New Zealand Cricket's High Performance Centre turf manager Karl Johnson is to spend a week in India looking to assist with pitch development at a cricket academy in Pune

Utilising the generally drier conditions of New Zealand's east coasts, and especially the better quality pitches at the High Performance Centre at Lincoln University for early-season State Championship matches was worthy of debate

Reaching the Super Six stage of the World Cup at the expense of nations ranked ahead of it has done little to improve New Zealand's ranking on the ICC One-Day International Championship table

Eden Park's Outer Oval is going to be the latest ground in New Zealand to implement portable pitch technology for its cricket

Things are looking up for Otago cricket after the senior men's side claimed a clear third place in the State Championship, the best finish for several years

New Zealand cricket fans could struggle for live television coverage of the TelstraClear Black Caps' forthcoming tour to Sri Lanka

New Zealand Cricket is experimenting with couch-grass as a prospective grass for its pitches

Bert Sutcliffe Oval has been dug up and re-sown in a bid to help the ground withstand the heavy use it is subjected to during summer months

As World Cups go, the South African version of 2003 fell short of expectations because of the failure of favoured teams to make the Super Six section of the tournament

News of nearly $NZ5 million from the World Cup being withheld from New Zealand Cricket (NZC) as a result of its failure to play a match in Kenya will have been an unwelcome arrival on the budgetary doorstep

Fine weather and better pitch conditions in the latter part of New Zealand's summer this year are likely to result in some serious thought being given to centralising the first rounds of the State Championship in order to take part of good pitch

Shane Bond is looking to his time in English county cricket with Warwickshire this year as a chance to learn more about handling himself in order to give longevity to his career

Selection chairman Sir Richard Hadlee threw a positive spin on New Zealand's early exit from the World Cup today

Scott Styris v Sri Lanka (141 off 125 balls), Stephen Fleming v South Africa (134* off 132 balls), Nathan Astle v Zimbabwe (102* off 122 balls), Andre Adams v West Indies (35 off 24

Former international batsman and coach Glenn Turner will be coach of the Otago team for the next season

Some interesting calculations await the members of the New Zealand cricket team as next season's contracts are discussed by the national selectors

Stephen Fleming and Shane Bond: New Zealand's two success stories of the tournament A World Cup record low score against Australia did nothing to harden New Zealand's batting resolve in their last-chance Super Six match with India

Daryl Tuffey hasn't played since the first match of New Zealand's World Cup campaign against Sri Lanka but has been recalled for today's winner-take-all Super Six match against India at Centurion

India had batsmen in Mohammad Kaif and Rahul Dravid who produced the goods when they mattered, something New Zealand couldn't generate in their own innings, and they inflicted a seven-wicket loss that should spell the end of New Zealand's World Cup

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