The real reason New Zealand isn't popular?

Seeing Cricinfo had posted an analysis of the fastest and slowest batting in an innings I rushed to see if some of New Zealand's assault and battery efforts had made the list. But there was no Ian Smith-led assault against India. No Craig McMillan-led battery of Pakistan. No Chris Cairns-led massacre against, well, everyone really. In fact no New Zealand effort made the top fifteen.

A look at the world's slowest innings gave me another shock. According to Cricinfo's ever reliable statisticians you can thank New Zealand for nine of the fifteen most painfully slow efforts in test history.

Perhaps it should be pointed out to those arranging the future tours programme that eight of these efforts came before 1966 (and seven before 1957), and that the other one was an innings which ended with the score on a grand total of 16/1 (and that was way back in 1985/6).