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*Unofficial* New Zealand Black Caps Thread

King Kane

International Regular
There aren't any pro sportsmen left that are my age, I was at the age of retirement when guys that are retiring now like Boult were starting. their careers.
 

Athlai

Not Terrible
Shameless plug
 

Athlai

Not Terrible
Do we have a thread for the domestic season yet? It looks like NZC have made the common-sense move to swap around the Ford Trophy and Plunket Shield pre-Christmas blocks. So the season now goes OD-FC-T20-OD-FC. First games 20 October.
Thats so much better
 

Immenso

International Vice-Captain
Do we have a thread for the domestic season yet? It looks like NZC have made the common-sense move to swap around the Ford Trophy and Plunket Shield pre-Christmas blocks. So the season now goes OD-FC-T20-OD-FC. First games 20 October.
Ironically. The one season our 'normally spastic ' domestic scheduling would have been less spastic - is probably this season.

As mentioned on the doom and gloomy thread, there are 2 rounds of Plunket before the England test series. In any other year that would have been 4 rounds.

I spend almost every season complaining about the braindead way the domestic season is scheduled. So, I'm not going to launch into any broadside. This structure is 'better' for producing rounded cricketers. So, yay. But the same old problem of domestic and international calenders not aligning to produce the best prepared cricketers to the blackcaps - for each format - looks like it hasn't been given much thought.
 

Northerner

School Boy/Girl Cricketer
Never understood why they chopped 2 games from the Plunkett Shield, you dont learn to build an innings in T20 and ODIs, the domestic calendar imo is wrong in every way,
 

Bahnz

Hall of Fame Member
Southee steps down as captain.

Had a feeling this was coming before the tour. Southee sounded pretty down on his performances after the Australia series and these last 2 tests will not have helped. While it obviously should've happened back in March, good on him for seeing the writing on the wall.
 

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