Black Caps vs Netherlands
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The squads have been named, which excludes all IPL players.
New Zealand ODI squad: Tom Latham (capt, wk), Doug Bracewell, Michael Bracewell, Mark Chapman, Colin de Grandhomme, Martin Guptill, Matt Henry, Kyle Jamieson, Henry Nicholls, Ish Sodhi, Ross Taylor, Blair Tickner, Will Young
New Zealand T20I squad: Tom Latham (capt, wk), Doug Bracewell, Michael Bracewell, Mark Chapman, Dane Cleaver (wk), Colin de Grandhomme, Martin Guptill, Matt Henry, Scott Kuggeleijn, Ben Sears, Ish Sodhi, Blair Tickner, Will Young
A couple of well-deserved call-ups for M Bracewell and Cleaver.
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@bovidae awesome to see Michael Bracewell get the nod, he has been Mr consistent for Wellington for a long time. Well deserved.
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@bovidae interesting Latham captain of the T20 team which means guaranteed selection. He’s not someone that springs to mind when it comes to T20, maybe just like-for-like for Kane when he comes back
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@yeahtheboys Yeah, a strange selection. Latham won't be the wk in the T20 team as Cleaver should fill that role.
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That seems like the type of squad needed to be selected to lose our first game against the Netherlands. Happy cleaver and Bracewell get a call up
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@bovidae said in Black Caps vs Netherlands:
The squads have been named, which excludes all IPL players.
New Zealand ODI squad: Tom Latham (capt, wk), Doug Bracewell, Michael Bracewell, Mark Chapman, Colin de Grandhomme, Martin Guptill, Matt Henry, Kyle Jamieson, Henry Nicholls, Ish Sodhi, Ross Taylor, Blair Tickner, Will Young
New Zealand T20I squad: Tom Latham (capt, wk), Doug Bracewell, Michael Bracewell, Mark Chapman, Dane Cleaver (wk), Colin de Grandhomme, Martin Guptill, Matt Henry, Scott Kuggeleijn, Ben Sears, Ish Sodhi, Blair Tickner, Will Young
A couple of well-deserved call-ups for M Bracewell and Cleaver.
So very quickly off the top of my head, we are missing the following names from those squads;
Kane
Conway
Phillips
Mitchell
Siefert (probably dropped more than rested)
Southee
Boult
Santner
Blundell
FergusonThere’s probably other obvious ones I’m missing, so these are very much b squads, to be expected against The Netherlands I suppose.
Think they’ve missed a trick by not selecting a couple more younger players to see how they go, as someone else mentioned we have very old looking teams -
The NZ eleven named to play in the 3 warm up fixtures (starting today) has Jock McKenzie from Auckland. Is that the same young guy that has been training with the Blues as WTG First five?
The New Zealand XI face Netherlands behind closed doors in two one-day matches at Napier’s McLean Park on March 17 and 19 followed by a one-off T20 on March 21 – with all three matches live-streamed and scored at nzc.nz.
New Zealand XIMichael Bracewell (c) (Wellington)
Matt Bacon (Otago)
Matt Boyle (Canterbury)
Josh Clarkson (CD)
Dane Cleaver (wk) (CD)
James Hartshorn (Wellington)
Mitch Hay (Canterbury)
Jayden Lennox (CD)
Angus McKenzie (Otago)
Jock McKenzie (Auckland)
Tim Pringle (ND)
Ben Sears (Wellington)
Jesse Tashkoff (Wellington) – game 1
Ross Taylor (CD) - games 2 and 3
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Should be an interesting series but cant say I'm too excited by our squads.
Netherlands team isn't horrible and has come a long way in recent times. A few local lads in there incl me mate Max Odowd who has a pretty awesome stat of something like 50 odd international appearances without ever having a duck. Wonder if he can make it through the series.
edit - this stat https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/284086.html
A long way ahead of any other player too -
@jk said in Black Caps vs Netherlands:
Should be an interesting series but cant say I'm too by our squads.
Netherlands team isn't horrible and has come a long way in recent times. A few local lads in there incl me mate Max Odowd who has a pretty awesome stat of something like 50 odd international appearances without ever having a duck. Wonder if he can make it through the series.
edit - this stat https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/284086.html
A long way ahead of any other player tooFun fact - I went to see the Netherlands play Scotland in Amsterdam. Was great fun - small crowd, lovely ground by the canals (complete with nets and a looooong handled ball collection device), dutch beer, cheese, and a cordoned off ICC area with no phones to try and avoid bookmakers.
Sat under a tree, on chairs provided, drank beer, ate cheese, shot the breeze and had a lovely day out. Scotland got up and won with 7 wickets and about 2 overs left.
They're a fair short form team, but our teop team we should win comfortably. Missing the stars though, who knows. Can't say I'm super excited
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@stargazer As I am currently in Napier I am gutted that no spectators are allowed into McLean Park. Shame they could not play it over on Nelson Park where it would be impossible to keep interested spectators out. One would have thought they would be encouraging any spectators remotely interested in cricket to turn up and watch in these days of almost zero attendances at local cricket. And yes I am a fairly regular attender at Plunket Shield matches at the Basin Reserve, along with about a dozen or 20 other viewers on a good day.
