Nz cricket

2022 - 10 - 14

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Cricket squads looking strong again for club season (Stuff.co.nz)

All-rounder Thomas Kuggeleijn is the captain again and will be supported by paceman Andrew Galloway. Batsmen Cameron Walker and George Collin​, and bowlers ...

To start the year there will be six teams in premier four with 12 in premier three, split into two pools of six. All-rounder Thomas Kuggeleijn is the captain again and will be supported by paceman Andrew Galloway. Renwick is coaching Manawatū this season but will play for Marist when rep duties allow. All-rounder Harry Wenham is travelling and may not be available and batsman Tom O’Connor will be available for the first half of the season before moving to Christchurch. ♦ All grades start this weekend and there will be a new premier four grade this season because last year there were 16 teams in premier three and there was a gulf between the top and the bottom teams. There will be promotion relegation at the end of the season. United, who won the one-dayers and twenty20 competition last season, have the same strong lineup and will be captained by batsman Mason Hughes. All-rounder Arana Noema-Barnett is the captain again and will be joined by wicketkeeper batsman Whetu na Nagara, all-rounder Connor Morriss and pacemen Jack Gleeson, Matt Wells and Dylan Lynch. Captain Jaiden Meyer and Van Prenter will be among their top batsmen and all-rounder Scott Davidson is coaching the team again. They have gained a wicketkeeper batsman from Otago, Toby Beale, Finbar Moriarty has returned to the region and spinner Luke Kerehoma has come from Taranaki. Batsman Scott Mitchell will lead the team again, with paceman Brad Fulton and all-rounder Jack Wenham back. Jack Delaney, a seam bowler at Feilding High School, is stepping up into the squad, batsman Sam Wilson is new to the region and batsman Cam McNaught will be available all season.

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Hello New Zealand's elite cricketers, is anybody out there? (Stuff.co.nz)

That's on top of regular visits from the Otago Volts and Otago Sparks. Then Southland Cricket Association general manager Richard Hoskin stated at the time the ...

“One is having the best domestic players here is a connection for our kids to the game. We are trying to balance the level of investment needed with the amount of cricket that is played.” Although New Zealand Cricket is keen to see how it goes with some lower-level games at the venue this season. New Zealand Cricket stripped Queens Park of that warrant of fitness in 2021. “It’s huge for district [cricket] associations, the councils and funders. Our Southland team is hot on housing and worker shortages. But despite that drainage work problems remained at the duck pond end of the ground. Invercargill's Queens Park has gone from being a second home to the White Ferns less than a decade ago to now not hosting any elite cricket at all. There's a lot happening in this region and our community relies on a dedicated local newsroom to cover it all. What followed was a showering of praise from various key cricketing personalities throughout New Zealand. What's happened to a venue which was once showered with praise? The Southland Cricket Association is currently in the process of appointing a new groundsman and a delay in the return of domestic cricket will also provide some time for the person to “get his feet under the table” before taking on first-class games.

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Cricket Whanganui at full strength for new season (New Zealand Herald)

General manager Pete Bowman has been joined by director of coaching Greg Smith and female development officer Verity Johnson. Both are fresh off the plane from ...

"In the junior space, Verity will be offering girls-only programmes. We can really get back on the path to great cricket in Whanganui and our surrounding areas." "Part of the problem in the past is we've got a really passionate community who want to deliver, but we haven't been able to go to schools or encourage others to come in because we've been treading water. "I think we're there now. "We've actually managed to create a P1 competition in a 45-over format at the start of the season with four teams taking part," Bowman said. "The Collegiate First 11 and defending P2 champions Renegades will be in there as well." There were no plans to play in Whanganui, but she could "bowl a couple of overs" here and there if required. We've got the structure in place and it's up to us to show what we can do." "As Greg said, it's really, really important to give kids the accessibility to cricket which they haven't had in the past. "We need to make sure we show them what it's all about and hopefully, get a few more of them playing it long term." "We have had staff in the past, but now we have three fulltime people here to deliver. "You want all the clubs and schools coming together and working in the right direction.

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