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
If a NZer ever needed a reason to hate Australians, then the following should be in their top 5. I remember it like it happened yesterday. It still burns. They are scum. Never forget.
6 Nov, 2010 – Twickenham, England. Not quite the victory we were looking for. In fact, we were a bit lucky to hang on in the end, being a man down, due to the appalling refereeing by Frenchman Romain Poite , who attempted to whistle us off the field. Allowing the try after Ashton was five … Read more
Late to post on this (its been a busy week). But two seconds before kickoff and sitting at computer now. Got the feed from the iphone hooked up to the big screen so we’ve got it live in the house. Can’t see any way at all that the poms can win this one. No matter … Read more
Venn Diagram – Chance of Success with Stephen Donald in All Black team Kicking Capabilities of Stephen Donald
After witnessing the mighty ABs hit the ‘aimless wandering’ button and take an injection of ‘this game is already won’, our illustrious leader had this to say:“I thought they played some brilliant football early on and we were just hanging onto their coat-tails,” said Graham Henry. “We pulled it back, got some ascendancy but we … Read more
NZ 185/8 (50.0 ov, JS Patel 2*, DL Vettori 10*, NW Bracken 3/38) – Cricinfo Wooooohooooo!!!!Victory is ours