Love the order. 1. Could be unsafe. 2. Could get third-world-itis. 3. Might not come back. 4. Oh and that political thing that we couldn't do when Rod Donald raised it a few years ago, but can do now.

Do you think he knows *how* you get cholera? The precise…

1. 'We' think it's a bit 'wussy' relative to scoring a try.
2. Certainly at the All Blacks level, a significant proportion of our games we finish well ahead, so in a lot…

If you're not able to penetrate a team's defense while down by two points in the latter stages of a game, isn't a drop goal a logical option?

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You would think that, wouldn't you?

Deciding to bat second in Sydney and then first in Adelaide might not have helped either, although it's easy to say in hindsight.

There's also a mantra going around that NZ chases well, and people seem to think that this means that they should always chase. Clearly that's not the…

Vettori was not his consistent self in the series, for sure, but I think that was partly because in those two completed games the Australians decided to deliberately target him, reckoning (rightly), that if he got rattled, then it would bring them that much closer to victory.

And rattle him…

Actually, he was far from the best bowler in the series. He went for heaps in the last two completed games without taking wickets, and that made a big chunk of the difference. Deciding to bat second in Sydney and then first in Adelaide might not have helped either, although…

"What you're dealing with here is that if the NZC doesn't go to Zimbabwe then there is potentially a fine from…

Dan Vettori was right to get angry at his team. While he is still the #1 ODI bowler (Mills is #3) his ten friends in black are letting him down.

Actually, he was far from the best bowler in the series. He went for heaps in the last two completed…