Cricket News

Sachin Tendulkar goes through his paces in the Bangalore nets © AFP Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag have been passed fit to play in the Test series against New Zealand which starts next month

New Zealand Cricket posted a surplus, before grants to associations, of $20.9 million in the 2002-03 financial year, NZC announced in its annual report which was released today

Michael Mason, the New Zealand fast bowler, has a head start on his team-mates

Northern Districts will base more of their matches at Hamilton's Westpac Park in future

One of the best-known cricket administrators from Northern Districts, Basil McBurney died on Monday

Pakistan's tour of New Zealand will open on December 8 with a three-day match against Canterbury at Hagley Oval while Auckland will play the tourists in the second of their pre-Test warm-up matches

A substantial new initiative which will result in a regular A team programme for New Zealand's second-tier cricketers, could be the forerunner to a regular schedule for A sides from all the Test-playing nations

Players, coaches and administrators querying umpiring decisions will be slapped with a code of conduct charge under changes made to local rulings in the code by New Zealand Cricket for the season of 2003-04

Brooke Walker was retained as captain of the State Auckland Aces today as seventeen players were named in the first training squad to prepare for the 2003/04 season

A change in emphasis in the staging of the State League has forced a change in the coach of the Central Districts side

New Zealand's White Ferns will play six one-day matches in the Rosebowl Series against Australia in February next year

Yuvraj Singh had a shabby county season, but he got some valuable advice from a player whom he is very likely to come up against in the near future - Stephen Fleming, the captain of New Zealand

National Bank, New Zealand Cricket's (NZC) main sponsorship partner, will now also sponsor the New Zealand cricket team

One of the longest serving selectors in New Zealand's domestic cricket, Basil Netten has ended his selection role with the Central Districts (CD) side

Cricket is a hard sell and takes time and effort to assimilate

Perhaps it's something to do with Mars' alignment with the stars, well that will do as an excuse, but there seems to have been a fair bit of scuttlebutt about lately on the prospect of Craig Spearman once more gracing international cricket

New Zealand, under interim coach Ashley Ross, are going to great lengths to replicate the conditions that they are likely to face on their tour of India next month, and their final training camp - at Christchurch next week - will feature noisy

For the first time in nine years, New Zealand have a batsman among the top eight in the world rankings

New Zealanders are entitled to feel a little uneasy whenever teams are due to tour to the sub-continent, and this week's bomb blasts in Mumbai have resulted in a sense of déjà vu

News of bomb blasts in Mumbai will have caused some nervousness among New Zealand's world champion women's cricket team