Kiwi County Tour: County Championship #10
Quiet times on the Kiwi County Tour bus as Matt Henry and Jeetan Patel continue their dominance, leading the way for Jeet Raval and now Matt Quinn who has made a glorious return.
Quiet times on the Kiwi County Tour bus as Matt Henry and Jeetan Patel continue their dominance, leading the way for Jeet Raval and now Matt Quinn who has made a glorious return.
The retirement of Alastair Cook has gotten plenty of response over in England and around the world, Jimmy Anderson was even moved to tears talking about his old mate. And amidst all the glowing references we were treated to one last masterclass in Cookie’s final innings.
Suzie Bates has stepped aside as White Ferns skipper, after a low key niggly 12 months that saw the White Ferns slip below expectations and also saw Bates' individual performances slide a wee bit.
Everyone knows how settled the Blackcaps bowling group is in Test and ODI cricket and unfortunately for Matt Henry, he has settled on the fringes of the Blackcaps.
Having booted Kane Williamson off the Kiwi County Tour bus, the gang welcomed Jeet Raval as a lovely replacement not only for us on the bus, also for Yorkshire. Raval got his first crack at County cricket and we also had Matt Henry and Jeetan Patel swap their wicket-taking fortunes.
Matt Henry was a low key batting maestro on the Kiwi County Tour last year and after dominating with the ball for Kent this season, Henry finally flexed with the willow.
Count it at 22.60m. Seven centimetres back on his personal best set in Auckland in March but four centimetres beyond Joe Kovacs’ Diamond League record, one more record to stash on the Wikipedia page for Tomas.
Rachel Priest and Sophie Devine were both in action on finals day of the Women's T20 Super League, which unfortunately followed the general vibe of our Kiwi County Tour Super League excursion.
The Kiwi County Tour lads are back on the bus, as the return of County Championship cricket overlaps with women's T20 Super League.
There’s a regular old tale in cricket that left-handed batsmen are just better to watch. A flowing cover drive rarely looks as good as when it’s being dispatched as if through a mirror.
Finals time for our Kiwi County Tour ladies and with Sophie Devine's Loughborough Lightning already in the final, along with Rachel Priest's Western Storm in the semi-final, we could be treated to a KCT match up come grand final time.
Aside from a couple of Blackcaps Battlers making a change, the domestic cricket landscape in Aotearoa is fairly settled heading into the 2018/19 season. Settled and close, ranking the six domestic cricket clubs ain’t easy.
Yet another loss for Southern Vipers, although this game did feature some impressive performances from our kiwis.
Farewell Mike Hesson and welcome Gary Stead. Aotearoa's Blackcaps have a new coach in Stead, who is a veteran of kiwi cricket coaching and appears to have earned this job through his already-established connection with NZC and vast experience of domestic cricket.
Despite minimal contributions from Rachel Priest, Western Storm are sitting at the top of the Women's T20 Super League table after all six teams have played eight games.
It may not look like it at the top of kiwi cricket with an extremely settled Blackcaps bowling stable, but there is a delightful wave of bowlers steadily building their cases for higher honours.
This isn't about the best prospects, or those who you need to watch out for. This is simply a few cricketers that I am most interested in.
The Kiwi County Tour bus is finally buzzing as Amy Satterthwaite and Sara McGlashan hit half-centuries, Rachel Priest whacked a few boundaries and Sophie Devine chimed in with more wickets in the Women's T20 Super League.
The sleeping beast that was Amy Satterthwaite has awoken on the Kiwi County Tour and it seems as though there is a Southern Vipers curse as all the other kiwi cricketers are putting in solid shifts, except the Vipers kiwi trio of Suzie Bates, Amelia Kerr and Sara McGlashan.
Finding opponents is the easy part. It’s finding opponents that match Duco’s vision for where Parker now stands and how marketable he should be that might be tricky, depending on how realistic their view of those things are.