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Monday, July 2, 2012

Trophies and Tribulations – Forty Years of Kent Cricket by Clive Ellis and Mark Pennell

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We were like the young men of Europe in the high summer of 1914, going home after a day in the sun, oblivious to the misery about to spread ...
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...