Lynn McConnell

Pakistan are likely to go into Wednesday's National Bank series decider with Shoaib Akhtar and Inzamam-ul-Haq

Akhtar and Inzamam doubtful starters for series decider on Wednesday

Cricket's a simple game when it is played properly and runs are achieved by the top order

New Zealand gets the formula right and takes emphatic win into series decider

New Zealanders will identify with Australia's sense of loss of cricketing legend Sir Donald Bradman, who died at his Adelaide home yesterday after a short bout of pneumonia

Bradman's influence spreads across the Tasman

Leadership is an exercise in constant learning, analysis and second-guessing the opposition and in tomorrow's fourth National Bank series match between New Zealand and Pakistan in Christchurch, home skipper Stephen Fleming faces a great test of how

Fleming's test to bring home two out of two

24-Feb-2001•Lynn McConnell

Oram back in, Adams retained, Martin excused

It's a game late but the New Zealand selectors have realised the potential value that Aucklander Andre Adams offers the side in its bid to win the next two matches in the National Bank One-Day International series with Pakistan

Humble pie is unlikely to be on the menu when the New Zealand selectors produce the results of their deliberations today over who will be in the side to try and win two in a row in the National Bank series with Pakistan

Humble pie unlikely to be on the selection menu

Two wins out of two has been beyond New Zealand at all but the Nairobi ICC KnockOut tournament this season but that is what it going to be required to beat Pakistan in the National Bank series in the remaining two games

Fleming likely to play out series as opener

Pakistan's fast man Shoaib Akhtar is likely to play in Sunday's fourth One-Day International against New Zealand in Christchurch

Akhtar should be ready to play in Christchurch

Another phase in New Zealand's bid to establish an all-round one-day cricket unit could be tried out tomorrow in Wellington's WestpacTrust Stadium in the third One-Day International in the National Bank series with Pakistan

Adams gets his chance to bowl at the death

21-Feb-2001•Lynn McConnell

Vincent thriving in his fields of dreams

Aucklander Lou Vincent hasn't blasted his way into the world of One-Day International cricket in a blaze of glory with a scintillating century or two to make the rest of the world sit up

21-Feb-2001•Lynn McConnell

Shoaib Akhtar not likely to be risked in Wellington

Pakistan seem likely to have to do without ace paceman Shoaib Akhtar for at least tomorrow's and possibly Sunday's National Bank series One-Day Internationals with New Zealand

21-Feb-2001•Lynn McConnell

New Zealand get it right and collect big result

New Zealand was at last entitled to feel some delight with a One-Day International performance after a comprehensive six-wicket win over Pakistan in the National Bank series at Napier tonight

20-Feb-2001•Lynn McConnell

Shoaib Akhtar pulls up lame in Pakistan loss

Fiery Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhter sent down only nine balls in tonight's six-wicket loss to New Zealand in the National Bank series game at McLean Park in Napier

20-Feb-2001•Lynn McConnell

Harris claims record and Adams gets call up

It wasn't quite how Sir Richard Hadlee wanted it scripted, but Chris Harris knocked the bowling maestro off the top of the table for most wickets taken by a New Zealand bowler in One-Day Internationals at Napier today

20-Feb-2001•Lynn McConnell

Shoaib Akhtar gets no-balled over Reid claims

Controversial Pakistani pace man Shoaib Akhtar needs to polish up his history when he claims that New Zealand match referee John Reid was behind his temporary banning from international cricket last summer

New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming would like to win a toss to at least have the chance to inflict his will on the opposition

Toss could again be vital in yet another one-dayer

It was all hands to the bowling machine for New Zealand's cricketers today as they prepare for tomorrow's second National Bank series One-Day International against Pakistan in Napier tomorrow

Kiwis intensify their exposure to speed balls

GR Marsh c Rutherford b Harris 46, Sydney 1990/91

Chris Harris seeks wins more than Hadlee's record

Shayne O'Connor's recovery from a patella tendon injury in his knee has been slower than expected and doubt now exists about his availability for consideration for the first Test against Pakistan

O'Connor's progress slower than expected