*Official* NZ Domestic Season

[Kiwi]

ND missing a huge number of players for this game. THe Marshall brothers, Dav Vettori, Tuffey, Butler and Styris(moved to Auck). Be really interesting to see how everyone steps up.

For me can't wait to see how hamish Bennet goes for canterbury. Not to many years ago I was playing against him at JAB cricket in SOuth Canterbury

 

[Tim]

Jesse Ryder 133* for Wellington off 170 odd balls, 21 fours and 2 sixes. Great start to the season for him.

 

[Tim]

Wouldn't mind betting that the Knights will get the Marshall brothers back sooner rather than later.

 

[Natman20]

Wouldn't mind betting that the Knights will get the Marshall brothers back sooner rather than later.

Its about time too. Hamish hasnt been performing well in the last two series and the match against Aus

 

[Blaze]

Jesse Ryder 133* for Wellington off 170 odd balls, 21 fours and 2 sixes. Great start to the season for him.

Yep.. all this with a terrible attitude according to Tamara.

 

[Kiwi]

Yep.. all this with a terrible attitude according to Tamara.

Yeah but I never siad he wasnt a good player. There is a reason why he was suspended from CD cricket and had to make the move to wellington

 

[_Ed_]

And Fleming played alright by the sound of it, 62 runs. Will be good to have him back for the third game, the first over is always worrying when he opens in ODIs but if he survives it he often goes on to get a reasonable score.

 

[Blaze]

Yeah but I never siad he wasnt a good player. There is a reason why he was suspended from CD cricket and had to make the move to wellington

to be fair that was a while ago. As long as he is playing good cricket then I couldn't care less what sort of a person he is.

Lol Look at the Australian side.

 

[Kiwi]

it was only a year ago. I'm sure he will grow up one day. after all he is a young guy and really who doesnt push the boundries

 

[Sportsgirl]

It will be good to see players like Michael Papps & Craig Cumming hopefully scoring some runs to put their hands up for test selection when the West Indies come here in for the tests in March.

 

[Ming]

Ouch. Trott with a first class bowling record of 30 wickets from 60-odd matches, and in his first game in NZ he takes a 4-for....

 

[shaka]

CZ Harris : 0/29 off 21 overs.
NA McLean: 2/44 off 12.2

interested to see how both go this season.

 

[marc71178]

Ouch. Trott with a first class bowling record of 30 wickets from 60-odd matches, and in his first game in NZ he takes a 4-for....

Which Trott is that?

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Which Trott is that?

The Warwickshire one, I believe. I think I saw somewhere he was going to NZ over the winter.

So you got a part-timer to replace Ian Bell now

 

[marc71178]

We're full of part timers it seems - need some specialists IMO.

 

[Hazza]

We had Streak and Ntini for a while didn't we? Unfortunately Ntini didn't have too much of an impact

 

[The Baconator]

Hopefully Vettori can do better than him next season, and maybe Loudon can teach him his doosra.

 

[Tim]

Vettori will be good value I think. He's going to bring experience to the side, his batting at FC level should be good for around #8 or #9 and his bowling is on the improve all the time.

 

[Ming]

Andrew McKay's selection in the Auckland team baffles me. Auckland bowled 83 overs, and used 5 bowlers, and McKay didn't even feature and is batting at 11. It's not just this game either, happened last season too.

 

[Tim]

Watch out for Tim Lythe. excellent spin bowler and batsman. Seen McKay before, he's ok I guess..but I think he'll be replaced soon by his Howick team-mate Colin Munro, he took 7/21 last Saturday, he's a good up & coming bowler.