An Apology
Remember last Thursday when the New Zealand selectors picked the most conservative XI for the first test and we all thought that was really disappointing? Five sun baked days later[…]
Category: cricket
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NZ 1st Innings Statchat
Statchat tends to come in clumps. Today’s statchat replaced some pretty famous records. Highest total against England Previous highest was 551/9dec at Lords in 1973 in the series where Congdon[…]
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The Bay Oval
By Harbour Heather There are 227km between Auckland’s North Shore and Mount Maunganui’s Bay Oval, and it’s worth totally the drive. I live in the country’s biggest city, and understand[…]
Climbing the Hill
Day three started off with the home side under a cloud of gloom. They were 4 down and over 200 runs behind, they lost some careless wickets yesterday, Williamson was[…]
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Who’s Winning?
One of the great things about cricket, especially test cricket, is that it is often very subjective to say which side is winning a test at any given stage in[…]
Understanding a Pitch
The silos sparkled in the sun. There were queues for tickets, but not at the gate, outside. The Barmy Army cleared their lungs early, the bars selling pink gin had[…]
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NZ Test Grounds on debut
This Thursday Bay Oval becomes New Zealand’s ninth venue for men’s cricket tests. It made its ODI debut five years ago and has steadily developed into one of New Zealand’s[…]
Sporting pictures of the Week :- 16 November
This was a quality 2 Degrees promo at Eden Park last weekend even though it kind of backfired at the end. There is no context to this. You wonder what[…]
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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[…]
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[…]
