*** Official New Zealand Domestic Cricket 2011/2012 ***

[Howsie]

Hey guys, Phlegm scrawling all over Howsie's posts here. In this "original post" you'll find the contract lists (cheers Auckland Cricket) and the domestic schedule. I also hope to put up links to the scorecards in here. There's lots of little things I reckon we can implement to make this thread more awesome than it already is. An article list is now available below. Cheers crew.

UPDATED 5/11/2011: Now starting a video list which you will find below. Send in anything you find over the season!

UPDATED 7/11/2011: Scorecards are now being added. Don't forget to check out the twitter feed for Northern Districts matches and collapses below.

UPDATED 14/11/2011: Two new twitter feeds added; one for ND and another for Canterbury.

New Zealand Domestic Contracts for 2011/2012

Auckland Aces

Added:
Brad Cachopa

Complete list:
Michael Bates
Andrew de Boorder
Brad Cachopa
Colin de Grandhomme
Gareth Hopkins
Anaru Kitchen
Bruce Martin
Tim McIntosh
Colin Munro
Jeet Raval
Bhupinder Singh
Daryl Tuffey

Canterbury Wizards

Added
Willie Lonsdale
Logan van Beek

Complete list:
Todd Astle
Dean Brownlie
Andrew Ellis
Peter Fulton
Matt Henry
Tom Latham
Willie Lonsdale
Ryan McCone
Richard Sherlock
Shanan Stewart
Logan van Beek
George Worker

Central Stags

Added:
Greg Todd

Complete list:
Doug Bracewell
Jamie How
Peter Ingram
Michael Mason
Adam Milne
Kieran Noema-Barnett
Tarun Nethula
Mathew Sinclair
Bevan Small
Greg Todd
Kruger van Wyk
Ben Wheeler

Northern Knights

Added
Bradley Scott

Complete list
Graeme Aldridge
Brent Arnel
James Baker
Anton Devcich
Brook Hatwell
James Marshall
Peter McGlashan
Daryl Mitchell
Bradley Scott
Anurag Verma
Brad Wilson
Joseph Yovich

Otago Volts

Added:
Anthony Bullick
James McMillan

Complete list
Nick Beard
Michael Bracewell
Darren Broom
Anthony Bullick
Ian Butler
Craig Cumming
Derek De Boorder
James McMillan
Aaron Redmond
Warren McSkimming
Neil Wagner
Sam Wells

Wellington Firebirds

Added:
Leighton Burtt

Complete list:
Joe Austin-Smellie
Harry Boam
Josh Brodie
Leighton Burtt
Grant Elliott
James Franklin
Mark Gillespie
Stephen Murdoch
Iain O'Brien
Michael Papps
Jeetan Patel
Stewart Rhodes

2011/12 BLACKCAPS Contracted Players

Hamish Bennett - Canterbury Wizards
Trent Boult - Northern Knights
Neil Broom - Otago Volts
Daniel Flynn - Northern Knights
Martin Guptill - Auckland Aces
Chris Martin - Auckland Aces
Brendon McCullum - Otago Volts
Nathan McCullum - Otago Volts
Andy McKay - Wellington Firebirds
Kyle Mills - Auckland Aces
Rob Nicol - Canterbury Wizards
Jacob Oram - Central Stags
Jesse Ryder - Wellington Firebirds
Tim Southee - Northern Knights
Ross Taylor - Central Stags
Daniel Vettori - Northern Knights
BJ Watling - Northern Knights
Kane Williamson - Northern Knights
Luke Woodcock - Wellington Firebirds
Reece Young - Canterbury Wizards

New Zealand Domestic Fixtures 2011/2012

Plunket Shield: New Zealand Cricket - Domestic Schedules
Men’s One-Day: New Zealand Cricket - Domestic Schedules
HRV Cup: New Zealand Cricket - Domestic Schedules

The "Keep Domestic Cricket on Radiosport" Petition

Radiosport is canning all live commentary of the Plunket Shield. If you wish to sign the petition to get them to sharpen up their act, click the link below.

Petition Keep Domestic Cricket on Radio Sport

In the meantime, follow what I'm sure will be a torrid season for Northern Districts on Twitter

Twitter

And here's an even better one with almost ball by ball commentary

http://twitter.com/#!/BigKnightsFan

And one for Canterbury

http://twitter.com/#!/mattrichens

List of Articles

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/4921666/Aussies-name-hots-up-Wellington-coaching-job/]Aussie's name hots up Wellington coaching job | Stuff.co.nz
Johnson back for second dig as coach (page 1) | Otago Daily Times Online News : Otago, South Island, New Zealand & International News
Another Mitchell making his mark in sport | Stuff.co.nz
Jeets' English stint raises (false) hope for Wellington
Cricket: Adams leads tallies again - Cricket - NZ Herald News
England news: Steven Finn to join Otago for a month | England Cricket News | ESPN Cricinfo
Young quick Scott Kugglejuggle likely to debut for Wellington in their opening match.
Northern Districts announce their round one squad. Southee included.
Canterbury face Plunket Shield favourites | Stuff.co.nz
Adams has his annual "NZC sux" moan, this time featuring old people
Northern Districts name a depressingly good side for round two. It even has batsmen.
Jess wants to keep bowling
Domestic sides might become private franchises
Azhar Mahmood joins Auckland for the HRV Cup
Michael Mason makes a comeback, owns Otago, then retires again.
NZC announce live streaming. Computer desks nationwide rise six inches.
Iain O'Brien poised to return. Doesn't.

Video List

Got a video? Post the link and I'll put it up here.

Matt Henry - Five for 23 on debut as a replacement - YouTube (last season)
Neil Wagner - Record five First-Class wickets in a six ball over - YouTube (last season)

Scorecards

Round 1

Canterbury vs Otago:182/4 | CANTERBURY WIZARDS vs OTAGO VOLTS
Northern Districts vs Auckland:244 | NORTHERN KNIGHTS vs AUCKLAND ACES
Central Districts vs Wellington:377/4 | CENTRAL STAGS vs WELLINGTON FIREBIRDS

Round 2

http://scoring.blackcaps.co.nz/livescoring/match1183/scorecard.aspx
http://scoring.blackcaps.co.nz/livescoring/match1184/scorecard.aspx
http://scoring.blackcaps.co.nz/livescoring/match1182/scorecard.aspx

Howise's post starts here.

Aussie's name hots up Wellington coaching job | Stuff.co.nz

"We are going to head home for a couple of months but the job at Wellington does interest me.

"I only put my CV in with Wellington about three or four days ago.

I can imagine this will excite Athlai somewhat

 

[Athlai]

Wellington are basically Bangladesh. Makes perfect sense.

 

[Smudge]

Vaughan Johnson is back as Otago coach. Never impressed me too much when I got coaching from him back in the early-mid 1990s, but his actual record is very strong, and it's good to have another local fella taking the reins again.

http://www.odt.co.nz/sport/cricket/164658/johnson-back-second-dig-coach

 

[Mike5181]

Martin Crowe looked in good shape on the news.

 

[Hurricane]

Vaughan Johnson is back as Otago coach. Never impressed me too much when I got coaching from him back in the early-mid 1990s, but his actual record is very strong, and it's good to have another local fella taking the reins again.

Johnson back for second dig as coach (page 1) | Otago Daily Times Online News Keep Up to Date Local, National New Zealand & International News

He was upper hutts coach for a while. He watched me bowl - but walked away after I bowled two loose ones in a row. They were just marginally loose as well.

My other memory is me fending off a nasty delivery from my throat and him asking me if I was ok in the nets or did I want to come out of there. Which was very kind of him to look after my welfare. I said I would be ok in there.
The first team bowlers took it easy on me after that delivery however and pitched them up.

Last memory is there was a kid in the third team for batting. Vaughn took one look at him bowl - and 2 months later he was opening the bowling for the firsts. Took 30 wickets in Wellington's premier division the next season which aint bad going.. (story slightly embellished)

 

[Hurricane]

Ian O'Brien back to play for Wellington and possibly NZ. Man if he does make it back to NZ and can play at his old form - we would have a chance of beating aussie maybe - or at least drawing a game.

Mccullum
Guptil
Williamsom
Taylor
Ryder
Someone
Young
Vettori
Southee
OBrien
Martin


Also Vettori - to only play tests for the forseeable future - says that he wants to preserve his body. But will he play list A stuff instead which is presumably just as taxing - or will he just play FC for ND.

 

[Athlai]

Wellington will win next season. Heard it here first.

 

[Mike5181]

Ian O'Brien back to play for Wellington and possibly NZ. Man if he does make it back to NZ and can play at his old form - we would have a chance of beating aussie maybe - or at least drawing a game.

Mccullum
Guptil
Williamsom
Taylor
Ryder
Someone
Young
Vettori
Southee
OBrien
Martin


Also Vettori - to only play tests for the forseeable future - says that he wants to preserve his body. But will he play list A stuff instead which is presumably just as taxing - or will he just play FC for ND.

It's a bit hard to see our opening bowlers being 35 and nearly 37 tbh. He should never have left when he did.

 

[Somerset]

Worthwhile seeing how O'Brien actually fares for Wellington before discussing his chances of a national recall IMO - 18 months out of the international game, of which hes probably spent more time on Test Match Sofa than actually playing for Middlesex (if I recall correctly he only played 10 or so matches for them). Throw in his age too, and although I like the guy I have some reservations about him playing for NZ again - after all I doubt he has more than a year or two of high intensity cricket left in him.

 

[centurymaker]

Ian O'Brien back to play for Wellington and possibly NZ. Man if he does make it back to NZ and can play at his old form - we would have a chance of beating aussie maybe - or at least drawing a game.
.

Heard Richardson mention that on crowd goes wild.
I'm quite glad that he's back. I hope he's still relatively quick.

 

[Smudge]

Got an interesting email from SKY asking me to fill in a survey about a new sports channel. Not sure if the link will work here for non-Sky subscribers, but worth posting, in case anyone else can fill it out.

http://se.buzzchannelgroup.com/default.aspx?u=a572842a872d43f7a4f40704c4d75bf9

Looks like they'll be getting feeds of live games in India and preview/review shows along with magazine-style shows, as well as potentially some Aussie and NZ first-class cricket. I suggested to them the more tests they could get on board from overseas, the better.

 

[_Ed_]

That all sounds pretty promising!

 

[Hurricane]

I would be keen to watch county cricket but wouldn't want to watch Aussie FC. Would find it frustrating to watch how many good players they have compared to us. Would pay an extra $15 a month to watch NZ FC cricket however.

 

[Hurricane]

What is Ross Taylors NZ cricket contract worth - is it $220K?

 

[Chewie]

well to answer that we'd have to know where in the 20 players he is ranked which we don't know.

 

[_Ed_]

He'd have to be at the top of that list now, wouldn't he?

 

[Tungsten]

I see Corey Anderson has signed with ND. Cant see why Lee germon is surprised, they didn't offer him a contract because he has been injured a lot the last 3 seasons. No contract means no faith in his ability to perform this season. Either they keep investing in him or they dont.

 

[Chewie]

He'd have to be at the top of that list now, wouldn't he?

Not necessarily, your captain doesn't have to be your best player. Having said that I'd imagine he'd probably be there at the top. No idea what that pay is though

 

[Prince EWS]

Not necessarily, your captain doesn't have to be your best player

You'd imagine he'd get a bonus for being captain though.

 

[Hurricane]

Ross Taylor always had his eye on top job | Stuff.co.nz

Found it

"Soon to be New Zealand's highest-paid player [base salary $177,000, captain's bonus, $50,000, plus match fees]"

Sounds like his total package just from NZC would be like $300 000 including match fees?

I wanted to find this stat because I would like to make the point that the Blackcaps captain is underpaid. His job is just as complex as a CEO - he has to do media and PR and lead some potentially challenging people. Should be making a $1M - not to mention the fact that if he performs he generates millions of dollars in terms of social good.