Sporting pictures of the Week :- 21 December
No comment needed. The first IPL Auction involving Mike Hesson. Christmas in the Premier League means lots of rain and lots of cold winter. Looks a bit grim at Fulham.[…]
Author: Sportsfreak
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Those Bat Carries in Full
Glenn Turner 1969 Turner was playing in his fourth test when he achieved this. A test mainly remembered for its rubbish pitch and one of the great photos of all[…]
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Sit down if you love the darts
By Aiden McLaughlin The first sporting event of 2019 is already well underway. The PDC (Professional Darts Corporation) World Darts Championship started at London’s Alexandra Palace last week and will last[…]
Beautiful Uncertainty
The talk before play started today was about when the match would finish today, and what do you do with a day off in Wellington if it’s wet. After all,[…]
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Bat Once and Bat Well
The two themes of the day were trying to work out how long to bat for set to the backdrop of a changing forecast for Wednesday, and marvelling at one[…]
Past versus Present
By Hamish Girvan Week 15 Part 2 Philadelphia Eagles at Los Angeles Rams Monday 2.20pm NZ time After the drama of Fridays big time game another Los Angeles team will[…]
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Contrasting Expectations
The morning session was dominated by what is becoming a national obsession; Will Jeet Raval score a test century today? The SKY commentators were onto it in the first over,[…]
The Annual Basin Reserve Sucker Punch
This seems to happen a lot. Teams rock up to the Basin Reserve, look at the green nature of the pitch and the captain (who is typically a batsman) gets[…]
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Sporting pictures of the Week :- 14 December
Not sure what the NSW Swifts are thinking with this promotional angle. But it’s not as bad as whatever Joe Parker is thinking. Aww. Will Somerville returning from the UAE[…]
Herald Sports Department Strikes It Perfectly
By The Spotter If you regularly read the Herald sports pages, you’ll be well acquainted with the excellence of journalists like Dana Johannsen (now over at ‘Stuff’) and Dylan Cleaver. And they’ve just taken a good[…]
