It’s the biggest heavyweight fight we’ve ever seen between two New Zealand boxers and it’s a fight that never would have happened if everything had gone to plan. Two pugilists whose rivalry tracks back more than a decade to their amateur days.
The sun is shining, the evenings are getting warmer, the birds are chirping away in the trees and cricket bats are in heavy stock at all your local sports stores. The Summer of Cricket is fast approaching.
The main event of the kiwi cricketing summer that is the Plunket Shield is only a matter of weeks away and while there's always Plunket Shield hype permeating from the lands of Aotearoa, don't ask NZC because they can't bother to serve up a Plunket Shield schedule.
Snapping a 13-game losing streak against Australia in all formats is lovely and Aotearoa's White Ferns showed promising signs in winning the third T20I in Brisbane, yet losing the series 2-1 extends the trend of not quite dipping into their full potential.
It’s been a long time without Blackcaps cricket. The lockdowns brought a premature end to a cheeky limited overs series in Australia back in March and half a year later there’s been nothing since.
Over in the Caribbean tomorrow, Scott Kuggeleijn's Zouks will take on the undefeated Knight Riders who will definitely have Tim Seifert in their playing and maybe Colin Munro in the Caribbean Premier League final.
If anyone was wondering about Aotearoa's wahine cricket depth, the recent NZC Development Contracts and White Ferns squad named to play in Australia lay it all out for our cricketing pleasure.
One block of Caribbean Premier League games is left before semi-finals are played next week and everything is fairly mellow for the kiwi lads.
Strange times for the kiwi crew playing in the Caribbean Premier League as Glenn Phillips is literally the only bloke who has registering something notable since the last check in.
Coming into the 2020 Caribbean Premier League, I was fairly confident that Colin Munro and Glenn Phillips would be notable factors given their specific CPL experience.
The 2020 Caribbean Premier League is underway and it’s been a funky first stanza for the Aotearoa contingent, dominated by runs from CPL veteran Glenn Phillips.
New Zealand Cricket have dropped their list of eight kiwi cricketers who have earned 'Development Contracts' to sit below the contracted group of White Ferns.
After breaking down the initial group of Aoteaoa cricketers who will play in the 2020 Caribbean Premier League, it appears that a few more kiwis have been added and that only doubles the funk.
When Aotearoa's Blackcaps resume their international cricket shenanigans sometime soon-ish, we will be entering an enticing period where the seam bowling crop should be as deep as it has ever been.
T20 tournaments around the world tend not to offer much funk for yours truly, other than laying down some context for Blackcaps T20I matters.
Domestic cricket contracts have been flying across Aotearoa via carrier kea over the past few weeks as the six major cricket gatherers sorted out their list of players for the 2020/21 cricket season.
Aotearoa has an illustrious history of receiving cricketing assistance from those in Africa and we're now seeing the cycles change.
There’s a T20 World Cup coming up. Not sure when exactly since it’s becoming increasingly likely that the tournament in Australia in October will be postponed – with the IPL keen to take that spot on the ICC schedule instead because for one thing it’s much easier to host a domestic competition than an international one and then also, you know, because the BCCI usually tend to get their way with these things.
Kane Williamson is going to break all of New Zealand’s relevant batting records. If only you had a dollar for every time you heard somebody say that, right? From the most knowledgeable of commentators and pundits to Jerry down at the pub, Kane Williamson’s greatness is non-negotiable at this point.
Rightio then friends. We’ve looked at the disparity between spin and seam in New Zealand conditions and it’s equal and opposite disparity in foreign conditions. We’ve also looked deeper into the general bastard of a time that spinners have had in Aotearoa lately.