Sporting pictures of the Week :- 31 March
When your side gets bowled out for 58. And this is how a couple of Cantabs celebrated the win. Caps in a spa bath. Really? One of the perks of[…]
Monthly Archive: March 2018
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Five questions about the Australian saga (which aren’t “How stupid do they think we are?”)
By Jack Cottrell 1. Who organised the press conferences for Steve Smith and Cameron Bancroft to occur the second they hit the ground after a long flight, a brutal[…]
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The Cricket Australia Saga
By Harbour Heather As a New Zealander, you’re damn right I enjoyed schadenfreude when the initial ball tampering incident took place in South Africa. How the mighty have fallen… No[…]
80 words in 80 minutes. NRL round four
By Stephen Gallagher Thursday, March 29 Cowboys v Panthers, 1300SMILES Stadium, 21.50NZT With the 10 week injury lay off to Nathan Cleary, there’s a lot of pressure on the Panthers[…]
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Vale to three top men of the ‘8’ Jersey
By The Spotter Gary Seear, then Mac McCallion and just this past week, Dylan Mika. It’s a sad, premature farewell to three prominent members of the NZ Rugby family. And all played[…]
Sporting Pictures Schadenfreude Special
The cricketing world has been dominated this week by the events in South Africa, and the subsequent crumbling of the Australian cricket team. There is nothing as globally unifying as[…]
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The Ghost of 2013
Today New Zealand requires 7 wickets in 98 overs to defeat England and beat England for only the fifth time on home soil. Given the tourists made only 58 in[…]
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The other cricket test going on
What a day for international cricket. The ongoing soap opera of a series in South Africa keeps throwing up all sorts of awfulness, and there will be a lot of[…]
Little things that annoy #73
Umpires holding an umbrella during a pitch inspection after the rain has stopped. Note the italics. The rain has stopped, and that is exactly why they are doing a pitch[…]
