NZ 1st Innings Statchat
Statchat tends to come in clumps. Today’s statchat replaced some pretty famous records. Highest total against England Previous highest was 551/9dec at Lords in 1973 in the series where Congdon[…]
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NZ Test Grounds on debut
This Thursday Bay Oval becomes New Zealand’s ninth venue for men’s cricket tests. It made its ODI debut five years ago and has steadily developed into one of New Zealand’s[…]
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Plunket Shield: Round 3
The Rain Round. While the ambitious November T20 series passed mostly unscathed things weren’t so lucky in the last round of the Plunket Shield. It is not often you get[…]
Plunket Shield: Round 2
A contrasting round of matches in a staggered week. The Wellington v Canterbury match at the Basin was as good as you could get. 1,500 runs, here declarations, and the[…]
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Nervous Nineties?
By Andrew Dunford During the third day of the Sri Lanka v New Zealand Test match at Galle, TV viewers were reminded frequently that the largest target chased successfully at[…]
New Zealand Are World Cricket’s ‘Reverse-Chokers’
By James Rodbourn Sunday’s World Cup final saw easily the most tortured chapter added to New Zealand’s Cricket World Cup history. But it was also yet another textbook example of a[…]
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Those New Zealanders debuting at a World Cup
The surprise inclusion in this week’s Cricket World Cup squad announcement was the inclusion of Tom Blundell who has yet to play in an ODI. While that is unusual he[…]
Stats and Scans
Ross Taylor came in amongst the gloom last night when New Zealand was 8/2. Even in that short time at the crease he indicated that he wasn’t going to stand[…]
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Those Bat Carries in Full
Glenn Turner 1969 Turner was playing in his fourth test when he achieved this. A test mainly remembered for its rubbish pitch and one of the great photos of all[…]
Contrasting Expectations
The morning session was dominated by what is becoming a national obsession; Will Jeet Raval score a test century today? The SKY commentators were onto it in the first over,[…]
