NZ domestic season 2023/24

[DougieRydal]

Robbie O'Donnell leaving Auckland for 'a fresh start'

Canterbury or Wellington?

 

[SteveNZ]

I honestly wonder whether guys go out of Auckland because of cost of living, traffic etc. That's got to be a consideration going forward - your contracts are going to buy you a considerable more amount of time and necessities elsewhere

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Robbie O'Donnell leaving Auckland for 'a fresh start'

Canterbury or Wellington?

Captaincy role available in Otago

 

[RMBolton]

Robbie O'Donnell leaving Auckland for 'a fresh start'

Canterbury or Wellington?

It's ND

 

[DougieRydal]

 

[_Ed_]

No Kuggeleijn? Pleased to see it, but I wonder why.

 

[ataraxia]

Pleasantly surprised to see Popli still there even after the gain of Robbie O'Donnell. Suppose it might be to do with the presumable loss of Seifert to franchise. No Pringle nor J Walker, and Z Gibson and Bocock are the other omissions.

 

[RMBolton]

No Kuggeleijn? Pleased to see it, but I wonder why.

Leagues are interested in him. Probably ILT20.

Bad news is Seifert is in the same boat. He's in a terrible spot - he can't get a central contract because he can't get into the ODI team, in the one format where he's a regular he's seen as a backup when he should be a frontliner, & because of that leagues are interested in him.

 

[Flem274*]

When do ND announce their batting contracts?

 

[_Ed_]

I'm assuming Josh Brown is not the Australian T20 slogger of the same name.

 

[Neil Young]

Tim Pringle is a strange omission.

 

[Immenso]

Wow, Wagner still going.

 

[NZTailender]

Wow, Wagner still going.

He's going to go until he's used as sawdust to cover slippery parts of the popping crease

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Probably worth splitting the posts since Dougie's ND announcement into a 2024-25 thread?

Wellington - Dudding in from CD, Newton retired, Milne moves to Casual contract, 1 tbd

The 2024/25 First-Round Contracts for the Wellington Firebirds are:

Muhammad Abbas (Karori CC)
Liam Dudding (Hawke’s Bay)
Nick Greenwood (Taita District)
James Hartshorn (Karori CC)
Troy Johnson (Hutt District)
Nick Kelly (Johnsonville CC)
Callum McLachlan (Upper Hutt United)
Iain McPeake (Hutt District)
Tim Robinson (Onslow CC)
Gareth Severin (Johnsonville CC)
Michael Snedden (Karori CC)
Nathan Smith (Johnsonville CC)
Peter Younghusband (Karori CC)
Logan van Beek (Taita District)

2024/25 BLACKCAPS Contracted Players:

Michael Bracewell (Eastern Suburbs)
Tom Blundell (Karori CC)
Devon Conway (VUWCC)
Rachin Ravindra (Hutt District)
Ben Sears (Hutt District)


CD - Hay, Rance retired, Dudding out to Wellington, 3 still tbd

2024/25 Contracts — First Round

[In alphabetical order]

Jack Boyle — Hawke’s Bay, top order batter
Doug Bracewell — Hawke’s Bay, pace allrounder
Tom Bruce — Taranaki, right-hand batter, spin bowler
Will Clark — Hawke’s Bay, allrounder
Josh Clarkson — Nelson, pace allrounder
Dane Cleaver — Manawatū, wicketkeeper-batter
Joey Field — Hawke’s Bay, pace bowler
Curtis Heaphy — Manawatū, top order batter
Jayden Lennox — Hawke’s Bay, left-arm spinner
Brett Randell — pace bowler
Brad Schmulian — Hawke’s Bay, right-hand batter, leg-spin bowler
Blair Tickner — Hawke’s Bay, pace bowler
Ray Toole — Manawatū, left-arm pace bowler

2024/25 BLACKCAPS Contracted Players
Ajaz Patel — Hawke’s Bay, left-arm spinner
Will Young — Taranaki, batter

Auckland - In BJ Jacobs from Canterbury; Mike Sclanders, Jock McKenzie contracted, Out Robbie O'Donnell 1 tbd

Auckland ACES Contracts 2024/25 – First Round

Adi Ashok (Suburbs New Lynn)
Louis Delport (East Coast Bays)
Danru Ferns (Takapuna)
Cam Fletcher (East Coast Bays)
Matt Gibson (Cornwall)
Bevon-John Jacobs
Harjot Johal (Eden Roskill)
Simon Keene (North Shore)
Ben Lister (Suburbs New Lynn)
Jock McKenzie (North Shore)
Will O’Donnell (Takapuna)
Mike Sclanders (Takapuna)
Sean Solia (Suburbs New Lynn)
Quinn Sunde (Takapuna)
George Worker (Cornwall)

Sclanders played a couple of games for Auckland in 2022/23. Top order batting import from RSA.

Canterbury - Out: Leo Carter; In: Matt Rowe, 1tbd

– Chad Bowes (Sydenham)
– Matt Boyle (Old Boys Collegians)
– Sean Davey (Old Boys Collegians)
– Zak Foulkes (Darfield)
– Mitch Hay (Burnside West University)
– Rhys Mariu (Ohoka)
– Kenny McClure (East Shirley)
– Cole McConchie (Riccarton)
– Angus McKenzie (Old Boys Collegians)
– Edward Nuttall (Old Boys Collegians)
– Michael Rae (Sydenham)
– Michael Rippon (Sydenham)
– Matt Rowe (Sydenham)
– Fraser Sheat (Sefton)
– Henry Shipley (Darfield)

Otago: Out - Rutherford (retirement) In: Carter, Todd (1 tbd)

Matt Bacon
Max Chu
Leo Carter
Jacob Cumming
Dean Foxcroft
Luke Georgeson
Jake Gibson
Andrew Hazeldine
Llew Johnson
Ben Lockrose
Jarrod McKay
Travis Muller
Thorn Parkes
Dale Phillips
Jamal Todd

Glenn Phillips (New Zealand)
Jacob Duffy (New Zealand)

 

[Immenso]

Interesting Rowe getting a contract straight up in first year of senior cricket. Although I use term 'senior cricket' loosely, as he is CD roots, and in those provinces senior and Hawke Cup level cricket is common for the top end school boys.

Still. Not common to get a contract that soon.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Interesting Rowe getting a contract straight up in first year of senior cricket. Although I use term 'senior cricket' loosely, as he is CD roots, and in those provinces senior and Hawke Cup level cricket is common for the top end school boys.

Still. Not common to get a contract that soon.

Yeah, they must rate him. The article [on Cricket Canterbury's website] said something about picking him up whilst he's at University at Lincoln. Hook him in now and gain him for the long term, perhaps. He's the cousin of CD and NZ bowler Hannah Rowe, btw.

 

[Howsie]

Tim Pringle not receiving a contract is umm…. Interesting. Was named ND’s player of the season last year for the Super Smash. Is obviously playing a lot of international cricket for the Dutch. Sounds like he needed surgery during the winter but surely you still pay him in some sort of good faith measure?

 

[Athlai]

Whos in for Domestic Selector 24/25? Probably start that up in August

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Tim Pringle not receiving a contract is umm…. Interesting. Was named ND’s player of the season last year for the Super Smash. Is obviously playing a lot of international cricket for the Dutch. Sounds like he needed surgery during the winter but surely you still pay him in some sort of good faith measure?

Agreed. Must be something going on there behind the scenes. Or someone's adding him as one of the last few contracts and there's a fight over his signature, perhaps.

 

[RMBolton]

Interesting Rowe getting a contract straight up in first year of senior cricket. Although I use term 'senior cricket' loosely, as he is CD roots, and in those provinces senior and Hawke Cup level cricket is common for the top end school boys.

Still. Not common to get a contract that soon.

Ol' "Pole Hunter" & Schreuder seemed to be the standouts from the U19WC Class of '24.