Lynn McConnell

Horne to lead Auckland in State Max series

Matt Horne has been named captain of the State Auckland Aces team to play in the State Max tournament at North Harbour Stadium this weekend

14-Nov-2001•Lynn McConnell

Heat on the bowlers as second Test prospects evaluated

Interesting questions lie ahead for New Zealand's tour selectors in the lead up to the second Test starting in Hobart in nine days time

13-Nov-2001•Lynn McConnell

Aussies dominate rankings but Kiwis climbing

Just where do New Zealander's cricketers rate in the world

13-Nov-2001•Lynn McConnell

Positive vibes from captains win great support

The respective attitudes of competing skippers, Australia's Steve Waugh and New Zealand's Stephen Fleming were praised in newspapers on both sides of the Tasman as both teams made a silk purse out of a sow's ear of their rain affected first Test at

13-Nov-2001•Lynn McConnell

Pickard steps down from ND selection role

Northern Districts' convener of selectors Rick Pickard resigned his position today

12-Nov-2001•Lynn McConnell

Furlong to captain CD Max team

Campbell Furlong, now representing Taranaki, will captain the State Central Stags in the State Max tournament to be played at North Harbour Stadium at Albany starting on Friday

12-Nov-2001•Lynn McConnell

Not all doom and gloom in rain-frustrated first Test

Frustration with the rain, admiration for Chris Cairns' approach, a welcome return from Brett Lee and the slight possibility of some remarkable Australian cricket still producing a result were offered in newspaper assessment of the fourth day of the

12-Nov-2001•Lynn McConnell

Nash left the perfect parting present

Anyone who has been the slightest interested in Dion Nash's Test match cricket career should not have been surprised that he should play the last, vital, hand in New Zealand achieving the follow on target against Australia at the Gabba in Brisbane

12-Nov-2001•Lynn McConnell

Miserable luck continues for Nash

Dion Nash is out of the tour of Australia and will be replaced by Canterbury's Shane Bond

12-Nov-2001•Lynn McConnell

Gillespie fires out Kiwi top order in superb display

New Zealand's top order batting frailties were exposed again by Australian Jason Gillespie on another rain-affected at the Gabba in Brisbane today

11-Nov-2001•Lynn McConnell

Fleming responds to Gilchrist comments

On a day dominated by the rain, the newspapers of Australasia concentrated on Adam Gilchrist's fourth Test century, in the first Australia-New Zealand Test at the Gabba in Brisbane yesterday

11-Nov-2001•Lynn McConnell

New Zealand bowling failures dominate news opinion

New Zealand's failure to maintain the first day-last session strike power in the first Test at the Gabba was the feature of newspaper coverage of the rain-affected second day's play

10-Nov-2001•Lynn McConnell

Harper does himself no favours with mistake admission

Refreshing as Australian umpire Daryl Harper's admission was that he got it wrong when denying New Zealand's first over appeal against Australian opener Justin Langer on day one of the first Test, it does raise some interesting questions

10-Nov-2001•Lynn McConnell

Australia's bowlers now face two days of tough toil

Australia's vaunted bowling attack moves onto centre stage in the first Test with New Zealand at the Gabba over the next two days

10-Nov-2001•Lynn McConnell

Australian batting class revealed as Kiwis sink

Australia demonstrated what everyone knew when turning back New Zealand's first day-last session challenge in the first Test on a rain interrupted second day at the Gabba in Brisbane

09-Nov-2001•Lynn McConnell

New Zealand bowlers prove surprise package on first day

What was shaping as a nightmare day for New Zealand cricket in the first Test at the Gabba in Brisbane turned around on the control of Chris Cairns, and the belligerence of bullocky part-timer Craig McMillan

08-Nov-2001•Lynn McConnell

Auckland Aces name team for warm-up against Wellington

State Auckland Aces coach and convener of selectors, Tony Sail has today named a strong team to play current State Max and State Championship title holders, the State Wellington Firebirds in a three-day warm up game starting on Monday at the

08-Nov-2001•Lynn McConnell

NZ Academy wastes no time taking nine wicket win

New Zealand might have been struggling in Brisbane against Australia today, but the New Zealand Academy were untroubled in beating the Queensland Academy

08-Nov-2001•Lynn McConnell

Craig McMillan bounces his way into Test

Craig McMillan has been bouncing his way around New Zealand cricket grounds for the last few seasons, infuriating crowds with his short-pitched antics, but no-one will be complaining after his superb innings-breaking spell at the Gabba in the first

08-Nov-2001•Lynn McConnell

How the papers saw it:

The New Zealand Herald: "As well as they played (Matthew Hayden and Justin Langer), their deeds were significantly unravelled by some of the most brainless batting seen in these parts, as Australia's middle-order disintegrated against the part-time

08-Nov-2001•Lynn McConnell

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