Four Black Caps took the chance to hone their Twenty20 skills in cricket's latest craze in England on Tuesday

Is it time for a three-man selection panel for New Zealand?

In what has been a season-long tunnel from hell, New Zealand eventually discovered light in the form of a series-clinching Test victory over Sri Lanka

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When Lou Vincent debuted with a brilliant century at Perth in November 2001 he had the cricketing world at his feet

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Auckland won the State Championship 2004-05 with a seven-wicket triumph over Wellington in the final at Auckland's Eden Park Oval

Even accounting for the worst form of pessimism, Hamish Marshall would havehardly bargained for a four-year break after making an unbeaten 40 on debutat the Wanderers in 2000

In society strangulation is a crime but, as Stephen Fleming showed today, in cricket it can be an artform

New Zealand's hopes of tying the Test series rested on a counter attack from the lower-order batsmen on the second morning

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Daryl Tuffey was fined $1000 (US$740) this week for acting against the interests of New Zealand Cricket after he failed to destroy promptly a digital film

Jason Gillespie was supposedly out-of-form and leaving Brett Lee out looked to be a mistake

Had he been a cricket writer, Oscar Wilde's novel The Importance of Being Earnest might have been renamed The Importance of Being Gilchrist

In the few times New Zealand have challenged Australia this season, Hamish Marshall has been a mighty contributor

Australia should be removed from all official championships and only allowed to defend their World Cup title

Whether John Bracewell is willing to admit it or not, today's selection of the New Zealand team for the first Test against Australia is a direct reflection of the insurmountable mental edge that Ricky Ponting's men have over their counterparts

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