Cricket News

He's playing for the New Zealand Academy on Friday at Lincoln University as a fitness test for his injured ankle ligament

Seven and a half months hard work to get back to full fitness sees me only a week out from my first Test in over a year

XXXX Queensland Bulls squad member Brendan Nash will captain theQueensland Academy of Sport team that embarks on a mini-tour of New Zealand next week.

New Zealand Cricket chief executive Martin Snedden believes left-arm spinner Daniel Vettori could be back in Australia in time to prepare for the second Test in Hobart

Sixteen wickets fell as bowlers enjoyed rare dominance on the Lincoln Green pitch today as Auckland became the latest side to make the trek to Christchurch for their pre-season preparation

Daniel Vettori's recovery from a ligament tear that forced him home from Australia, may have him making the return trip across the Tasman sooner than was expected

The Queensland selectors have named a near full-strength XXXX QueenslandBulls team to play New Zealand in the first class tour match at theGabba starting on Thursday.

Otago's hopes for the New Zealand Under-19 tournament this year received an encouraging boost with good early season form displayed during the region's trial game played at Alexandra's Molyneus Park over the weekend

Phil Chandler's prospective return to the Wellington Firebirds side this summer has been signalled with his inclusion in one of the two trial teams named by the Wellington selectors today

New Zealand batsman Lou Vincent enhanced his Test claims with a century against the Queensland Academy of Sport today as the tour match meandered to a draw at Allan Border Field.

"New Zealanders in further disarray" the Australians trumpet

New Zealand is going to have to hit the ground running when it begins its World Cup campaign in South Africa next summer

Chris Cairns unleashed one of his cyclonic knocks today to lift the chins of a New Zealand touring squad which still believes it can knock over Steve Waugh's Australians next week.

New Zealand's cricket tour of Australia lurched into further disarray today when the Black Caps were belted around Allan Border Field by Queensland's second-tier batsmen.

Queensland's fringe batsmen made New Zealand's bowlers sweat out a tough morning in the three-day tour match at Allan Border Field today.

Lee Carseldine has become the second batsman from the Queensland Academy of Sport to score a century against New Zealand in the three-day tour matchat Allan Border Field.

Winning the toss for the first time in the four-game series finally paid dividends for the New Zealand Academy today, the success being the forerunner of the side's only victory over the Commonwealth Bank Cricket Academy at Lincoln University

World Cup champions Australia will start their defence of their title in a repeat of the 1999 final against Pakistan at the Wanderers in Johannesburg on February 11 according to the 2003 World Cup schedule released in Durban on Saturday

New Zealand claimed two early wickets before rain forced umpires to call an early lunch break on the opening day of the three-day tour match against the Queensland Academy of Sport at Allan Border Field.

Rain has delayed the start of play in the three-day tour match between New Zealand and the Queensland Academy of Sport at Allan Border Field.