Hello Kaipaki Nation,
There has been many great cricketing rivalries over the years. Harold Larwood v Don
Bradman is one of the earlier ones (John Parker remembers it well as he was in
the stands I think), there was Lillee v Miandad, John Parker v Michael Holding,
Martin Crowe v his reflection in the mirror, Shane Warne v hair loss, Jesse
Ryder v Jack Daniels, According to John Wrights original biography John Parker
& Richard Hadlee had battles with their dress sense. Whatever the battle
cricket has become a better game because of it as it has created great banter,
laughter and admiration from all who embrace this unusual
game.
However, the greatest of all rivalries is, no doubt, the one that is being reignited next
Saturday the 22nd of December. For years Kaipaki have listened to the
supposed bigger brother in the country family, Ngahinapouri, who would buoyantly
put down the little Kaipaki battlers on regular occasions. They have
claimed their land is better, this maybe true if you are a goat. They claimed
their primary school was the best in the land – they had better looking female
teaches, a native bush that you would never get caught, you no what, in. The
arrogance that the Ngahinapouri community had towards us was borderline weird to
be honest.
This is our time to show that we are battlers no more, but we are a nation and a big
proud nation of very interesting people. What would Obama say right now?...we
aren’t black Kaipaki or white Kaipaki, we aren’t coordinated Kaipaki or
uncoordinated Kaipaki, we aren’t gay Kaipaki or straight Kaipaki (actually
that’s not right, we are straight), we aren’t green Kaipaki or yellow Kaipaki,
we aren’t ginger haired Kaipaki or Brunette, blonde, black haired Kaipaki(
actually I’m wrong again, we don’t have any gingers do we?) but we are the
United Combination of Interesting People of Kaipaki.
If we solely look at the overall rivalry we are only scratching the surface
really…look at the little battles within it – Marcroft v Currie, Couch v
Donovan, Holt v Skleners, Graafhuis v Herlihy, dotcodotnz v dotcom and of course
the battle for Indian supremacy Krishnan v Kapadia.
Kent Currie
Kaipaki Cricket Club
There has been many great cricketing rivalries over the years. Harold Larwood v Don
Bradman is one of the earlier ones (John Parker remembers it well as he was in
the stands I think), there was Lillee v Miandad, John Parker v Michael Holding,
Martin Crowe v his reflection in the mirror, Shane Warne v hair loss, Jesse
Ryder v Jack Daniels, According to John Wrights original biography John Parker
& Richard Hadlee had battles with their dress sense. Whatever the battle
cricket has become a better game because of it as it has created great banter,
laughter and admiration from all who embrace this unusual
game.
However, the greatest of all rivalries is, no doubt, the one that is being reignited next
Saturday the 22nd of December. For years Kaipaki have listened to the
supposed bigger brother in the country family, Ngahinapouri, who would buoyantly
put down the little Kaipaki battlers on regular occasions. They have
claimed their land is better, this maybe true if you are a goat. They claimed
their primary school was the best in the land – they had better looking female
teaches, a native bush that you would never get caught, you no what, in. The
arrogance that the Ngahinapouri community had towards us was borderline weird to
be honest.
This is our time to show that we are battlers no more, but we are a nation and a big
proud nation of very interesting people. What would Obama say right now?...we
aren’t black Kaipaki or white Kaipaki, we aren’t coordinated Kaipaki or
uncoordinated Kaipaki, we aren’t gay Kaipaki or straight Kaipaki (actually
that’s not right, we are straight), we aren’t green Kaipaki or yellow Kaipaki,
we aren’t ginger haired Kaipaki or Brunette, blonde, black haired Kaipaki(
actually I’m wrong again, we don’t have any gingers do we?) but we are the
United Combination of Interesting People of Kaipaki.
If we solely look at the overall rivalry we are only scratching the surface
really…look at the little battles within it – Marcroft v Currie, Couch v
Donovan, Holt v Skleners, Graafhuis v Herlihy, dotcodotnz v dotcom and of course
the battle for Indian supremacy Krishnan v Kapadia.
Kent Currie
Kaipaki Cricket Club
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