• Smashing wickets and breaking records the BlackCaps way

    Our mighty Blackcaps have been on a tear since the beginning of the last southern hemisphere Summer. Breaking records galore and unearthing talent that other teams can only dream of. We have batsmen consistently scoring tons, breaking records and posting huge record totals – plus we now have a triple centurion. Sir Brendon’s Triple Century…

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  • All Blacks vs France – 2nd Test Preview

    France were pretty close in last weeks game and almost got my prediction of a first up loss correct. Our team is unchanged which is a shame as I would have liked to see Ben Smith moved to fullback and find a place for Rene the Re-a-Ranger to start, even if on the wing. His…

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  • All Blacks vs France – Preview

    Here’s the team for us vs France this morning. 1. Wyatt Crockett 2. Dane Coles, 3. Owen Franks, 4. Luke Romano, 5. Brodie Retallick, 6. Liam Messam, 7.Sam Cane, 8. Kieran Read -captain, 9. Aaron Smith, 10. Aaron Cruden, 11.Julian Savea, 12. Ma’a Nonu, 13. Conrad Smith, 14.Ben Smith, 15. Israel Dagg Reserves: 16. Keven…

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  • What we’ve learned so far from the Blackcaps tour of England

    The bits we’ve gleaned from the tour so far: – We’re better at one day games than tests, which is annoying– McCullum is a great captain– but not much of a batter since becoming Captain– Ronchi isn’t much of a keeper – nor is he much of a batter. I unfortunately see not much of…

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  • Day 5, Second Test, England vs New Zealand

    England 1st innings – 337NZ 1st innings – 174England 2nd innings – 287/5NZ 2nd innings – 158/6 The game is nicely poised with us on six wickets down for bugger all runs, facing either defeat or salvation by poor weather. If it is the latter then England only have themselves to blame as they didn’t…

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  • Day 4, Second Test, England vs New Zealand

    England 1st innings – 337NZ 1st innings – 174England 2nd innings – 116/1 Day 3 – Just about the worst day’s play ever by a NZ cricket team. Having got the last few wickets cheaply, we started batting knowing that we had to improve on the performance at Lords. Fulton and Rutherford were solid and…

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  • Day 3, Second Test, England vs New Zealand

    England – 337/7 We bowled brilliantly yesterday or at least Southee and Boult did, just didn’t get the results. 337 is a lot of runs to concede in a day and we looked knackered at the end of it. Bracewell not so much as he was carted round the ground. The ball seamed and swung…

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  • Day 2, Second Test, England v New Zealand

    There was no Day 1. No, we didn’t lose the test in a day!   Enforced changes have been made to the Black Caps lineup from the First Test, with Martin and Watling both bustified. In comes Guptil and he should shore up the batting a bit and Bracewell takes Martin’s place. Dan the Man…

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  • Day 5 – There is no day 5 🙁 First Test, England vs New Zealand

    Eng 1st innings – 232NZ 1st innnings -207Eng 2nd innings – 213NZ 2nd innnings -68 !!NZ lose by 170 runs -WTF?!After a bit more Southee magic in the morning (including his first 10 for in a game), we had a target of 238 to win the game. Awesome. Difficult but gettable. Even if we got…

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