The joy of test cricket is that over the days it takes to play out a match anything can happen.
For every drawn-out draw and outright pasting that the Black Caps receive at the hands of their international opponents, there is the occasional brilliant win.
We celebrate these wins all the
more because they are hard to come by. And when it is a win against Australia, we tend to go nuts because, well, because the Aussies are tough buggers to beat. Most particularly when they are at home.
So what would have been the odds of New Zealand, battered by their old foe in the first test, getting up to beat Australia by a nail-biting seven runs at Bellerive, Hobart? Frankly, not great.
All the more sensational, then, when a bowler with real ticker, Napier's Doug Bracewell, wrote his place in cricketing history by skittling six Aussie batsmen for 40 runs.
