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Day 4 – First Test, England vs New Zealand
Eng 1st innings – 232NZ 1st innnings -207 Eng 2nd innings – 180/6 It is perilously poised this test match. Could go either way and with the weather holding up (no rain) it looks for sure that there will be a result either today or tomorrow morning. At least McCullum and the rest of the…
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Day 3 – First Test, England vs New Zealand
Not much to say really. We are dominating at the moment. As predicted we got them out for under 250, in fact 232 all out. Southee was fantastic in the second hour of the day keeping the ball up and enticing the drive. McCullum continued to set aggressive fields that encourage batsmen to look for runs. When…
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Day 2 – First Test, England vs New Zealand
Brownlie takes an awesome catch off Boult bowling to Trott Seldom have we ever dominated a side more than what happened in day two of the first test. OK, so wickets didn’t fall but the poms only scored 160/4 in an entire day of cricket. Ridiculous. Boult charged in and was generally magnificent, well on the way…
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Hoping for some sunshine on Day 1 – First Test v England
Day 1 dawns and it is blue sky above. Hallelujah. That really is a miracle given the absolutely atrocious conditions of the last week. I had the heating on yesterday just to stay alive. Lords looks good – here’s a pic tweeted from their account this morning: The poms have Bresnan and Swann back but…
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I was there at Eden Park for the greatest test match ever. A retrospective look back.
Somewhere in the future – dateline 26 March, 2033 In hindsight it’s easy to think that a team of Williamson, Taylor, McCullum, Boult and Southee would beat the English team. Back in 2013 though, this was a young team of hungry cricketers still looking to make their mark on the world. They were lead by…
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Test match series win awaits the blackcaps…the crowd holds its breath
‘two-metre’ Peter and B-Mac meet mid-pitch to celebrate Sir Peter of Fulton’s second century of the match.NZ v England, 25 March, 2013 The AB Enquirer is cock-a-hoop today as the mighty Black Caps are on the cusp of winning or at the least not losing a test series against the Poms. That’s the Poms with James…
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Rugby as good as it gets
Bloody Hell – watch this. Highlanders vs Chiefs – 27 – 41 – Feb 22, 2013 Notable for Ben Smith looking a hell of a lot like Christian Cullen with uber line breaks at four million miles an hour. An amazing 3-4 minutes of rugby, end to end stuff. The purists will hate it for…
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What I’ve learned from Richie’s Book
Been reading our king and leader’s book during the holidays; Richie McCaw – The Real McCaw. Here’s what I’ve learnt: -Not much about Richie as a youngster.-He writes everything down in a Warwick exercise book.-It was always a plan to be a GAB (Great All Black).-In 2007 there was no Plan B, the players were…
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A RWC Infographic: How Exciting
Got a little bored over the hols and inspired by this post at Allblacks.com have been putting this together. Well to be more precise I spent three days putting it together over at Easel.ly which proclaims to be useful for putting together infographics. It is however a bug-ridden pile of junk which cannot be ‘NOT RECOMMENDED’ enough. What’s…