Caps' new star - Kyle Jamieson.

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In 1st Test vs. India:

3/91 (23.2), 1w, 4nb;
23 (75);
3/40 (17).

A pretty good game so far.

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And a very neat 5 in the second innings.

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Top scored for NZ in the first innings of the second Test. A well-compiled 17.

He's averaging 15 for the series.

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Series averages v India:

- batting 11.25 (45 runs, with a top score of 23);

- bowling 30.33 (6 wickets for 182).

I haven't had a chance to watch his second innings duck in the Second Test, yet, so I can't comment on whether this was as well-compiled as his effort in the first innings.

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Jamieson left NZ's Test tour of England in June with a back injury.
And he missed the Slogathon WC.

A couple of weeks ago, media reported that he's "been treading with caution"...

He was picked up in the IPL, but at 1/15th of the price he got a couple of IPLs ago. (Green's big payday reminded me of him.)

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England's Test squad for the tour of NZ was announced in December. But no need for the host to name a squad early. So dunno if Kyle is on track to make it.

Hope so! He was injured in NZ's Test tour of England, so it'd be nice if he gets back for the home series against the same oppo.

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'Blackcaps head coach Gary Stead has provided an update on Kyle Jamieson’s suspected back stress fracture after he was ruled out of the first England Test on Tuesday.
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“Kyle’s catching up (with) a surgeon later in the week and I think once they’ve decided which way to go, whether that be surgery or not … what I understand is surgery will speed up the process and potentially make it a lot quicker,” Stead told SENZ Breakfast.

“So he could be back a lot quicker, sort of four or five months is I guess best case scenario for us.”
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“We still sort of maintain and I think Kyle appreciates this as well, that it’s actually better it happens in a warmup game than finding out the first day of a Test match and then you lose a bowler, so there’s sort of positives and negatives every way, but we’re all gutted for Kyle.

“It’s been a big blow for him because he’s worked so hard on his fitness and his bowling to get back to where he was.”'


Sad news for true cricket lovers.

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'Since 2020, no one has taken Test wickets at a better average than Jamieson’s 80 at 19.73, and only South Africa’s Kagiso Rabada boasts a better strike rate than the 203-centimetre Kiwi fast man’s mark of a wicket every 44.47 balls.

In New Zealand, Jamieson’s record is still more remarkable. He has plucked 56 wickets at 17.37 in 11 Tests while needing little more than six overs for every victim. Those returns were pivotal to Williamson’s team lifting the inaugural World Test Championship by beating India in 2021.

CricViz analyst Ben Jones has referred to Jamieson as something like the “perfect fast bowler”, because over his early Tests he delivered the ball from a higher release point than most, landed it on a fuller length with bounce and gained appreciably more swing and movement off the seam than almost all his competitors.
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For an Australian batting line-up that has spluttered noticeably over the past nine months since the first two Ashes Tests in England, the avoidance of a showdown with Jamieson will undoubtedly make their task less tricky.'

(Brettig, The Age)