Look at him. Just look at him. This is amazing. Former New Zealand cricket player Chris Zinzan Harris is going to be on Dancing With the Stars. To me, an avowed fan of both the legendary all-rounder and the harmlessly stupid celebrity dancing show, this could just about be the greatest thing that has ever … Read more
Someone had to do it. In 2015, around the time of the World Cup, the New Zealand Cricket Museum started selling this stunningly attractive poster. Designed by Into the White Press, it details the evolution of the New Zealand one day international cricket uniform, from its beige beginnings to years of glorious grey, the teal … Read more
The Black Caps have rolled India and squeezed Australia, but now it’s time to take on Pakistan – a team that almost always find a way to break our hearts. Few things make Kiwi cricket fans tremble more than squaring off with Pakistan in the midst of a world tournament. Just mention 1992 (the Inzamam … Read more
Lover of cricket Jeremy Wells wraps up the historic first day-night test match between Australia and New Zealand and wonders whether that completely baffling DRS call really was the deciding factor. Let me say this. I like the pink ball. I mean, the actual ball. I think the red ball should now be a pink ball. … Read more
A close, captivating inaugural day-night test match. But was it enough to fix test cricket? Simon Day reports from Adelaide. New Zealand 202 & 208 Australia 224 & 187/7 Australia won by 3 wickets For three days cricket looked alert and alive. Test cricket isn’t dying. But it is stagnant. It’s core fan base adores the … Read more
Arguing with my Dad is an occasional column which features Greg Bruce in conversation with his father about sports. This week’s disagreement: New Zealand’s best batsman. It was a Sunday morning and I was sitting at the top of a slide on a playground across the road from New Zealand’s largest cemetery when Dad called. … Read more
On day two tradition and modernity collided at one of the world’s most beautiful cricket grounds. Simon Day reports from Adelaide. New Zealand 202 & 116/5 Australia 224 Attendance 42,372 The Adelaide Oval was already the perfect venue for the launch of day-night-test-cricket. It’s controversial and mostly stunning $500+ million government funded redevelopment of its … Read more
The first day of cricket’s inaugural day-night test fell on the first anniversary of the death of Phillip Hughes. Reporting from Adelaide, Simon Day found cricket was the best tribute to his memory. New Zealand 202 Australia 54/2 Just after 8pm, the Adelaide evening sky flushed rose and purple to match the pink ball that … Read more
Actress, presenter and cricket tragic Sonia Gray on the stealthy way the Blackcaps have adopted reverse sledging and “respect-shaming” as tactics. Today the cricketing world will look to the Adelaide Oval, waiting to see how the pink kookaburra holds up in the world’s first day/night test match – a task that it appears to have failed … Read more