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 … Read more
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
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 … Read more
‘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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more