New Zealand Domestic Season

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Fixtures:

Plunket Shield (Four Day)
Ford Trophy (One Day)
HRV Cup (Twenty20)

Domestic contracted players for 2012-13:

Auckland Aces - Dean Bartlett, Michael Bates, Craig Cachopa, Lockie Ferguson, Colin de Grandhomme, Gareth Hopkins, Anaru Kitchen, Bruce Martin, Mitchell McClenaghan, Tim McIntosh, Colin Munro, Bhupinder Singh, Lou Vincent, Reece Young

Northern Knights - Graeme Aldridge, Corey Anderson, Brent Arnel, James Baker, Anton Devcich, Brett Hampton, James Marshall, Daryl Mitchell, Bradley Scott, Ish Sodhi, Scott Styris, Anurag Verma, Brad Wilson, Joseph Yovich

Central Stags - Roald Badenhorst, Carl Cachopa, Jamie How, Marty Kain, Andrew Mathieson, Adam Milne, Kieran Noema-Barnett, Jeet Raval, Dean Robinson, Mathew Sinclair, Bevan Small, Ben Smith, Ben Wheeler, William Young

Wellington Firebirds - Harry Boam, Josh Brodie, Grant Elliott, Tipene Friday, Mark Gillespie, Scott Kuggeleijn, Andy McKay, Stephen Murdoch, Michael Papps, Jeetan Patel, Michael Pollard, Luke Ronchi, Jesse Ryder, Luke Woodcock

Canterbury Wizards - Todd Astle, Hamish Bennett, Brad Cachopa, Peter Fulton, Matt Henry, Ronnell Hira, Tim Johnston, Tom Latham, Willie Lonsdale, Ryan McCone, Henry Nicholls, Shanan Stewart, Logan van Beek, George Worker

Otago Volts - Derek de Boorder, Nick Beard, Michael Bracewell, Darren Broom, Neil Broom, Ian Butler, Mark Craig, Jacob Duffy, James McMillan, Jimmy Neesham, Aaron Redmond, Hamish Rutherford, Neil Wagner, Sam Wells

New Zealand contracted players for 2012-13:

Martin Guptill
Chris Martin
Kyle Mills

Trent Boult
Daniel Flynn
Tim Southee
Daniel Vettori
BJ Watling
Kane Williamson

Doug Bracewell
Tarun Nethula
Jacob Oram
Ross Taylor
Kruger van Wyk

James Franklin

Dean Brownlie
Andrew Ellis
Rob Nicol

Brendon McCullum
Nathan McCullum

 

[smssia0112]

Hmm, I think I'm going to support Canterbury because their super 14 team plays preseason games in melbourne.

Who is doing well at the moment? Fill us in.

 

[irottev]

Okay,

Canterbury v Auckland at Christchurch
Match drawn. Auckland 417/8d and 93/5d; Canterbury 180/8d and 179/5

Andre Adams 6/42

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Central Districts v Otago at Napier
Match drawn. Central Districts 405/5d and 305/4d; Otago 357 and 314/6

Matthew Sinclair 243*
RJ Schaw 5/130 (to go with 4/57 in the first innings)

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Northern Districts v Wellington at Hamilton
Wellington won by 9 wickets. Northern Districts 224 and 217; Wellington 360/9d and 84/1

DJ Bowden 106*
CE Shreck 5/66

 

[Left_Hander]

Nice knock by Sinclair.

 

[smssia0112]

Indeed it was. How is Jesse Ryder going?

 

[irottev]

Ryder has been bowling quite a lot. He has 2 wickets from today's play. Not many runs yet, but he has a chance to fix that now.

Central Districts were bowled out for 61 by Auckland. They're obviously missing Sinclair who is on his way over to join the Black Caps. Andre Adams 5-12. ighest score was 14 followed by 11 Extras. Wicket isn't shocking either, because Auckland are 162/2.

In other games, James Marshall and Greg Todd got centuries.

 

[Crew of Black]

CD do have a heavy reliance on Sinclair, besides Peter Ingram, he is the only real class bat the team has.

The first few games have had a few good performers. Corey Anderson, Brandon Hiini, Rob Nicols and Aaron Redmond have all been playing great at the moment.

 

[karnog]

so who are under dogs? I'll support them cause i love those sort of sides. Who's this Todd fellow ive been hearing a lot off? What type of batsman is he? Opener? Left hand? etc. etc.

 

[irottev]

Greg Todd is playing at 3. Left hand batsman. Don't know a lot about him other then that.

I'd say the under dogs are probably Canterbury. We lost Cairns, Harris, McMillan, Wiseman, B McCullum and Astle all in the last 2 years. Shane Bond and Peter Fulton will rarely get to play as they'll be playing internationals. A very young ad inexperienced team. I think we have two South African players playing.

Auckland are looking strong so far. CD without Sinclair, How and Mason don't look nearly as good. Wellington have a strong and experienced squad. ND have a good allround side, a good bowling attack with a good spinner (2 when Vettori isn't on internationl duty) plus some good batsmen. They have a few allrounders in Yovich and Orchard

 

[irottev]

Round 2

Auckland v Central Districts at Auckland
Auckland won by an innings and 195 runs. Central Districts 61 and 152; Auckland 408/9d

Andre Adams 5/12
MJ Guptil 83
LJ Shaw 4/32

Canterbury v Northern Districts at Rangiora
Canterbury won by 5 wickets. Northern Districts 318 and 208; Canterbury 310 and 217/5

James Marshal 117
D Flynn 70
B Hiini 4/46
T Southee 4/61
Peter Fulton 72

Wellington v Otago at Wellington
Match drawn. Otago 272 and 449; Wellington 448 and 139/4

Greg Todd 110
Michael Parlane 104
Greg Todd 165
L Woodcock 4/70




Good to see Fulton back on the field. Good performance too. Should be ready for the Aussie ODIs

 

[irottev]

Andrew Strauss has signed for Northern Districts for the One Day competition. Very interesting. Will be nice to have a high profile international player over here.

Round 3:

Wellington 256 (Nevin 63, Parlane 54, Hiini 5-32) and 414 for 8 dec (Bell 188*, Parlane 78, Elliott 64) beat Canterbury 313 (van Wyk 111, Myburgh 51, Shreck 5-72) and 267 (Fulton 92, van Wyk 42) by 90 runs
Scorecard

Otago 170 and 5 for 44 beat Auckland 94 (Scott 6-20) and 128 (McIntosh 47, McSkimming 4-32) by six wickets
Scorecard

Third game still in progress

 

[mattfb]

Well Auckland are going good. Bad to see then lose against Otago though. Looking back on the scores Otago dont seem too bad though with Brendon McCullun and Craig Cumming.

Can you post some averages/statistics please? Thanks

 

[irottev]

Well Auckland are going good. Bad to see then lose against Otago though. Looking back on the scores Otago dont seem too bad though with Brendon McCullun and Craig Cumming.

Can you post some averages/statistics please? Thanks

So far this season or what? Any player sin particular or do you just want say the top 20 batters and bowlers?

 

[Left_Hander]

Andrew Strauss has signed for Northern Districts for the One Day competition. Very interesting. Will be nice to have a high profile international player over here.

That will be good for Northern Districts and New Zealand domestic cricket in general to have a high quality player like Andrew Strauss. New Zealand domestic cricket doesn't get much attention in Australia and maybe this can boost it.

 

[irottev]

Matthew Bell just bought up a double century. Good job to him. He's also registered another bigt hundred and a few half centuries already I believe. If I was picking a squad for Bangladesh he'd be in it as well as Andre Adams.

Bell has played before, not for very long, but he didn't do so well. However, he's been out about 7odd years so a lot will have changed.

My openers for the Bangladesh series:

Papps, How and Bell. I don't think Cumming deserves a spot unless he scores some runs. Plus Papps has a hell of a lot more talent. Papps has mainly been used overseas and since he has an amazing domestic record in this country i'd use him, he's hardly had a chance at home and deserves it. Bell has had a lot of playing lately and is in great form. Deserves a call up. How has done all the right things in the 50 over game, however i'd have him as backup. Give the other two guys who have been playing the longer form in domestic cricket a crack at it.

Bell is averaging 85 from 6 innings with 1 hundred, 2 fiftys and a double century currently unbeaten not yet added to the record. 188* was the hundred he got.

Andre Adams deserves a spot DEFINATLY. If he doesn't get a spot i'll scream. His record so far is amazing. He averages 8.27 with 29 wickets with 3 five bags and a 10 in about 4 matches. He's 100 times the player O'Brien is.

I'd drop Styris. Lets face it, he deserves it. It's about time we start dropping senior players when they arn't performing and bring in the new guys. Taylor is lucky hekeeps his spot, since it was his first tour.

My eleven for the first Bangladesh test

Papps
Bell
Sinclair
Fleming
Taylor
Oram
McCullum
Adams
Vettori
Gillespie
Martin
12th: Patel