NZ Cricket
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I'll miss having the cricket on tvnz, but this was inevitable the moment spark pulled out, tvnz don't have the cash to be involved. I'd be surprised if they were even bidding for the rights.
Hopefully nzc have spent the last couple of years preparing for a revenue drop, and making the most of the inflated price they got from the bidding war.
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@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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@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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@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.
