NRL Round 5
By Stephen Gallagher THURSDAY: Roosters V Eels – Allianz Stadium – 22.00NZT Fresh off a bye versus fresh off their first win. I haven’t been overly impressed with the Roosters[…]
Monthly Archive: March 2023
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Only at the Basin
There was a bit of chat earlier in the week about the wind at the Basin Reserve on what turned out to be the last day of the test match[…]
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NRL Round 4
By Stephen Gallagher THURSDAY: Eels V Panthers – CommBank Stadium – 22.00NZT Three four-point losses in a row, coming up against a Panthers side off the bye, while playing their[…]
Pushing The Boundaries
By Keith Miller When Zane Robertson and his twin brother Jake upped sticks and moved to Kenya at the tender age of 17, there were a few raised eyebrows. After[…]
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F1. Saudi Arabia 2023 review
By Gavin Huet, Chelsea Wintle and Aiden McLaughlin Driver of the day Gavin – It has to be Sergio Perez doesn’t it? 20 laps to go, a flying Verstappen closing[…]
Sporting pictures of the Week :-21 March
Starting with a couple of renaissance style paintings. First of all that mad scramble at Hagley Oval; there’s a lot to take in there. And six nations rugby laid bare.[…]
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Sri Lanka “PULL” themselves to defeat
By Rahul Patil New Zealand 1st innings 580/4 declared (Conway 78, Williamson 215, Nicholls 200*, Rajitha 2/126). Sri Lanka 1st innings 164 all out (Karunaratne 89, Henry 3/44, M Bracewell[…]
Enforcing a Follow on
Less than three weeks ago New Zealand became only the fourth side to win a test match after being asked to follow on. “No team will ever enforce the follow[…]
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Double Double Statchat
What a day. This was the first time two New Zealanders had scored double centuries in the same test innings, and the 18th time overall. When he reached 91 Kane[…]
Shortened notes and Statchat
A reasonably uneventful first day’s cricket at the Basin with a delayed start due to one hell of a dumping overnight and into the morning which dried up surprisingly quickly[…]
