“The impact of Covid has hampered the campaign and selections but it’s pleasing to finalise the squad and get some certainty on the path forward for these promising young men. Although it’s been a ‘roller coaster’ ride we’re incredibly pleased with how the wider squad has coped throughout our campaign to date, and we’re equally pleased with the talent that is emerging with our juniors.
We challenged these young men to make it incredibly hard for us to leave them out of this selection, and to give the management group a ‘headache’ when decisions are finalised for this squad, and I can hand on heart say we got the ‘headache’ we were looking for and what a great ‘headache’ to have. The final naming of the team will see three of the named players as non-travelling reserves.
With any selection process the best scenario you can wish for is to have more talent than there are positions, and this was certainly the case with this squad. On behalf of the management team, we thank all our young men and their whanau for their participation in the campaign to date. It’s been a long and windy road, but we are really pleased with the calibre of talent we have available to us. The future of our game looks very bright.”

Jarrad Martin MNZM
Head Coach
Temperzone New Zealand Junior Black Sox

Shiloh Rice, Max Russell (Auckland), Katene Huriwai (Franklin), Cohen Bailey, Brandon Bristowe (Counties Manukau), Norpera Tangaroa (Hawke’s Bay), Lennox Easthope, Zahr Shaw-Wallace, George McCarroll, Josh Kennedy (Hutt Valley), Ciaran Bolger, Arron Gollan, Joe Simpson-Smith (Wellington), Hunter Simpson, Hapene Kumeroa, Connor Stanley, Jacob Neale, Jayden Potts, Fletcher Due (Canterbury)