Cricket News

Matt Horne has been named captain of the State Auckland Aces team to play in the State Max tournament at North Harbour Stadium this weekend

Sri Lanka commence their three-Test series against West Indies on Tuesday knowing that a series win will guarantee will see them climb up the ICC Test Championship table

Pace spearhead Glenn McGrath has welcomed the return of the

Interesting questions lie ahead for New Zealand's tour selectors in the lead up to the second Test starting in Hobart in nine days time

Just where do New Zealander's cricketers rate in the world

The respective attitudes of competing skippers, Australia's Steve Waugh and New Zealand's Stephen Fleming were praised in newspapers on both sides of the Tasman as both teams made a silk purse out of a sow's ear of their rain affected first Test at

Australian captain Steve Waugh admitted one blow from New Zealand's Chris Cairns was the difference between a loss and a draw for his team during a dramatic day of high stakes in the first Test at the Gabba today.

Northern Districts' convener of selectors Rick Pickard resigned his position today

Malcolm Gray, president of the International Cricket Council, issued a world-wide warning to world cricket today - the match-fixing scandals and problems must be buried by the time of the 2003 World Cup in South Africa

Campbell Furlong, now representing Taranaki, will captain the State Central Stags in the State Max tournament to be played at North Harbour Stadium at Albany starting on Friday

Frustration with the rain, admiration for Chris Cairns' approach, a welcome return from Brett Lee and the slight possibility of some remarkable Australian cricket still producing a result were offered in newspaper assessment of the fourth day of the

New Zealand gained one of the plums of world cricket, the staging of the 16-team ICC Under-19 World Cup event, more or less by popular acclaim

Otago Cricket has been forced into seeking an alternative venue for its scheduled three-day match against England in early-March

Anyone who has been the slightest interested in Dion Nash's Test match cricket career should not have been surprised that he should play the last, vital, hand in New Zealand achieving the follow on target against Australia at the Gabba in Brisbane

Dion Nash is out of the tour of Australia and will be replaced by Canterbury's Shane Bond

New Zealand's top order batting frailties were exposed again by Australian Jason Gillespie on another rain-affected at the Gabba in Brisbane today

On a day dominated by the rain, the newspapers of Australasia concentrated on Adam Gilchrist's fourth Test century, in the first Australia-New Zealand Test at the Gabba in Brisbane yesterday

New Zealand's failure to maintain the first day-last session strike power in the first Test at the Gabba was the feature of newspaper coverage of the rain-affected second day's play

Refreshing as Australian umpire Daryl Harper's admission was that he got it wrong when denying New Zealand's first over appeal against Australian opener Justin Langer on day one of the first Test, it does raise some interesting questions

Australia's vaunted bowling attack moves onto centre stage in the first Test with New Zealand at the Gabba over the next two days