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While West Indies were one of the first teams to play international cricket after its resumption post the Covid-19 break, New Zealand will play their first international fixture post the forced break.
Cricket West Indies (CWI) today named the vice-captains for the upcoming series in New Zealand.
Pakistan today announced a 35-player squad for the upcoming tour of New Zealand from which the national men’s and Shaheens squads will be selected.
The members of the West Indies team based in the Caribbean departed from Barbados on Tuesday evening for the tour of New Zealand. All these squad members have completed COVID-19 tests and were all given a clean bill of health to travel.
New Zealand women pulled one back against Australia women earlier today
Cricket West Indies (CWI) is pleased to announce that The West Indies Men’s Team will tour New Zealand later this year, from November 27 to December 15, for three T20 Internationals (T20I) and two Test matches.
Cricket Australia has confirmed the postponement of the Australian men’s Test match against Afghanistan and three One-Day Internationals against New Zealand until the 2021-22 season.
Cricket Australia today confirmed Allan Border Field in Brisbane will host the six-game trans-Tasman women’s cricket series, starting in late September.
August 8, 1990 - At 30, Williamson still has a long way to go, and with 6,476 runs from 80 test matches, there is no doubt that by the time he decides to hang his boots, he will break a lot more records.
August 6, 1984 - Few could hit the ball as effortlessly as Jesse Ryder did in his international career which lasted from 2008 to 2014.
In our feature series - Who would have predicted that? – we are looking back at matches where there were big upsets or extraordinary individual performances that turned matches on their head.
July 14, 2019 - The final of the 2019 World Cup may be remembered for the wrong reasons, but the hard-fought match between England and New Zealand was surely worthy of a final.
England, New Zealand, and close finishes. Another such gem was played between the two teams in 2018
628 runs were scored from 100 overs but even that wasn't enough to decide the winner......
The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) and New Zealand Cricket (NZC) have decided to postpone the upcoming Test series in August-September 2020 for a later date.
A Cricket World series, CWC 2019 Recap looks at all the high-octane encounters from the last year's ODI World Cup: from Jofra Archer's bouncers to Rohit Sharma's hundreds and from Mitchell Starc's yorkers to Virat Kohli's antics.
June 8, 2018 - The pitch was flat, the outfield was lightning quick and the sun was shining. New Zealand had been in great form..
June 7, 1975 - If there is only one stat you want to know about New Zealand's tearaway pacer Shane Bond.....
Daniel Vettori was known for drying out the runs as his ODI career economy of 4.12 suggests......
Cricket Australia is confident of hosting a safe and successful summer after announcing its 2020-21 men’s and women’s international schedule.
Former Nottinghamshire captain Paul Johnson has described Sir Richard Hadlee as the “Rolls Royce” of bowlers after the New Zealand legend was voted the county’s best player of all-time i
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has published guidelines for the safe resumption of cricket to assist its Members in restarting cricket activity in their countries as government restrictions owing to COVID-19 start to relax.
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There have been encouraging signs of international cricket's return from each of England, West Indies, Pakistan, India, South Africa, Australia, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Even an IPL in September-November is very much a possibility.
The ICC Cricket Committee today recommended changes to ICC regulations to mitigate the risks posed by the COVID-19 virus, and protect the safety of players and match officials....
Martin Guptill was already the man with the highest New Zealand ODI score after his unbeaten 189 against England at Southampton in 2013....
There seldom exists a GOAT list which successfully blocks personal biases and so this one too self-admittedly may have inclined one way or the other due to the leanings of the writer.
Scotland’s upcoming One Day International and T20 International against the BLACKCAPS at The Grange, Edinburgh in June have been postponed due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
The Board of Cricket Ireland held a ‘virtual’ board meeting yesterday afternoon to consider a number of significant issues related to impacts on operations and events in 2020 from COVID-19, as well as to review the draft Safe Return to Cricket protocols that will be submitted to Government and sports authorities shortly.
Yes, New Zealand had beaten India by 18 runs in the 1st semifinal but England's momentum after beating Australia by 8 wickets was unmatched.
In a strange semi-final that was played over two days, New Zealand won by 18 runs and stunned India, who were one of the favourites to win the title. It was the exceptional swing bowling from Trent Boult and Matt Henry which broke the back of the Indian batting line-up first up.
.jpg "England v New Zealand - Emirates Riverside, Chester-Le-Street, Britain - July 3, 2019 England's Jonny Bairstow")
The 41st match of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 at the Riverside Ground in Chester-le-Street was the last league match for both England and New Zealand. While England had to win to qualify for the semis...
May 3, 2002 - While Inzamam-ul-Haq cracked a magnificent 329, becoming the second Pakistani to score a triple ton, Shoaib Akhtar claimed his best figures of 6/11 to hand New Zealand the fifth-biggest defeat in Test history within three days.
Jamie How played international cricket for New Zealand between 2006 and 2011.
As has been the case through most of the 2015 and the 2019 World Cup, left-arm pacer Mitchell Starc proved to be the star for Australia yet again as he ripped open the Kiwi batting order with his express pace and on-point yorkers.
Brett Lee and Shane Warne are two of the best Australian bowlers of all time. One revolutionised spin bowling, the other, tearaway pace bowling. But, in a VB series match against New Zealand in 2002......
Pakistan faced New Zealand in a must-win game in the 33rd match of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 at Edgbaston in Birmingham. Given Pakistan's poor record while chasing, not many expected them to pull off the victory in the calm manner that they did.
Three years on from his heroic and jaw-dropping display in the final of the 2016 World T20, Carlos Braithwaite was on the cusp on another special moment.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) will host a Chief Executives' Committee (CEC) meeting via conference call on Thursday 23 April.
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