Beyond Cow Corner

Who Are The All Blacks For Anymore? The answer should always be self-evident: New Zealanders. Right now, is it?

2026 will be the lowest percentage of home Tests the All Blacks have played in a calendar year since the introduction of professionalism.

#rugby #allblacks

The Tormented History Of New Zealand Opening Batters Or, Why Tom Latham Is Better Than You Think!

Only 22 openers have played 15 or more Tests for New Zealand. Half of them average less than 30.

#cricket #blackcaps #nzcricket

Bowlers Dominate Opening Round of Ford Trophy Henry Nicholls was the only hundred-scorer as home sides all win comfortably on day one of the NZ domestic season.

Recapping round one of the New Zealand domestic season.

#nzcricket #cricket

What Makes A Great Change Seamer In Test Cricket (And Why Teams Still Get It Wrong) Bowling first change in Test cricket is a specialist skill. Let’s finally start treating it like one.

Read my full deep-dive on what makes a great change seamer in Test cricket (and why teams still get it wrong) here: shorturl.at/hqyfY

Want to be a great change seamer in Test cricket? Winning the genetic lottery doesn't hurt.

Foulkes, Fisher, and Duffy all debuting - how exciting!

#ZIMvsNZ #nzcricket

Mitchell Santner is poised to become the 41st New Zealand Test Cricket Captain, including the nine women to have captained the White Ferns in Tests, and the 32nd Black Caps Test captain, as the team returns to Test cricket tonight in Bulawayo.

#nzcricket #cricket

Black Caps bowling first.

Here’s a look at our schedule in the lead up to the T20 World Cup.

#ZIMvsNZ #nzcricket

With the T20 tri-series ongoing and Sri Lanka and Bangladesh’s series recently wrapping up, here’s a look at (almost) every team’s scheduled build up to the 2026 T20 World Cup.

#nzcricket #t20 #worldcup

The future is bright!

Hopefully 🤞

From 70 for 5 in 9.3 overs, Tim Robinson and Bevon Jacobs take New Zealand to 173.

A match-winning total? bit.ly/TriSeries202... #NZvSA

“Gee, Robinson and Jacobs are going to be serious players for New Zealand in the future,” I find myself thinking about batters who just scored 75* and 44* in international cricket for us right now.

#SAvsNZ #nzcricket

Love to see them running three at the end there. Never understood why teams don’t just keep running til they’re runout, it’s the last ball, it doesn’t matter.

#SAvsNZ #cricket

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Tim Robinson, go you good thing!

#SAvsNZ #nzcricket

Is this commentator is really trying to claim the Springboks success has rubbed off on the Proteas lol

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Tim Seifert has been an absolute menace recently, scoring another breezy 22(16) today. This year in T20Is, only Abhishek Sharma and Turkey’s Muhammad Fahad strike faster (min. 200 runs).

#SAvsNZ #nzcricket

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Bevon Jacobs to debut, NZ batting first, & the first match of the Walter era, I’m excited!

Also, please tell me I’m not the only one who thinks of Tim Robinson from I Think You Should Leave whenever I see Tim Robinson, the cricketer, playing for New Zealand?

#SAvsNZ #nzcricket

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If anyone else is wondering, I’ve since discovered it’s on ICC.tv

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Does anybody know of a way to (ideally legally) watch the South Africa vs New Zealand T20 series in Australia tonight? Current plans involve ThreeNow and three little letters starting with V, is there a better way?

#nzcricket #SAvsNZ

The Black Caps Return to Africa for the First Time in A Decade: Previewing the New Zealand vs South Africa vs Zimbabwe T20I Tri-Series 90s kids rejoice, tri-series cricket is back, baby!

Read my full series preview here: tinyurl.com/5a3e5ew6

#blackcaps #nzcricket #cricketnz

An image showing the last time the Black Caps played in Africa with the text: A T2OI AGAINST SOUTH AFRICA: 3,071 days (February 17, 2017) A T20I IN SOUTH AFRICA: 3,622 days (August 16, 2016) AN ODI SERIES AGAINST SOUTH AFRICA: 3,056 days (March 4, 2017) AN ODI SERIES IN SOUTH AFRICA: 3,612 days (26 August, 2016) A TEST IN SOUTH AFRICA: 3,263 days (August 30, 2016) A T20I AGAINST/In ZIMBABWE: 3,629 days (August 9, 2015) AN ODI AGAINST/IN ZIMBabwe: 3,631 Days (AUgust 7, 2015) A Test AgaInst/IN ZImbabwe: 3,262 days (August 10, 2016)

Tonight, as they kick off their tri-series against Zimbabwe and South Africa, the Black Caps will play a game of cricket in Africa for the first time in 3,263 days.

Safe to say it has been a long, thirsty wait between drinks.

#blackcaps #nzcricket #cricketnz #cricket #southafrica

It’s a sad thought, but is that the last time we’ll see Australia play Test cricket in the Caribbean? You couldn’t rule it out.

#WIvsAUS

For god’s sake, West Indies. You couldn’t have scored two fewer runs and taken this unsavoury record from us?

#WIvsAUS #cricket

Well there’s my day ruined that I can’t watch both on two screens simultaneously, and, presumably, across the multiverse.

Said as a fan of New Zealand, everyone’s former second team, you’re surely everyone’s second team these days! All the best!

Aaaaand there goes the inevitable. If only there was any way to have foreseen that wicket.

#WIvsAUS

WHILE ALSO OPENING FOR THE FIRST TIME IN FIRST-CLASS CRICKET, I’ve subsequently learned. Who did Kelvon Anderson piss off?

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There’s throwing someone to the wolves, and then there’s asking them to face Mitchell Starc with the pink new ball in his 100th test ON DEBUT…

#AUSvWI #cricket

With Joe Root passing the record for most Test catches, I am once again asking why we don’t track proper stats for catching percentage (and fielding and wicket keeping in general…) in cricket? Seems kinda relevant…
#ENGvIND