New Zealand Domestic Season

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Not long until the first round of First Class matches now.
Sam Wells has been brilliant in the warm-ups with bat and ball recently, he'll be a key player for Otago this season I feel. The funny thing about Wells is he didn't bowl a ball all through high school and only started bowling when he was 20, now he's in the Otago side for his all-rou
nd ability.

 

[Chewie]

Wells was an opening batsman from what I've read, and has two FC centuries to his name. He's a real gun in the ICC games too

Where have you seen results of warm up matches?

 

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Yeah he opened all through school and never bowled a ball. Come to think of it I've been bowling for longer than him!

I've seen a couple of write ups in the paper about Redmod XI vs Cumming XI where Wells, Soper and McCullum picked up a few wickets and Redmond and Cumming (how fitting) both scored the bulk of the runs. They were trial games for the team and the Alexandra wicket I think. There's also this about Otago vs Canterbury at Lincoln Otago Cricket - Darren Broom Scores Unbeaten Century at Lincoln this match still has three more days.

 

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Another season's all set to start in the next few minutes.

Hopefully we'll be able to rip Canterbury apart with our bowling attack of Mills, Tuffey, Adams, and last seasons domestic MVP Bates.

Edit: Tuffey doesn't seem to be playing, and our batting line-up looks a bit shaky.

 

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Hopefully we'll be able to rip Canterbury apart with our bowling attack of Mills, Tuffey, Adams, and last seasons domestic MVP Bates.

Edit: Tuffey doesn't seem to be playing, and our batting line-up looks a bit shaky.

Tuffey's playing but your bowling attack of Tuffey, Mills, Adams and last seasons domestic MVP Bates have only got one wicket between them, bit of a surprise there !

Volts all out for 301, they'll be happy with that considering the batsmen failed pretty bad and left it up to Wells and De boorder who is I suppose more of a keeper than a batsmen, always working on his batting though.

Great to see McMillan back in the side, actually a big surprise. He was the quickest in New Zealand some years back but a shocking run of injuries has severely limited his speed and game time.

 

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Tuffey's playing now, but he only arrived for the game at tea. (Hong Kong Sixes)
Earlier I just looked at the scorecard, and he wasn't originally down.

He's only actually bowled two overs, Colin Munro bowled five overs before that, and his stats got added to Tuffey's as Tuffey replaced him.

Look at our bowling attack, how have we only managed to pick up four wickets.

 

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Good bowling from Aldridge there, and he was well supported by Boult it would seem. Looks like Flynn is opening more regularly, maybe he knows he won't get into the Black Caps as a middle order batsman any more and is trying to get in as an opener.

de Boorder is more a keeper than a batsman, he's quite good with the gloves. Took 8 catches in an innings last season once. Brother of Andrew de Boorder. Was surprising to see that Andrew didn't bowl in the Auckland match, while all those other guys did, seeing as he bowled rather often last season.

 

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Lol, it's funny how we have by far the best bowling attack, yet Canterbury managed to put the highest score so far this round on us.
And it's not really surprising that our extremely inexperienced top order fell apart.

ND will probably defend their title, looking at their team, and by their performance so far.

 

[Chewie]

Lol, it's funny how we have by far the best bowling attack, yet Canterbury managed to put the highest score so far this round on us.
And it's not really surprising that our extremely inexperienced top order fell apart.

ND will probably defend their title, looking at their team, and by their performance so far.

We do have the most people over with the Black Caps though. So at the start of the season at least it'll be a bit difficult. Wonder where McGlashan is. We've got a keeper batting at 11...

 

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Yeah, I noticed your keeper down at eleven as well. (And he got a duck)
It's been a while since the days of specialist keepers, as almost all the ones these days are pretty decent batsmen.
He took like five catches though, so they might of backed their batting and just picked some purely on keeping ability.

 

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I think they're just playing him so he can experience proper first class cricket. McGlashan would obviously be the number one keeper, so he could be injured as well.

 

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Yeah he has a broken finger doesn't he? Has Aldridge ever gotten a go with the Blackcaps? Just wondering cause it seems like he gets wickets every year but never gets called up although into his 30s he probably won't get a chance now.

Ben Wheeler took 6 wickets against us in the other game in his third first class match. Could be a serious prospect for the Blackcaps, but hopefully they won't just chuck guys like him in there too soon, it seems as though it might've ruined Southee.

 

[Chewie]

I reckon Southee's not ruined, just got lots to learn. He'll come good in a few years. Lamb's running through CD now. They're struggling at 66/6 haha

 

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Lol, we only just avoided the follow on.
We really got to roll Canterbury cheaply if we're going to have any chance of picking up the points, and that's not going to be easy considering they bat down to nine, and their top four/five consist of some of the best domestic batsmen going around.

 

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Both Brooms bring up 50's in a partnership that's saving us from another top order fail. Hopefully they keep going and get us a decent lead going into the final day.