New Zealand cricket fans will forget Gary Troup and local hero Stephen Boock producing a desperate last-wicket stand to beat West Indies in a 1979-80 Test match or, in another tail end stand, Jeremy Coney and Ewen Chatfield hanging on doggedly against Pakistan to produce a victory in 1984-...
I was temporarily distracted by a bird hanging from the roof. The zoom lens showed that it had fishing line wrapped around a leg and it was suspended a few inches below a beam. Every now and then it would try to fly away, only to be pulled up as the line halted its progress. It ...
As far as rain goes, it doesn’t benefit any side. The pitch takes longer to dry out and can cause a problem to batsmen, while the ball also might get slippery and make the bowlers have trouble with gripping it. Predicting the weather is harder than making good online cricket betting ...
Born in Christ Church, Barbados, King played as an all-rounder, but had more success with the bat than ball, especially in Test cricket, where he scored one century and two fifties but only took three wickets – in three different innings. In ODI cricket, his highest – and swiftest ...
possibly more distracting to my opponents than it was to me. Looking at this video of the last 20 minutes of the game, I must admit that I look quite incapable of getting to the ball a lot of the time and yet somehow get just enough onto the ball, awkwardly to keep the point going...
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A fifth wicket stand of 63 seemed to have put Brigade back on course but they lost their next five for 12 runs and the last pair were hanging on to bat out the overs.At the centre of the mayhem was Junior McBrine who, in a sensational 10 overs spell, took five wickets for nine ...
“Obviously it’s a great feat, but having said that we had to learn from whatever mistakes we made (in the first test). The bowlers still have to put the ball in the right areas and the boys got rewarded for it. When you come to this part of the world, it’s always difficult,...