Central Districts spinner Ajaz Patel has taken 40+ wickets three seasons in a row and has been part of a slick Stags outfit, who made Super Smash and Ford Trophy finals and won the Plunket Shield. Ajaz Patel answers questions for El Niche Cache.
Matt Henry is on fire for Kent in County cricket, Ross Taylor scored some runs and Lord Jeetz is back amongst the wickets.
Ross Taylor is back onboard the Kiwi County Tour bus, playing for Nottinghamshire, Lord Jeetz is captain of Warwickshire and we've got two kiwi seamers battling against each other for Fish n Chips.
The Test summer began a very long time ago with a couple routine wins against the West Indies, took a long break so that fellas could give a white ball a good whack, then resumed with an instant classic series victory against England.
Jokers in the respectful sense, that is. There are no muppets at the very top of the heavyweight division, despite what Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder might make a few of them look like, and there are always plenty of willing scrappers out there.
Lockie Ferguson had another brilliant Plunket Shield campaign and he wasn't even close to being the best seamer this season.
Ish Sodhi's willow helped save a Test for Aotearoa after being overlooked because of his batting and the Blackcaps are a lovely Test cricket team, in Aotearoa.
The judges scored it 118-100, 118-110 and 119-109 which is probably more skewed than it needed to be but nobody’s gonna argue that the judges gave him a raw deal on the result. AJ was too good. He was better on the day. Parker said so himself.