It’s been a while between innings for The AB Enquirer as daily life gets in the way of blog writing. The meanderings are mostly posted on twitter these days anyway, but just occasionally it’s nice to do something a bit longer. I was originally planning a preview of the Cricket World Cup post but left … Read more
It’s all on. After being smashed, battered and generally outplayed last week we have a chance for revenge, put things right, and to win a series. England on the other hand are talking it up as though they’ve already won. I like Lancaster’s balls. The bloke speaks his mind and is massively confident. He should … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more