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Tag Archives: Kyle Mills
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
Posted in Cricket
Tagged Black Caps, Daniel Vettori, Iain O'Brien, India, James Franklin, Jesse Ryder, Kyle Mills, Short Of A Length, Zaheer Khan
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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
Posted in Cricket, News
Tagged Daniel Vettori, India, Jesse Ryder, Kyle Mills, The Black Caps, Virender Sehwag
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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
Posted in Announcements, Cricket, News
Tagged Blog War, Chickens, Coming Home To Roost, Duckworth-Lewis, Iain O'Brien, Kyle Mills, MS Dhoni, Phony War, Short Of A Length, Twenty20, Virender Sehwag, War
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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
Posted in Cricket, News
Tagged Brad Haddin, Chapell-Hadlee, Daniel Vettori, Jeetan Patel, Kyle Mills, Nathan Bracken, Ross Taylor, Shaun Tait, Villainy
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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
Posted in Cricket
Tagged Black Caps, Brendon McCullum, Daniel Flynn, Daniel Vettori, Grant Elliott, Iain O'Brien, Jacob Oram, James Franklin, Jamie How, Jeetan Patel, Jesse Ryder, Kyle Mills, Mark Gillespie, Martin Guptil, Martin Guptill, Matthew Sinclair, Neil Broom, Ross Taylor, Tim MacIntosh, Tim Southee, West Indies
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