Hard & Fast: Plunket Shield Leaders
Scott Kuggeleijn bats and bowls, mainly bowls, mainly the leading wicket-taker in the Plunket Shield for the Northern Districts Knights.
Scott Kuggeleijn bats and bowls, mainly bowls, mainly the leading wicket-taker in the Plunket Shield for the Northern Districts Knights.
Martin Guptill and the BLACKCAPS head into the World T20 where the odds are already stacked against them.
Kaptain Kane is due to take over from Brendon McCullum and there's no reason why we shouldn't be extremely excited.
Is it time to go all in on a Mitchell Santner and Ish Sodhi combination? In Test cricket that is...
Our BLACKCAPS bowlers are now more known for their fielding and batting exploits than world-beating bowling. That's not good.
The BLACKCAPS enjoyed a good summer on the surface, but when it mattered, in the most important format, they were more Martin Guptill than Steven Smith.
Meg Lanning went back to back with centuries as Australia took out the Rose Bowl. Our White Ferns weren't too shabby though.
Joseph Parker’s next fight will be an IBF elimination bout against Cameroonian Carlos Takam at some point in May.
Jackson Bird was better than our medium-pacers on our home turf while Joe Burns was a better batting battler than our batting battlers on our home turf. 2-0, not good.
Scott Borthwick has ventured down under from England for the summer and he's loving some Plunket Shield action for Wellington, even if they lost.
Greener for longer is the motto, yolo. Yolo but this is a dangerous ploy for me as it was the kiwi batsmen who demonstrated an inability to bat properly against the moving ball.
Adam Voges and his Australian comrades put the BLACKCAPS in Test cricket shade, not only dominating them but teaching them a thing or two about the great art form of Test cricket.
Brendon McCullum said it was a definite bowl-first pitch. He wasn’t lying.
Grab ya whites, throw on ya thongs, get that shrimp on the barbie and gear up for some trans-Tasman Test cricket.
Ish Sodhi put in a few nice overs for the BLACKCAPS, but before that he was scoring runs and taking wickets for Northern Districts. Catch up on the return of Plunket Shield cricket, haere mai.
Luke Ronchi's out of form and a bit old, BJ Watling's injured but ready to become Overlord Kiwi Wicket-Keeper so who's next in line?
Joseph Parker is ranked #1 in the WBO and he's called out Anthony Joshua, let's suss this hard & fast.
With that comes an expectation to be entertained and the cricket, bless its heart, can drag on a bit at times. A Mexican Wave is a trusted solution. An overused one, but whatever. Then there’s that interaction with the players thing.
Not only did Henry, Milne and Anderson perform exceptionally well, Sodhi and Bracewell stepped up to the plate from domestic cricket and did a job for their team, the nation and their departing skipper.
Two big Aussies hugging each other, two big Aussies making the kiwi bowlers look tame. On to the decider where our young guns must shine.