Brendon McCullum

Brendon McCullum will return to Otago for the 2007-08 season after ending his four-year stay at Canterbury

Brendon McCullum, the New Zealand wicketkeeper, has been fined 20% of his match fee for showing dissent after he was dismissed in New Zealand's Super Eights match against Sri Lanka in Grenada on Thursday

A sizzling 71-run eighth-wicket partnership helped New Zealand shrug off a start-stop batting effort, enabling them to seal a comprehensive 129-run win against Ireland

Stephen Fleming believes New Zealand have one foot in the semi-finals after overwhelming a lacklustre West Indies by seven wickets

New Zealand are sitting pretty in the competition with an easy seven wicket win while West Indies have plenty of catching up to do

A thoroughly professional performance from New Zealand, has given Stephen Fleming's side a useful confidence boost ahead of the Super Eight stage of the World Cup, with a convincing 114-run win over Canada in a dead rubber at St Lucia

Sometimes the finishers can only survey the debris, entering after a top-order crumble and needing to pull off the minor miracles

Craig McMillan said New Zealand could go to the World Cup without fearing any target

Craig McMillan and Brendon McCullum blasted New Zealand to another massive run-chase as they negated Matthew Hayden's 181 and inflicted a cleansweep on Australia at Hamilton. The home team flew to 350 on the back of McMillan's 117 and his 165-run partners

Daryl Tuffey is the big World Cup winner from Kyle Mills' knee surgery after being called into the New Zealand squad for the first time in two years

Stephen Fleming has conceded New Zealand's batting is a major worry ahead of the World Cup

Sanath Jayasuriya enjoyed a field day at Wellington's Westpac Stadium, picking up three key wickets as Sri Lanka derailed New Zealand's batting onslaught, and then playing a blitzkrieg of an innings to propel his side to an 18-run Duckworth-Lewis victory

Stephen Fleming had no regrets about the controversial dismissal of Muttiah Muralitharan in the first Test, saying Muralitharan made a mistake and paid the price

Jason Gillespie finally showed his true colours with the ball as Yorkshire completed a 145-run win against Durham

A round-up from the latest round of County Championship matches

Brendon McCullum, the New Zealand wicketkeeper and newest Glamorgan signing, says he wants to boost the county side to Twenty20 Cup success

Glamorgan have signed New Zealand's Test and one-day wicketkeeper Brendon McCullum as a temporary replacement for Mark Cosgrove, who is on duty with Australia A

Hundreds from Stephen Fleming and Brendon McCullum ensured the New Zealanders' tour match at Benoni will go into the final day evenly poised

Canterbury defeated Auckland by six wickets in the inaugural Twenty20 final at Eden Park's Outer Oval