NZ Super Smash 20/20

@Crazy-Horse said in NZ Super Smash 20/20 on Foxtel:

@Chris said in NZ Super Smash 20/20 on Foxtel:

@Crazy-Horse said in NZ Super Smash 20/20 on Foxtel:

@Chris said in NZ Super Smash 20/20 on Foxtel:

@ARHS said in NZ Super Smash 20/20 on Foxtel:

It was a gosh awful match for spectators at Bay Oval last night. ND opener batted like it was a test match and never gave his team a chance in a 14 over dash.

Meanwhile the Big Bash is always good viewing. Paddy Dooley is so watchable. Will be a superstar soon... And Fraser McGurk is unreal as a boundary fielder. The NZ comp is way below in quality currently.

Yes I have had a bit to with Paddy and Ben McDermott in the HH.
Both came through the Qld u/17 and u/19 state rep teams I have coaching gigs with.
Paddy’s Dad was a decent cricketer and is still the club president at Wests.

I may have asked you this before, but do you see many kids with NZ connections coming through in Aus? Ones that if NZ Cricket chased they could play for us?

Yep quite a few I have actually steered a couple of them back to NZ.
Between you and me I will still do that .

I reckon it could be a good career move for eligible players. I would love it if we snagged a good one off the Aussies.

We will one day just got to get them early before they hit the Aussies Radar.

Tickner is one.

@Rapido said in NZ Super Smash 20/20 on Foxtel:

Tickner is one.

Yep he was living and playing on the Gold Coast and was scouted back.
By memory he went back to NZ around 2015/16.

@ARHS said in NZ Super Smash 20/20 on Foxtel:

It was a gosh awful match for spectators at Bay Oval last night. ND opener batted like it was a test match and never gave his team a chance in a 14 over dash.

Meanwhile the Big Bash is always good viewing. Paddy Dooley is so watchable. Will be a superstar soon... And Fraser McGurk is unreal as a boundary fielder. The NZ comp is way below in quality currently.

Yeah, great viewing watching a team get all out for 15, that's the most one sided game in the history of T20. At least the match at Bay Oval was a reasonably close one.

The Super Smash is every bit as good as the Big Bash, if not better!

Watching the Kings for the first time in a while. Foulkes is an interesting bowler. I haven't seen inswing like that since, jeez, Lance Cairns? He looks very awkward for the batters. I hear he can hold a bat too.

@Crazy-Horse said in NZ Super Smash 20/20:

Watching the Kings for the first time in a while. Foulkes is an interesting bowler. I haven't seen inswing like that since, jeez, Lance Cairns? He looks very awkward for the batters. I hear he can hold a bat too.

Yeah he made 34 last game looked useful with the bat,Could be the new Boult the way he swings the ball both ways.

@Crazy-Horse said in NZ Super Smash 20/20:

Watching the Kings for the first time in a while. Foulkes is an interesting bowler. I haven't seen inswing like that since, jeez, Lance Cairns? He looks very awkward for the batters. I hear he can hold a bat too.

You have to admire a guy like Cairns for having the legacy he does when he averaged 16 with the bat.

@Chris said in NZ Super Smash 20/20:

@Crazy-Horse said in NZ Super Smash 20/20:

Watching the Kings for the first time in a while. Foulkes is an interesting bowler. I haven't seen inswing like that since, jeez, Lance Cairns? He looks very awkward for the batters. I hear he can hold a bat too.

Yeah he made 34 last game looked useful with the bat,Could be the new Boult the way he swings the ball both ways.

I wondered if he could swing it both ways. What I saw today he got either late in swing or the ball went straightish.

@Crazy-Horse said in NZ Super Smash 20/20:

@Chris said in NZ Super Smash 20/20:

@Crazy-Horse said in NZ Super Smash 20/20:

Watching the Kings for the first time in a while. Foulkes is an interesting bowler. I haven't seen inswing like that since, jeez, Lance Cairns? He looks very awkward for the batters. I hear he can hold a bat too.

Yeah he made 34 last game looked useful with the bat,Could be the new Boult the way he swings the ball both ways.

I wondered if he could swing it both ways. What I saw today he got either late in swing or the ball went straightish.

I have seem him bowl out swing ,maybe the wind today prevented it not Sure.

@MN5 said in NZ Super Smash 20/20:

@Crazy-Horse said in NZ Super Smash 20/20:

Watching the Kings for the first time in a while. Foulkes is an interesting bowler. I haven't seen inswing like that since, jeez, Lance Cairns? He looks very awkward for the batters. I hear he can hold a bat too.

You have to admire a guy like Cairns for having the legacy he does when he averaged 16 with the bat.

All about the MCG knock that legend status.

@Crazy-Horse
Canterbury have a couple of decent young quicks in Zac Foulkes who is 20 and Will O'Rourke the 21 year old.

@Chris said in NZ Super Smash 20/20:

@MN5 said in NZ Super Smash 20/20:

@Crazy-Horse said in NZ Super Smash 20/20:

Watching the Kings for the first time in a while. Foulkes is an interesting bowler. I haven't seen inswing like that since, jeez, Lance Cairns? He looks very awkward for the batters. I hear he can hold a bat too.

You have to admire a guy like Cairns for having the legacy he does when he averaged 16 with the bat.

All about the MCG knock that legend status.

Big, but not only factor. Others include (but not limited to):

• Couple of big hits in THAT Eden Park ODI
• hitting it over the stand at Carisbrook

@booboo said in NZ Super Smash 20/20:

@Chris said in NZ Super Smash 20/20:

@MN5 said in NZ Super Smash 20/20:

@Crazy-Horse said in NZ Super Smash 20/20:

Watching the Kings for the first time in a while. Foulkes is an interesting bowler. I haven't seen inswing like that since, jeez, Lance Cairns? He looks very awkward for the batters. I hear he can hold a bat too.

You have to admire a guy like Cairns for having the legacy he does when he averaged 16 with the bat.

All about the MCG knock that legend status.

Big, but not only factor. Others include (but not limited to):

• Couple of big hits in THAT Eden Park ODI
• hitting it over the stand at Carisbrook

Yep that one at Carisbrook was pretty big.A Lance flick was all it was.

Lance Cairns hit 59% of all the 6s hit by New Zealanders in internationals during the span of his career.

(although cricinfo's records are incomplete, some games boundaries haven't been retained in the uploaded scorecards).
He hit 69 known sixes of the known 117 known sixes NZers hit in tests and ODIs during his time.

Or, another way ...

• Nzers batted 1963 times for 177 sixes
• Cairns batted 130 times for 69 sixes

@Rapido said in NZ Super Smash 20/20:

Lance Cairns hit 59% of all the 6s hit by New Zealanders in internationals during the span of his career.

(although cricinfo's records are incomplete, some games boundaries haven't been retained in the uploaded scorecards).
He hit 69 known sixes of the known 117 known sixes NZers hit in tests and ODIs during his time.

Or, another way ...

• Nzers batted 1963 times for 177 sixes
• Cairns batted 130 times for 69 sixes

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Also the boundaries were way longer and you had to clear the fence that marked the boundary for the full six runs to be scored, hitting the fence on the full only counted for four. The bats he used would not have had the benefit of the minute computer design analysis todays slabs of willow are given to ensure they were optimal for six hitting. It is not uncommon to see mishits and thick top edges going for six these days.