Bring back the Don’s cap, and onya the Black Caps
The streak is over. Australia’s run of twenty-one successive one-day wins has been cut down by the West Indies in Trinidad this morning. Which is a good moment to spare a thought for the New Zealand cricket team.
It’s all just a commodity
So South Africa won the Australian one-day triseries for 2001-02. They defeated New Zealand 2-0 in the best-of-three final, and congratulations to them. We should be thankful to them, too, for sparing us from an episode that would have shown us just a little more evidence that cricket is nothing but a commodity for television. […]
New Zealand women’s tour of India cancelled
[This article was originally published on the defunct Cricketwoman website in 2001. – RE] The New Zealand White Ferns tour of India set down for late November and December has been cancelled due to security concerns. The decision to call the tour off was announced on November 1 by New Zealand Cricket chief executive Martin […]
Was this the greatest World Cup final ever?
“Today’s game – won by New Zealand by four runs with five balls remaining – was filled to the brim with drama and tension. For me, it surpasses the encounter at Lord’s in 1975 between the West Indies and Australia as the greatest World Cup Final, men’s or women’s, of all time.” More of my […]