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Close to a jack of all trades Pastor ⛪ Builder🔨 Teacher 📚 Statistician 📈 Musician 🎶 Cricket writer🏏 Sound technician 🎛 Tweets are my own etc.
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It isn't racist to want the Treaty principles more clearly defined. But that doesn't mean that what's being proposed by ACT is perfect.
Here's my take:
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Kohli went from 100 to 166 in 25 balls.
That's a strike rate of 264.
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Hey
@ICC
or
@cricketcomau
shouldn't one of you be reaching out to Rob to offer him an official archivist position?
The man has done more for the growth of cricket globally than almost anyone else, and so far has done it all for love, not money.
Robelinda2 YouTube channel has been officially terminated.
14 years of fun it was! Thanks for watching!
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As far as I know, he's managed to keep himself out of trouble ever since.
Hopefully when he's out celebrating his try against the All Blacks tonight, Bundee Aki doesn't get any grief from the police, and doesn't need anyone to take him home this time.
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Ajaz Patel is the first person to take 10 wickets in an away test.
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Tom Latham and Ben Stokes were born within a few months of each other, and made their test debuts within a few months, too.
Latham has missed only 4% of NZs tests since then. Stokes, however, has missed 22% of England's tests.
Stokes has played 22 more tests than Latham.
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About 15 years ago, I saw a student of mine getting hassled by some police in Aotea Square. As I was walking down the street he shouted "sir, sir, Mr Wagener over here - that's my teacher."
I went over.
The police officer said "are you his teacher?" I confirmed that I was.
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On this day 6 years ago, Sulieman Benn demonstrated that he was better at bowling than counting.
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He went from 66 to 166 in 47 balls.
That's a strike rate of 212.7
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Remember how a couple of weeks ago, English cricket writers were all upset about Mumbai Indians bringing up the idea of offering Jofra Archer a 12 month contract...
Dutch cricketers not released from their English counties to play in The
@cricketworldcup
qualifiers next month.
Fred Klaasen
Shane Snater
Roelof van der Merwe
Paul van Meekeren
Timm van der Gugten
Colin Ackerman
Brandon Glover
It's just not fair.
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Jasprit Bumrah's bowling stats
In Tests
Against New Zealand: 6 wickets at 41.16
Against teams not called New Zealand: 77 wickets at 21.36
In ODIs
Against New Zealand: 13 wickets at 36.84
Against teams not called New Zealand: 95 wickets at 23.75
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Henry Nicholls has had a ridiculously good year.
He's played 3 test series.
Vs England he scored 158 runs at an average of 79.00
Vs Pakistan he scored 287 runs at an average of 57.40
Vs Sri Lanka he scored 213 runs at an average of 106.50.
Total 658 runs at 73.11.
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Consecutive years without a party leader of Maori decent.
ACT 0
Greens 0
TPM 0
NZ First 0
National 2
Labour 107
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He said: "he's being disorderly, I'm going to take him in and process him, unless you offer to give him a lift home."
From what I could see, he wasn't being particularly disorderly, and I really didn't want him to get a record for annoying a cop.
So I quickly agreed.
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My wife had a really tricky birth when our twins were born. She couldn't walk for a couple of weeks.
It would have been the best thing for our family for us to be able to take leave together.
The fact that Labour is blocking this is horrendous.
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There's a number of English cricket writers who were happy to say "the boundary rules were in place before the tournament, you shouldn't complain" who are now complaining about the lack of reserve days in the T20 World Cups.
#T20WorldCup
#WT20WC
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A first year primary school teacher with a student loan will get $742 per week in hand (after tax and student loan)
Someone who in in their first year stacking shelves in a supermarket will now earn $753 (after tax).
Income mobility is dying in New Zealand.
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Here's
@RossLTaylor
's last 10 ODI matches: (most recent last)
59 (73) vs Pak
113 (116), 10 (26), 181* (147) vs Eng
80 (112), 86 (120)*, DNB vs Pak
54 (37), 90 (105), 109 (117) vs SL
783 runs, 3 100s, 5 50s, average 130.5, strike rate 91.69
(Correct at 41 overs on
#NZvSL
Match)
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The last 11 players to captain the
@BLACKCAPS
would make a fairly handy playing XI.
Latham
Fleming
Williamson
Taylor
McMillian
McCullum (k)
Cairns
Vettori
Nash
Mills
Southee
It's quite surprising that a group of consecutive captains would cover all the different playing roles.
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Just a reminder to everyone that Kane Williamson can't bat outside New Zealand, and is only a home track bully.
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With the new minimum wage, but no change to tax thresholds, if someone on the minimum wage works 41 hours in a week they'll be in the 30% tax band.
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I was looking into the achievement of Simi Singh scoring a century from number 8 in an ODI but his team still losing, and I noticed something surprising. MS Dhoni had lots of 50s at number 6 or lower that resulted in India losing.
A thread 1/n
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Since the start of 2018
Tim Southee 20 matches 100 wickets @ 21.70
James Anderson 28 matches 94 wickets @ 22.11
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Fab 4 averages, last 5 years
Williamson 70.02
Smith 53.81
Root 50.08
Kohli 39.08
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Somehow an Indian fan managed to find a way to make England vs Ireland into further evidence of the greatness of MS Dhoni.
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Duffy is the first
@BLACKCAPS
player to take 4 wickets on T20I debut. The previous best figures were 3/2 by both Jeetan Patel and Nathan Astle.
#NZvWI
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.
@NeilWagner13
bowled 13 consecutive overs in the middle of the day in Abu Dhabi. He bowled faster in his 11th over than he did in his first.
#Stamina
#EarnedAColdOne
.
#PAKvNZ
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Can anyone who is going to protest against the budget please tell me which bit of the budget they have a problem with?
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Australia won 6 tosses. They won those 6 matches. They lost 1 toss. They lost that match.
Aaron Finch was worth his position simply for his tossing skills.
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Absolutely beautiful.
Sir Dave Dobbyn just dedicated a song at the Eden Park concert to Helen Clark - the PM who (temporarily) abolished knighthoods and has led the opposition against concerts at Eden Park.
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With Ben Sears, Will O'Rourke, Nathan Smith, Zac Foulkes, Kristian Clarke and Matt Fisher, NZ's young quick bowling cupboard is looking quite healthy.
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@DaleSteyn62
Our groundsman told me to look at the roots.
Green roots: there will be sideways movement, bowl first.
White roots: then bat first because no matter how green the surface of the grass is, the ball won't do much.
I'm from NZ, so I know nothing about non-green pitches.
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Hiring 400 people to work on Three Waters was nothing other than pure, unadulterated economic vandalism by the last government.
Dept of Internal Affairs cuts jobs as more than 400 working on Three Waters leave
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Just a thought.
@SeanPlunket
published a story a couple of weeks ago that Jacinda Ardern was going to be going on the international speaker's circuit.
She denied it categorically.
Now she's said she'll be making some speeches overseas and at home.
Isn't that the same thing?
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I hadn't noticed this before, but
@NewshubNZ
just got
@nzlabour
to say that they won't use any AI in their ad images. That means they'll have to get someone to manually do their airbrushing, pixel by pixel, rather than using the AI tools in photoshop...
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I'm the pastor of Soul Church in Parnell. We've got ready to eat meals in our freezer and a wet and dry vacuum cleaner.
If anyone in the Parnell area needs a meal due to flood damage or help drying out some carpet etc, please let me know.
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Wow.
The NZ supreme court just ruled that advocacy groups that don't push both sides of an issue can't be given charity status.
That's going to be bad news for groups like Greenpeace, Sea Shepherd, SAFE and the Drug Foundation.
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I suspect match fixing. Pakistan have clearly been paid to win.
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There was another really interesting innings in the
#IPL
match today. This time by Kane Williamson.
He scored 41(26) at Abu Dhabi. That's a strike rate of 157.7, which is the second highest for any score over 40 at Abu Dhabi this IPL. (Top was Suryakumar Yadav's 47(28) SR 167.9)
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I'm not now (and wasn't at any point) anti-vax. But it seems ridiculous that parents who were caregivers for their own children were not allowed to keep living with them unless they got vaccinated.
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IPL fans - is there a maximum squad size for IPL squads, or just a salary cap?
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"This government prepared for Delta"
Expand ICU capacity? ❌
Accelerate vaccine roll out? ❌
Expand MIQ capacity? ❌
Changes MIQ protocols? ❌
Improve our testing capacity? ❌
Improve our contact tracing? ❌
Introduce faster testing ❌
What exactly did we do?
#Covid19NZ
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Top NZ run scorer in domestic T20 matches, last 2 years: Colin Munro
Top NZ run scorer in T20 matches in UAE, last 2 years: Colin Munro
Top NZ run scorer in T20 matches in Pakistan, last 2 years: Colin Munro
Best ever average and strike rate in T20i's in Asia for NZ: Colin Munro
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Adam Milne gets just over NZ$600k for the IPL. That's almost the same as the median house price in his home town of Palmerston North.
He could come home and buy a house with cash.
#IPLAuction
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This can't be our statement. Surely somebody tell me this is a joke.
Our 5 major allies all released similar statements to each other, condemning the terrorist attacks and standing with Israel.
Instead, we call for a stop to all violence?
Weak, pathetic, and immoral.
Aotearoa New Zealand 🇳🇿is deeply concerned at the outbreak of conflict between Israel and Gaza. We call for the immediate cessation of violence. The protection of all civilians, and upholding of international humanitarian law is essential.
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That googly from Sodhi was not his normal one. He kept his wrist cocked longer than normal, then the ball came out higher than normal. It would have looked very much to Kohli like the leg break, without the clues that he would have been looking for. What a stunning ball.
#NZvIND
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My notifications are now full of English fans telling me how the boundaries rule was totally fair because it was based on playing better cricket, while a team progressing because they won more matches is inherently unfair.
Delicious.
There's a number of English cricket writers who were happy to say "the boundary rules were in place before the tournament, you shouldn't complain" who are now complaining about the lack of reserve days in the T20 World Cups.
#T20WorldCup
#WT20WC
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I'm really disappointed to see National's policy to keep the fees free first year at university.
It costs $300M and achieves nothing except to give people who study a shorter time paying off their loan.
There's no evidence that it achieved anything other than that.
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Wayne Brown waited until official advice to declare a state of emergency (about 5 hours after the first weather warning and 4 hours after the flooding started).
Kieran McAnulty waited until official advice to declare a state of emergency (2 days after the flooding started)
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People are asking what the "squeezed middle" means in context.
Here's an example.
A full time minimum wage worker with 2 kids and no student loan gets $961 per week, after tax, WFF, ACC and 3% kiwisaver.
A production manager on $90k with student loan, takes $1195.02 per week
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@nz_hill
For me Pakeha is a term that has a New Zealand origin to describe people who are white but feel at home here in NZ rather than feeling like they come from Europe.
I'm not European. My family's been here for generations. This is home. I don't want to be called European.
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It's because they're not actually a green party. They're a socialist party who have green values as a small part of their values.
It's really that simple.
The idea of the Greens forming an alliance with National gets an airing almost every election cycle. It remains as much of a nonstarter as ever.
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Here's the short version of how to know who gets to play against New Zealand in the World Test Championship final:
England need to win 3+ matches.
India need to win 2 and not lose both of the other 2.
If neither of those teams get there, then Australia make it.
#WTC
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Namibia ✅️
Zimbabwe ✅️
South Africa 🟩
Can the Netherlands complete their sweep of the African sides?
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In 2019 a review was done into why roughly 700,000 people didn't fill in the census.
Like most Labour reviews, the answer came back that there wasn't enough money spent.
So we spent almost 3 times as much.
At last count, roughly 700,000 have yet to fill in the 2023 census.
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@eyepatchjack
@Mitre10HV
This guy has just published video of him not complying with a public health act and of him not conplying with a trespass order.
He's going to go to prison. And he deserves it.
He also seemed to walk into the Mitre 10 staff member - so it's unclear who instigated the assault.
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I know some people on here believe that the Kiri Allen story is just a beat up, and an unjustified attack by the press.
But I feel that once we get to 4 senior public servants complaining about her behaviour that it's probably time to side with the victims over the bully.
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The best thing about the Devon Conway innings was that it wasn't spectacular.
It didn't look like a first century, with a mixture of brilliance and nervousness .
Instead it looked like a century from Ross Taylor, Angelo Matthews or Faf du Plessis: a veteran just doing his job.
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This is the fickle nature of cricket, and part of what makes it worth watching. Almost all batters fail more than they succeed. In the 626 times that a player's batted at least 6 times in the top order in a world cup, only 26 have scored 50 in more than half their innings.
Shreyas Iyer was out for a duck edging the same no-footwork poke that Travis Head happened to play and miss twice in a row early in his innings. It's how batting works. It doesn't diminish Head's innings, and it shouldn't diminish your estimation of Iyer's talent.
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Hagley Oval are going to recognise the "4 first ships to arrive" with their lights.
I thought there were 7 waka that came here first, not 4. Or do they still only count white people as people in Christchurch?
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This news does explain why Golriz has trouble with irony and sarcasm. She keeps taking things literally.
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One thing that's a bit misleading with cricket stats is that some players retire at their peak, some players get picked before they're ready, and some play on too long.
If we look at just between the ages of 25 and 35, it comes out like this
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@mroller98
No. RCB normally look really good before just missing out on the semis. England are bypassing the "look really good" bit.
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@NewshubPolitics
Imagine thinking that it's bad to try and secure our trade route to Europe from terrorist attacks!
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Finally I put them together to see a fuller picture.
These stats suggest that India has produced the best ever finisher, but his name is Yuvraj Singh, not MS Dhoni.
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Martin Crowe was pretty sharp when he named the fab 4. Here's the players who have scored 5000+ test runs since that article came out. The 4 he named sitting in places 1-4
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Do Indians actually like cricket?
There are roughly 6 million people living in Ahmedabad. 1% of them would have the stadium more than half full.
It isn't even a quarter full.
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How worried about National's new leader are those on the left? 39 of
@ClintVSmith
's last 40 tweets have been about the National leadership.
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ICC score predictor expects Bangladesh to score less in the second half of their innings then in the first half. I wouldn't think that's happened too often in history.
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