New Zealand Off Season 2014

[Kippax]

Cricket: Williamson takes on left handed bowling - Cricket News - Radio Sport - New Zealand's Premier Sports Station

It's understood Williamson's bowling to a top-level with his left-arm, but he modestly says he's showing promise.

 

[Prince EWS]

That would be the greatest thing ever. He would instantly become my favourite cricketer if he dealt with the chucking ban by switching arms. That's awesome.

 

[Hurricane]

This is the strangest news you have ever posted KIppax. When I was growing up my Sister used to enjoy the saying "the truth is stranger than fiction".

 

[hendrix]

I know a guy who taught himself to bowl with his other arm. He's just one of those ridiculously coordinated people. Would be interesting to check his motor cortex.

 

[Blain]

Would he still need to be re-tested if he did switch arms? I guess he does to become "legal" again..

 

[ohnoitsyou]

WAG. Fully expecting kane to take the switch hit to the next level over the next few years.

 

[Hurricane]

I have been thinking about this. I will have an avatar bet with anyone that he never bowls left handed in a test except if it is some bore draw and everyone including the keeper gets a bowl.

 

[ohnoitsyou]

I have been thinking about this. I will have an avatar bet with anyone that he never bowls left handed in a test except if it is some bore draw and everyone including the keeper gets a bowl.

Game, 3 months or 6?

 

[Hurricane]

3 months these are the rules he needs to bowl a 3 over spell before a team has reached 350 runs In the first innings of a test. He has 3 years to accomplish this feat for the purposes of the bet.

 

[Kippax]

Just classic Northern Districts fibbing for conversation, I'm afraid. Ohno's already lost.

Williamson not bowling left armers | Radio New Zealand News

A Northern Districts spokesperson says the comment was a throw away line, but he hasn't been practising bowling left arm in the nets and the closest he's got to it is bowling left arm in hallway cricket.

 

[SteveNZ]

Haha cmon guys...didn't we learn from Jake's alleged sawn off finger plot?

No one has the right to drag down a club match bowling with their non-dominant arm, let alone a Test. And the motor skills required to turn a non-dominant arm into even a bog standard 4th grade option...either Kane drops batting and attempts to become our Ojha or he'll be ready to bowl cack-handed in around 2030. Hope he's still seeing the ball well then.

 

[Kippax]

Firebirds bank on Englishman's yorkers | Stuff.co.nz

He's big, he bowls yorkers and he's now a Wellington Firebird.

Nottinghamshire swing bowler Luke Fletcher doesn't come to the New Zealand scene with a huge reputation, but confidence is high that he will finish the Twenty20 competition with one.

The 26-year-old is one of two imports Wellington will use during November's T20 games and has been signed on the recommendation of Firebirds captain James Franklin, who has been a Nottinghamshire team-mate of Fletcher's in recent months.

Death bowling has been a problem for Wellington in Twenty20 cricket. They have been able to get teams on the ropes but not deliver the knockout blow.

Australian Ben Laughlin was a target, but opted to re-sign with Northern Districts. Now the Firebirds have turned to Fletcher, a burly type who is just under two metres tall.

"Franky mentioned his name so we started to take a lot more notice of him. He's a big boy who reverses his yorker prodigiously and executes it pretty well in games," Wellington coach Jamie Siddons said of Fletcher.

"He'll probably bowl one or two [overs] up front and hit good areas and swing it a little bit, but mainly he gets good bounce. Then when he can execute yorkers from that height [at the death] he causes people problems."

Fletcher has useful numbers behind him. He took 13 wickets at 20.92 and an economy rate of 7.02 for Notts in this year's English Twenty20 competition, which was comparable to his career record.

 

[Kippax]

 

[ohnoitsyou]

3 months these are the rules he needs to bowl a 3 over spell before a team has reached 350 runs In the first innings of a test. He has 3 years to accomplish this feat for the purposes of the bet.

You can have my avatar in 3 years time

 

[Howsie]

Firebirds bank on Englishman's yorkers | Stuff.co.nz

Pretty meh signing. From the little I've seen of Fletcher he looks fairly average, one of those guys you would picture playing Div 2 cricket for 10-15 years. Guess you would get him cheap though.

 

[Hurricane]

You can have my avatar in 3 years time

Haha wouldn't have enforced it knowing its a hoax

 

[Kippax]

Well we're a pretty meh organisation, Howsie. I would've got Matt Dunn.

 

[GGG]

Another 5fer for Jesse, the next Andre Adams.

 

[Bahnz]

I know there's a fairly significant difference in quality between 1st and 2nd division County Cricket, but what does it say about Neil Wagner that he's taken 9 wickets at 73 apiece (with an ER of over 4) at the same time that big Jess has taken 43 wickets at 17 for Essex?

 

[hendrix]

Have been avoiding making the same comment.

Fitness is what will keep him in the team.