The biggest irony of this whole fight was that the referee who David Higgins was so annoyed at the appointment of and old mate Terry O’Connor, in his alternate judging duties, went and scored the fight 118-110 to Joseph Parker.
Amelia Kerr has a White Ferns contract while still knee-deep in high school, but there's a few more young guns to keep an eye on as the White Ferns bounce back from that World Cup.
A funny thing happened at the latest Parker-Fury shindig. David Higgins stormed the stage at a press conference complaining about neutral referees and what not, before getting thrown out by security.
It wouldn’t be right if there was a Joseph Parker fight imminent and Duco weren’t making headlines by complaining about something. This time old mate Dave Higgins has got the refereeing appointment in his scope.
Shane Bond was named as Aotearoa A coach, then linked to an England bowling coach job for the Ashes, which takes place at the same time as the Big Bash League where Bondy's got a job with Brisbane Heat. Confusing huh? Welcome to the mercenary coaching life.
Sean Solia's part of a funky Aotearoa A team that's going to tour India. Just another squad that shows off Aotearoa's young wave of righteous cricketing talent.
Joseph Parker’s heavyweight title fight against Hughie Fury is gonna be shown live of YouTube, cool. We’re less than three weeks out from that bout – September 24 in NZT – so it’s about time they sorted out a broadcaster
Day/night Test cricket is locked in for Eden Park. Cool, so one of the four Tests this summer will be a day/nighter.
Jeetan Patel isn't taking too many County wickets, all good though as he's scoring runs. Adam Milne and Tom Latham are on the Kiwi County Tour bus as well, cleaning up after the OGs.
Rachel Priest went bonkers in the Women's T20 Super League final. That's all.
Forget the Test/ODI vs franchise T20 cricket battle, Mitchell McClenaghan recent NZC contract release could be yet another blow to the Super Smash.
Rachel Priest again contributed in a Western Storm win, only this time in got them into the Women's T20 Super League semi-final. Suzie Bates and her Southern Vipers are waiting for the winner.
The Niche Cache's Kiwi-African XI features cricketers born in South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe, plus we've got a decent gang of Kiwi-Indian cricketers running around on the domestic circuit.
No runs for Suzie Bates in her latest Women's T20 Super League outing, she's still dominating though and with finals approaching, it's time for clutch-Bates to step up.
Suzie Bates had yet another impressive knock with the bat, but Rachel Priest stole the show and joined Bates as the only batters to hit centuries in the Women's T20 Super League. Two kiwis, two centuries and a whole 'lotta boundaries.
Suzie Bates scored some runs and took some wickets in the Women's T20 Super League - business as usual ya know?
Tom Walsh brought home the gold but he had plenty of kiwi company at the Athletics World Champs who didn't quite make the same headlines.
*insert fast food sponsor here* Super Smash's schedule has been announced and NZC really aren't helping themselves, even in the parameters of this weird game they are playing.
Suzie Bates was in fine form for Southern Vipers, leading the way on the Kiwi County Tour bus as the Women's T20 Super League got through its first wave of fixtures.
Tom Latham hit a century for Durham in his 2017 Kiwi County Tour debut, James Franklin and Jeetan Patel went to battle for the back-seat bandit top spot and our KCT adopted cuzzy Mohammad Amir took a casual 10-wicket haul.