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Removed the short paragraph in the history section as they were a bizarre collection of unrelated 'facts'. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.216.25.110 (talk) 23:24, 4 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Arthur Ollivier

I've written an article about Arthur Ollivier and it appears he was quite an important person for New Zealand cricket. It would probably fair to say that I don't understand cricket at all, so maybe editors interested in cricket history might want to have a look and see whether there's anything of note to add there, or anywhere else for that matter (he was a national selector and instrumental in the purchase of Lancaster Park). Schwede 66 20:32, 18 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Are the authors SURE that cricket is the second most popular sport in NZ (after Rugby)?

I’m a New Zealander and I’m a bit perplexed about the opening claim on this article that cricket is the second biggest sport in NZ.

I’ve never had much time for cricket. Granted: That’s just me I’m speaking for, but I’ve never known that many people among social associates & colleagues who were big on cricket. Certainly nothing remotely like the big mainstream fanbase that Rugby enjoys. I never played it outside of PE class at school, but almost all the boys had played rugby at some stage. And I’ve never heard of dozens of young men out there playing cricket like I have for yo7 f men playing club rugby, hockey or soccer. There’s only 6 teams in the 1st class cricket competition in New Zealand! I never really encountered anyone who followed cricket much until I left home and went to ‘varsity and encountered lots of middle class former boys high students. When was the last time cricket games pulled big crowds in NZ? Didn’t they have to shorten test series in NZ to only 2 games because they kept losing money trying to host a proper 3 game series because not that many Kiwis were interested in going along? And one of the few things I know about cricket is that the NZ team is usually pretty useless and never wins anything. I know the NZ sports media bombards us with boring cricket stories every summer but I thought that that was just them being mostly former boys high bores and not having much else to work a story with, it doesn’t mean that everyone is paying attention.

I would assume that something like Netball would be the second most popular sport in NZ, not cricket. Funny how the reference to this claim opens some completely irrelevant tourism page. Maybe it’s “the second biggest sport” in Christchurch or among men who went to all-boys schools, but I really can’t see how it is for most of the country. 123.243.0.176 (talk) 09:57, 18 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]