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India may have been beaten badly on their tour to New Zealand last season, but John Wright sounded a stern warning to Stephen Fleming and his team ahead of the two-Test series in India in October 2003

New Zealand Cricket (NZC) have accepted the Pakistan board's proposal to play five one-day internationals in Pakistan in November, during the holy month of Ramadan

Michael Vaughan has relinquished his title as the top-ranked batsman in Test cricket, following his failure during England's innings victory over Zimbabwe at Lord's

Happy captain: Stephen Fleming poses with the Bank Alfalah Cup © AFP New Zealand's long summer came to an end with a comfortable four-wicket victory against Pakistan in the final of the Bank Alfalah Cup - their first major limited-overs win

Stephen Fleming, after a triangular series dominated by low-scoring and closely fought matches, believes that the final of the Bank Alfalah Cup between New Zealand and Pakistan will be won by the team that is best able to cope with the extra pressure

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Sri Lanka's awesome one-day record at home over the last five years has taken a beating

The International Cricket Council has announced a relaunch of its Test Championship in the light of South Africa's elevation to top spot last year at a time Australia were universally regarded as the best side in the world

New Zealand won the toss and, in keeping with the tournament trend, elected to bowl first in the final group-stage match of the low-scoring Bank Alfalah Cup

Powered by a rapid 74 from Shoaib Malik - the highest score of the tournament - and some incisive pace bowling from Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Sami, Pakistan clinched a 22-run victory over New Zealand in the last group match of the Bank Alfalah Cup,

New Zealand clinched a nailbiting nine-run win against Sri Lanka in another low-scoring thriller, thanks to a career-best bowling performance from Daniel Vettori, to cement their place in the final of this Bank Alfalah Cup

All may not be lost for New Zealand fast bowler Shane Bond who returned home to Christchurch from Sri Lanka today

Several New Zealand first-class cricketers are plying their wares in various leagues in England and the Netherlands but are still to make a significant impact

Fast bowler Shane Bond is to return to New Zealand from Sri Lanka for an assessment and possible treatment of his back injury

When the teams arrived in the morning, with the ground cloaked in drizzle and the pitch wrapped in tarpaulins, Sri Lanka feared the worst

New Zealand fast bowler Shane Bond could be facing a long lay-off as a result of a back injury he picked up during Sunday's ODI against Pakistan

New Zealand's lack of consistency in recent years in its one-day cricket has been behind its mid-table placing on the world rankings, but increasingly there are signs of a change for the better

Sanath Jayasuriya will play in Sri Lanka's crucial match against New Zealand on Tuesday but team officials are concerned over his health after his fourth bout of tonsillitis in three months

New Zealand upset the formbook at the Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium, snapping Pakistan's six-match post-World Cup winning streak with an emphatic seven-wicket victory - with 22.4 overs to spare - in the second low-scoring match of the

Mark Richardson is 148 runs and two innings away from becoming the fastest New Zealand Test batsman to reach 2000 runs