{"id":140598,"date":"2025-11-18T04:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T04:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/140598\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T04:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T04:21:07","slug":"fingers-crossed-for-mclean-park-odi-i-think-well-get-a-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/140598\/","title":{"rendered":"Fingers crossed for McLean Park ODI: \u2018I think we\u2019ll get a game\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four months later, the All Blacks and Samoa played the first rugby test under floodlights in New Zealand.<\/p>\n

Both matches packed the park, with crowds of about 20,000.<\/p>\n

Murphy concedes \u201cthose days are gone\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf we get anything near 4000 people it will be seen as a good crowd,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Optimistically, he was hoping for the clouds clustering in the hills to \u201croll away\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019ll get a game of cricket in,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow\u2019s game is the third of a three-match series, which opened with the Black Caps winning by seven runs in Christchurch on Sunday<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The third match is in Hamilton on Saturday.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the first big event at McLean Park this summer, to be followed by two transtasman winter-sports clashes.<\/p>\n

On February 28 the New Zealand Warriors and Sydney side Manly Sea Eagles play a late-afternoon NRL pre-season rugby league match, and on March 13 the Hurricanes play a Super Rugby competition match at night against Australian side Western Force.<\/p>\n

Several other domestic competition cricket matches are also scheduled.<\/p>\n

\"ActionAction when the West Indies last played a 50 overs-a-side match in Napier, a World Cup match against United Arab Emirates in 2015.The last Black Caps day-nighter at the park was in 2019, when NZ beat Bangladesh by seven wickets.Since then, daytime one-dayers have been a nine wicket loss to Bangladesh in 2023 and a 73 run win over Pakistan on March 29 this year<\/a>.The last time the West Indies played in Napier was a 2015 World Cup match against United Arab Emirates<\/a>.The last time they played the Black Caps on the ground was a rain-affected match in 2009, when New Zealand won by nine runs under the game\u2019s Duckworth Lewis adjusted run-rates system.<\/p>\n

Doug Laing has been a newspaper reporter for more than 50 years, including in Napier when Napier had its first test cricket match in 1979.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four months later, the All Blacks and Samoa played the first rugby test under floodlights in New Zealand.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7793,16558,95457,95459,127,83481,1888,2082,5616,5269,1333,1976,95458,1019,9611,111,139,69,16552,95460,8143,6560,213,5662,6436,1530],"class_list":["post-140598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-bays","tag-cricket","tag-crossed","tag-daynight","tag-despite","tag-fingers","tag-first","tag-for","tag-forecast","tag-game","tag-get","tag-hawkes","tag-i","tag-international","tag-mclean","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-odi","tag-overs","tag-park","tag-rain","tag-sports","tag-think","tag-well","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}