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New Zealand Academy's commanding position after the first day of its game against Tamil Nadu Districts at Chennai yesterday was vital to the team's hopes of maintaining competition against top level sides

Queensland defeated New Zealand today in the second and last of the Black Caps' warmup games at Allan Border Field, Brisbane, before playing in the Singapore triseries against Pakistan and South Africa beginning Sunday

Chris Cairns and Craig McMillan blasted hundreds as New Zealand cruised to an easy 127-run win over a Queensland XI in the first of two one-day practice matches at Allan Border Field, Brisbane, today

New Zealand A skipper Scott Styris provided the all-round inspiration behind his side's 134-run success in a 50-over friendly with Gloucestershire at Cheltenham

Teenager Chris Tremlett's talent runs in the blood

The Zimbabweans were in good batting form in what play there was against New Zealand A at Bristol, but were frustrated by rain from pressing home their advantage

The scheduled friendly floodlit limited-overs game between the West Indians and the New Zealand A team at Bristol was abandoned without a ball being bowled due to heavy continuous rain

New Zealand "A", who have taken this four day game with the West Indies as seriously as playing a Test match, had a very difficult task on their hands

Starting the 3rd day at 50-0, the West Indies, generally, made excellent use of the good batting conditions to give their early order batsmen some very much needed batting practice in their last first class innings before the 2nd Test, despite the

The West Indies made up with their bowling and fielding on the 2nd day what they lost by their batting on the 1st

Having won the toss and electing to bat first, the West Indies squandered a golden opportunity to capitalize on a good batting pitch, with very consistent bounce, and a fairly fast outfield, all which should have enabled them to make a big score, and

A brief history of how the games dimensions came about

Despite a stunning 185-run knock by Michael Bevan, the Rest of the World XI conceded a one-run defeat to mighty Asia XI in a thrilling limited-over match at the flood-lit Bangabandhu National Stadium Saturday

Justin Langer's quick-fire century led Australia to a six-wicket win in the final test of the National Bank series in New Zealand, the virtually unchallenged march to the 210 needed for victory hardly in keeping with the ebb and flow of the previous

The Trans-Tasman series continued its practice of record-setting as Australia rammed home the advantage on the third day of the third test in Hamilton

Australia came out of a day in which 306 runs were scored and 12 wickets fell maintaining the advantage they established in the first session of the first day - but only after seeing their first innings follow a disturbingly similar pattern to New

Australia's bowling find of the summer, Brett Lee, picked up his second five-wicket bag in just five tests as New Zealand followed their familiar pattern of early collapse, mid order recovery and late disintegration on the first day of the third test

Shane Warne wrote himself even further into Australian cricket history as the visitors bowled out New Zealand 40 minutes after lunch on the fifth day of the first test at Eden Park to prevail 62 runs

Australia settled the issue of Trans-Tasman cricket supremacy in style in Christchurch, producing a record score of 349 to bury New Zealand hopes with the third win in as many matches in what has become a five-match series

Twelve games in 28 days in two countries for one win and eleven losses