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Kyle Jamieson was first called up to the Black Caps as they faced Australia across the Tasman last summer. He played for New Zealand A for the first time at the end of 2018, on a tour of the United Arab Emirates, so he was definitely in the system. But after seeking a change of environment and moving back home in the middle of 2019, where he came under the tutelage of new Aces coach Heinrich Malan, Jamieson was finding it hard to reap any rewards – at least in the form of wickets, the currency on which bowlers fortunes rise and fall.
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Black Caps fast bowler went so close to a test hat-trick at the Basin Reserve but still grabbed a five-wicket bag.
Just six weeks ago at a near-deserted Eden Park Outer Oval, Kyle Jamieson charged across the outfield in celebration after achieving a bowler’s prized feat, a hat-trick. On Saturday at the Basin Reserve, a packed hill on their feet chanting his name, Jamieson, remarkably, had a shot at another. In a test match against West Indies, no less, just the fourth of this skyrocketing international career at age 25. Having shattered Roston Chase’s stumps for two in two, Jamieson’s hat-trick delivery was almost too good as the 5528-strong crowd and his team-mates roared. A full inswinger rapped Jermaine Blackwood on the pads and it looked a good lbw shout.