World Cup Oddities #4: 2007; are we there yet?
By Keith Miller Outside of the victorious Australian side, the 2007 World Cup will never be remembered for its scintillating cricket. The bizarre and tragic death of Bob Woolmer (and[…]
Monthly Archive: February 2015
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World Cup Oddities #3 Messrs Boucher, Duckworth & Lewis
By Keith Miller It wasn’t the first time that South Africa had been come off second best in a rain affected World Cup game. The 1992 semi-final scoreboard that read[…]
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World Cup Oddities #2 West Indies taking Kenya for granted
By Keith Miller There are usually upsets at any World Cup. Australia being knocked over by Zimbabwe in 1983 was the most celebrated in the cricketing version for a very[…]
Major League Baseball is almost here
By Scott McLean Over the next few days the Major League Baseball universe returns to the field with players reporting to their teams for Spring Training. However the landscape has[…]
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Rugby Analysis Needs A Reset
By Niall Anderson This weekend, a competition starts which is set to captivate the nation; sparking endless debate and spawning hundreds of breathless articles. No, it’s not the Cricket World[…]
What’s MyBLACKCAPS about? With a Giveaway
As sports followers we can be an impatient lot; always wanting the best, and wanting it now. And with the advent of an increasing array of online options we want[…]
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World Cup Oddities :- Gavaskar’s go-slow
By Keith Miller 1975 saw the inaugural Cricket World Cup take place in England. It was new, exciting, and despite the fact that the ODI game was in its infancy,[…]
Ganging up on the Sevens
After a period of over a decade of being New Zealand’s fastest selling sporting event, it has been an all-in pile on from multiple directions which has reached a climax this[…]
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The Cricket World Cup Draw
A common gripe doing the rounds over the last few weeks is that the Cricket World Cup has been that it is a rubbish format, and that none of the[…]
So farewell then Boom Boom
By Keith Miller (not that Keith Miller) One of world cricket’s most colourful characters is set to retire after the World Cup. Shahid “Boom Boom” Afridi announced his arrival on[…]
