TAKING STOCK: Blair Tickner reflects on the grand final loss at Pukekura Park, New Plymouth, on Saturday. PHOTO/ANENDRA SINGH
When it comes to bowling you can as ask one Stag to take stock of the final because he had all the "Ticks" in the boxes, as it were.
Yep, Blair "Ticks" Tickner was the man in the T20 grand final with 4-34 to post next to his five-wicket bag
for the best bowling effort of the Super Smash campaign although the loss on Saturday would have taken a little gloss off it.
"We could have done a little better after 12 overs but we let it go a little bit. We had the foot on their throats and then we eased off so they got a total I didn't think they deserved after the start they had," Tickner correctly surmised.
However, from there CD still felt the score was on a par in the changing rooms, considering they had amassed 250 at Pukekura Park before so 172 wasn't daunting at all.
He said CD had good death bowlers in Ben Wheeler, Seth Rance, Doug Bracewell and Brisbane Heats import Luke Feldman but injuries and higher honours took three out of the equation.
