Peter Petherick News Today

During my examination of 1675 or so scorecards for result Test matches, I couldn’t help but notice the odd coincidence and strange occurrence along…

Spark Sport Black Caps fast bowler went so close to a test hat-trick at the Basin Reserve but still grabbed a five-wicket bag. Just six weeks ago at a near-deserted Eden Park Outer Oval, Kyle Jamieson charged across the outfield in celebration after achieving a bowler’s prized feat, a hat-trick. On Saturday at the Basin Reserve, a packed hill on their feet chanting his name, Jamieson, remarkably, had a shot at another. In a test match against West Indies, no less, just the fourth of this sky...

Spark Sport Black Caps fast bowler went so close to a test hat-trick at the Basin Reserve but still grabbed a five-wicket bag. Queues snaked out from the C.S Dempster Gate, as cricket fans crammed the Basin Reserve hill and the Black Caps delighted them by delivering another knockout punch on super Saturday. Barely a week after their innings and 134-run first test victory in Hamilton, New Zealand’s four-pronged pace attack was again too hot to handle for the weary, outgunned West Indies bats...