One of the historical pages on Facebook shared a photo of a flooded Customs St in 1935 and oh boy, the amount of right wingers/boomers proclaiming climate change wasn't real based on that one photo.
This actually reminds me a bit of images of
Rippon is playing. Duffy is ill and Phillips being rested for Otago's final Super Smash round-robin game.
Tommorow's Ford Trophy CD v ND includes Williamson (returned after tests in Pak), Doug Bracewell (returned after being on bench for ODIs in Ind) and Cleaver (returned after being on bench for T20Is in Ind).
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It would be unfair on Lockrose who has bowled well and hit the ball amazingly to lose his spot for the finals to Rippon.
Sure would. They might both play. Be interesting to see which way the Volts go.
Yeah, it's a tough call when a side has done particularly well without the internationals. The most extreme case I remember was ND making the Shell Cup final without any help from the Black Cap players who were in South Africa (losing every ODI game in the quadrangular series and the test series 2-1). The Black Caps arrived back the week of the final and ND brought back 5 of them.
As much as Otago have made some quizzical decisions this season IMO, I'll be surprised to see Lockrose miss out. The trend this season has been spin through and through, and sides aren't exactly averse to playing one more bowler than strictly necessary. Rippon makes Otago as a specialist bat, and actually didn't bowl all too much in the early-season games he played; Lockrose was playing and bowling 4 a game.
