*Unofficial* New Zealand Black Caps Thread

[Skyliner]

I called it a while ago, Nicholls is going to break Lara's record and it will be beautiful.

 

[NZTailender]

I was thinking it was particularly rough on Young to make him open again because of the injury, but to be fair he might actually prefer it as a chance to get some runs in the position and stamp a better claim on it given he's not going to displace Williamson or Ravindra at 3-4 at full strength. Nicholls is still pointless either way though.

He could always be coming for Daz's spot

https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/stats/index.html?class=1;spanmax1=30+Jul+2025;spanmin1=30+Jul+2023;spanval1=span;team=5;template=results;type=batting

Though ideally that would be Phillips.

 

[ataraxia]

FWIW I don't mind the selection of Macewell. He's found success in LOIs through aggressive bowling – looking much improved since he played his last test over 2 years ago – and is the best offie in the country by a long way in the absence of GP. It helps to shore up the batting given I'm not keen on overworking the bowlers and want to see Duffy selected over N Smith.

And also:

https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/icc-champions-trophy-2024-25-1459031/india-vs-new-zealand-final-1466428/full-scorecard

 

[ataraxia]

*Official* New Zealand in Zimbabwe 2025 (Tests)

NZ squad: Latham*, Conway, Young, Ravindra, Mitchell, Nicholls, Blundell +, Bracewell (first test), Santner, Ajaz, Henry, O'Rourke, N Smith, Duffy, Fisher Zimbabwe squad: Ervine*, Taylor, Williams, Raza, Bennett, Curran, Kaia, Welch, Makoni, Madande, Tsiga, W Masakadza, Masekesa, Muzarabani...

www.cricketweb.net

 

[Binkley]

Man. I just got access to the BBC iPlayer to feed my daughter’s Doctor Who addiction, and being able to watch the free-to-air, high quality cricket highlights reminds me of what we have been missing in New Zealand. An hour of carefully curated highlights with a proper introduction and some intelligent reflection at the end - as opposed to 20 minutes of randomly spliced together snippets. And that is going to get even worse when we have to start paying Sky for the privilege of accessing their roughly cobbled together junk again.

 

[RMBolton]

Man. I just got access to the BBC iPlayer to feed my daughter’s Doctor Who addiction, and being able to watch the free-to-air, high quality cricket highlights reminds me of what we have been missing in New Zealand. An hour of carefully curated highlights with a proper introduction and some intelligent reflection at the end - as opposed to 20 minutes of randomly spliced together snippets. And that is going to get even worse when we have to start paying Sky for the privilege of accessing their roughly cobbled together junk again.

Have we ever had that in NZ?

 

[Bahnz]

Have we ever had that in NZ?

When international cricket first moved behind a paywall in the early 2000's (I.e. when cricket last had mainstream cultural relevance) they used to put good quality 1 hour highlights packages- either on tv3 or Prime. Over time, as viewership dwindled, the length of the highlights packages got pushed to later timeslots, then shortened and finally disappeared altogether.

 

[Immenso]

Have we ever had that in NZ?

Sparks were quite good. Especially in the first year. But not with the analysis, though.

But only about 1% were seeing that. Not referring the FTA part, just the uplift in quality from sky's dire colour-by-numbers output.

I don't really recall the highlights from cricket in the 2 and 3 channels days. Maybe they were past by bedtime... if on at all.

In 1980s. Seemed to be watch it live or not at all. With the exception of the 92 world cup, and that mini-world cup at the MCG in 1985. Which i remember being highlights programmes of the non-NZ games.