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Features, news, reactions, and analysis on New Zealand & global Cricket. If it pertains to the Black Caps, I probably write about it.
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South Africa's Spin Revolution (opens the original)
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Cricket is an ever-evolving sport. In a little over a century, we’ve shifted from underarm bowling, to roundarm bowling, to the modern overarm style; from barely hitting the ball off the square, to exclusively hitting it on the offside, to belting the ball 360 degrees; from Test cricket, to T20s, to T10; from a World Cup featuring just 8 participants, to a World Cup featuring 10, to one featuring a whopping…12 teams (the more things change…).Yet, across these various evolutions, a few reassuring
The Changing Role of Change Bowlers (opens the original)
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It wasn’t all that long ago that every team in world cricket, with startlingly few exceptions, had a handy part-time bowler (often two or three) in their top six. I’m thinking of players like Michael Clarke and early-career Steve Smith, or before that, Michael Bevan and Mark Waugh. Kane Williamson and his right-arm throws (how he ever got away with those, I’ll never know); or, going further back, New Zealand’s military medium army of Styris, Astle, McMillan et al. Sachin, and even th
Test Cricket: A Country For Old Men (opens the original)
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Does anyone know if you’re allowed to call for a runner if you’re batting with a walking stick? Surely you’re at least allowed to fashion said walking stick into a cricket bat? Is there any law against turning down a hearing aid to tune out sledging?I only ask because, currently, we’re living through Test cricket’s late bloomer era. How so? Well, I’ve crunched the numbers, and, in the 2020s, the average Test debutant is older (26.25) than they have been in any decade since the 1940s, and roughly
Why Do Cricket Broadcasts Insist on Missing Half of the Game? (opens the original)
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Do you ever feel like something fundamental is…missing from cricket coverage?Over my years watching cricket, I’ve developed a variety of abilities—almost none of which have any practical, real-world applications, but abilities nonetheless. Many of you probably have these same cricketing sixth senses, honed over years of sporting osmosis. I’ve got an intuition for predicting when a bowling change is imminent. I’m excellent at knowing when an LBW appeal is missing leg stump (height is more often m
In Defence of Stat Padders (opens the original)
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There is a strange, insidious piece of armchair ‘analysis’ that has pervaded sporting discourse in recent decades. I’m sure you’ve heard it. Perhaps you’ve even been guilty of repeating it—few of us are innocent in this regard. It goes something like this:‘Pfft, Kumar Sangakkara only scored his runs at home against minnows; he’s an overrated stat padder,’ as though those runs were simply a fait accompli.<a class="image-link image2" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fe
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