2019 Cricket World Cup: Blackcaps vs India Preview
Three solid wins from the first three games for Aotearoa's Blackcaps have come with a few lads who many would deem as 1st 11 players, not playing.
Three solid wins from the first three games for Aotearoa's Blackcaps have come with a few lads who many would deem as 1st 11 players, not playing.
Aotearoa's Blackcaps have emerged from their 'easing in' period of the World Cup with three wins from three games, successfully easing into their campaign after a third win over Afghanistan.
England is currently hosting the Cricket World Cup, meaning County Championship cricket has slid into the background and we are left with Lord Jeetz and the Dutch Freak on the KCT bus.
They’ve been pretty low-key times for Joseph Parker lately. Even the biggest bit of news in ages for him, the revelation that he’d signed a promotion deal with Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom Boxing, was swiftly overshadowed by one of his new label-mates getting flogged in the wildest upset in heavyweight boxing arguably since way back when.
The key idea for Aotearoa's Blackcaps at the World Cup is how the kiwis adapt and while we'd much prefer a comprehensive dismantling of Bangladesh, the way the Blackcaps rode a niggly wave in their second outing was rather encouraging.
Tonight, Aotearoa's Blackcaps take on Bangladesh in their second World Cup game and after a fairly easy outing against Sri Lanka, then Bangladesh upsetting South Africa, this is shaping as a niggly encounter.
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.
To prepare your loins for Blackcaps World Cup antics, here is a hard and fast geeze at each player and their CWC vibes.
Two warm up games down, two rather different results and it wouldn't be a Blackcaps ODI situation without two different opening combinations.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The selection of Tom Blundell in the Blackcaps World Cup squad was packaged as a notable inclusion, right alongside that of Ish Sodhi.
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.