SHEPLEY skipper Danny Glover is just back from a highly-successful season in New Zealand.

He played for the Naenae club in Wellington and finished top of the league wicket-takers with 58 victims to his name.

The Naenae club messaged: “Another massive congratulations to Danny Glover for his contribution to the club this year.

“Danny’s achievements were recognised at the Cricket Wellington club awards. Danny took away the award for most wickets and also the Most Outstanding Performance in the Premier Grade.

“Wish you could have been here to celebrate mate. Well done and congratulations on behalf of the club.”

Glover also bowled at the Basin Reserve (Test ground) against teams preparing for matches in the ICC World Cup which was staged in New Zealand and Australia.

“For Naenae, we played a mixture of T20, one-day and two-day cricket,” he explained.

“We played some really good sides in the one-dayers and then you split into two groups for the two-dayers.

“I ended up with a nine-for in one of the games, nine for 50 in 18 overs, but the standard isn’t always that hot and some of the clubs in Wellington seem to be struggling.

“There is plenty of help in most of the wickets for the seamers, though, although the wind never stops blowing and, when I was bowling into the wind on a few occasions, I swear I was running backwards.

“Wellington is a fantastic place, though, with great people and great places, and the experience was just fantastic.”

Glover thoroughly enjoyed mixing it with the internationals in the nets, too, and picked up some handy tips.

“I had the pleasure of bowling at England, South Africa, West Indies and Sri Lanka when they were in Wellington for matches,” said Glover, who had 62 wickets at 15 last summer.

“We’d have three hours at them and as soon as the batters said they wanted to face seamers, I was straight up there!

“I bowled at all the top England lads, who were really nice, and the West Indies were real characters, as you can imagine.

“I got some great help from Paul Farbrace, too, who is England’s second in command. When I was bowling at Moeen Ali, he noticed a slight flaw in my action against left-handers, so I’ve done a bit of work on that and hopefully I can put it into practice now I’m back here.”