When umpires agree with more than two or three lbw appeals per innings there may be dark mutterings about what might be the partiality, pin-pricking or faulty eyesight of the adjudicators

Malcolm Gray, president of the International Cricket Council, issued a world-wide warning to world cricket today - the match-fixing scandals and problems must be buried by the time of the 2003 World Cup in South Africa

New Zealand gained one of the plums of world cricket, the staging of the 16-team ICC Under-19 World Cup event, more or less by popular acclaim

Martin Snedden, New Zealand Cricket's chief executive, took his crystal ball to a media briefing at Eden Park today, and rather suggested that he was wise to divert from the law to cricket administration rather than take up employment as a TAB

Claims that the New Zealand Cricket board's decision to play the Tests against England next summer at Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland were based on

Eden Park will have a new cricket scoreboard for the England tour matches next summer -- and North Harbour may also have a second-hand bargain

Cricket administrators may be worried that the major rugby season in New Zealand is now stretching from late February to early November -- perhaps squeezing cricket out of its traditional share of grounds that cater for the two sports

Part of New Zealand cricket's tradition has slipped away with the news that Shell will no longer sponsor our domestic competitions

Tony Sail, the Auckland cricket coach, has got the message that the 2001/02 season must produce better results than last summer - and Sail will be passing a similar warning to his representative squad

WestpacTrust Park in Hamilton will become an even brighter jewel in the New Zealand cricket crown next summer, thanks to the needs of the Waikato rugby team

The laying of a first-class pitch block at the North Harbour stadium represents another step in Auckland's search for top-quality domestic and international pitches

Should John Bracewell, the craggy former New Zealand all-rounder, consider applying for the vacant New Zealand cricket coaching position he should buy the latest copy of the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack and borrow some comments from the famous and

A $600,000 miracle took place at Eden Park this morning

Auckland may not have won the Shell Trophy but there were many times as they defeated Canterbury by 112 runs today when they looked certain to take a gold medal if there was ever a contest for appealing

Kyle Mills was his usual 6ft 3in tall when he got up this morning

It says much for the universal respect for the late Sir Donald Bradman that only 15 minutes after the Auckland and Canterbury players heard of the great batsman's death yesterday they arranged their own tribute before starting the last day of their

After yet another puzzling display of their Jekyll and Hyde character, the Auckland cricket team face the giddy prospect of a big win over their old enemy Canterbury when their Shell Trophy match ends at the Eden Park Outer Oval tomorrow

To his team-mates and casual acquaintances Tim McIntosh sometimes appears a "cool dude," relaxed about his batsmanship, one of the Mark Waugh half-down school of reflex slip fieldsmen

Tim McIntosh, the 21-year-old Auckland left-hand opening batsman, performed one of the great rags-to-riches performances when he scored 167 in the Auckland first innings score of 361 for four wickets against Canterbury in the Shell Trophy match at

Inspired by the fiery bowling of the experienced Andrew Penn and the 24-year newcomer Iain O'Brien - backed by the clever hands of Chris Nevin the wicket-keeper - Wellington gave Auckland an embarrassing thumping in their Shell Trophy match at