2019 Kiwi County Tour: Lord Jeetz and Hamish Rutherford Hold It Down
King Rossco has made a lovely start to his Royal London One-Day Cup for Middlesex and then we have Hamish Rutherford banging out centuries as well.
King Rossco has made a lovely start to his Royal London One-Day Cup for Middlesex and then we have Hamish Rutherford banging out centuries as well.
The start of the Kiwi County Tour One-Day Cup excursion saw some solid performances from the whanau, with the highlight being Hamish Rutherford's century for Worcestershire.
We haven’t heard much from Joseph Parker lately. Since bouncing back with a routine win in December, knocking out Alexander Flores in the third round in Christchurch, old mate’s been laying pretty low.
Initially we had just three lads on the Kiwi County Tour for 2019, however it looks as though we have a fourth as Hamish Rutherford appeared for Worcestershire to join Logan van Beek, Matt Quinn and Lord Jeetz.
The selection of Tom Blundell in the Blackcaps World Cup squad was packaged as a notable inclusion, right alongside that of Ish Sodhi.
Our first round of Kiwi County Tour is a wrap and in a quiet moment to myself as I waited for Logan van Beek to finish his post-match antics, was how lovely it was to start this year's KCT with two young lads doing their thing in England.
While the selection of Tom Blundell in Aotearoa's World Cup squad isn't the most important, nor the craziest Blackcaps selection in recent times, all the tell-tale signs of weirdness are there.
Given what happened in terms of selection leading into the 2017 Champions Trophy and then performances at that Champions Trophy in England, it would have been lovely to have a Blackcaps World Cup squad that had zero head-scratcher selections.
With a World Cup going down during the 2019 Kiwi County Tour, our touring party is a wee bit smaller this year without losing any of the funk that makes the KCT what it is.