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

Kippax

Kippax

Cricketer Of The Year
Yeah Auckland to fight the Wuzids off with a stick and protect their NRR here, thrash the Stags. Smarter agribusiness.
 
Flem274*

Flem274*

123/5
Cricket: NZ A to tour England - Sport - NZ Herald News

A New Zealand A team will tour England in July for both one-day and three-day matches.
NZ A will play a tri-series of 50-over games against Sri Lanka A and the England Lions, as their A team is known.

They then play the European associate nations who have qualified for next year's World Cup before wrapping up the six-week trip with three-day fixtures against English counties Kent and Surrey before heading home on September 3.

It follows the A team's tour of India and Sri Lanka late last year.

The focus will be on selecting players who are seen as candidates to make the national team, and give them a chance to show their ability in different playing conditions.

''This is another part of that programme,'' New Zealand Cricket's head of operations Lindsay Crocker said.

''This tour will give players a wonderful opportunity to continue their own development and push for higher honours.''

The squad has not be picked yet.
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Good to see NZ A on tour again, though it's disappointing we won't be playing against either the Lions or SL in 3 day games.
 
Kippax

Kippax

Cricketer Of The Year
Yeah, sort of a "last boarding call for World Cup hopefuls" tour, maybe. Littlejohn always said our money went a lot further in Asia than Europe.
 
Immenso

Immenso

International Vice-Captain
Re: the A tour.

I went from delight at first seeing the headline, to anger when seeing the itinerary. This is a waste of money. We dont need an ODI A tour, we just sent Nicol, Broom,Devcich, Ellis, Hira etc on the monsoon tour. We blooded Neesham, Munro, Anderson, Mitch last summer.

We have sufficient ODI depth (despite our ranking), we have also tested right down to where the depth stops (Nicol). we already treat plenty of our ODI series as A tours anyway .....

The ICC would be better off arranging an A team quad series tournament in the UAE, rather than give grants to NZC if they are going to piss it away like this.
 
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BackFootPunch

BackFootPunch

International 12th Man
We do have an ODI World Cup early next year to be fair, so I'm not overly concerned at our players getting plenty of exposure to that format.

Also, with the Ford Trophy now being held at the end of the season here no one who performs in that comp gets an opportunity to play ODIs during the home summer so it'll probably work well in that the guys who stick their hand up in March then get selected for the A tour in July/August.
 
Kippax

Kippax

Cricketer Of The Year
Agree more with Immenso I think. Spending your ICC grant so that....Jeets can bowl to Devcich, in 20 degree temps, with a white Kookaburra.

The scheduling of the competition is interesting, coming as it does right in the middle of the Royal London One-Day Cup – overlapping the fourth Test between England and India at Old Trafford as well. Counties could be down to the bare bones with both Test and Lions players absent from their squads during the congested List A block – a new feature of the county calendar next season.

Many counties will also have an extra fixture to fit in to that schedule against one of the touring sides, with eight counties assigned fixtures against either New Zealand or Sri Lanka A. But, while the drain on resource may be undesirable for the county coaches, the administrators will be hoping that the lure of up-and-coming international prospects appearing at their grounds will be a boost to gate receipts.

It’s also quite a handy exercise for the touring parties, giving both sides a sizeable fixture list with which to hone their skills in English conditions. For New Zealand and Sri Lanka, this could result in a couple of hopefuls putting their names forward for the 2015 World Cup, while counties may find a gem that they might fancy recruiting for the 2015 season.
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New Zealand A to UK 2014:
Sun 27 July NZ A arrive
Thu 31 July 1-day v Northamptonshire Northampton
Sat 2 Aug* 1-day v Warwickshire Edgbaston

ODI format Tri Series
Tue 5 Aug NZ A v SL A Taunton
Wed 6 Aug Lions v SL A Taunton
Fri 8 Aug Lions v NZ A Bristol
Sat 9 Aug NZ A v SL A Bristol
Mon 11 Aug Lions v SL A Worcester
Tue 12 Aug Lions v NZ A Worcester

Wed 13 Aug Depart to play matches v ICC European Associate Member nation(s) (detail tbc)
Sat 23 Aug Return from playing ICC European Associate Member nation(s)

Mon 25-Wed 27 Aug 3-day v Kent Canterbury
Sun 31 Aug -Tue 2 Sep 3-day v Surrey Kia Oval
Wed 3 Sep NZ A depart
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Matches against Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka are in the pipeline to 2015.

"Putting my accountant's hat on, I'd say the New Zealand dollar will go further in the subcontinent to give us more bang for our buck," Littlejohn says, revealing director of cricket John Buchanan is in the middle of negotiations with the ICC this week.

Tours to Europe and South Africa, he contends, will hit NZ Cricket's pockets much harder.
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Yeah that's interesting Kim, but I seem to recall you wanted to delay cracking the can on Sodhi as well, and we're not your little lab rats anymore. Now our mantra is "let the boys eat cake in Western countries, move the boundary ropes at Hagley right in, let the fielding standards get really wildly sugar high and sugar low. Chicks dig the long ball, win by 160 or lose by 200".
 
Kippax

Kippax

Cricketer Of The Year
157/7 | OTAGO UNDER-19s vs WELLINGTON UNDER-19s

RW hasn't passed 20 since he made the mistake of searching his very searchable name. He's a reverse-Devcich. Ravi also fails. No Jack Hunter for Otago.

37/3 | CENTRAL UNDER-19s vs NORTHERN UNDER-19s

284/8 | CANTERBURY UNDER-19s vs AUCKLAND UNDER-19s

WC squad member Brett Randell wicketless there. I can recall a Cricinfo comment from MichaelJ2000 which said Randell's seen as maybe the best seam option in the current crop, he just didn't get a run last year with injury.

Jamieson batting at 3 is a bit like having Wagner or someone at 3.
 
Blain

Blain

U19 Captain
I hope they have some decent seamers in that U/19 group, the last team I saw had Duffy and a bunch of medium pacers/offies.

Who are the guns in the squad? And is Williamson of ND's related to Kane?
 
Kippax

Kippax

Cricketer Of The Year
Nah Luke Williamson is Counties.

New Zealand U19 vs. India U19 | Darwin 2013 - YouTube

New Zealand U19 vs. Australia U19 | Darwin 2013 - YouTube

O'Donnell has an Aces contract already, and made an 82-ball ton against Auckland A last week, so he's clearly got a lot more of an attacking game now than at the 2012 World Cup. Hunter, Dane Watson and Seifert are on the cusp of their provincial A setups. Weerasundara will hit some drives and pulls that hint at serious hand-eye and serious international potential, but he's a very chancy and far from assured batsman at this stage, itbt.
 
S

SteveNZ

Cricketer Of The Year
Kippax said:
Nah Luke Williamson is Counties.

New Zealand U19 vs. India U19 | Darwin 2013 - YouTube

New Zealand U19 vs. Australia U19 | Darwin 2013 - YouTube

O'Donnell has an Aces contract already, and made an 82-ball ton against Auckland A last week, so he's clearly got a lot more of an attacking game now than at the 2012 World Cup. Hunter, Dane Watson and Seifert are on the cusp of their provincial A setups. Weerasundara will hit some drives and pulls that hint at serious hand-eye and serious international potential, but he's a very chancy and far from assured batsman at this stage, itbt.
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O'Donnell is an absolute gun - benefit of having an old man who is a professional throw-down giver.
 
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