***Official*** New Zealand Domestic Season 2014/15

[Dan]

Impressive. Upper Hutt are a decent team and pitches shouldn't be much chop at this stage of the season. I presume this innings must have been on an artificial?

Wait, you can get to that level and still​ be playing on artificial decks?!?

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Wait, you can get to that level and still​ be playing on artificial decks?!?

Only at this time of year, because the chances of getting a decent game on grass in October in Wellington is nil.

And then come November, once lower grade cricket starts (and we'll mainly be on artificials) the top grades will all be on grass, but will usurp the artificials if it rains during the week and then lower grades get cancelled.

 

[Kippax]

Lance Dry had some comments about this last November. As a Wellington 'A' selector, he'll be scoffing at Noema-Barnett's 141*, I'd say.

Easts not counting their chickens just yet | Stuff.co.nz

Dry put some of Easts' inconsistent form down to playing on artificial pitches, with child-sized boundaries.

"You can't read into any results played on that. It's not cricket, bowlers can't bowl, sloggers get away with stuff that would be caught on cricket grounds, but instead go for six, and it's all completely distorted.

"Everyone needs to make more of an effort to get us on grass earlier."

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

It's a fair criticism, but with respect to the wickets, I can't see much alternative. Certainly, there's an issue with boundary sizes in Wellington City in particular.

 

[Kippax]

Bit of a whiff of agribusiness creeps in at about 0:15. Reasonably serious young bat though, I suppose.

 

[Flem274*]

That is indeed Matthew Bell playing and making 50 for the Wgtn U19s there. One over-age player allowed.

 

[Flem274*]

Bit of a whiff of agribusiness creeps in at about 0:15. Reasonably serious young bat though, I suppose.

Am I the only one getting lots of early 20s Ross Taylor in that? Needs tidying up like Ross did but that guy can play.

 

[Kippax]

Wasn't required by one of the fugliest NZ U19 sides imaginable though. Be amusing if he did become the next Taylor.

 

[Flem274*]

Those slash cuts and flicks from outside off through leg were bread and butter Taylor shots when he first made the ODI team. Like Taylor he displays a more orthodox cover drive on occasion too.

 

[Kippax]

Yeah this sounds great. Hopefully the Stags CEO enjoys having Georgie back, while Arana scores well in Wellington colours.

 

[Kippax]

Might turn up at Gloucestershire as a local as well.

 

[Flem274*]

I hope we introduce the duke because I'm spiteful. His older brother will eat him alive with his hooping 115kph swingers (and he'll be playing as a specialist bowler himself because of the duke and he'll take the new ball because duke plus injuries).

I hope KNB tears up with the ball again this season. Best 115kph bowler in the world, which makes him great for trolling the FBC and batsmen. There's just something likeable about good medium pacers.

 

[Kippax]

Wonder if Arana's got a higher backlift these days.

Glut of quicks sends Badenhorst south | Stuff.co.nz

Also leaving Manawatu is Arana Noema-Barnett, who is shifting to Wellington. The off-spinning allrounder, who played 26 games for Manawatu, said going to Wellington was an opportunity to take his game further under coaches Jamie Siddons, the former Bangladesh coach, and Matt Bell.

"I've been working with the coaches quite a lot over the winter," Noema-Barnett said.

"Since late May I started going down there to get Jamie to coach, an international coach. The opportunity to get world-class coaching is the main thing."

Playing first-class cricket is a goal, but getting gifrst-class game time wasn't the main factor for leaving.

"It wasn't as if I have to go to Wellington. I explored a few options. I just had a little chat to start off."

Noema-Barnett, a former New Zealand under-19 rep, will play club cricket for Onslow, the same club as former Black Cap Brent Arnel, who is the Firebirds bowling coach and has been working with Noema-Barnett.

A former Palmerston North Boys' High School student, Noema-Barnett is studying extramurally through Massey University in Wellington, but is starting fulltime at Victoria University next year doing a bachelor of commerce majoring in accountancy.

 

[Chubb]

Wonder if Arana's got a higher backlift these days.

Glut of quicks sends Badenhorst south | Stuff.co.nz

What are people's views of the high backlift theory? I don't buy it at all. Might work for some but to make everyone do it? I think it's quite concerning it has become orthodoxy in the upper echelons of Wellington cricket coaching, but then what would I know? Siddons talks like it is some kind of magic potion nobody has ever brewed before.

 

[Kippax]

Yeah Siddons does say there's no point in going on with him, if you're not a big unit and you don't want to adopt it.

Weerasundara can probably smoke the odd pull shot and square drive that he couldn't without the ridiculous backlift, but it hasn't taught him to use the crease effectively or be genuinely quick to read a length, that's for sure.

 

[Dan]

So, uhh, this 170-odd from Hira opening the batting against Ireland. Legit or Cricinfo with the wrong name on the scorecard?

 

[BackFootPunch]

So, uhh, this 170-odd from Hira opening the batting against Ireland. Legit or Cricinfo with the wrong name on the scorecard?

I'd say it's legit. He bats in the middle order in club cricket and is known to hit a pretty big ball. Obviously just had a great day.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Doesn't count. It's one of those weird 12 a side shenanigans games which should be banned forthwith.

 

[Immenso]

Hira has some amazing timing from what I've seen in HRV. Some huge sixes hit with little apparant effort.

Man, I bet that would have been a frustratingly awful day in the field for Ireland.

 

[Kippax]

Someone to run the domestic selector comp here plz.

Counting is the worst.

NZ Cricket - Cricket Tipping - Dream Team

With our knowledge of the domestix, a poster on here should really go close to winning the $1000 first prize tbh.