered a 31st over.
Bowling Points:
CLASS A WICKETS:
40 pts --- 60 pts in a 1.5x Test --- must be dismissed for a sub-100 score
Williamson
Conway
S. Smith
Labuschagne
CLASS B:
Since the start of the 2020/21 season, six or more centuries (worldwide), or 1200+ runs at a 40+ ave in NZ
30 pts --- 45 pts in a 1.5x Test --- must be dismissed for a sub-100 score --- the choice of overseas players wasn't based on stats
Warner
Khawaja
Head
Elgar
Mushfiqur
Mominul
R O'Donnell
Raval
de Grandhomme
Young
Bruce
Ravindra
Blundell
Kelly
Latham
Nicholls
Mitchell
McConchie
G Phillips
CLASS C:
26 pts --- 39 pts in a 1.5x Test --- must be dismissed for a sub-100 score
J Carter
Chapman
W O'Donnell
Popli
Rutherford
Markram
Bavuma
Shakib
Litton
Tamim
All Other Wickets:
1-5 bat: 22 pts (33 in a 1.5x Test)
6-7 bat: 18 pts (27)
8-11 bat: 10 pts (15)
Innings bowling average 20 or under: 8 Points (min. 5 overs)
Bowling economy rate 4 or above: -8 Points (min. 5 overs, bowling average must be above 30)
Kiwi Spinners' Economy Bonus: 1 point per maiden bowled in New Zealand
Fielding Points:
Per catch: 10 points
Per WK catch: 8 points
Per stumping: 10 points
Per run out: 10 points (two or more names on scorecard: 5 points each)
Bonus Mini-Contests:
Absolute Spud (-100 points): Drafted first XI player (including the players dropped to reserves or released from squad mid-season) with the worst ratio of points to games played.
Uncapped Emerging Player (200 bonus points): The highest points tally collected from a player born in 2000 or later. Eligible would be Chu ('00), Keene ('01), Sunde ('01), Zeb ('03 or '04), Field ('00), Heaphy ('03), W Clark ('01), O'Rourke ('01), Ashok ('02), Abbas ('03), Vishvaka ('00), Robinson ('02), Severin ('00), Tashkoff ('00), Kristian Clarke ('01), Pringle ('02), Parkes ('00), Cumming ('03), Lockrose ('00), L Johnson ('00), White ('01), McKay ('00), Mitch Hay, ('00), Foulkes ('02), etc.
Heef's Wreath (Recognising Great Work by HeathDavisSpeed) (200 bonus points): Calculated after the other bonus awards and penalties have been applied, the drafter with the highest ratio of points per game (8 games max. per player, includes active reserve players).
Players offered central contracts for 2023-24:
Finn Allen, Tom Blundell, Michael Bracewell, Mark Chapman, Devon Conway, Lockie Ferguson, Matt Henry, Kyle Jamieson, Tom Latham, Adam Milne, Daryl Mitchell, Henry Nicholls, Glenn Phillips, Mitchell Santner, Ish Sodhi, Tim Southee, Blair Tickner, Neil Wagner, Kane Williamson, Will Young.
Finalised 2023/24 Men’s Domestic contracts:
Auckland: Adithya Ashok, Cole Briggs, Louis Delport, Danru Ferns, Cam Fletcher, Matt Gibson, Ryan Harrison, Harjot Johal, Simon Keene, Ben Lister, Robbie O’Donnell, Will O’Donnell, Sean Solia, Quinn Sunde, George Worker, Yahya Zeb
Northern Districts: Joe Carter, Katene Clarke, Kristian Clarke, Henry Cooper, Matthew Fisher, Zak Gibson, Brett Hampton, Scott Johnston, Scott Kuggeleijn, Bharat Popli, Tim Pringle, Jeet Raval, Tim Seifert, Fred Walker, Joe Walker
Central Districts: Jack Boyle, Doug Bracewell, Tom Bruce, Will Clark, Josh Clarkson, Dane Cleaver, Liam Dudding, Joey Field, Greg Hay, Curtis Heaphy, Jayden Lennox, Ajaz Patel, Brett Randell, Brad Schmulian, Ray Toole, Bayley Wiggins
Wellington: Muhammad Abbas, Nick Greenwood, James Hartshorn, Troy Johnson, Nick Kelly, Callum McLachlan, Iain McPeake, Rachin Ravindra, Tim Robinson, Gareth Severin, Ben Sears, Michael Snedden, Nathan Smith, Jesse Tashkoff, Peter Younghusband, Logan van Beek
Canterbury: Chad Bowes, Matt Boyle, Leo Carter, Sean Davey, Zak Foulkes, Mitch Hay, Rhys Mariu, Cole McConchie, Angus McKenzie, Edward Nuttall, Ken McClure, Will O’Rourke, Michael Rae, Michael Rippon, Fraser Sheat, Henry Shipley
Otago: Matt Bacon, Max Chu, Jacob Cumming, Jacob Duffy, Dean Foxcroft, Luke Georgeson, Jake Gibson, Andrew Hazeldine, Llew Johnson, Ben Lockrose, Jarrod McKay, Travis Muller, Thorn Parkes, Dale Phillips, Hamish Rutherford, Ollie White
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