Veteran fast bowler using short balls to get key wickets on day 5 to clinch the narrowest of wins<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nThere were many other noteworthy contributions but this test as a whole provided the emotional, skill and entertainment value expected.<\/p>\n
It is irrational to expect all of these ingredients to come together again any time soon in a test match. But even if half of the above happen (with logical variation) then we might be in for a wholesome experience.<\/p>\n
I was recently speaking with the co-founder of a fan engagement-focused company, and he reiterated how sports were becoming shorter (a reflection of social behaviour). In that sense, Test cricket remains an anomaly. But long may it live!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Background: New Zealand defeated England by a one run margin in the second test at Wellington on 28 February. The two-match series ends tied at 1-1. The match is only the fourth to feature a team winning after following on. Quick thoughts: ESPNCricinfo’s Alan Gardner has done a nice recap of the match here. Test …<\/p>\n
The beauty of Test cricket on display in Wellington\u00a0<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allplayhub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allplayhub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allplayhub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allplayhub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allplayhub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1799"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/allplayhub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1833,"href":"https:\/\/allplayhub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions\/1833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allplayhub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allplayhub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allplayhub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allplayhub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}