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2019 Cricket World Cup: Blackcaps Love A Green Monster

Deja vu is a buzzy little thing, borderline magic in which a sense of calm sweeps over you as you feel like you have been in this moment before.

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Written by Scott Miller On June 2, 2019 Tagged Blackcaps, 2019 Cricket World Cup

2019 Cricket World Cup: Blackcaps Player Previews

To prepare your loins for Blackcaps World Cup antics, here is a hard and fast geeze at each player and their CWC vibes.

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Written by Scott Miller On May 30, 2019 Tagged Blackcaps, 2019 Cricket World Cup

2019 Cricket World Cup: Blackaps Warm Up Extravaganza

Two warm up games down, two rather different results and it wouldn't be a Blackcaps ODI situation without two different opening combinations.

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Written by Scott Miller On May 29, 2019 Tagged 2019 Cricket World Cup

2019 Cricket World Cup: Can The Blackcaps Compete At The 300 Level?

After many odd selections and then little to no actual World Cup preparation, Aotearoa's Blackcaps begin their World Cup warm up phase this weekend.

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Written by Scott Miller On May 23, 2019 Tagged Blackcaps, 2019 Cricket World Cup

2019 Cricket World Cup: A Splash Of Blackcaps Doom and Gloom

The most notable thing to come out of the Blackcaps three-game series vs Australia with regards to the World Cup, now appears to be Tom Latham's mangled finger.

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Written by Scott Miller On May 18, 2019 Tagged Blackcaps, 2019 Cricket World Cup

2019 Cricket World Cup: Will Young Is Still A Run Guzzler

The autumn leaves are falling and Will Young is ballin' over in Australia, but what about the Blackcaps who are actually off the England for the World Cup?

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Written by Scott Miller On May 11, 2019 Tagged Blackcaps, 2019 Cricket World Cup

2019 Kiwi County Tour: Ross Taylor's Not In Australia

Kiwi cricket fans will be fizzing with delight after Ross Taylor put up his second notable for Middlesex on the Kiwi County Tour, while Jeetan Patel and Logan van Beek battle away.

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Written by Scott Miller On May 9, 2019 Tagged Kiwi County Tour

2019 Kiwi County Tour: Senor van Beek Returns

Other than the impressive return of Logan van Beek to Derbyshire's 1st 11, not too many shenanigans on the Kiwi County Tour bus this week.

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Written by Scott Miller On May 4, 2019 Tagged Kiwi County Tour

2019 Kiwi County Tour: Lord Jeetz and Hamish Rutherford Hold It Down

King Rossco has made a lovely start to his Royal London One-Day Cup for Middlesex and then we have Hamish Rutherford banging out centuries as well.

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Written by Scott Miller On April 30, 2019 Tagged Kiwi County Tour

2019 Kiwi County Tour: Hamish Rutherford's Out There

The start of the Kiwi County Tour One-Day Cup excursion saw some solid performances from the whanau, with the highlight being Hamish Rutherford's century for Worcestershire.

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Written by Scott Miller On April 22, 2019 Tagged Kiwi County Tour

Anthony Joshua Needs A New Opponent But It Won’t Be Joseph Parker ( … Or Junior Fa)

We haven’t heard much from Joseph Parker lately. Since bouncing back with a routine win in December, knocking out Alexander Flores in the third round in Christchurch, old mate’s been laying pretty low.

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Written by Nick Robinson On April 19, 2019 Tagged Boxing, Joseph Parker, Junior Fa

2019 Kiwi County Tour: Haere Mai Hamish Rutherford

Initially we had just three lads on the Kiwi County Tour for 2019, however it looks as though we have a fourth as Hamish Rutherford appeared for Worcestershire to join Logan van Beek, Matt Quinn and Lord Jeetz.

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Written by Scott Miller On April 16, 2019 Tagged Kiwi County Tour

2019 Cricket World Cup: Ish Sodhi's England Experience

The selection of Tom Blundell in the Blackcaps World Cup squad was packaged as a notable inclusion, right alongside that of Ish Sodhi.

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Written by Scott Miller On April 10, 2019 Tagged Blackcaps

2019 Kiwi County Tour: Getting Things Started With The Youngins

Our first round of Kiwi County Tour is a wrap and in a quiet moment to myself as I waited for Logan van Beek to finish his post-match antics, was how lovely it was to start this year's KCT with two young lads doing their thing in England.

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Written by Scott Miller On April 9, 2019 Tagged Kiwi County Tour

2019 Cricket World Cup: How'd We Get Here?

While the selection of Tom Blundell in Aotearoa's World Cup squad isn't the most important, nor the craziest Blackcaps selection in recent times, all the tell-tale signs of weirdness are there.

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Written by Scott Miller On April 8, 2019 Tagged Blackcaps

2019 Cricket World Cup: Blackcaps Squad

Given what happened in terms of selection leading into the 2017 Champions Trophy and then performances at that Champions Trophy in England, it would have been lovely to have a Blackcaps World Cup squad that had zero head-scratcher selections.

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Written by Scott Miller On April 4, 2019 Tagged Blackcaps, 2019 Cricket World Cup

2019 Kiwi County Tour: Fresh Vibes

With a World Cup going down during the 2019 Kiwi County Tour, our touring party is a wee bit smaller this year without losing any of the funk that makes the KCT what it is.

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Written by Scott Miller On April 1, 2019 Tagged Kiwi County Tour

Domestic Cricket Daily: Top-Three Plunket Shield Batsmen

Three batsmen scored over 600 runs in Plunket Shield this season and to say it's a weird mix of lads is an understatement.

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Written by Scott Miller On March 24, 2019 Tagged Plunket Shield, Domestic Cricket, Domestic Daily

Domestic Cricket Daily: Chur The Cantabs

The 'winner' of Aotearoa's Plunket Shield was decided in the worst way, when Canterbury opted out of their remaining game against Wellington Firebirds at the Basin Reserve.

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Written by Scott Miller On March 19, 2019 Tagged Plunket Shield, Domestic Cricket, Domestic Daily

Blackcaps vs Bangladesh: The Debut That Has To Wait

Among the mayhem of the last few days, the third Test between Aotearoa's Blackcaps and Bangladesh was understandably called off.

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Written by Scott Miller On March 19, 2019 Tagged Blackcaps
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