Cricket News

New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming reached his half-century to lead the Black Caps away from trouble in their four-day tour match against the Queensland Academy of Sport at Allan Border Field here today.

New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming finally showed Australian cricket fans he could build an innings of substance today when he crashed a fine century for the Black Caps in their opening tour match against the Queensland Academy of Sport in Brisbane.

New Zealand's Cricket Academy was 160/6, a lead of 199 at stumps on the second day of their match with the Commonwealth Bank Cricket Academy of Australia

It's been a long wait, but at last New Zealand's summer gets underway today in Brisbane

New Zealand made a steady start against the Queensland Second XI in the first match of their Australian tour at Allan Border Field today.

All five of New Zealand's One-Day Internationals with England in February will be day/night matches

Like a squirrel getting out and gathering nuts to store away for winter, former New Zealand cricket captain Jeremy Coney has been storing cricketing gems for the summer and an in-depth series of television documentaries to be screened by SKY

New Zealand Academy batsman Shanan Stewart's unbeaten 74 shone like a beacon at Lincoln Green today, as the home side ended the first day of their match with the Commonwealth Bank Cricket Academy side from Australia in a strong position

Nasser Hussain will meet his fellow selectors today on the back of his team's success ful tour of Zimbabwe to pick their winter one-day squad

Test cricket's newly-introduced world championship system may soon be matched by an equivalent model for one-day internationals.

Playing New Zealand's postponed games with Pakistan on neutral territory would not concern New Zealand Cricket chief executive Martin Snedden

New Zealand's Cricket Academy made full use of the head start it made to the season last week, and the batting skill of Chris Cairns, to beat Central Districts by 79 runs in a 40-over match at Lincoln Green today

Mike Shrimpton, coach of the CricInfo Women's World Cup winning New Zealand CLEAR White Ferns, has just finished a follow-up visit to Dunedin spending time with the Otago section of the New Zealand Women's High Performance Squad

Having already lost the services of internationals Matt Horne and Paul Wiseman, Otago coach Glenn Turner was philosophical about today's announcement that Mark Richardson has joined the list of Otago's departing players

The strength of the East Christchurch Shirley Cricket Club lies in its depth of young talent, which consistently provides representative players for Canterbury

Dipak Patel and his Central Districts selectors, Basil Netten and Barry Roberts, know they are in for a tough season

Aucklander Lindsay 'Dad' Weir became the oldest surviving Test cricketer in the world following the death in England, on Monday, of fast bowler Alf Gover

Carisbrook will become a leader in the New Zealand game with the establishment of a new practice facility this season

Identifying the 50/50 situations capable of turning Test matches, quicker than opposing sides, made Australia an awesome force but Stephen Fleming is undeterred as he takes his New Zealand team across the Tasman at the weekend fully geared to have a

A puff of white smoke may not have been seen pouring out of a chimney at Lord's yesterday, after the International Cricket Council announced its vision for the future, but clearly a new era is upon the game