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February 14, 2009
Not an appropriate end to an absorbing series
Posted on 02/14/2009 in New Zealand in Australia 2009
Mark Richardson feels cheated at not having an appropriate end to what has been an absorbing one-day series between Australia and New Zealand and wants to know why Sunday's Twenty20 couldn't be converted into a 50-over game. He writes in the New Zealand Herald:
Sure, I'd imagine sponsorship and broadcasting deals around the twenty20 fixture would be in place and block the road but I'd imagine where ever that final game was played it would have pulled a huge crowd and I don't think Sydney twenty20-goers would have felt cheated had they been given an extra 60 overs of cricket to watch. And, frankly, this series deserved a winner and that winner found over 100 overs of cricket.
February 8, 2009
Victory only answer to arrogance
Posted on 02/08/2009 in New Zealand in Australia 2009
My stance on Ricky Ponting being rested is that it smacked of arrogance; it is understandable but reeks of unwarranted arrogance. Thus the necessity to put Australia in their place, writes Mark Richardson in the Herald on Sunday.
The Australian cricket team is a shadow of its former self and to rest their key man in Ponting says one of two things. They are either still in arrogant denial or simply do not care for the Chappell-Hadlee trophy and, to them, this series is nothing more than practice on the road to more important matters.
February 7, 2009
AFL-obsessed Victorians
Posted on 02/07/2009 in New Zealand in Australia 2009
In the New Zealand Herald, David Leggat writes that New Zealand's ongoing tour of Australia, a series which the visitors lead 2-0, barely gets a mention in the Melbourne papers.
So you open the sports section of one of Melbourne's two morning newspapers to check out the state of play ahead of the game. Big splash on the back page? Nope. Turn inside for a double-page spread on the whys and wherefores that lie ahead on the day? Forget it. The first eight pages are devoted to the coming AFL season. The next one is all about the A-League finals series. Then comes the cricket, a couple of pages primarily on the Australian squad named on Thursday to tour South Africa. The ODI yesterday gets one sentence.
February 4, 2009
Ten from Section N
Posted on 02/04/2009 in New Zealand in Australia 2009
A knock from Peter Fulton with more than three scoring shots, and some booing from Victorians for New South Welshman Brad Haddin are among the 10 things Paul Holden would like to see from Section N at the MCG, the venue of the second ODI of the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy. Read the complete list on his blog Sideline Slogger.
Not too much distraction from the IPL auction set to go at the same time as the one-dayer. Affected players who will be getting messages from the dressing room throughout the night on how their lump sum mortgage repayments are shaping up are Kyle Mills (Minimum reserve: US$150,000), Michael Clarke (US$1,000,000) and Shaun Tait (US$250,000).
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