Cricket NZ

2023 - 3 - 31

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The Podium: Former Black Caps skipper hails the Kane Williamson ... (Stuff.co.nz)

Dion Nash marvels at how the Black Caps' run machine took his test game to another level after handing over the reins.

Follow The Podium on [Apple, Spotify](https://listen.stuff.co.nz/thepodium?sid=article), or any other podcast app, to get instant, automatic access to new episodes. It's going to be a really nice mix and could be a really exciting cocktail.” Nash says it’s an opportunity to blood new players as they head towards the Cricket World Cup in India in October. I’m sure [Black Caps captain] Tim Southee is grateful to have him in the side.” “[Williamson] has taken it to the next level. Nash told The Podium it was the older players who stepped up during the test series against England and Sri Lanka, especially top order batter Kane Williamson.

Te reo cricket commentary available for first time at upcoming T20 (1 News)

Former cricketers Maia Lewis, Peter McGlashan and Rebecca Rolls will join Scotty Morrison and Te Aorere Pewhairangi in historic bilingual commentary of the ...

“That played a big part in coming back to my roots. It’s the story of a culture that you can’t articulate accurately in any other language. And you can’t be what you can’t see.”

Kia Rite: How would life look if we flipped our usual perspective? (New Zealand Herald)

Anyway, this cricket rule got me thinking – long hours on the cricket sideline help here – about a book I read a few years ago. In The Infinite Game, Nikki ...

But when it comes to how we want to live and how future generations might live, an infinite game of cricket on the beach sounds pretty good to me. Will the threat of climate change destruction in Hawke’s Bay lead to collective action for ecological and human flourishing? The threat of nuclear war in the 1970s led to the international peace movement. There’s still a place for rules-based competitive cricket and McLean Park one-dayers will always be a special part of the summer calendar. In The Infinite Game, Nikki Harré, a community psychology professor at the University of Auckland, compares international cricket to a game of beach cricket. Enjoying the moment together and sometimes even adapting the rules to suit who’s batting at the time.

How Black Caps' Kane Williamson's cricket bat ended up on White ... (New Zealand Herald)

The celebrated White Stripes album Elephant was released 20 years ago, on April 1. New Zealand rock 'n' roll hobbyist John Baker on how Kane Williamson's ...

The rhythm of the song is clearly the same as the beat of a bat as the bowler approaches the crease. And will Warstic (the baseball bat company Jack owns) ever make a replica of “the bat”? I left the bat in Detroit in November when I returned to New Zealand. I’d love to return the bat to Williamson. It was the last time I saw the bat until the release of Elephant, and there on the cover it is ... Over the past 20 years Kookaburra (the bat, not the bird) has become one of the most famous cricket bats in the world. It was in a Motel 6 room where I also saw my first episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm (The Beloved Aunt episode) and later that year we woke up in a cheap hotel in Memphis to the news of September 11. So, in 2002 I was able to improve our road accommodation in the US. The year before I was introduced to the Motel 6s of America, a seedy chain of no-tell motels, where you can check in anytime, for an hour, or for a night. I had discovered the people working at the front desks of Motel 6s were cricket fanatics. [Grant, manager of Led Zeppelin, was the inspiration for the road manager in This is Spinal Tap.] I had been playing beach cricket during the summer holidays with another of our cousins, and the bat ended up with me and eventually travelled back with me to the Motor City.

Williamson is now in same league as Crowe, Hadlee: Former NZ ... (The Indian Express)

Former New Zealand pacer Dion Nash has placed Kane Williamson in the same league as Richard Hadlee and Martin Crowe, considered the best cricketers to be ...