Saturday Morning With Jack Tame

I got up at 5am. It seemed a good compromise. I missed the first innings but I was well set up for the business end of the World Cup semi-final as the Black Caps clawed their way on an awkward wicket towards England’s total.You know what happened next. The game waxed and waned. But in the end, the Black Caps were triumphant. They confirmed their spot in the T-20 World Cup final: Three formats. Three finals. Three good reasons the Black Caps can call themselves the best all-round men’s cricket team in the World.Just a few years ago, this would have been unthinkable.I’m too young to remember the 80's and the other golden patch in Black Caps history. I grew up and grew to love the game in the nineties and aughts when supporting the Caps was a bit more... testing.Our’s was a team of scrappers. Every now and then they’d pull a surprise performance out of the bag. But the joy of those wins was pretty regularly offset by the pain of underwhelming performances and choking on the big stage.I distinctly remember attend