Showing posts with label NZ Cricket. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NZ Cricket. Show all posts

November 04, 2024

Sport: NZ Cricket Sweep India

MSM TV seem to be spending very little time talking about New Zealand Cricket's biggest ever win, they've just swept India at home 3-0. No other team has ever achieved this feat. Why is this not being shouted from the rooftops?

Oh, and I also support Yokohama's professional baseball team, the DeNA Baystars who have come from 0-2 down to clinch the Japan Series against the SoftBank Hawks, 4-2. It has been 26 years since they've won a Japan Series. 

June 24, 2021

Cricket: World Test Champions

New Zealand are Champions of the World. I can hardly believe it, the New Zealand cricket team has finally achieved something. Okay, they first did that by becoming the number 1 test team in the world earlier in the year. But now they've got the trophy to prove it. Suck on that Australia!

I almost feel sorry for India losing in the final. They've been on top of the rankings for so long it would've looked odd if they ever fell out of the top two. But in the final they did look ordinary. It was as if they didn't want to be there. Then on the other side, New Zealand clearly wanted it, they played with fire whenever they got a chance in a rain interrupted match.

I've got to stop criticising NZ cricket now. They can rightly say they're champions. Well done.

July 30, 2019

Kane Williamson - NZ Cricket

I read somewhere that New Zealand's 'Black Caps' captain is finding it hard to come to terms with how an umpire could decide the outcome of the World Cup. I've got no sympathy, he's paid the big money to actually know the rules of the game, as are the coaches. On the day they failed to know those rules and managed to clutch defeat from the jaws of victory. I will say it again, you'd never see that level of incompetence exhibited at a game of baseball. It simply wouldn't happen. NZ cricket have the incredible ability to find a way to lose. They've never won anything.