Aotearoa's Blackcaps get their T20 series against Pakistan underway in the coming days and Ajaz Patel has been given a limited overs call up, joining Glenn Phillips and Corey Anderson as the additional squad members.
Having explored a few of the batsman things after Ford Trophy round two, now it's time for the bowlers and specifically Jacob Duffy and Will Williams.
There is no shortage of contenders for Aotearoa's most sizzling batsmen right now and any keen observer of domestic cricket would throw up a few names that aren't quite as 'sexy' as the other as Michael Bracewell and Hamish Rutherford smacked centuries in Ford Trophy round two.
Three 50-over games and three losses for Aotearoa 'A' over in United Arab Emirates against Pakistan 'A'.
Two games and two loss for Aotearoa 'A' in their 50-over series against Pakistan A, although as per usual it's the intricacies and personnel decisions that we're zoning in on.
The oddly timed return of Ford Trophy cricket saw many of the same suspects who scored runs in the first two Plunket Shield rounds, continue their run-scoring, but Auckland Aces' Sean Solia and Wellington Firebirds' Andrew Fletcher lead the pack with centuries.
Two vacant Blackcaps T20 squad spots have been filled with Corey Anderson and Glenn Phillips being promoted from the Aotearoa 'A' squad.
Aotearoa isn't exactly short of seam bowlers putting pressure on the Blackcaps incumbents and one bloke leads the pack, especially after Matt Henry tore through County cricket over the winter.
Kicking off the 50-over series vs Pakistan 'A', Aotearoa 'A' came within a whisker of registering a first up win after they lost by 1 wicket.
We are currently at a point of existence where if you don't know who this Devon Conway cuzzie is, you haven't been paying enough attention to the Niche Cache's domestic cricket coverage.
Scattered among plenty of standard domestic cricket delight, were a bunch of slick performances from the Blackcaps battlers in round two of the Plunket Shield.
Aotearoa 'A' grabbed a T20 series win over Pakistan 'A' after the kiwis chased down a target of 157 in the third game.
Round two of the Plunket Shield has begun and after round one offered plenty of funk given it was our first sighting of the domestic cricket landscape, we are back in plenty of selection funk for a slightly different reason.
While Plunket Shield cricket has me fizzing, there's this cheeky Aotearoa 'A' tour going on at the same time over in United Arab Emirates.
Having run through the best of the batting from the opening round of Plunket Shield cricket, now it's time to take a geeze at the bowlers.
The opening round of Plunket Shield cricket saw Central Districts youngin' Willem Ludick announce his arrival on to the domestic scene as a batsman, as well as Jeet Raval breaking his slump and the grizzly veteran Hamish Rutherford leading the way against an almighty Northern Districts bowling attack.
Aotearoa's domestic cricket summer is back and after only a couple of days, we have already seen a bunch of intriguing performances that had the Domestic Cricket Daily eager to spin some yarns.
Unfortunately for the White Ferns, the third and final T20 between Australia and Aotearoa went to the same script as the the first two games in which Australia cruised to victory.
Two T20 games against Australia and two losses for Aotearoa's White Ferns as they struggled to rally behind Suzie Bates in the second T20, thus handed the series to Australia with a game to spare.
The Kiwi County Tour is all done for 2018, with Jeetan Patel getting the back seat of the KCT bus via a win over Matt Henry to claim the Division Two title.