Kiwi County Tour #7 (Royal London One-Day Cup Update)
James Franklin continues to offer steady leadership for Middlesex, Jeetan Patel's Warwickshire aren't very good and Matt Quinn shed a tear when Neil Wagner ditched him.
James Franklin continues to offer steady leadership for Middlesex, Jeetan Patel's Warwickshire aren't very good and Matt Quinn shed a tear when Neil Wagner ditched him.
While you were complaining about the fifty buck price tag of the Joseph Parker vs Razvan Cojanu fight, British boxing fans were tuning in for free on Sky Sports UK.
You know what? Shout out to Razvan Cojanu. He didn’t put up a huge amount of fight against Joseph Parker on the weekend but things were hardly stacked in his favour.
James Franklin's Middlesex hit a little snag and Lord Jeetz took some wickets but Warwickshire still suck. At least we've got Neil Wagner doing Neil Wagner for Essex on the Kiwi County Tour.
It wasn’t the fight we’d hoped to see, that’s for sure. Which is a shame because a New Zealand fighter defended a world title in comfortable, if not commanding, fashion in front of a local crowd in what will probably prove his last home fight for quite a while.
Matt Quinn is in fine form for Essex and Neil Wagner ain't going too bad either. The same can't be said for Lord Jeetz though.
Ask us a question and we might answer it: what can we expect from Luke Ronchi in the upcoming tri-series?
Neil Wagner can't get a Blackcaps ODI gig, so we'll happily take him in our Anti-Champions Trophy team along with other outcasts and promising youngsters.
Anthony Joshua now controls the heavyweight division. His thrilling comeback knockout of Wladimir Klitschko confirms that for all to see and with both the IBF and WBA belts in his possession, AJ is in a very enviable place.
Bharat Popli wasn't exactly as good as last season, but he still went alright and we're all about supporting the up and comers on the Niche Cache World Tour.
Our Kiwi County Tour moves into one-day mode and James Franklin went to boom-town to get us underway. Neil Wagner can't get an ODI gig but he keeps taking wickets and Matt Quinn is back, bowling alongside Wagner for Essex.
41 year old Wladimir Klitschko, trying to regain the crown he wore for a decade as the finest heavyweight in the world, up against Anthony Joshua, the finest of the next generation of fighters. What more could you want?
Aotearoa's wicket-keeping depth is such that we've had to select a gang of them for the Niche Cache World Tour. Better break the bank and stock up on strapping tape for their poor little fingers.
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.
Aotearoa has three world-class batsmen, but it'll probably be up to Neil Broom at No.5 to chip in with some big runs against Australia and England.
A guy like Cojanu is in no place to get a shot at a title under normal circumstances, he’s just in the right place at the right time is all. But with that belt dangling as bait, Parker and Duco were always gonna have a few messages in the voicemail.
Sonny Bill Wagner didn't take a wicket but he did knock some bloke over as he went up against James Franklin on the Kiwi County Tour. Lord Jeetz took a few wickets and scored a few runs as well, nothing new there.
Right, a top 15 WBO heavyweight. If you happen to have one of those lying around then give Duco a call. Perhaps check down the side of the sofa, in the pockets of your pants before you put them through the washer, definitely have a search underneath the seats of your car.
There's far more confusion in the Blackcaps Champions Trophy squad than just the wicket-keepers...
We've got a Blackcaps Champions Trophy squad and it's kinda weird, so weird that we've got to double up on writing about it. Here's something about the wicket-keeping situation...