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Saturday, May 12, 2012

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2012, edited by Lawrence Booth

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The 2012 Wisden has arrived, its yellow cover for us in New Zealand representing autumn leaves rather than spring flowers. Each ...
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Sunday, April 22, 2012

Adult Book by Malcolm Knox

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The cricket novel is in fashion, a genre, almost. There is Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland , in which the game is a symbol of calm in post 9/11 ...
Sunday, April 1, 2012

New Zealand v South Africa, Basin Reserve, Wellington, 3rd Test, 3rd day (25 March 2012)

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http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/345/345883/345883_bbb.html The New Zealand season is over, just three days before the first-...
Saturday, March 24, 2012

New Zealand v South Africa, ODI, the Cake Tin, Wellington, 25 February 2012

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http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/345/345878/345878_bbb.html The optimism of New Zealand cricket fans of which I wrote in the ...
Sunday, February 19, 2012

New Zealand v South Africa, T20, the Cake Tin, Wellington, Friday 17 February 2012

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http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/345/345875.html After six years in Wellington, at last! An evening sufficiently warm and wind...
Monday, January 16, 2012

Cricket grounds in winter: St Lawrence Ground, Canterbury

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Unlike my visits to Bath and Bristol, this was not a return after a long absence. I have had a wander around the St Lawrence Ground on almos...
Thursday, January 12, 2012

Wellington v Northern Districts, T20, Basin Reserve, 11 January 2012

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http://www.espncricinfo.com/new-zealand-domestic-2011/engine/current/match/526638.html The pohutukawas are out so the Basin is wrapped in...
Friday, January 6, 2012

Cricket grounds in winter: the County Ground, Bristol

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Not even its best friends would call the County Ground attractive. On one side there is the grey stone and narrow windows of what used to be...
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Cricket grounds in winter: the Recreation Ground, Bath

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As well as my expedition to the Crabble Ground in Dover ( http://mylifeincricketscorecards.blogspot.com/2011/11/in-search-of-crabble.html ) ...
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Thursday, December 8, 2011

Wellington v Otago, 50 overs (reduced to 40), Basin Reserve, 4 December 2011

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http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/349/349234.html New Wellington coach Jamie Siddons has all the qualifications you would want...