Sponsorship

Isn’t corporate sponsorship wonderful?

There’s a company here that is the team sponsor of the Black Caps, as New Zealand’s cricket team are known (nearly all the sports teams are “the Black xxx” – notable exceptions are the All Whites and the Silver Ferns). And one of the things they do is hand out freebies to their staff. One such freebie is a voucher for 2 tickets to a test match, or a one-day international.

Today is the third day of the Second Test against Pakistan, being played at the Basin Reserve here in Wellington. And so it was that we found ourselves taking the final hour off work, and heading down to watch the final session after tea, and New Zealand taking 6 wickets to get Pakistan out for 376 (having themselves posted a total of 356). New Zealand then batted 5 overs for 9 runs and no loss.

Unfortunately, the weather forecast isn’t favourable – it looks like rain tomorrow, and showers the day after, so it will probably end in a draw. But weather forecasters have been wrong before, so we’ll keep an eye out, and fingers crossed.