Last year we commented on a difference in how sports teams are referred to in Britain and New Zealand: “England are playing well”, but “New Zealand is playing well”.
We wondered whether the difference related to a perception that the team is a bunch of individuals (are) or a coherent single entity (is).
Kate Blackhurst e-mailed at [...]
Skelt was yesterday named as the Southland Hawke Cup head coach for the 2008-09 season, replacing Kevin Cooper, who will remain with the association as a professional junior coach and groundsman.
Skelt has a long history in coaching, which included him leading the Southland development rugby team to a national title in 2003.
That success resulted in [...]
Redmond was on the list of the 20 players offered contracts that was released yesterday by the national selectors for the year starting June 1.
Black Caps general manager Lindsay Crocker said that Redmond earned enough ranking points for his projected value to the team in the coming year to gain a national contract.
His inclusion comes [...]
Their inclusion was expected, as all have been picked for the tour of England beginning next month.
NZC have taken a punt on big-hitting Ryder, 23, who made his limited-overs international debut against England this year, averaging 49 in five matches.
The burly 23-year-olds promising career was soured after he punched a bar window in a late-night [...]
Bell scored over 1000 first-class runs this season, and 69 in his last test against England, but paid the price for a drop in form and confidence throughout the series.
The national selectors continued their revolving-door policy and took a punt on Otago journeyman Aaron Redmond to open the batting against England despite him having a [...]
Williams 21-year North Canterbury cricket career started and ended with the Hawke Cup, which is one of the oldest trophies in the sport in New Zealand and the symbol of minor cricket association supremacy.
%26quot;We won the cup in my first year. It was 1967 and we played Manawatu.
%26quot;It was a shock and a thrill to [...]
The ICL is not recognised by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) or the International Cricket Council (ICC).
English authorities had warned that %26quot;no-objection certificates%26quot;, required by overseas players from their home boards before they could play in county cricket, were unlikely to be issued to anyone who had taken part in the [...]
As a youngster he would lie in bed and dream of playing the perfect innings at the spiritual home of cricket, the famous Lords ground in London, but through hard work, determination and a bit of luck, he joins a select club to actually get a chance to live the dream.
A colleague, and its difficult [...]
Barlow (58) said he had reached the stage where it was time to have a break from the demands of coaching a major association team.
%26quot;Four years is a long time in the job,%26quot; he said yesterday. %26quot;Theres a lot of travelling involved and Ive got a young family, a daughter who is nearly nine, and [...]
Redmond senior will doubtless have passed on similar sentiments to his son when they caught up in Perth this weekend, with Redmond junior having just returned there. He had been on his way to play league cricket for Wigan in England but is now revising those plans.
%26quot;I arrived in Perth late on Friday night and [...]
