It has now been one day since the completion of the First Test in Australia’s tour of New Zealand and it was a good one to watch from an Australian perspective however the match was without it’s fair share of controversy. Let’s address the elephant in the room immediately which is that Adam Voges should have been out for 7 and not 239 and according to media it’s now time to start World War 3. if it wasn’t for the decision by Richard Illingworth,who has been added to a list of umpires along the likes of Nigel Llong who have robbed New Zealand wickets due to DRS or in this case a lack of DRS/video replays in recent times against Australia this match could have been a lot more interesting at the very least.

However if we now choose to stick with umpires’ call then why haven’t the Aussies been gifted the extra 4 runs due to the ball rolling down the boundary for byes?! I mean come on us Aussies were put through enough of a shock when we saw Voges’ bails fly off so we ought to deserve to win by an innings and 56 runs instead of an innings and 52 runs, this is bloody outrage!

Moving back to the start of the start of the test match where the Basin’s pitch was so green that you could walk from one side of the oval to the other without even noticing the pitch. If the running joke days before the World Cup Final last year was that the MCG was so big compared to New Zealand’s grounds then surely we must be mentioning that the a picture of Basin Reserve could be mistaken for an AFL ground without the paint and sponsors. In fact my top sources told me that the New Zealand Cricket left a note which stated “Welcome to Basin Reserve, we ordered the pitch months in advance from eBay just for you guys” It must be obvious to them now that they should always read the terms and conditions before buying items online because it most likely stated: produces dodgy no ball calls.

I believe that it’s almost impossible to talk about this test without also mentioning what Adam Voges has achieved in this test match after all it’s not every day someone defeats Bradman’s average. In fact as soon as he surpassed the 100 average I swiftly moved to my computer to rename the file for ‘Don Bradman Cricket 14‘ to ‘Adam Voges Cricket 14’ However while still acknowledging Adam’s achievement it’s important to note that there will be only one Don and even if Voges was to retire after the second test and manage to scrape his average over 100 again I would invite you to name a cricketer that has such a stranglehold over so many batting records and is up there in every record.

Now it’s time to move off to the next match in Christchurch where the cricketing world is saying farewell to McCullum from the test arena for the last time on the 20th of February, let’s hope the presenter doesn’t get his name wrong again.