Tag Archives: Black Caps
DeadCast: Balls 2 / Winter Olympics, Black Caps Coaches and the Fairytale of New Orleans
A few days late and dollars short as will no doubt become usual, but here’s Aaron Hawkins from Radio 1 in Dunedin and Duncan from DeadBall’s chat from Friday 12 Feb 2010 (c. 730am every Friday). We discussed the impending … Continue reading
Restoring the Bond
News has broken that the BCCI has decided, in its infinite benevolence, to allow its players an amnesty until May 31 to cut all ties to the ICL. This means any Indian cricketer who ended their career by signing with … Continue reading
A Good Time To Be Indian
When the best thing you can say about a match from New Zealand’s perspective is that we avoided an innings defeat, you know it hasn’t gone according to plan. 10 wickets is comprehensive enough anyway, but the stubbornness McCullum and … Continue reading
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Indian Summers
Having been shivering my way through England and Scotland these past couple of weeks, with the only cricket news being that monumentally cool (if on another level ineffably sad) Stanford scandal all across the front pages – one I’m gonna … Continue reading
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This Time It's Not How He's Drinking
Jesse Ryder – a man who has made a career out of losing his dignity and spooning cookie dough into his mouth full-time – has shocked the cricketing world this morning by injuring himself while sober. The punishing left-hander sustained … Continue reading
A Boulter Joins the Black Caps
Who’s that devilishly handsome man? Not your pimply cousin from down country, it’s Trent Boult, the newest infantile cricketer to be rushed into the Black Caps, this time at the expense of a man old enough to be, if not … Continue reading
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Rating the Also-rans
So this oddly interminable tour is finally over. Given that only about three hours of cricket was possible between showers, there was more entertaining cricket than we had any right to expect, and the West Indian side, chiefly through the … Continue reading
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A Don At The Cricket
Images from the Boxing Day Twenty20 at Eden Park by Duncan Greive and Justin Warren. Words excerpted from The Godfather by Mario Puzo.
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The Game Done Changed
As Chris Gayle walked off the pitch in a triumphant glow yesterday, having ripped the heart out of Daniel Vetorri (Temple of Doom style), I’m 89 percent certain that the microphone caught him exclaim to the shocked crowd, “yes, stand up!”. Although, having heard … Continue reading
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