Sporting Moments of the Year Part 1
By many 2024 has been another massive year for sport. Here at Sportsfreak Towers, we’ve each come up with our Sporting Moment of the Year (or four if your name[…]
Tagged: cricket
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Sporting Pictures of the Week 15 December
Nothing like getting the away coach to photobomb a team celebration. Gout gout. Disproving the nominative determination theory. Who saw this depravity coming? Oh Kane A fair question So who[…]
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The One Thing Australia gets right
Australia is a slightly controversial cricketing nation. There is a lot not to like. Their long term refusal to help developing countries, the sledging, behaving like flogs, the ludicrous idea[…]
Class is Permanent
By his standards Tom Blundell has not had a great 12 months. He had averaged 16 for 2024 coming into this test with a solitary half century. Worryingly his glove[…]
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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[…]
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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[…]
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[…]
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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[…]
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[…]
