Bay Harbour: March 23, 2022

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Wednesday March 23 2022 Bay Harbour News
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Eye-catching stats for prolific run-scorer
TARGET: Dan Stanley hopes a prolific run-scoring
campaign with Heathcote will resurrect his
representative career. PHOTO: JOHN COSGROVE
• From page 1
The 25-year-old ran the gauntlet,
as he has throughout the season, his
third scoring shot was a lofted six
down the ground before he bisected
two of the boundary riders for four.
Then it was over – a skied swipe
was taken by Oscar Wilson as
Lancaster Park’s players sighed with
relief.
Stanley scored 13 from seven balls
– including a streaky french cut –
to list his season aggregate to 1014
runs, comfortably a career best.
Quizzed on the cornerstones of
this season’s run glut, the apprentice
builder offered a couple of explanations
“I’d say it comes down to playing
with freedom, I suppose fearlessness
helps.”
Likewise, his occupation.
“I think that might have been a
key to my concentration as well. I
reckon I’ve also developed a shovel
shot, through the constant shovelling
as an apprentice,” he said.
That new weapon has been a
significant contributor to one of
Stanley’s eye-catching stats as the
2021-22 season has one day – presumably
one last knock – remaining
on Saturday.
Leading into the final day against
Lancaster Park, the left hander had
slugged 67 sixes; Wilson was the
closest challenger with 32.
“A lot of that’s down to the slog
sweep shovel shot I’ve got going on,”
said Stanley, who also boasted the
highest strike rate per hundred balls
this season, 146.77 before the final
round of the two-day competition
got under way.
He needs 31 runs on Saturday to
eclipse Wilson’s aggregate of 1044
last season and regardless of whether
he posts the highest tally since
statistics combined the one and
two-day formats (and then T20) in
1981-82, the campaign has been an
individual triumph.
‘I’ve also developed a shovel
shot, through the constant
shovelling as an apprentice’
– Dan Stanley
Stanley comfortably posted a
career high, exceeding last season’s
769 at 32.04, the fourth time he has
amassed more than 500 runs since
2017-2018.
Scott Duggan (Lancaster Park) is
the second highest run scorer with
750 while Stanley’s average (48.28)
is not inflated by not outs, he has
only one from 22 innings.
Centuries haven’t provided an
outlier either, Stanley has made
two 100s with a best of 138, a blistering
75-ball assault including 16
boundaries and seven sixes against
East Christchurch Shirley in the
rain-shortened two-day game at
Heathcote Domain in November.
“Being aggressive has always
been part of my game, but it’s been
a good season,” said Stanley, who
switched from Old Boys Collegians
last season because he was living
with family in Heathcote.
South African-born Stanley,
who moved to New Zealand as a
five-year-old, now hopes weight of
runs translates to winter training in
the provincial A team set-up for the
former Canterbury under-17 and
under-19 representative.
“I’d like to be in that set-up,
hopefully one-day I’ll get an opportunity,
it’s something I’ve strived
for,” said Stanley, who played in the
same under-19 NZ team as future
Black Caps Glenn Phillips, Rachin
Ravindra and Finn Allen at the
World Cup in 2016.
Heathcote coach Mark Lane believed
promotion was warranted.
“If he’s given the opportunity at
the level above he has the potential to
step up and do well. He’s putting runs
together more consistently and he’s
proven he has the ability to be a big hitter
and score quickly,” said Lane, who
coached Stanley in the Christchurch
Boys’ High School first XI.
“It’s now up to the Canterbury
selectors to say: ‘Do we give this guy
a go and see whether he can make
the jump to the next level?’.”
“You don’t come across batsmen
like that often. He’s just got such
power.”
Heathcote club captain David
Stack agreed after copping punishment
during training at Heathcote
Domain.
“I’ve bowled to him a lot in the
nets this season and it does have
the feel of being a five-year-old and
bowling to your dad,” he said.
“He hits the ball really hard.”
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