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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
Whisper it quietly but we may, just may, have a half decent New Zealand cricket team on our hands. Back in 2010/2011 we had lost to just about everyone imaginable. Defeats against Bangladesh, India and Pakistan in test series and in one day series were followed up later by a huge loss to Zimbabwe in … Read more
Well, there we go, our glorious semi-final defeat rolled around again. The good things though are that we actually made this into a real game – a poor collapse of the previously always reliable kiwi tail meant the last 6 wickets fell for just 25 runs. Normally the tail in a kiwi lineup provides the … Read more
What if we live in a mutually exclusive world? Can we have our cake here and eat it too in the rugby world cup later in the year? Or will we be using up our proportion of luck, skill and talent to have success in the CWC? What if the success of our cricketers is … Read more
It’s been an awesome World Cup for us. The overwhelmingly huge defeats we inflicted on the Associate nations just put us in a mood for more good cricket. And once on a roll we’ve seen ever better performances. I’ve no idea if our second game against the quite brilliant Sri Lankans will be better than … Read more
As I write we are staring a massive hiding in the face and asking it for more. Nathan and Dan are at the crease trying to hold it together and we are 138-7 after being 73-6 earlier in the innings. Nathan has just swung and missed at 4 of the last 5 Tait deliveries. Things … Read more
Have woken up early this morning expecting to see us struggling against one of the minnows of world cricket Kenya. Normally this would be the sort of game where we make part-timers look amazing, one of them will tonne up and we will be chasing some enormous score just to stay in the cup. Not … Read more