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Probably inevitable, but still gutted. Our junior numbers are up by 34 overall since the start of the 23/24 summer, and girls numbers have about doubled. Free to air coverage of mens and womens games has definitely helped.
@Donsteppa said in NZ Cricket:
Probably inevitable, but still gutted. Our junior numbers are up by 34 overall since the start of the 23/24 summer, and girls numbers have about doubled. Free to air coverage of mens and womens games has definitely helped.
Hopefully Sky pushes quite a few of the games to Prime (Sky Open, whatever).
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Yeah, I've really enjoyed having super smash on TV. Despite Chromecast making it stupid easy, I still wouldn't bother normally for super smash, but when it's just chucking it on the TV, I basically had it on every day in the background (for both men's and women's games).
I think tvnz's rights include 2025/26 so we'll have one more free to air summer.
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@nzzp The soothsayers are almost always right - schedule an international cricket match in Napier during a dry period and it will inevitably rain. Well it started raining here about three quarters of an hour ago, just about as predicted by those investing millions of dollars in forecasting technology. Save money guys, us locals could have done it for free!
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@1kiwi said in NZ Cricket:
Meet Xavier Bell, the teen batting prodigy drawing comparisons to Kane Williamson
Jeepers, no pressure son
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@1kiwi said in NZ Cricket:
Meet Xavier Bell, the teen batting prodigy drawing comparisons to Kane Williamson
Jeepers, no pressure son
@MN5 said in NZ Cricket:
@1kiwi said in NZ Cricket:
Meet Xavier Bell, the teen batting prodigy drawing comparisons to Kane Williamson
Jeepers, no pressure son
yeah Im all for positivity but thems some big boots, great stats though from the young one
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Wags made his debut for Otago in 2008 against ND in Dunedin, and finished his first class career in NZ today for ND against Otago in Dunedin.
Even better for us ND fans (the first in 13 years).
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Wags made his debut for Otago in 2008 against ND in Dunedin, and finished his first class career in NZ today for ND against Otago in Dunedin.
Even better for us ND fans (the first in 13 years).
@Bovidae said in NZ Cricket:
Wags made his debut for Otago in 2008 against ND in Dunedin, and finished his first class career in NZ today for ND against Otago in Dunedin.
Even better for us ND fans (the first in 13 years).
Stoked that he gets to hang up his boots on a high with a title.
Had a bit to do with him through my job over the years and he's one of the nicest blokes you could meet. -
The Black Caps are searching for a new coach after Gary Stead confirmed he was quitting their white-ball teams.
New Zealand Cricket (NZC) announced on Tuesday morning that Stead was stepping down from leading the side in Twenty20s and one-day internationals, with a decision to be made on his role as test coach.
NZC confirmed its top job would be advertised from next week and said it hadn’t yet been determined if they would split coaching roles between formats.
However, one of the strong favourites to replace Stead in white-ball cricket is Rob Walter, South Africa’s former white-ball coach, who resigned from that position last week. That indicates they are planning on a separate coach for the red-ball game.
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The Black Caps are searching for a new coach after Gary Stead confirmed he was quitting their white-ball teams.
New Zealand Cricket (NZC) announced on Tuesday morning that Stead was stepping down from leading the side in Twenty20s and one-day internationals, with a decision to be made on his role as test coach.
NZC confirmed its top job would be advertised from next week and said it hadn’t yet been determined if they would split coaching roles between formats.
However, one of the strong favourites to replace Stead in white-ball cricket is Rob Walter, South Africa’s former white-ball coach, who resigned from that position last week. That indicates they are planning on a separate coach for the red-ball game.
@Bovidae said in NZ Cricket:
The Black Caps are searching for a new coach after Gary Stead confirmed he was quitting their white-ball teams.
New Zealand Cricket (NZC) announced on Tuesday morning that Stead was stepping down from leading the side in Twenty20s and one-day internationals, with a decision to be made on his role as test coach.
NZC confirmed its top job would be advertised from next week and said it hadn’t yet been determined if they would split coaching roles between formats.
However, one of the strong favourites to replace Stead in white-ball cricket is Rob Walter, South Africa’s former white-ball coach, who resigned from that position last week. That indicates they are planning on a separate coach for the red-ball game.
Gary Stead has ended up the most successful coach NZ has had over all 3 formats,Results wise he is miles ahead of any other coach.
Another plus is the depth that has been built over that time probably more levels of depth than we have ever had.
three appearances in finals in white ball cricket,winning a World test championship and another final in the test championship. -
@Bovidae said in NZ Cricket:
The Black Caps are searching for a new coach after Gary Stead confirmed he was quitting their white-ball teams.
New Zealand Cricket (NZC) announced on Tuesday morning that Stead was stepping down from leading the side in Twenty20s and one-day internationals, with a decision to be made on his role as test coach.
NZC confirmed its top job would be advertised from next week and said it hadn’t yet been determined if they would split coaching roles between formats.
However, one of the strong favourites to replace Stead in white-ball cricket is Rob Walter, South Africa’s former white-ball coach, who resigned from that position last week. That indicates they are planning on a separate coach for the red-ball game.
Gary Stead has ended up the most successful coach NZ has had over all 3 formats,Results wise he is miles ahead of any other coach.
Another plus is the depth that has been built over that time probably more levels of depth than we have ever had.
three appearances in finals in white ball cricket,winning a World test championship and another final in the test championship.@Chris said in NZ Cricket:
Gary Stead has ended up the most successful coach NZ has had over all 3 formats,Results wise he is miles ahead of any other coach.
and yet he inherited Hesson's team - and he was a better coach.
Stead was/is very very conservative as a selector. That said, he's left the team in solid place, so well done!
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@Chris said in NZ Cricket:
Gary Stead has ended up the most successful coach NZ has had over all 3 formats,Results wise he is miles ahead of any other coach.
and yet he inherited Hesson's team - and he was a better coach.
Stead was/is very very conservative as a selector. That said, he's left the team in solid place, so well done!
@nzzp said in NZ Cricket:
@Chris said in NZ Cricket:
Gary Stead has ended up the most successful coach NZ has had over all 3 formats,Results wise he is miles ahead of any other coach.
and yet he inherited Hesson's team - and he was a better coach.
Stead was/is very very conservative as a selector. That said, he's left the team in solid place, so well done!
He has built on that over the years and has left us in a strong place.
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@canefan said in NZ Cricket:
He made some mind-boggling decisions at times. But you have to give the guy his flowers
Still reckon we should have played Boult over Scott K against England at the Mount. Yes, I can bear a grudge.
Most egregious was not getting warm up games in Aus for our tour. You cannot succeed without acclimatising.
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@canefan said in NZ Cricket:
He made some mind-boggling decisions at times. But you have to give the guy his flowers
Still reckon we should have played Boult over Scott K against England at the Mount. Yes, I can bear a grudge.
Most egregious was not getting warm up games in Aus for our tour. You cannot succeed without acclimatising.
@nzzp said in NZ Cricket:
@canefan said in NZ Cricket:
He made some mind-boggling decisions at times. But you have to give the guy his flowers
Still reckon we should have played Boult over Scott K against England at the Mount. Yes, I can bear a grudge.
Most egregious was not getting warm up games in Aus for our tour. You cannot succeed without acclimatising.
Compromised by half the players playing in overseas 20/20 tournaments leading up to it.
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Stead feels like a test batter with an average in the mid 40s. Clearly a good player, with a bunch of impressive innings but prone to inexplicable failures and not 100% reliable in the toughest of moments.
Honestly, a decade from now he'll be remembered as our greatest ever coach, the conservative selections, odd horrible series and influence of Hesson will be forgotten, but the finals, titles and series sweep in India will all be remembered.
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@canefan said in NZ Cricket:
He made some mind-boggling decisions at times. But you have to give the guy his flowers
Still reckon we should have played Boult over Scott K against England at the Mount. Yes, I can bear a grudge.
Most egregious was not getting warm up games in Aus for our tour. You cannot succeed without acclimatising.
@nzzp said in NZ Cricket:
@canefan said in NZ Cricket:
He made some mind-boggling decisions at times. But you have to give the guy his flowers
Still reckon we should have played Boult over Scott K against England at the Mount. Yes, I can bear a grudge.
Most egregious was not getting warm up games in Aus for our tour. You cannot succeed without acclimatising.
Like I said, some mind boggling decisions. Mainly regarding selection (I can't recall any specific examples now, but I can recall being quite unhappy with some of them. Bracewell wasting a spot on the test team was one). If it was his decision to forgoe warm up games before the Australian tour, then that was a poor decision
