Tagged with: BLACKCAPS
Rrecency bias tends to shadow a lot of sporting assessment so it’s easy to forget that the Blackcaps won eight ODIs in a row before the Poms rolled up. So how did the lads stack up when you take the whole home summer and slide it under the microscope? That’s what we’re gonna find out.
There are win-now approaches and there are build-for-the-future approaches and then there’s the Lesson Blackcaps (Lesson = Larsen + Hesson), where players are dropped without explanation, others are recalled for tenuous reasons and nobody seems to really know where they stand outside a few main heroes.
From Tommy Latham and his many, many runs to a Blackcaps pace trio that don't much like to share. Let's not forget a record partnership from Shakib Al Hasan and Mushfiqur Rahim either.
The Blackcaps are in the midst of a 3xT20 series against Bangladesh and Ross Taylor, for some reason, is not there.
The hero of the play was Tim Southee. 13 wickets at a strike-rate of 40.4 and he did so bowling a full set of overs, more than anyone else in the series.
Ah Guppy. There aren’t many more polarising cricketers out there than Martin Guptill, genuine good dude and occasionally rampant opening batsman.
You already know that after a three test series in which the Blackcaps lost by 197 runs, 178 runs and 321 runs that the numbers aren’t gonna be too glamorous but it all tells a story so here goes.
The Niche Cache Cricket Crew has some batsmen, what about the bowlers? Navin Patel gets the call up after a strong breakout season in the Plunket Shield.
The Niche Cache Cricket Crew is a group of cricketers who we've dished second-tier contracts out to, because New Zealand Cricket didn't wanna. Will Young leads a group of three batsmen who will get expert Niche Cache training.
George Worker is on the fringe, but he's still got a New Zealand Cricket contract. The Doc runs through the contracted group from the certainties to the blokes on the fringe, who all contribute to kiwi cricket being in a strong position.
We've been graced with BLACKCAPS Test squad to head to Africa, if features Jeet Raval and Ish Sodhi as well as our Kiwi County Lads like Tommy Latham who are doing the trick, in good nick.
Ken McClure is just one of many young kiwi cricketers who have been chosen to embark on a world tour as part of the Niche Cache x BLACKCAPS 2nd XI
Our BLACKCAPS and White Ferns both got swept aside in semi-finals, so what can we take away from these efforts?
King Rossco has been going about his business in the middle order and will need to do the same against England while the White Ferns face West Indies, no reason not to be confident.
Sophie Devine went bang and took wickets as the White Ferns and BLACKCAPS continue to be awesome in India.
El Guppo went big, don't sleep on another strong team performance as the BLACKCAPS are proving to be a tough team to get on top of.
Smiles all round for Big Mitch as he and the BLACKCAPS are 2-0 at the World T20, aka on fire.
Mitchell Santner loves it and the BLACKCAPS are loving life under Kaptain Kane after a big win over India to open their World T20 campaign.
Ross Taylor's the BLACKCAPS' wildcard against India while Suzie Bates is the name you've gotta know for the White Ferns who face Sri Lanka first up.
Colin Munro and the BLACKCAPS are a bit up and down while the White Ferns lost twice to England in their respective warm up games, that mean absolutely nothing.