#2013, WOW! What a year this has been from @Scott Dixon (AKA Scotty D, the Iceman) winning #Indycar Title for only the 3rd time to #AllBlacks going 14 from 14, effectively achieving the 100% record for the 1st time ever in the professional era, but my main highlight was ending 2013 on a high when I finally had to move in to my new apartment here at Alma Road after spending 22 years living with my father, but finally, I now live on my own right as well as starting to watch the cricket (Such as the @BrendonMcCullum led #BlackCaps (Not only that they beat #WestIndies in both the Test & Twenty20 series but not the ODI (One Day International) series because it was drawn) & #Ashes test series which was won by #Australia by beating #England 5-0 in the series) + I got some christmas presents like the gingerbread maker, an #F1RacingMagazine, the new #Asterix comic book & the brand new #GranTurismo6 #PS3 game (Which is an updated version of the previous installment (That game looks better than it is, compared to Gran Turismo 5) but it has got several world class circuits like Bathurst, Brands Hatch & Silverstone + some new vehicles) + I finally got to meet @AuntTaniaManuNgapo & of course, for the 1st time ever, the almighty French Canadian, Raejean (@GiuseppePedersen) Gatineau not only because it was at the airport before Christmas. Even though, 2014 began when I was still at the apartment watching the #Cricket when Black Cap @CoreyAnderson broke the record in Queenstown against the Windies for the fastest ODI century by breaking Pakistani Shahid Afridi's current record, and then, I went to the Brick House with Dad & Raewyn Sharrock to link up with Nan, Pops, Aunt Tan & Réjean/Giuseppe for a meal but my best moment of the evening was writing a letter for Réjean wishing him the best of luck before I went out but when I gave him my letter, he was impressed about the situation, not only that I had an apology for listening to a Canadian rock band, which is @Nickelback, as well as acquiring or should I say, bestowing/managing the new aliases of Eric/Giuliano Richtsteiner's brother Tom, now known as @TommyG (Bit of that Hip Hop stage naming stuff) & Giuseppe's daughter (Guiliano & Tommy G's sister), Rachelle AKA Ayako (あやこ) Bianchi (Meaningful and of course, Super Kawaii/かわいい (That is Japanese for Cute), but due to my impressive good performance with Réjean meaning that I did land the role of being good friends after all, not only because that letter wasn't even too bad like when someone goes to hell, tell them that somebody else sent you.
With the West Indies tour to NZ was over, It was the reigning champions & the best of the ODI Cricket World (Although they lost the No.1 ranking to giants Australia), India (Led by Captain Cool, Mahendra Singh (MS) Dhoni + They even got a danger man Virat Kohli (The guy who filled the void from the great, little master, the recently retired Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar), who has lethal batting skills compared to Tendulkar) to take on the Black Caps as we did go 1-0 up in the ODI series at McLean Park, in Napier by 24 runs (After India won the toss & elected to bowl, forcing New Zealand to bat 1st) before both teams have gone up north when NZ defeated India again at Seddon Park in the Tron (Hamilton), winning the game by 15 runs under the Duckworth/Lewis system, and after that, it was at Eden Park in Auckland when the 3rd ODI took place but nek minnit, NZ came so desperately close of winning the game and clinching the series, and then all of a sudden, the match ended in a tie, so both teams had to travel back to Hamilton for the 4th ODI (The same venue used for the 2nd ODI) as the Black Caps avenged their Eden Park demons with a 7 wicket win (The highlight of the game was Ross Taylor scoring 112 not out + 2 hilarious moments of all was James 'Jimmy' Neesham attempting to run Ravindra Jadeja out but fails miserably & of course, India are trying hard to dissmiss Brendon McCullum when both fielders Jadeja & Ambati Rayudu approach in attempt to catch the ball but also, fail miserably by dropping the catch like Neesham does when he tried to run Jadeja out (Although, former Indian cricketer turned commentator Sunil 'Sunny' Gavaskar (AKA Little Master) thinks that it was amateur stuff, absolute amateur stuff) before heading over to Wellington (AKA The Capital or Windy City) for the 5th & final ODI when NZ have completed the job winning the match by 87 runs & the series with Ross Taylor having a sensational summer, by scoring back 2 back centuries, and lifting New Zealand to 303 for 5 in the 1st innings. India’s reply never really got going, with the home side’s bowlers taking wickets at important moments, including four on debut for Matt Henry but in the end, India were bowled out in the last over for 216.
And now onto the 1st test match at Eden Park between the Black Caps & India after a sensational ODI series that took place as New Zealand won the game but the main highlight was NZ captain Brendon McCullum getting a double century (He was 224) during the 1st innings, but the OMG! moment went to Neil Wagner, who bowled MS Dhoni out moments before Wagner touched the line, thinking it was a no ball according to the 3rd umpire but now in all of a sudden that the umpire has given Dhoni out moments before India were all out 166 as the Black Caps go 1 - 0 up in the test series. And finally, the 2nd & final test took place at Wellington at a different venue which is the Basin Reserve as several crowds witness the big, BIG highlight of the moment (Formerly das Ballz of Steel moment) went to Brendon McCullum (Damn, he was so good), the 1st New Zealand cricketer ever to get a triple century by reaching 300 runs surpassing Martin Crowe's record of 299, WOW! What a history making day this has been, and after McCullum got dismissed at 302, it was Jimmy Neesham's turn, scoring a century on test debut (He was 137*) before McCullum announced that it was time to declare when the Black Caps were 680 for 8 allowing India to bat but the match ended in a draw allowing NZ to win the test series.
Well that is it, as both the Super Rugby & NRL seasons got underway with the summer of cricket over but what a superb blog this has been perhaps, the 1st of 2014, not for an entire decade, but sit back & enjoy, VENI VIDI VICI (I just CAME, SAW & CONQUERED, so brace yourself, like it is life or death).
P.S. And oh by the way, I did have a gr8 game here today when I scored another century during the 4th test match compared to the 2nd test during the 2nd innings, not only I dismissed Pops not once with an leg before (aka LBW) with a fast bowl in the 1st innings but twice with a catch in the 2nd innings, with a spinner (Pops was gone, caught & bowled) and man, that was a gr8 match & so, good times eh?
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