I love to play sport. I love to watch sport. I love to talk about sport. I think this stems from my competitive nature and the unpredictability and excitement live sport brings to the table. For instance, you can watch a movie and often know exactly how it's going to end. With sport, the unpredictable and unthinkable can (and do) regularly happen, and you can always see the best players surpassing records and achieving feats that have never been done before.
My favourite sport to play is hockey. For the last three years I've played for the mighty High School Old Boys Burnside (HSOB) club in Christchurch. It is a great club to play for. We have a great social vibe, with a clubrooms we regularly attend, and also play some decent hockey from time to time. Hopefully we can play good hockey more consistently and make an attempt at winning the Canterbury Premier League this year.
I've also played basketball, cricket, dodgeball, touch and volleyball over the years. While I'm in Baton Rogue I won't be able to play hockey as it's not very popular in the United States, especially in the southern states. I'm a bit gutted about that, as I'm enjoying it more than ever before and also playing to quite a high level (I represented Canterbury last year in the National Hockey League). I will most likely take up basketball again instead, although I will probably get totally dominated over there.
My favourite sport to watch is cricket. A lot of people (particularly girls, for some reason) think that cricket is the most boring sport in the world. This may be because you can play a test match for five entire days and still have a draw at the end of it. In reality, cricket is one of the most exciting sports. Once the rules and nuances of the game have been learned it is easy to appreciate how a match can have so many twists, turns, plots and subplots. My favourite form of cricket is the test match game. I do also enjoy ODIs and T20s, but the epic ebb and flow of a test match makes it just that much better.
Teams I support:
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Me (with the ball) playing hockey for the Lincoln University Lions against Canterbury University in the Christchurch Earthquake charity game. |
My favourite sport to watch is cricket. A lot of people (particularly girls, for some reason) think that cricket is the most boring sport in the world. This may be because you can play a test match for five entire days and still have a draw at the end of it. In reality, cricket is one of the most exciting sports. Once the rules and nuances of the game have been learned it is easy to appreciate how a match can have so many twists, turns, plots and subplots. My favourite form of cricket is the test match game. I do also enjoy ODIs and T20s, but the epic ebb and flow of a test match makes it just that much better.
Teams I support:
The Black Caps
The All Blacks
The Crusaders
The Black Sticks
The Kiwis
The Kiwis
The Tall Blacks
The Warriors
The Warriors
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