Latest posts about Martin Guptill
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Well of course Ross Taylor would bounce back. Ross The Boss has this aura of undeniability about him, whatever this means, but it applies. Plenty of people were calling for his head, but weirdly I’ve had more faith in him than in Mart...(more)


Martin Guptill’s century steered New Zealand to victory over a brave Ireland side in a pre World Cup warm-up game in Nagpur. The Kiwis scored freely on their way to 311-6 from their 50 overs and managed to avoid an upset, stopping the...(more)

The Kiwis.
They may have lost a lot of games and series, including a 4-0 drubbing at the hands of Bangladesh, but come World Cup time, they’re back as the eternal underdogs/dark horses. The batting, while inconsistent, is packed with...(more)


(c) Smithsonian’s National ZooThank you for that, my brown, soft-furred, potato-shaped, long-beaked, clumsy-footed friends from New Sheepland!New Zealand v Pakistan T20 II[scorecard]While Oz are inevitably sinking down, the roundbutte...(more)

Ashes Test 4 Day 1[scorecard]98 all out, 157-0. Thanks for nothing, I thoroughly enjoyed it. But Mitchell Johnson is one useful player. Watch this:Too bloody tired, annoyed and disappointed to write a proper post... especially as in this pl...(more)

Starts in a couple hours, and has the potential to be either really entertaining or a snoozefest. We’ve seen some great cricket in the last few weeks, so groundsman permitting, this should be fun to watch.
Here are the squads, with t...(more)

What is a huggability ranking?The idea to categorise people as either huggable or unhuggable was shamelessly nicked from half-tracker. It is a very helpful way to turn diffuse gut feelings into a precisely measurable matter and thereby reac...(more)


You’d be forgiven for thinking that the ICC World Twenty20 - which starts in Guyana at the end of this month - is a boring old afterthought to the IPL, considering the relative marketing strengths of the two.The ICC might not have the...(more)

Solidly-built Kiwi batsman Jesse Ryder appears to be fit and raring to go again after scoring a century for Wellington on the first day of a Plunket Shield match against Otago today.He’s been missing in action for a long time followin...(more)



For those who doubted whether the final would be a barnstorming event, I give you the New Zealand starting XI.
1 Brendon McCullum (wk, capt), 2 Aaron Redmond, 3 Martin Guptill, 4 Ross Taylor, 5 Neil Broom, 6 Grant Elliot, 7 James Franklin,...(more)

I was randomly thinking about it and then looked it up.Starting from May 2008 (New Zealand’s tour of England and the Australia’s tour of West Indies) upto and including the ongoing test matches, here is a list of test debutants....(more)
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