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New Zealand gain significant advantage on slow first day

It wasn't quite possible to hear the squeaking of under-prepared muscles and joints in the New Zealand team but they showed the depth of their competitive resolve by getting on top of India from the second over of the first Test in the National Bank

12-Dec-2002•Lynn McConnell

Entertainment guaranteed in NZ-India Test - Fleming

Entertainment won't be lacking at the Basin Reserve in Wellington over the next five days - that's the view of New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming as he takes on India in the first of two National Bank Series Tests

11-Dec-2002•Lynn McConnell

Plans are okay but players need to execute them first

Expect some more evidence of applied technology analysis of India's batsmen and bowlers when New Zealand step out onto the Basin Reserve for the first National Bank Test starting tomorrow

11-Dec-2002•Lynn McConnell

Series win more important to Ganguly than captaincy record

Indian captain Sourav Ganguly isn't being negative about the prospectively green seamer that will greet his side and New Zealand when play starts in the first National Bank Series Test in Wellington tomorrow

11-Dec-2002•Lynn McConnell

Basin Reserve to host New Zealand's 300th Test

New Zealand's most successful Test venue, Wellington's Basin Reserve, is to be ground where its 300th Test match is to be played, starting tomorrow in the first Test of the National Bank Series against India

11-Dec-2002•Lynn McConnell

New Zealand have most to play for, India holding the better hand

It's not something you can often say about New Zealand pitches, but the potential is there in the first National Bank Series match between the home team and India at the Basin Reserve for someone to make a lot of runs

11-Dec-2002•Lynn McConnell

Central families receive special Black Caps

Central Districts completed their presentation of New Zealand Cricket's specially numbered Black Caps during last week's international match against India

11-Dec-2002

Rahul Dravid says Indian team's batting strength is the key

Rahul Dravid may have mined something of a personal vein of run-scoring gold on his last tour to New Zealand in 1998/99, but he believes he is but one cog in the Indian scoring machine that will be vital to subduing the home team in the first

10-Dec-2002•Lynn McConnell

Robbie Hart looking forward to long-awaited first home Test

New Zealand wicket-keeper Robbie Hart admitted to a pang of regret when breaking a sequence of 85 unbroken matches for his Northern Districts side today, but it was only a momentary pang

10-Dec-2002•Lynn McConnell

Epsom Girls' successfully defend national title

Epsom Girls' Grammar School successfully defended their National Secondary Schools' tournament title in Palmerston North, but not before suffering a humbling defeat at the hands of Burnside High School

10-Dec-2002•Lynn McConnell

Something for everyone in Test pitch in Wellington

Basin Reserve groundsman Trevor Jackson believes both teams will find something to enjoy on the pitch to be used in the National Bank Series match between New Zealand and India starting on Thursday

10-Dec-2002•Lynn McConnell

Ian Billcliff - cricketing nomad finds a home in Canada

Ian Billcliff has been something of a cricketing nomad in the last decade, but the last place he thought his journeys would take him was the World Cup in South Africa

10-Dec-2002•Jamie Troughton

Wilson and O'Connor return to bolster Otago

Otago will find themselves in the rare position, in modern times at least, of being the focal point when the third round of games in the State Championship get underway tomorrow

09-Dec-2002•Lynn McConnell

Hamilton BHS take out national schoolboys' title

Hamilton Boys' High School are the Gillette Cup champions for 2002

09-Dec-2002•Lynn McConnell

New Plymouth and Epsom Girls' off to winning start

The National Secondary Schoolgirls' Competition started yesterday in Palmerston North as well, with their games being transferred to artificial pitches on Ongley Park as well

09-Dec-2002•Lynn McConnell

Weather hits latest round of Hawke Cup matches

Hawke's Bay and Wanganui have moved to the top of the Zone 2 Hawke Cup elimination series after this weekend's round of matches

09-Dec-2002

Changes forced on Canterbury for Wellington match

Canterbury's team for their next State Championship match, against Wellington, starting at Rangiora's Dudley Park on Tuesday was named today

08-Dec-2002•Lynn McConnell

Wright happy enough with first effort in New Zealand

Indian coach John Wright is not too concerned with the poor first innings batting, and the inability to finish off the Central Districts tail, in the drawn National Bank tour match in Napier which ended early today after a thunderstorm

08-Dec-2002•David Ogilvie

Average performance a wake-up for India before Test

The Indians came to Napier with huge reputations to play Central Districts, and they will leave without those enhanced

08-Dec-2002•David Ogilvie

Oram and Mason win New Zealand Test call-up

Central Districts' match against India has proven invaluable for Test newcomer Michael Mason when he was named in the New Zealand team for the first Test of the National Bank series against India today

08-Dec-2002•Lynn McConnell

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