The rapid rise of James Franklin and a look at the New Zealand season
With players such as Stephen Fleming, Nathan Astle, Roger Twose and Adam Parore missing from the side currently in Sharjah, the New Zealand one-day team has something of unusual look to it
Francis Payne
09-Apr-2001
With players such as Stephen Fleming, Nathan Astle, Roger Twose and Adam Parore missing from the side currently in Sharjah, the New Zealand one-day team has something of unusual look to it. A quite staggering feature of the side is that twenty-year-old rookie James Franklin now becomes one of the senior members of the team despite having just 12 appearances to his credit. His dozen caps are, amazingly, the third most in the team after Chris Harris and Craig McMillan.
Those two players have over 5000 one-day runs and almost 200 one-day wickets between them while the rest of the team have just 828 runs and 43 wickets between eleven players. Apart from Harris and McMillan, highest run scorer is Chris Nevin (178) while Daryl Tuffey (18) has the most wickets. Here is a summary of the New Zealand squad's career figures:
Matches Runs Wkts Andre Adams - - - Matthew Bell 3 55 - Grant Bradburn 7 57 4 James Franklin 12 52 14 Chris Harris 178 3192 163 Craig McMillan 84 1905 31 Kyle Mills - - - Chris Nevin 9 178 - Jacob Oram 9 150 5 Mathew Sinclair 9 162 - Daryl Tuffey 10 5 18 Lou Vincent 8 162 - Brooke Walker 4 7 2
Now a look at what happened in the New Zealand first-class season of 2000/01.
Highest batting averages (qualification six innings) were obtained by:
Mat I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Kyle Mills 8 13 6 606 117* 86.57 1 6 Mathew Sinclair 8 13 3 724 204* 72.40 2 3 Mark Richardson 11 19 2 1035 166 60.88 2 8 Roger Twose 4 6 1 298 108 59.60 1 2 Ben Smith 10 17 1 939 168 58.68 2 7 Mark Gillespie 5 6 3 165 81* 55.00 - 1 Craig McMillan 4 6 0 324 142 54.00 1 2 Matthew Bell 13 21 0 1092 134 52.00 6 3 Craig Spearman 7 12 0 611 130 50.91 1 5 Stephen Fleming 4 6 1 251 86 50.20 - 3
Chris Harris averaged 113.00 scoring 339 runs in four innings
Highest run scorers were:
Mat I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Matthew Bell 13 21 0 1092 134 52.00 6 3 Mark Richardson 11 19 2 1035 166 60.88 2 8 Ben Smith 10 17 1 939 168 58.68 2 7 Gary Stead 12 20 2 875 121* 48.61 3 5 Richard Jones 12 19 0 860 188 45.26 3 3 Mathew Sinclair 8 13 3 724 204* 72.40 2 3 Jarrod Englefield 10 19 0 724 172 38.10 2 3 Matthew Horne 11 20 2 642 110 35.66 2 4 Craig Cumming 10 19 5 626 125* 44.71 2 2 David Kelly 10 18 2 617 212* 38.56 1 3
The following had the best bowling averages for 2000/01 (qualification 10 wickets):
O M R W Ave Best 5 10 Brent Hefford 202.5 74 438 24 18.25 5-50 1 - Richard Morgan 79 28 203 11 18.45 5-44 1 - Chris Drum 342.5 99 889 48 18.52 5-65 1 - Daryl Tuffey 238.5 78 630 34 18.52 7-12 2 1 Iain O'Brien 319.1 81 807 41 19.68 6-55 3 - James Franklin 204.5 40 622 31 20.06 5-39 1 - Andrew Schwass 169 45 457 22 20.77 5-53 2 - Matthew Walker 193.4 69 387 18 21.50 5-29 1 - Tama Canning 243.5 75 585 27 21.66 4-36 - - Warren McSkimming 226.5 75 585 26 22.50 6-39 1 -
Highest wicket takers were:
O M R W Ave Best 5 10 Chris Drum 342.5 99 889 48 18.52 5-65 1 - Iain O'Brien 319.1 81 807 41 19.68 6-55 3 - Daryl Tuffey 238.5 78 630 34 18.52 7-12 2 1 Joseph Yovich 332.4 95 938 34 27.58 7-64 1 - Andrew Penn 291.5 79 794 32 24.81 4-28 - - James Franklin 204.5 40 622 31 20.06 5-39 1 - Craig Pryor 255.1 66 684 29 23.58 5-28 2 - David Sewell 283.4 82 799 29 27.55 6-70 1 - Tama Canning 243.5 75 585 27 21.66 4-36 - - Warren McSkimming 226.5 75 585 26 22.50 6-39 1 -
Highest scores were recorded by:
David Kelly 212* Central Districts v Canterbury Blenheim Mathew Sinclair 204* New Zealand v Pakistan Christchurch Yousuf Youhana 203 Pakistan v New Zealand Christchurch Richard Jones 188 Wellington v Otago Wellington Tim McIntosh 182 Auckland v Canterbury Christchurch Jarrod Englefield 172 Canterbury v Central Districts Blenheim Ben Smith 168 Central Districts v Canterbury Christchurch Tim McIntosh 167 Auckland v Canterbury Auckland Mark Richardson 166 Otago v Central Districts Alexandra Younis Khan 149* Pakistan v New Zealand Auckland
Best bowling figures in an innings went to:
Daryl Tuffey 7-12 Northern Districts v Wellington Hamilton Joseph Yovich 7-64 Northern Districts v Central Districts Napier Warren Wisneski 7-151 Canterbury v Auckland Christchurch Tim Anderson 6-37 Central Districts v Auckland Palmerston North Warren McSkimming 6-39 Otago v Canterbury Christchurch Bradley Scott 6-48 Otago v Auckland Dunedin Iain O'Brien 6-55 Wellington v Canterbury Christchurch David Sewell 6-70 Otago v Central Districts Wanganui Iain O'Brien 5-27 Wellington v Auckland Auckland Craig Pryor 5-28 Otago v Northern Districts Hamilton
Best match bowling analyses were recorded by:
Daryl Tuffey 11-66 Northern Districts v Wellington Hamilton Graeme Aldridge 9-91 Northern Districts v Auckland Hamilton Warren McSkimming 9-94 Otago v Canterbury Christchurch James Franklin 9-114 Wellington v Central Districts Wellington Andre Adams 8-54 Auckland v Northern Districts Wellington Saqlain Mushtaq 8-72 Pakistan v New Zealand Auckland Chris Drum 8-84 New Zealand A v Pakistan Lincoln Mohammad Sami 8-106 Pakistan v New Zealand Auckland Iain O'Brien 8-121 Wellington v Canterbury Christchurch Joseph Yovich 8-129 Northern Districts v Central Districts Napier
Best partnerships for the 2000/01 season were:
wkt 1 220 Matthew Bell & Richard Jones Wellington v Canterbury Christchurch 2 220 Mark Richardson & Craig Cumming Otago v Northern Districts Hamilton 3 210 Ben Smith & Mark Douglas Central Districts v Northern Districts Taupo 4 274 Richard Jones & Stephen Mather Wellington v Otago Wellington 5 222 Nathan Astle & Craig McMillan New Zealand v Zimbabwe Wellington 6 147* Younis Khan & Faisal Iqbal Pakistan v New Zealand Auckland 7 248 Yousuf Youhana & Saqlain Mushtaq Pakistan v New Zealand Christchurch 8 185 Dion Nash & Kyle Mills Auckland v Wellington Wellington 9 104* Reece Young & Chris Drum Auckland v Central Districts Auckland 10 80 Bruce Martin & Graeme Aldridge Northern Districts v Auckland Hamilton
Finally, here are the New Zealand Test averages for the entire 2000/01 season - 3 each against Zimbabwe, South Africa and Pakistan.
Batting & Fielding
Mat I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St CL Cairns 2 3 1 176 124 88.00 1 - - - DJ Nash 1 1 0 62 62 62.00 - 1 - - MS Sinclair 9 16 4 698 204* 58.16 2 1 6 - MH Richardson 9 14 1 710 106 54.61 1 6 6 - MD Bell 3 5 0 248 105 49.60 1 1 1 - DL Vettori 1 1 0 49 49 49.00 - - - - CD McMillan 9 14 1 565 142 43.46 1 4 5 - MJ Horne 2 3 0 111 110 37.00 1 - 2 - SP Fleming 9 14 1 475 99 36.53 - 5 7 - NJ Astle 9 13 1 389 141 32.41 1 2 6 - AC Parore 9 13 5 220 50* 27.50 - 1 38 - BGK Walker 4 6 1 103 27* 20.60 - - - - PJ Wiseman 4 5 2 32 14 10.66 - - 3 - CM Spearman 3 6 0 58 23 9.66 - - 4 - SB O'Connor 6 7 0 58 20 8.28 - - 1 - DR Tuffey 5 6 0 29 13 4.83 - - 2 - CJ Drum 1 1 0 4 4 4.00 - - 1 - KP Walmsley 1 2 0 5 5 2.50 - - - - CS Martin 7 8 3 12 7 2.40 - - 2 - GE Bradburn 2 1 0 0 0 0.00 - - 2 - JEC Franklin 2 2 0 0 0 0.00 - - 1 - HJH Marshall 1 1 1 40 40* - - - - -
Bowling
O M R W Ave Best 5 10 MH Richardson 10 0 17 1 17.00 1-16 - - CL Cairns 93.2 28 221 11 20.09 5-31 1 - CJ Drum 8 1 21 1 21.00 1-21 - - JEC Franklin 54.5 13 150 7 21.42 4-26 - - KP Walmsley 18 4 47 2 23.50 1-7 - - SB O'Connor 222.4 70 468 18 26.00 4-73 - - CS Martin 221 52 787 28 28.10 5-71 1 - DR Tuffey 182.5 47 562 19 29.57 4-39 - - PJ Wiseman 203 56 495 10 49.50 5-90 1 - CD McMillan 154.5 47 347 7 49.57 2-29 - - NJ Astle 224 101 360 7 51.42 2-22 - - DJ Nash 34.3 19 53 1 53.00 1-25 - - DL Vettori 52 23 79 1 79.00 1-79 - - BGK Walker 96.4 14 302 3 100.66 2-92 - - GE Bradburn 42 10 124 1 124.00 1-124 - - HJH Marshall 1 0 4 0 - - - - MS Sinclair 4 0 13 0 - - - -