Blackcaps In Bangladesh: Mid-Series Notes
Three games down and Aotearoa's Blackcaps clawed their way back into this series with a win overnight after two T20I losses to Bangladesh.
Three games down and Aotearoa's Blackcaps clawed their way back into this series with a win overnight after two T20I losses to Bangladesh.
I'd love to be typing up how important and relevant the NZC Women's Development Contracts are, although being deep in Aotearoa wahine cricket mangroves only has me puzzled about the whole situation.
The most intriguing Blackcaps T20 yarn won't be in Bangladesh over the next few weeks, no matter how many fun kiwi cricket prospects are rocking the black cap.
Tom Walsh didn’t do a whole lot worth bragging about at the Eugene Diamond League meet in Oregon, USA over the weekend – the resumption of the Diamond League circuit after the Olympics. He was probably still suffering from a bit of emotional Olympic hangover syndrome.
Aotearoa's White Ferns played a 50-over warm up game against England 'A' overnight and this was their first fixture of the England tour.
Blackcaps caps were handed out like a free feed for the upcoming tours of Bangladesh and Pakistan, although there was a quiet absence of Northern Districts Knights
As Aotearoa's White Ferns tune up for their intriguing series against England, they will again be tasked with the balance of relying on the senior world-class players and getting the most out of the young group plugging holes in the squad.
No one in the kiwi cricket whare would have been surprised that Colin Munro and Ross Taylor were left out of the Blackcaps T20 World Cup squad.
Aotearoa's Blackcaps squad for the T20 World Cup was announced and while it doesn't serve as a straight up representation of Aotearoa's best T20 cricketers, there is a core group of slick cricketers ready to chase more major tournament success.
Aotearoa's Blackcaps will play five T20I in Bangladesh and three ODIs in Pakistan before shuffling the deck, ushering in a fresh crop of kiwi cricket troopers to share the good word in Pakistan and United Arab Emirates.
Leading into the T20 World Cup, Aotearoa's Blackcaps will tap into Asian conditions with tours of Bangladesh and Pakistan concentrated around T20I cricket.
The strangest yarn in Aotearoa sport that no one really wants to acknowledge has been and still is the White Ferns dip in form from competing among the world's best to struggling for a win.
Another summer of domestic cricket lurks on the horizon and the recent confirmation of contracts dished out has a fresh crop of young talent moving into the domestic cricket circuit.
No T20 Blast, this week has been all about County Championship cricket over in England and Aotearoa's cricketers on the Kiwi County Tour got busy with their mahi.
Aotearoa's domestic cricket contracts are now being wrapped up with the second round of contracts seeing most teams add a couple fringe lads to their contracted list.
The big cricketing theme at the Niche Cache is wiggling towards T20 World Cup and as the Kiwi County Tour mahi rolls on, optimism grows in these pages of what the Blackcaps could do in another major tournament.
The domestic cricket schedule over in England is a hot shambles and yet Aotearoa's cricketers on the Kiwi County Tour continue to dominate.
As Devon Conway takes the piss in England and Glenn Phillips transforms into off-spinning G-Philly, two of Aotearoa's hostile seamers in Lockie Ferguson and Adam Milne grabbed headlines with hat-tricks to finish the first stanza of T20 Blast cricket.
England's T20 Blast will take a wee break as they now switch up to deliver their 'The Hundred' doosra, although we do have some of our kiwi cricketers sliding into County Championship antics during this phase.
Credit to the Blackcaps legends who don't need T20 cricket gigs. Double down on that and chur to the true avant-garde Test cricketers who are chillin' in isolation - as true artists tend to do