***Official*** New Zealand Domestic Season 2019/20

[Flem274*]

don't give india a look at blundell tbh. is conway allowed to play for nz a?

rachin
conway
phillips
young (if ready)
seifert
neesham/mitchell
cleaver (wk)
jamieson
ajaz
tickner
sears

that's....actually really good for a level

 

[Kippax]

The BBL club just rang after Clarkson negotiated those four overs from the improving part-timer Chapman for a lousy 17 runs. "Forget him, the turn in our tracks will make him look like a galah" was the gist of the call.

 

[Kippax]

Ashok could help to get a very spin-orientated Auckland attack going before too long. Probably music to his ears if Chapman's been sneaking in MOTM efforts with the ball.

 

[Kippax]

is conway allowed to play for nz a?

Yes I think you could play Conway if you wanted to.

Not sure about the nature of this injury keeping Sears off the scene and probably out of the running for NZA, unless he gets a run again very soon. I see his last outing was as a specialist bat in a premier reserve club game. Suggests the problem is maybe a stress-related warning sign in his back, something like that, rather than a leg muscle strain or tear.

 

[Kippax]

Ravindra, Blundell...both love the hard new ball coming onto the bat and aren't planning to be having a bar of comfy middle-order Kiwi cricketing culture of the past, it appears. Very good news for Lauchie Johns' career (reserve wicket-keeper). Conway vs. Ravindra will be an interesting call for Pocknall late in the season. Bowlers are finding a way to get Conway all flinchy and bothered when they go around the wicket and send down one that's sort of threatening top of off.

https://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-ne...laidback-kiwi-in-mcg-record-books-cricbuzzcom

We couldn't open with him because he was part of the Test squad for England and the Aussie tour. We'd already had that conversation. We'd seen his future in that format as an opener. He loves the ball coming on to the bat and he's a gun on the short ball, and with guys bowling at 145 kph, he's going to take it on as we saw today," Pocknall adds.

 

[Immenso]

^^ I wonder what Pocknall means there? As Blundell did play Plunket Shield before the England series, and not as an opener.

Would not have been too disruptive for the team to mess around with the openers for a guy about to be unavailable - as he played all 3 rounds.

Or was he only talking about opening in the Ford Trophy ?

 

[Kippax]

Yes I think your interpretation fits much better than mine when reading the full article properly and not just skimming for quotes. I'd read it as "might give it a try later in the season".

 

[Prince EWS]

^^ I wonder what Pocknall means there? As Blundell did play Plunket Shield before the England series, and not as an opener.

Would not have been too disruptive for the team to mess around with the openers for a guy about to be unavailable - as he played all 3 rounds.

Or was he only talking about opening in the Ford Trophy ?

Yes I think your interpretation fits much better than mine when reading the full article properly and not just skimming for quotes. I'd read it as "might give it a try later in the season".

He was specifically talking about the fifty over games.

Understandably too, considering the Firebirds had planned to utilize Blundell at the top of the order for the 50-over competition, which he has played only a single game in over the last couple of seasons. Blundell might have also left those at the MCG overawed with his at times disdainful treatment of the short ball from the big Aussie pacemen but for Pocknall, it was just what he'd seen plenty of times across age-group levels and in domestic cricket being played out in front of the cricket world's eyes.

"We couldn't open with him because he was part of the Test squad for England and the Aussie tour. We'd already had that conversation. We'd seen his future in that format as an opener. He loves the ball coming on to the bat and he's a gun on the short ball, and with guys bowling at 145 kph, he's going to take it on as we saw today," he adds.

 

[Kippax]

They of course sort of have to now, unless Blundell/Guptill are going to be a white ball opening combo in most of March.

 

[thundaboult]

Wow. Nuttall looks a shell of his former self. The injuries really sucked a lot of pace out of him.

 

[_Ed_]

Six sixes in an over!

END OF OVER:16 | 36 Runs | CANT: 192/3 (28 runs required from 24 balls, RR: 12.00, RRR: 7.00)
Leo Carter
47 (18b)
Cole McConchie
43 (19b)
Anton Devcich
4-0-61-0
Scott Kuggeleijn
3-0-30-0
15.6
6
Devcich to Carter, SIX runs,
15.5
6
Devcich to Carter, SIX runs,
15.4
6
Devcich to Carter, SIX runs,
15.3
6
Devcich to Carter, SIX runs,
15.2
6
Devcich to Carter, SIX runs,
15.1
6
Devcich to Carter, SIX runs

 

[Gnske]

Exactly the kind of tight bowling you'd expect from someone who eats pies wrong.

 

[Meridio]

It's off Devcich at least - there's the cricketing good news story we've all been waiting for.

 

[The Hutt Rec]

Great batting but some real pies from Devcich.

 

[Kippax]

Doull was making some reference the other night to grizzled vets that are badly in need of getting the axe, in order for ND to flourish in T20 again. I'm pretty sure he was mainly referring to Flynn and Brownlie, but they could always cut the hedge back harder than that, Do the job once and do it right.

 

[Immenso]

Hagly Oval too, so proper boundaries.

 

[TT Boy]

Already up on YouTube. Quality over. One of the very worst.

 

[jcas0167]

Yes, Canterbury Cricket posted it here too. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2698958780172315&id=412117265523156

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Stuart Broad, Karl Carver, Abdullah Mazari, and now Anton Devcich


Will be an interesting trivia question one day

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Stuart Broad, Karl Carver, Abdullah Mazari, and now Anton Devcich


Will be an interesting trivia question one day

Malcolm Nash!