Jacob Oram may miss the majority of the domestic cricket season after suffering a relapse with his broken foot during a fitness test during Central Districts' trial in Palmerston North this week

Rugby's bully boy approach to its right to stage Super 12 matches on multi-purpose use grounds at cricket's expense may have back-fired

Reaction to International Cricket Council match referee Mike Denness' actions in fining Indian players and applying suspensions and suspended sentences for various misdemeanours in South Africa has been way over the top

Paula Flannery has won the job of captaining the Canterbury women's team this season

Going to international cricket for New Zealand fans just got cheaper

One of last year's star performers for the State Wellington side, right-arm medium-fast bowler Iain O'Brien is not in the side to start the defence of the State Championship title against Canterbury at Rangiora on Monday

Auckland has not been shy in boosting its promising youth players straight into the hurly-burly of the State championship which starts next Monday

Promising Canterbury batsman Shanan Stewart has been named in Canterbury's squad of 13 for the State Championship which starts next Monday with the first game of the summer, against Wellington at Rangiora

Shayne O'Connor's tour of Australia is over

Otago's bold bid to defy the planning for the State Cricket Max in Auckland today came undone on the basis of one hard-hitting over from Richard Petrie in the semi-final against Wellington

Batsmen are supposed to win State Max matches but somebody forgot to tell the Wellington attack, especially left-arm fast-medium bowler James Franklin

Otago had reason to feel aggrieved over its treatment in last summer's Max semi-finals and they go into tomorrow morning's playoff State Max match with Wellington with more incentive to overcome the odds

Wellington were given a big fright in their eight-wicket loss to Auckland in the State Max tournament at Albany's North Harbour Stadium today

The launch of the new season of domestic cricket in New Zealand today heralded a new era in the game

Canterbury would have felt that victory over Central Districts in the opening game of the State Max tournament at the North Harbour Stadium in Albany today was too easy to compensate for last summer's loss of the national one-day title

Epsom Girls' Grammar School, Napier Girls' High School, New Plymouth Girls' High School and Burnside High School will contest the semi-finals of the annual Yoplait Cup tournament for secondary schoolgirls

Around a decade ago the North Shore of Auckland was looking to set itself up as the seventh first-class association in New Zealand's cricket structure

New Zealand Cricket Academy director Dayle Hadlee was happy with the programme his charges of 2001 endured at the end of their year at the High Performance Centre at Lincoln University

Does the unbridled arrogance of the New Zealand Rugby Football Union know no bounds

Only one more semi-finalist remains to be found for the Gillette Cup 2001 series to be played in Palmerston North on December 9-11