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Cricket: Seamer deserves place in test side

Anendra Singh
Anendra Singh
Sports editor·Hawkes Bay Today·
21 Dec, 2014 07:02 PM2 mins to read

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Doug Bracewell

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He's made all the right moves so it's up to the Black Caps to give Doug Bracewell the start he deserves.

The Devon Hotel Central Districts seamer has 23 wickets in the Plunket Shield competition after spearheading the Stags to a 245-run walloping of the Auckland Aces at Eden Park yesterday.

"I'm pretty happy with how it [the ball] is coming out," Bracewell said.

"I would like a few more runs to the name but the main thing is the win today."

He then jetted straight to Christchurch to prepare for the two-test series against Sri Lanka from Boxing Day.

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"Whether I'll play in the series is out of my control but, hopefully, I'll play," said Bracewell, who didn't get any game time in the series against Pakistan in the UAE.

CD defied the odds of a rain-interrupted match, a lion's share of Saturday lost and the Aces a player down after DJ Bartlett got hurt.

The Taradale Cricket Club player said 18 wickets tumbled on day one so the game progressed well.

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"Today wickets were important because we needed nine of them and we'd done that before so it was a pretty pleasing game," he said, saluting fellow opener Ben Wheeler for tightening the screw on the hosts.

It also was the last first-class game for veteran opening batsman Jamie How, who is sitting in 10th place on the "most-runs" table on 201.

"It was Howser's last game so the boys wanted to send him off well by acknowledging his great contribution to CD cricket because he's played a lot of games over the years and put in a huge effort."

Bracewell said Ben Smith had also showed his prowess after a lean patch in the Georgie Pie Super Smash T20 competition.

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