New Zealand Cricket Quotes

When a New Zealand journo, with a nose resembling the beak of his national bird, asked me why Lankans have long names, I told him I would rather have a long name than a long nose. He replied he'd rather have a long you-know-what. Such is the insightful cricketing analysis that goes on in the press box.

Fresh start. Day two, socks around my ankles, way down, two Maori boys approached me before I could get to my desk. Probelm solved. That day and in the many enjoyable ones that followed, my classmates asked me dozen of questions about America, while detailing essential subjects for a New Zealand boy in 1976, including lollies, meat pies and chips, cricket and rugby, ABBA and Tintin comic books, and why their relatives with tattoos on their face did that funy dance while sticking out their tounges.

Seymour studies the quantities of methane locked in melting Siberian permafrost. Reading about declining owl populations led him to deforestation which led to soil erosion which led to ocean pollution which led to coral bleaching, everything warming, melting, and dying faster than scientists predicted, every system on the planet connected by countless invisible threads to every other: cricket players in Delhi vomiting from Chinese air pollution, Indonesian peat fires pushing billions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere over California, million-acre bushfires in Australia turning what’s left of New Zealand’s glaciers pink. A warmer planet = more water vapor in the atmosphere = even warmer planet = more water vapor = warmer planet still = thawing permafrost = more carbon and methane trapped in that permafrost releasing into the atmosphere = more heat = less permafrost = less polar ice to reflect the sun’s energy, and all this evidence, all these studies are sitting there in the library for anybody to find, but as far as Seymour can tell, he’s the only one looking.

India’s first ever test series win outside India happened in New Zealand

You take bits off crickets and they grow new parts,” Edwards explains in his cheery New Zealand accent. “My interest in this alpine work is that you find creatures growing in habitats where you wouldn’t expect anything to be.

In fact, I was shortly to be chosen for my first tour to New Zealand. Again, I had Javed, now restored to captaincy, to thank. I was immediately anxious. I could not drive. I had neither money of my own nor even a bank account. I rang Javed and asked him how much it would cost me to go on the tour; he replied deadpan: "100,000 rupees." My heart sank. 'Javed bhai, my dad would never give me that amount of money,' I said gloomily. 'I'm sorry. I won't be able to come.' Javed burst out laughing. 'You idiot!' he said. 'You don't have to pay; you get paid.' I couldn't believe it. 'I get paid?' I said. 'To play for Pakistan? Unbelievable!

At this time of writing, according to ICC following are the best batting team: England Cricket Team Indian Cricket Team New Zealand Cricket Team Australia Cricket Team

The 2011 Cricket World Cup was a marvellous occasion, with three different hosts, two of them making it to the final. India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh all played their part, with venues from each country holding games from the tournament. India, as the biggest country, had the most venues and held the final at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. India had already defeated some of the biggest teams to make it this far, with Australia and Pakistan both sent home by the Indian team. Meanwhile, Sri Lanka enjoyed great form in the tournament, defeating England and New Zealand to reach the finals. Upul Tharanga didn’t start well for Sri Lanka in the batting, scoring just two runs before Zaheer Khan dismissed him. However, after he left the field, Sri Lanka’s batter suddenly became very successful. Tillakaratne Dilshan and Kumar Sangakkara got it started with over 80