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A Good Time To Be Indian

When the best thing you can say about a match from New Zealand’s perspective is that we avoided an innings defeat, you know it hasn’t gone according to plan. 10 wickets is comprehensive enough anyway, but the stubbornness McCullum and … Continue reading

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Strange Days

For three hours yesterday New Zealand piled on the runs and lost no wickets, our number eight batsmen scored a century which, if not handsome (his never are) then certainly had its own undeniable magnetism. At the other end our … Continue reading

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The Phony War Is Over

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video (video irrelevant, I was just desperately trying to find something to distract from NZ’s recent on-field performance, and this worked best) Hmmff. It seems that Short Of A … Continue reading

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A Victory, Almost Spoiled

They did it ugly, but they did it. After one of the most incompetent victorious run chases in history, New Zealand somehow connived to turn a stroll to 182 into one of the most nerve-wracking games of cricket I’ve ever … Continue reading

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Rating the Also-rans

So this oddly interminable tour is finally over. Given that only about three hours of cricket was possible between showers, there was more entertaining cricket than we had any right to expect, and the West Indian side, chiefly through the … Continue reading

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