Softball New Zealand said in a statement to
Stuff that Hayes – a world series gold medallist in 2013 and 2017 – “along with several others, was not picked in the current squad because he didn t meet the standards expected of the players on and off the diamond’’. We are no longer the world champions, so we have had to make changes, improve our standards, set higher expectations and pick players who meet those expectations, Black Sox coach Mark Sorenson said.
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Black Sox infielder Jerome Raemaki, pictured at the Intercontinental Cup softball tournament in Prague in 2018, is one of four players dropped for failing a fitness test in 2021.
The coronavirus pandemic has brought about difficulties for producing new music though. Many of my inspirations and influences come from my time spent in Ibiza DJ-ing. I often get a lot of cool musical ideas when I m travelling but because I can t perform at the moment I have to dig deeper, the 21-year-old said.
Reflecting on the success of
Dreams, Mr Bishop said: In a way, it is funny how the public catch on to certain music and tunes. But I have to thank Alex and Leon Mallet, who both appeared on X Factor in 2017, with Leon going on through to the live shows.