10,000-kilometres from home (10,851 to be exact) and there I was, playing cricket by the sea with a bunch of locals and in that moment, life couldn’t have been much better. In a Sri Lankan holiday that included everything from seeing elephants in the wild to cycling through tea plantations to exploring ancient cave temples,…
Tag: Cricket
My NZ Herald Tribute To Martin Crowe – How He Used To Request Michael Buble Songs On My Radio Show
In case you missed it, click here to link to my New Zealand Herald tribute article to Martin Crowe. I wrote the piece in less than 90 minutes in the emotion and shock of hearing my great mate had died. If I’d had more time it might’ve been more refined, more eloquent. But sometimes writing in…
Why McCullum Should Open The Batting In The Cricket World Cup – A Hypothetical Black Caps World Cup Final 1st XI
Brendon McCullum *UPDATED SINCE KANE WILLIAMSON HAS BEEN CLEARED TO BOWL AGAIN. Here’s my New Zealand cricket XI in the event our team plays to its very real potential and makes the World Cup final on March 29th 2015. With the initial squad of 30 released today, I couldn’t resist quickly tapping out my selection….
That Time Tim Finn Rapped In A West Indian Accent
Mark Greatbatch, 1992. With the schedule for the 2015 Cricket World Cup to be held in New Zealand and Australia announced yesterday (and you can click here if you’d like to read it), I thought it was time to bust out two not entirely beloved cricket anthems from the 90s. The first is the theme…
Martin Crowe Diagnosed With Cancer – His Finest ODI Innings
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about one of my closest friends who was celebrating his 50th birthday, Martin Crowe. Today I am writing to offer him, his wife Lorraine and the rest of their family my love as they face first the shock, and then the challenge of cancer, in this case lymphoma. The…
Countdown To The 2011 Cricket World Cup – New Zealand’s All Time ODI Team
Martin Crowe in his prime at the 1992 Cricket World Cup. With the 10th Cricket World Cup just a week away, I thought I’d put up my list of the all-time greatest New Zealand ODI team. This is always much more fun when the Black Caps are doing well, but if you cast your mind…
