New year, old horror story for New Zealand
Hamish Bidwell of the Dominion Post rips into New Zealand's capitulation against Pakistan in the first Test, saying that the enormity of the batting collapse is almost unparalleled in the side's history.
Nitin Sundar
25-Feb-2013
Hamish Bidwell of the Dominion Post rips into New Zealand's capitulation against Pakistan in the first Test, saying that the enormity of the batting collapse is almost unparalleled in the side's history.
There's almost no need to belittle them, because the second innings batting figures do that all on their own. New Zealand test history is littered with collapses of a similar magnitude, but rarely against an opposition team of such dubious quality.
The fact that the Black Caps are the eighth ranked, of nine, test nations indicates that they do lose more matches than they win. But this one will be harder to recover from than most.
Nitin Sundar is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo