Plunket Shield: Round 3
The Rain Round. While the ambitious November T20 series passed mostly unscathed things weren’t so lucky in the last round of the Plunket Shield. It is not often you get[…]
Category: cricket
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Sporting pictures of the Week :- 10 November
Mascot corner. Remembrance Day round in the EPL, and the West Ham mascot seems to be quite enjoying it. Not to be outdone; who signed off on this idea at[…]
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The oldest cricket cliche of them all
A five match T20 series is a novelty. In fact it’s the first series of this size to be held between two test playing nations (Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu[…]
Plunket Shield: Round 2
A contrasting round of matches in a staggered week. The Wellington v Canterbury match at the Basin was as good as you could get. 1,500 runs, here declarations, and the[…]
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Sporting pictures of the Week :- 26 October
At Pollock FC in Scotland a big football fan, a dog called Yardley, is allowed to watch games from the stands at Newlandsfield Park. A real highlight of this[…]
Plunket Shield: Round 1
Provincial trolling and statchat aside, the Plunket Shield also acts as trial matches for the internationals ahead. The early rounds this season have extra importance in that the specialist test[…]
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Sporting pictures of the Week :- 18 October
So welcome back to Wellington then Mark Rudan. Kipchoge points to the clock after completing the first sub two hour marathon. From the promo shoot files. Sophie Devine has signed[…]
Sporting pictures of the Week :- 5 October
A slightly overlooked story this week was the return of the Sri Lankan cricket team to Pakistan; just over 10 years since their bus was ambushed. This time there was[…]
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Sporting pictures of the Week :- 28 September
Rugby World Cup Corner. On Japanese TV rugby positions are explained via easy to understand animal imagery. Steve Hansen getting on with the locals; in this case Beppu’s police chief.[…]
10 Well Known and Popular Sports
There are all kinds of sports in the world that are widely popular. Here are just 10 of them you need to try out at some point. While some popular[…]
