With no international cricket to speak of (sorry women) between now and the WC07, all we have to look forward to is the pre tourny warm ups of some sides playing down their prospects (the favourites) and other sides talking up their chances (the ones with an axe hanging over the coaches head).
It’s all a [...]

It’s a quiet day for cricket today and most of the media are either rehashing tales from the Chappell Hadlee series or putting a spin on the various injuries ahead of the world cup.
And with none of the Test playing nations having any competitive cricket until the world cup starts, I’ve been filling my [...]

New Zealand have just completed a 3-0 pasting of a bewildered and - it has to be said - battered Australia. The final game of the Chappell Hadlee series at Hamilton saw New Zealand chase down an even bigger total than the 336 they successfully hunted at Eden Park. The Kiwi’s look hot, full of [...]

New Zealand have pulled off a quite sensational win over Australia to lift the 2007 Chappell Hadlee trophy. Australia in the first innings had posted the highest ever one day total at Eden Park by some 32 runs in their tally of 336 making New Zealand’s successful chase with an over and a bit to spare [...]

Football has long held a monopoly on overused hyperbole but with each passing day its position as the preeminent sport of trite under threat from the growing number of stock in trade platitudes permeating the world of cricket.
Whereas once a sheepskin coated football manager would project an aura of “over-the-moonedness”, or utter a half time reminder [...]

I’m certain that vociferous debates are raging the cricket world over, as cricket fans, talk back radio hosts, and no doubt bloggers, start getting stuck in to their country’s selectors and rip the nominated world cup squads apart limb from limb.
In New Zealand, it is reaching a frenzy, fuelled by a combination of the team’s unceremoneous dumping [...]

I’m about the same age as Paul Nixon, give or take, yet when I look at him during a game of cricket I feel like I should be polishing the plastic on my OAP buspass. His annoying chatter youthful exuberance belies his age, but it takes some getting used to.
If I was honest, the [...]

CB Series Final 11th Feb 2007
The early games of CB series were uncomfortably one sided as England spluttered along like a 1980’s Skoda with grit in the carburetor. By contrast, the fuel injected team that spoiled Glen McGraths SCG leaving party were running on an altogether sweeter engine.
For England to have taken out the Tri [...]