Spring and Summer weather in Canterbury, particularly for the Canterbury Plains, is predictable: Almost every year late October and November produce warming, dry and settled conditions, December and early January have all sorts of crap conditions, often hot and cold in the same day with constant showers (rather than steady rain), late January, February and March are usually back to warm settled stuff, all with the possibilities of the odd hot (36-40C) day thrown in.
So why does NZ Cricket continue to schedule Hagley Oval test matches in ChCh for December?
Do they hate test cricket (The only form of real cricket!) that much?
After watching and listening to this game (or much of it) on free-to-air TV NZC are not the only cricket haters, most of the commentary team do as well.
They were terrible!
I listened to two sheilas who have never payed the game, a group whinging and whining about a warm day with a gentle breeze and a lot of grizzling but no genuine or informative comments on New Zealand failing to produce test wickets or the failure of the NZ team trainer to get players fit for the strains of five-day cricket.
As an aside, well done Tom Latham, well done West indies.
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