Conway moving story !!!

 

Are you feeling stressed and feel like giving up in life !! ~ life lessons are interesting !! 

IPL is not only a big money spinner but also more than ray of hope to every budding Cricketer.  A few decades ago, when India would play around 8 Test matches or less an year and ODI was at its nascent stage, not many got chance to represent the Nation.  Many a good Cricketers somehow could not break into the National arena and ended up with exploits in Ranji. 

 

How would you describe this shot – perfect balance, complete commitment, exquisite timing, great command and confidence – poetry in motion –the Art of Drive !!!  -  thrashing the cherry to boundary.  .. …  

Well, life was not all  that easy for this man -  He grew up on a huge plot of land just outside Johannesburg where he was born. The family reared horses, chickens, rabbits, sheep and cows. His father was a football coach at a local club, and was passionate about motorsports.  In Mar 2016, he   brought up his maiden first-class double-century for Gauteng at the provincial level and roared in jubilation. It was the first in eight years of professional cricket for the left-hand batsman. The innings should have heralded a new beginning. Instead, it marked closure. That was the last innings he  played as a South African domestic cricketer. That August, he left South Africa for his new home - New Zealand. 

The man, the Cricketer – Devon Conway  left Johannesburg in Sept 2017, at the age of 26, to try and forge a cricket career in New Zealand. He had played extensively at provincial level, the second tier of South African domestic cricket, but had struggled to make an impression in his sporadic appearances in top-tier franchise cricket.  He shifted to New Zealand and  in 2020  became eligible.  He started scoring runs but was ageing !!!!

More impressive yet was his start in Tests - his debut 200 against England at Lords which was the first of five fifties in consecutive Tests, two of them hundreds. In 2022, he became the fastest New Zealand batter to 1000 Test runs, getting there in 19 innings. That year, he kicked New Zealand's T20 World Cup campaign off with an unbeaten 92 in a thrashing of Australia, though his side stumbled in the semi-final.

So eight years after he hit    his maiden first-class double hundred for Gauteng in a three-day match in South Africa in 2017. Four years later he'd score another double, but this time for New Zealand on his Test debut, becoming only the second - but also the oldest - player to do so in the side, where he quickly established himself as an attacking but composed top-order batter with the ability to shift gears quickly to adapt to match situations.

Now Devon Conway is in news for different reasons – a very long travel.  New Zealand expect Devon Conway to be available for the second Test of their series in England at The Oval next week, despite him undertaking a 23,000-mile round trip to Wellington to be at the birth of his second child between Tests.  Conway made 1 and 41 in New Zealand's 115-run defeat in a low-scoring first Test at Lord's and has since taken the long journey home for the birth of his second child with his wife Kim.   

New Zealand's players have been given time off in the UK after their defeat in the first Test. The squad are due to train at The Oval on Friday, before another day off on Saturday, and then three further training days before the second Test starts on Wednesday.   The build-up to the second Test has been dominated by the off-field chaos that has engulfed the England team this week, with Ben Stokes and Gus Atkinson not considered for selection at The Oval after their involvement in a late-night incident at a London nightclub and Joe Root stepping up as interim captain

Before concluding Devon Conway was a CSK player too.   Devon Conway made his IPL debut for Chennai Super Kings in 2022. He played seven matches that season, scoring 252 runs in seven innings at a strike rate of just over 145.  In 2023, he was a more regular presence for CSK at the top, helping them win their fifth title with a Player-of-the-Match performance in the rain-hit final in Ahmedabad.

Interesting !

Regards – S Sampathkumar

11.6.2026