It is hard for a cricket team to be successful without a solid pair of hands behind the stumps.
This weekend, in the Bay of Plenty Cup, two of the competition's best wicketkeepers will go head-to-head when Carrus Mount Maunganui meet New World Te Puke at Fergusson Park.
Te Puke keeper Blair McKenzie and Mount Maunganui's Ben Pomare both made their Bay of Plenty senior representative debuts last season, sharing the wicketkeeping duties after the retirement of long-serving keeper Tim Clarke.
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Both players have had a big start to the current season. Pomare earned selection for the New Zealand Under-19 team, who played their Bangladesh counterparts in a five-game series in Canterbury last month.