Saturday, June 12, 2004
Rugby-powered Revenge in the House of Pain
36-3!!! victory by the All Blacks over the World Champion English at Carisbrook Stadium, Otago.
Dale Bludge:
More details at haka.co.nz...
And in the cricket, the last Test is in the balance as Chris Cairns, in his last test match, collects 5 scalps to slow England's first innings and give the Black Caps a first innings lead.
Richardson, Fleming and Styris delivered a good first innings for New Zealand, but their second innings has had more patience than runs, thanks in part to some dodgey umpiring. Given the remaining batsmen, and the sad state of New Zealand's bowling attack, it will be up to Cairns to put some runs on the board tomorrow, and then break the English batsmen the day after, if he wants his last Test to be a winning one.
Given the fractured state of the New Zealand team, avoiding a white-wash seemed as unlikely as the sad Detroit Pistons holding the star-powered Los Angles Lakers to under 70 points in a NBA finals game - but patently absurd things do happen in sports. Which is why we watch.
Emma John scratches her head in Wisden/CricInfo.
Dale Bludge:
"After all of the pre-test talk of the powerful English scrum, the All Blacks put a big exclamation mark on their win when they blew the English scrum to pieces in the dying minutes."Sweet.
More details at haka.co.nz...
And in the cricket, the last Test is in the balance as Chris Cairns, in his last test match, collects 5 scalps to slow England's first innings and give the Black Caps a first innings lead.
Given the fractured state of the New Zealand team, avoiding a white-wash seemed as unlikely as the sad Detroit Pistons holding the star-powered Los Angles Lakers to under 70 points in a NBA finals game - but patently absurd things do happen in sports. Which is why we watch.
Emma John scratches her head in Wisden/CricInfo.
I expect we'll get a full-on drubbing in the one-dayers, though...