The Difficult Third Innings
The Difficult Third Innings Syndrome is a factor that has dogged New Zealand cricket for getting on twenty years now. The difficulty in knowing what to do with a big[…]
Monthly Archive: November 2014
-
-
Let’s show we’ve learnt
As predicted, that first test against Pakistan was always going to be brutal. The only bit of chest pumping to be extracted from it is that we lost by 100[…]
Cringe Week. The Aftermath
Two weeks ago there was Cringe Week where the nation found every possible reason, perceived or real, to feel outraged by the sheer evil of The English. Their players, their[…]
-
The Almost Scots
By The Spotter The 1983 Scotland team almost managed to defeat the All Blacks…but not quite. Had Peter Dods succeeded with a last-minute sideline conversion, that side would still remain[…]
Sports Quotes
By The Spotter Here’s an unofficial list of great sporting quotes; have a read and kick off a great sports weekend with a good laugh… Golf: ‘Is my friend in[…]
-
Sporting Pictures of the week :- 14 November
It has not been the best of times for Dirk Nannes since he arrived in Dunedin. Bottom of the Georgie Pie Super Smash, leading conceder of runs, and how do[…]
The potential of the infographic
The following clip is clearly nothing to do with sport. But, in coming up with this extraordinary infographic, NewtalkZB has set the bar somewhere for how news stories can be[…]
-
Tom Latham. #Statchat
One of the beauties about test cricket and #statchat is that even when things are not going particularly well there are normally some statistics to purr over. This test against[…]
Cheer up New Zealand
Right now New Zealand is struggling playing Pakistan in conditions most suited to Pakistan. And, to make it worse, Pakistan won the toss. We need cheering up. So here is[…]
