New Zealanders have just lived through a Golden Age of
Cricket.



That’s not a sentence many brought up with a love of
the great game in the 1990s thought they would read as the national side took the gains made in the 1980s –
mostly though the deeds of the great Sir
Richard Hadlee and the burgeoning talent of Martin Crowe – and flubbed them
away in a drunken fog of amateurism while the rest of the world took a more
rigidly professional approach.



The green shoots of a recovery started to emerge under
the young, urbane leadership of Stephen Fleming and, despite as many downs as
ups, took flight when Brendon McCullum and coach Mike Hesson created an
environment where failure was accepted as long as it came with grass stains,
skinned elbows and a fearlessness never seen before on our cricket fields. Four ICC
tournament finals later, including a heartbreaking tie in the 2019 ODI final
and a win in the inaugural World Test Championship, has cemented this era as
New Zealand’s greatest.



These are the modern legends of summer who paved the
way: Stephen Fleming, Nathan Astle, Daniel Vettori, Shane Bond, Brendon
McCullum, Ross Taylor, Tim Southee, Martin Guptill, BJ Watling, Kane
Williamson, Trent Boult, Neil Wagner.

ISBN: 9781776940196
Author: CLEAVER DYLAN
Available stock: 5
Price: $39.99
Title: Modern New Zealand Cricket Greats: From Stephen Fleming to Kane Williamson