**Official** New Zealand Domestic Season 2013/2014

[African Monkey]

Greg Hay with a FC century. I'm sure it's been asked many times on here before but why did he get dropped for 4 years from domestic cricket for? I remember him trying his luck up here in Auckland for a season to no avail.

 

[hendrix]

Batting at 4... hmmm. Nice to see though.

read in the paper that he's been dropped 3 times already.

 

[Flem274*]

Man that bloke keeping Hay out of the team this year must have been a good player.

 

[Athlai]

Raval slightly more factual than he was a few days ago.

 

[African Monkey]

Plenty of century makers today, most notably for SteveNZ's hero Colin Munro.

 

[Flem274*]

Hayyyyyy

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

That acclaimed ND batting order failing to do the business 2nd time around.

Forecast looks dreadful for tomorrow in Whangarei though. ND may get out of jail.

 

[ohnoitsyou]

Whats Hay like at playing spin? Just might be an outside chance as a reserve for the WI if we are to go by the colin munro method of selection

 

[Flem274*]

Good by Plunket Shield standards from what I've seen. PS spinners not a high standard though.

Slow wickets will suit him and that backlift, despite him loving the back foot. Less risk of being beaten for pace on the slower ones.

Probably still a few blokes ahead of him though.

 

[ohnoitsyou]

Yeah played too few games for the double to have much of an impact. If your selectors didn't suck and he had played a full season so far it would be a different story though.

Still, the only middle order bat to really perform this season is franklin (lol) and maybe munro (lol) as well. Ryder pulling a ryder emptied the cupboard over night.

 

[Prince EWS]

Such a great day. I can't wait to get stuck into it in the vault.

 

[Bahnz]

Bugger, was really looking forward to rubbing Howsie's nose in a massive Wellinnings victory.

 

[Flem274*]

grant elliott 5/33

#neverforget

 

[Flem274*]

just begun watching Hay's doube. Pitch looks a bit nicer to bowl on than the scorecard suggests. Bennett the only real hype bowler fit and playing on either side though. Still, looks good enough for an Ellis 6/50 trollolol.

 

[Flem274*]

Filtered it to the battle between Hay and Bennett and it was a good one. When Bennett was in the channel he drew some plays and misses (there were also some good leaves) but Bennett kept ruining it by straying legside or trying to bounce Hay out.

I'm now pretty sold that bouncing Hay out is a waste of time. Just don't give the bloke anything on the back foot.

Hay played Bennett pretty well in his weird little way I guess considering Bennett bowled well enough.

 

[Immenso]

Good battle going on at Dunedin. M Bracewell attempting to anchor the chase.

Otago need 50 with 2 wickets left and 20 odd overs,

Bracewell currently on 89* off 218 balls. But at one point he had 9* odd about 105 balls IIRC.

Bit of a strange innings.

Edit. Doh! They're trying to avoid innings defeat. Makes much more sense!

 

[Kippax]

Nah 3rd innings, this is.

 

[Kippax]

Wuzids clinch the Shield.

 

[Immenso]

Well done Gary Stead, and congrats to Canterbury.

Plunket Shield winners, all time is now:

Auckland 22
Wellington 20
Canterbury 17
Otago 13
CD 9
ND 8

 

[Kippax]

Actually, Otago need to survive to make Canty's lead over Auckland unassailable? Not sure.