An unaffordable non selection
By Rahul Patil I have been to every basin test since 2012 and over the years the pitch has hardly ever changed. It always has a generous covering of grass[…]
Category: cricket
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Sporting Pictures of the Week 3 December
Nordic combined event in Finland. Eric being humble. And Pep’s taking it well. Bamboo car racing in Bandung, Indonesia. Oh cricket; what are you becoming? Glenn Phillips may have dropped[…]
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Yours Please #6
By Ryan Nixon, Scott MacLean and Hamish Girvan 1) After the shock result in India, the Black Caps crashed back down to earth in Christchurch. The key talking point appears[…]
One-nil to the Engerland
By Aiden McLaughlin Two days is a long time in Test cricket, especially when one of the teams is Ben Stokes’ England. At 71-4 in their first innings, on the[…]
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Over and almost out
By Aiden McLaughlin It was a day to forget for the Blackcaps as their chances of a win in the first Test went up in smoke against an English side[…]
When Harry met Ollie
By Aiden McLaughlin Just as New Zealand threatened to run through the English batting line-up, a 151 run partnership between Harry Brook and Ollie Pope kept the visitors in the[…]
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Kane is able again
By Aiden McLaughlin For all the talk and permutations regarding how Will Young could keep his place in the starting XI for this first Test against England, one idea was[…]
Yours Please #5
After a week on hiatus, we are back with the new series. “Yours Please” asks three Sportsfreak affiliates their thoughts on what has happened – and what may happen –[…]
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Sporting Pictures of the Week 24 November
The feel good story of the year in football. San Marino, with a population about the size of Timaru, not only beat Liechtenstein for the second time, but put three[…]
Those Tim Southee best test knocks in full
So the Tim Southee farewell tour is about to begin. A true servant of New Zealand who, strangely, got a huge amount of criticism for his batting, which is odd[…]
