2020/21 Plunket Shield: Into The Tom Blundell Mangroves
While deep in the mangroves with kiwi cricket matters, the funk around Tom Blundell's batsmanship has been permeating around the land of Aotearoa.
2020/21 Plunket Shield: Canterbury Seamers Are Lit
Three games down for Canterbury in Aotearoa's glorious Plunket Shield, with three wins in the zip-lock baggy.
2020/21 Plunket Shield: Otago Volts Recruitment/Leo Carter
Following Plunket Shield and domestic cricket fairly closely over the past few years would have been a prickly task for Otago Volts fans.
2020/21 Kiwi-WBBL #2
Compared to previous Kiwi-WBBL campaigns, the 2020 version is looking a lot like 2020 itself and considering that many of these White Ferns recently lost their Rose Bowl and T20I series vs Australia, it's all a bit stink.
2020/21 Plunket Shield: Blackcaps Update
Two rounds of Plunket Shield cricket are in the scoring books, which means we have two rounds of glorious four-day cricket for Aotearoa's Blackcaps and that smells like a nice moment to take stock of what's cracking.
2020/21 Plunket Shield: Early Seam Landscape Notes
Plunket Shield seam bowling in October, even stretching into November is perhaps one of Aotearoa's funkiest sports pockets and that's why the 14 bowlers who have taken 6+ wickets after two games are all of the seam variety.
2020/21 Plunket Shield: Devon Conway's Chasing Pack
Around Aotearoa as folks pondered various lockdown meditations, there was an air of certainty with regards to the 'next up' Blackcaps batsman permeating from the lands covered by ferns, manuka and kauri.
2020/21 Kiwi-WBBL #1
The Women's Big Bash League started with plenty of rain last weekend and unfortunately, the team who managed to get through their two game was Adelaide Strikers and Suzie Bates is still out nursing an injury.
2020/21 Plunket Shield: The Carter and The Sheat (Round Rua)
Northern Districts Knights batsman Joe Carter was one of three players to pass 50 on the first day of Aotearoa's Plunket Shield round two and the Knights skipper went large with 146*.
2020/21 Plunket Shield: Opening Openers (Round Tahi)
Wrapping up round tahi of Aotearoa's Plunket Shield we've got a few runs for Tom Latham, Sean Solia's all-round skills and all the antics from a Northern Districts Knights vs Central Districts Stags game that was split in half.
2020/21 Plunket Shield: Lower Order Hundies! (Round Tahi)
What better way to start the kiwi cricket summer than a couple lower order hundies and piles of wickets?
2020/21 Plunket Shield: Early Round Tahi Notes
Plunket Shield cricket is back and there is a wee bit of team selection funk to explore in the two games that started yesterday, while Otago Volts vs Auckland Aces sparks up today.
2020/21 Plunket Shield: Funky Situations
While predicting 1st 11 line up funk and various match up possibilities are niggly tasks for Plunket Shield preparation as we don't have the direct line of communication with coaches, there are still funky things that are so obvious they have to be documented ahead of round tahi.
2020/21 Plunket Shield: The Low Key Funky Prospects
The Niche Cache has served up plenty of domestic cricket content that zones in on Blackcaps fringes and notable domestic cricket troopers who have demand attention with plenty of runs/wickets, here it's all about one up and coming prospect from each team.
White Ferns In Australia: ODI Series Debrief (+ Mandatory Kiwi Women's Cricket Info)
The glorious come back of kiwi cricket via Aotearoa's White Ferns resulted in a 2-1 T20I series loss and then a 3-0 ODI Rose Bowl sweep over in Brisbane, none of which was ideal and yet there are still some funky aspects of White Ferns cricket to keep the positive vibes flowing.
Joseph Parker vs Junior Fa: It’s Happening
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.
What About The Plunket Shield? And Other Stuff From The NZC Summer Schedule
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.
2020/21 Plunket Shield: Blackcaps Fringe Business
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.
White Ferns In Australia: T20I Series Debrief
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.
Admiring The All-Format Magnificence Of Late-Career Ross Taylor
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.