Another T20 game and another classy knock from Ross Taylor. The resurgence of King Rossco since that infamous eye surgery has been well documented on these Niche Cache pages, although primarily zoned in on his delightful work in Test and ODI cricket.
Otago Volts have a wee it more balance between their domestic troopers and youngsters compared to other domestic cricket squad for the 2019/20 season, yet there is still plenty of youthful funk to enjoy from the deep south.
Latham might be a very useful wicket-keeper/batsman on the ODI scene but chuck him in the Test stuff and he’s a world class opening bat. And just in case you didn’t already know that, he confirmed it with a top notch 154 in the second Test, helping to set up an innings victory.
A World T20 tournament is looming on the horizon and Aotearoa's Blackcaps are in full planning and preparation mode with a T20 series vs Sri Lanka about to get underway.
Spark up that buckie in honour of Test cricket folks because we've had a couple doozies in recent days, heck even West Indies hosting India looks pretty fun.
Canterbury will roll out another settled group of cricketers for the 2019/20 domestic season and that means that a hefty contingent of younger lads will rally around OG veteran Andrew Ellis.
As Jofra Archer tormented Australia in his first Test, in his typically chill way, thoughts of what could be added to the Blackcaps Test bowling group started to wiggle through the clutter.
We have waited a long time for Test cricket to have some kind of context wrapped around it and now, after the first Test vs Sri Lanka, Aotearoa's Blackcaps have got their Test Championship campaign off to the worst start.
In exploring these domestic cricket contracted player lists ahead of the 2019/20 summer, I am three squads deep and can already double down on my hunch that kiwi cricket is in a great space in terms of a strong, talented contingent of young cricketers settling into domestic cricket.
In the current climate, there isn't a whole lot that can be described as 'solid' about Sri Lankan cricket and changes to their Test squad, under an interim coach set the scene for this intriguing Test series vs Aotearoa's Blackcaps
Sneaking under the cricketing radar has been the start of the 2019 Women's Super League T20 competition in England, where Aotearoa always has a steady presence.
Henry Shipley, Cole McConchie and Blake Coburn are enjoying a wonderful English summer playing club cricket and were nice enough to share some yarns with El Niche Cache.
Glorious Test cricket is back and with a whole new dose of context sprinkled on to them whites like chicken salt.
You’ve already heard all about it and it’s been in the works for about a decade now. But that was all in the conceptual stage. Now we’re about to get into the actual cricket… so what’s going on here? Please, take a seat my friend and let us discuss this bad boy.
Another cricket season, another Central Districts Stags squad that is stacked with talent.
In working through a 'winners and losers' idea from the Blackcaps World Cup campaign, it became rather clear that such a yarn wouldn't be all that interesting.
Auckland Aces have sorted out their contracted players group for the upcoming season, led by recruiting Kyle Jamieson and Corey Anderson, with a strong foundation of now established domestic troopers.
Now this is where the fun stuff happened. The Blackcaps bowlers began the 2019 World Cup by bowling Sri Lanka out for 136 and then pretty much carried on from there, slicing through a pretty dangerous Bangladesh batting lineup to bowl them out for 244 and then skittling Afghanistan for 172.
Well, if boundary countback was gonna be an issue then no surprises that we struggled there, considering that only three teams hit fewer boundaries than the Blackcaps throughout the entire tournament and they were: Sri Lanka (played three fewer games), South Africa (played two fewer games), and Afghanistan (played one fewer game and was only a single boundary behind our tally).
How do you even begin to comprehend something like that? To have been so close to something so special only to come away empty-handed, it’s excruciating. The Blackcaps gave it a little bit of everything and it wasn’t quite enough, not by the tiniest of margins, and I’m afraid that this one is going to sting for a very long time.