Recalled New Zealand leg-spinner Brooke Walker was put through the grinder at Sharjah last year and will be heading back into the cauldron after his selection in teams for Sharjah and both one-dayers and Tests in Pakistan today

New Zealand's one-day team to tour Sharjah and Pakistan is to be named tomorrow on what should be the next phase of the side's World Cup '03 development

New Zealand's wet summer looks set to have the final say and squeeze any hope of the home team sharing the National Bank Test Series with England in the third Test at Eden Park in Auckland

New Zealand's hopes of forcing a result in their favour in the third National Bank Series Test with England at Eden Park will depend on how many more first innings runs they can score

Going into the third and final National Bank Series Test, England fast-medium bowler Andy Caddick could hardly have dreamt that his four wickets to reach 200 Test wickets would come so quickly

The non-return of captain Nasser Hussain from Ben Hollioake's funeral in Perth, due to delays in his flights, and the influenza suffered by Mark Butcher were the only minor concerns in the England camp before tomorrow's third National Bank Test in

Chris Harris has made no secret of the desire that he wants to play more Test cricket but even he could not have imagined that when he regained the opportunity it would be to play for New Zealand as a No 4 batsman

New Zealand know they have to make all the running if they are to square the National Bank Series with England when the third Test starts tomorrow in Auckland

New Zealand medium-fast bowler Daryl Tuffey can say he has been there and done that when talking about tying up a Test series but it is a different story for prospective debut Test player Andre Adams as they prepare for the final National Bank Series

Chris Cairns hasn't been frustrated out of cricket yet by his run of injuries and said his over-riding emotion after his latest knee problems was to give it 'one more shot'

Auckland proved deserving winners of the first State Championship and were clearly the most consistent side of the summer

So the end has come

Australia has withdrawn from its scheduled tour of Zimbabwe.

New Zealand has gone into must-win mode for the third National Bank Test against England at Eden Park, and appears to have put longer term aspirations on hold

England's team management will not stop members of the side who want to go to former team-mate Ben Hollioake's funeral in Perth on Wednesday

New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming is lamenting the absence of his first-choice bowling attack of Shane Bond, Chris Cairns, Dion Nash and Shayne O'Connor but backing their replacements with a longer term view in mind

New Zealand waved goodbye to the prospect of a third placing in the ICC Test Championship when failing to win the second National Bank Series Test at the Basin Reserve against England but a win in Auckland could still see them claim fourth ahead of

If England fast-medium bowler Andy Caddick had come into the National Bank Series with as many wickets as he thought he had he would already be a member of the 200 Club

Having been played right out of the second National Bank Test by England with both ball and bat, New Zealand face a big task to save the match at the Basin Reserve tomorrow

England international cricketer Ben Hollioake has been killed in a car accident in Perth overnight