Chris Cairns looks back on the ICC Champions Trophy final of 2000

Walking to our net practice yesterday afternoon from the Bert Sutcliffe Oval at Lincoln to the nets on Lincoln Green with Stephen Fleming, we got to talking about how much we are looking forward to getting back into the longer form of the game

When you win there can often be different kinds of emotion

I suppose the marketing department at New Zealand Cricket will be happy with the final match in this series being the decider down here in Dunedin

The first game in Christchurch did not begin well for us when we assembled as we learnt that our pace ace Shane Bond had suffered what looked like a stress fracture of the foot

The Aussie leg of the summer is officially over and we have come away with no spoils which, after how hard we tried over there, is disappointing

I saw Jonty Rhodes at the practice session the day before the first VB Series final and both of us thanked one another for helping each other get to the final

History beckons for the CLEAR Black Caps in the finals of the VB Series against South Africa and we are looking forward to the challenge ahead of us

After the week that has just been I am not sure where to begin

Friday night's victory against the world champion Aussies was quite remarkable considering the position we found ourselves in at the beginning of both our batting and our bowling

Two comprehensive victories over the last week have seen the CLEAR Black Caps move up the ICC Test Championship ladder

It's great to see the Bangladesh side here in New Zealand

Having been home for a couple of days from the tour of Aussie has given me time to reflect on that great last Test and the tour as a whole

We have informally dubbed ourselves the Rain Kings so far on this tour of Australia

To have gone so close against Australia and not snatched victory was pretty gut wrenching to say the least at Brisbane on Monday evening

Seven and a half months hard work to get back to full fitness sees me only a week out from my first Test in over a year

The CLEAR Black Caps' efforts in Sri Lanka, before last night's reduced overs match, could have netted them four wins out of four but for two tight finishes against the Sri Lankans where the home side came out on top

Denis Aberhart has again followed David Trist to what will this time be his greatest challenge

While there is a copious amount of cricket being played around the world, being a New Zealander, one can never look beyond an All Black Test

The scenes I witnessed the during the England-Pakistan One-Day International at Headingley were disgraceful