Cricket News

The New Zealand Cricket Players' Association (NZCPA) has provided a reasoned response to the settlement offer proposed by the New Zealand Cricket Bargaining Team last week while at the same time calling for mediation

New Zealand Cricket is making a whole-hearted effort to embrace the principles espoused in the Spirit of Cricket preamble to the laws of the game

Long-time advocate of greater use of technology in umpiring decisions, New Zealand Cricket's umpiring manager Brian Aldridge was delighted with the success of experimentation at the ICC Champions Trophy tournament

As a result of input from players, fast short-pitched balls over head height can now be called a wide and not a no-ball

Former Otago batsman Mark Parker has been named as New Zealand's first confirmed victim of the Bali bombing atrocity, that killed nearly 200 people over the weekend

The 55th New Zealand Cricket Almanack (2002 edition) by Francis Payne and Ian Smith

Pre-season warm-ups for the six first-class associations and the end-of-year match programme for the New Zealand Academy which were due to start next week have been cancelled

The spectre of industrial action loomed over the New Zealand sporting scene today when the country's first-class cricketers, including internationals, told their national body they were not free to take part in an intensive programme of warm-up

Research into youth health will benefit from an Otago Cricket fund-raising initiative to be launched next week

Resolving sponsorship issues and players' concerns are a priority for International Cricket Council administrators

Any player representative recognition by the International Cricket Council (ICC) has to be when all Test players are represented by that body

Smarting from their failure to get past pool play in defending their ICC Champions Trophy prize in Sri Lanka, New Zealand's leading players have been told the next two months could be the most important two months in their careers

New Zealand's international players share the concerns expressed by their parent players' body, the Federation of International Cricketers' Associations (FICA), in relation to the International Cricket Council's (ICC) demands over sponsorship rights

Canterbury Cricket is still on the lookout for the most suitable venue for its secondary venue for first-class matches

Cricket Wellington is attempt to rebuild its women's cricket to the levels reached during the late-1980s and early-1990s when it regularly vied with Canterbury for top honours in New Zealand

Walter Hadlee is upset, and with good cause

A quirk in New Zealand's international programme has resulted in a rare fact - international players will be available to play for their clubs through the early part of club cricket competitions this year

Canterbury joined Northern Districts as the only New Zealand cricket associations unable to record a surplus over the last year

When the International Cricket Council set up their international knockout tournament as a means of raising funds for cricket development, it seemed like a very good idea

It was by far the most inconsequential match of the tournament