Public Address | Cafe | Speaker: Part 2: Remembering Kenya https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address reece palmer https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-part-2-remembering-kenya/?p=9746#post9746 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-part-2-remembering-kenya/?p=9746#post9746 Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:25:58 +1300 LegBreak https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-part-2-remembering-kenya/?p=9742#post9742 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-part-2-remembering-kenya/?p=9742#post9742 Does the average New Zealander blame Kenya for not reaching the semis last time around? I'd have thought we blamed consecutive collapses against SA and India for that.

Having said that, what a blessed run Kenya had. In a topsy-turvy group they had NZ defaulting (abdicating?) a home win against…

]]> Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:33:48 +1300 simon g https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-part-2-remembering-kenya/?p=9654#post9654 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-part-2-remembering-kenya/?p=9654#post9654 much more scepticism than the Nairobi nonsense. Mind-edit accordingly, please. ]]> Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:35:49 +1300 simon g https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-part-2-remembering-kenya/?p=9653#post9653 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-part-2-remembering-kenya/?p=9653#post9653 The "Kenya myth" is NZ cricket's version of Suzy the waitress, isn't it? A necessary self-delusion, now well established, often repeated, rarely questioned.

Minor facts: the Black Caps qualified for the Super Sixes anyway, despite not going to Kenya. They then lost to Australia and India, for which no Nairobi…

]]> Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:31:55 +1300 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-part-2-remembering-kenya/?p=9652#post9652 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-part-2-remembering-kenya/?p=9652#post9652 Discussion from blog post.

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