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No easy return for Bell at his Basin patch

Matthew Bell returned to the Basin Reserve today looking for comfort in familiar surroundings but found in a welcome homecoming less succour and less refuge than he had hoped

10-Dec-2001•Steve McMorran

Wet weather a groundsman's worst nightmare

WestpacTrust Park groundsman Doug Strachan has a problem - he's got a Test match next week and he had rainfall in November that was 250% more than normal, and he got December's usual rainfall at the weekend

10-Dec-2001•Lynn McConnell

Schools numbers continue to soar

Growth in cricket in the primary/intermediate school area is reflected in participation numbers in the annual MILO Cup and Shield which reach their finals this week

10-Dec-2001•Lynn McConnell

No let up from Kiwi advance for Bangladeshis

New Zealand will not be tempted to do more development work by introducing new players when the Test side to play the first Test against Bangladesh is named on Thursday

10-Dec-2001•Lynn McConnell

Harris century leaves Canterbury in control

Chris Harris' second century of the season has put Canterbury in a commanding position at the end of the first day of their State Championship contest against Northern Districts in Gisborne

10-Dec-2001•Peter Hoare

Vandals destroy Basin Reserve's picket fence

Players arriving at the Basin Reserve today for the first day of the State Championship match between Wellington and Central Districts were surprised to find a number of large gaps, like conspicuous missing teeth, in the ground's usually pristine

10-Dec-2001•Steve McMorran

Sinclair looking for runs in CD match

CLEAR Black Caps Mathew Sinclair and Glen Sulzberger return to the Central Districts side for their State Championship match against Wellington at the Basin Reserve starting today

10-Dec-2001•Lynn McConnell

Vincent to bat at No 3 for Auckland

New Zealand Cricket's man of the moment Lou Vincent has been named to bat at No 3 for Auckland in their game against Bangladesh starting Wednesday on the Eden Park Outer Oval

09-Dec-2001•Lynn McConnell

Secondary schools' teams now playing for a final place

Rain has caused the cancellation of the first days of the Gillette and Yoplait Cup tournaments in Palmerston North, for the first time in their history

09-Dec-2001•Lynn McConnell

Test match preparations suffer further blow

Bangladesh's preparation for their first Test against New Zealand in Hamilton in nine days suffered a further damaging blow when the third and final day of their warm-up match against a New Zealand District Association XI at Victoria Park, Wanganui

09-Dec-2001•Steve McMorran

Wellington girls on four-match tour of Argentina

A combined team of girls from Wellington and Hutt Valley flew out from New Zealand yesterday to begin a four-match tour of the Argentine

08-Dec-2001•Lynn McConnell

Preparation for first Test hampered by Wanganui weather

Bangladesh's preparation for the first Test of their New Zealand tour, only 10 days away, suffered a severe setback when the second day of their three-day match against a New Zealand District Association XI was abandoned today after only four balls

08-Dec-2001•Steve McMorran

Schools' title up for grabs in Palmerston North at weekend

Secondary schoolboys' supremacy in cricket will be decided by Tuesday next week

07-Dec-2001•Lynn McConnell

Bangladesh get through the first day of a quick learning process

The first day of Bangladesh's New Zealand education, part of a longer learning process for the newcomers to the class of Test nations, was conducted at Victoria Park, Wanganui today in the fashion of show and tell

07-Dec-2001•Steve McMorran

Cricket, like all Kiwi sports, has plenty to thank Peter Blake for

The death of a yachting great, Sir Peter Blake, a man as tall in stature and deed as the highest mast on the greatest of yachts, is not the sort of thing that would normally grace the pages of a cricket web site

07-Dec-2001•Lynn McConnell

Kiwis to go full power against Bangladesh - Fleming

Stephen Fleming described his New Zealand cricket team as one of the few who have finished recent tours of Australia in a positive and confident frame of mind, and he will insist on a full-power effort against Bangladesh in their two Tests here later

07-Dec-2001•Don Cameron

Cairns, McMillan and Astle not playing in Gisborne

Despite an earlier announcement, CLEAR Black Caps Nathan Astle, Craig McMillan and Chris Cairns will be unavailable for Monday's round of the State Championship

07-Dec-2001•Lynn McConnell

Anderson to lead Canterbury A team

Carl Anderson will lead the Canterbury A team in this year's A team competition

06-Dec-2001

Strong Canterbury team for third round game

Canterbury will field the strongest team possible against Northern Districts in Gisborne for the next round of State Championship play

06-Dec-2001•Lynn McConnell

Tony Hill wins first Test umpiring duties

Umpire Tony Hill will stand in his first Test match when joining South African David Orchard in controlling the first Test against Bangladesh in Hamilton starting on December 18

06-Dec-2001•Lynn McConnell

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