New Zealand

1:44 PM IST Brendon McCullum has suggested greater New Zealand involvement in the Big Bash League later this year if international cricket or the availability of overseas players remains restricted by the Covid-19 pandemic. There are positive signs that the Australian season could be able to take shape somewhat as scheduled – there even remains

5:08 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Ross Taylor has taken the Sir Richard Hadlee medal as New Zealand’s overall cricketer of the year on the final day of the NZC awards. Tim Southee was named Test player of the year after taking 40 wickets in eight Tests and Kim Cotton, who stood in the T20 World

8:33 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Former Bengal captain Subimal “Chuni” Goswami died in Kolkata on Thursday after suffering a cardiac arrest. He was 82 and had been suffering from underlying ailments, including sugar, prostate and nerve problems. He is survived by his wife Basanti and son Sudipto. Goswami was among the rare sportsmen who played

3:39 PM IST The last international game of cricket that took place before the game went into lockdown – Australia against New Zealand at the SCG – was a prelude to what is likely to be at least the short-term future when the sport resumes but Ross Taylor has admitted the behind-closed-doors encounter felt more

5:53 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Kane Williamson, Suzie Bates, Sophie Devine and Ross Taylor took the limited-overs honours at the New Zealand Cricket annual awards. Williamson claimed the men’s ODI player of the year title following his outstanding 2019 World Cup campaign where he was named player of the tournament with 578 runs at 82.57.

7:18 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Tim Southee and Tom Latham bagged first-class awards while Devon Conway and Katie Gurrey were recognised for their domestic performances in the New Zealand Cricket annual awards. Southee took the Winsor Cup for first-class bowling after claiming 41 wickets at 22.31 over the voting period with eight of his nine

Apr 27, 2020 ESPNcricinfo staff Ian Smith, the former New Zealand wicketkeeper and veteran broadcaster, has been honoured by New Zealand Cricket for his “outstanding services to cricket”. He was awarded the Bert Sutcliffe Medal on the first day of NZC’s virtual awards ceremony for 2019-20. Other cricketers to have received this award include Walter

10:33 AM GMT New Zealand cricket, run on an annual revenue of about NZ$60 million a year (approx. US$35 million), confirmed it has not stood down a single employee during the coronavirus pandemic, as Australian cricket’s state association owners and player partners pleaded with CA for more financial information about the governing body’s self-declared cash

11:01 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Lancashire have become the latest county to cancel their overseas signings for the summer, pulling out of deals for BJ Watling, Glenn Maxwell and James Faulkner after discussions with the players’ agents. New Zealand wicketkeeper Watling had been due to feature in Lancashire’s first nine Championship games, on their return

6:59 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Sophie Devine and Tim Southee were honoured by their peers for their performances in the 2019-20 season in an online ceremony because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the New Zealand women’s skipper receiving the Cricket Players’ Association Players’ Award and the men’s fast bowler getting the Players’ Cap. While this is

9:58 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Jock Edwards, the former New Zealand Test wicketkeeper, has died at the age of 64. A short, stocky, big-hitter, Edwards made his Test debut in the home Test series against Australia in 1976-77 as a specialist batsman, before taking the gloves when England toured the following season. He then travelled

6:43 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff The COVID-19 pandemic has forced New Zealand Cricket (NZC) to cancel the women’s tour of Sri Lanka later this month, while the men’s tour of the Caribbean in June-July looks “most unlikely.” There is also a shadow over their tours to Netherlands, Scotland and Ireland this summer. “Clearly, this situation

6:27 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Daniel Flynn, the former New Zealand and Northern Districts left-hand batsman, has called time on his 16-year-long career, at age 34. In an international career spanning a little over five years, Flynn played 24 Tests, 20 ODIs, and five T20Is, making a combined 1325 runs, including six half-centuries. He batted

4:10 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Devon Conway, the South Africa-born batsman who plays for Wellington, will be eligible to represent New Zealand from August 28, the ICC has confirmed. Conway left Johannesburg in September 2017, at the age of 26, to try and forge a cricket career in New Zealand. He had played extensively at

5:04 PM GMT Iain O’Brien, the former New Zealand fast bowler, has launched a funding page in a bid to return to his family. O’Brien, who now lives with his wife and two daughters near Matlock in England, was visiting his parents in New Zealand when the COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) pandemic struck. While he has

5:14 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Canterbury and New Zealand bowling allrounder Andrew Ellis has retired after to end a career he had started in 2002-03. Ellis played 15 ODIs and five T20Is in 2012 and 2013. Ellis is only the second player in New Zealand domestic history to have played over 100 games in each

3:38 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff The final two rounds of the Plunket Shield, New Zealand’s domestic first-class competition, have been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic with Wellington being named the 2019-20 champions. NZC chief executive David White said the decision had been made based on medical advice following the tightening of travel restrictions by

7:02 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff There’s been a few times that Lockie Ferguson had been down with a cold in the course of his career, but it was different this time. After reporting a sore throat to the New Zealand team management on Friday, he was sent for COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) tests and then asked

3:11 AM GMT Big Picture This series, being played behind closed doors, remains the only international cricket ongoing as coronavirus measures sweep the globe. It may be the last international cricket for a while. On the field, Australia managed to end a run of five consecutive defeats with a solid all-round display on a tricky,

4:19 PM GMT Valkerie Baynes For Sophie Devine, the lesson of how a team’s success or failure in short-form cricket can hang on a single instant is still raw. So the New Zealand captain fully expects her nation’s group-stage exit at the recent Women’s T20 World Cup, shaped by narrow defeats to India and Australia,

10:49 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Australia’s one-day series against New Zealand will be played behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic while the T20I matches at the end of the month in New Zealand are in doubt. A few hours previously it had been confirmed that the Australia Women’s tour of South Africa would

3:31 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Kane Richardson will miss the first ODI against New Zealand at the SCG having been tested for COVID-19 after reporting a mild sore throat to Australia’s medical team yesterday. Richardson, who returned from South Africa earlier this week with the rest of the ODI squad, has been quarantined for the

7:59 AM GMT Two months ago, New Zealand left Sydney chastened by their 3-0 Test defeat after having gone across with high expectations only to suffer injury, illness and drubbings. Now they are back for this awkwardly-placed late-season ODI series and another chance to improve on a poor record when crossing the Tasman. It has

2:44 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff New Zealand coach Gary Stead has called Australia a “benchmark” that they try and aspire to and has welcomed more white-ball fixtures against them in the coming years. “I look at what’s coming ahead in the next few years, and I do see that we are playing Australia in white

4:11 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff New Zealand have welcomed the pace attack that took them to within a hair’s breadth of a maiden World Cup triumph back into their ODI squad. After beating India 3-0 at home, New Zealand travel to Australia this month, where they have never won an ODI series before. And having

10:07 AM GMT New Zealand won the first Test by ten wickets, and came close to a repeat in the second, but their margin of victory, according to Kane Williamson, didn’t reflect how hard they had to fight to beat India. When New Zealand slipped to 153 for 7 on day two, with India’s first-innings

11:49 AM GMT World Cups have become an albatross around New Zealand women’s neck. For a third straight time, under three different captains and two coaches, have they now failed to make the knockouts of world tournaments. The most recent of those came down to a four-run defeat against hosts Australia at Melbourne that dashed

7:14 AM GMT Australia 155 for 5 (Mooney 60) beat New Zealand 151 for 7 (Devine 31, Green 28, Wareham 3-17, Schutt 3-28) Australia suffered a grievous blow to their chances of lifting the T20 World Cup even as they survived a virtual elimination final against New Zealand, as Ellyse Perry limped from the Junction

Amelia Kerr prepares to bowl another delivery © Getty Images Barely months into her international career, New Zealand teen allrounder Amelia Kerr was billed as “a star of the future” by Australia captain Meg Lanning. On the eve of New Zealand’s virtual quarter-final clash against hosts Australia at the T20 World Cup, former New Zealand

12:50 AM GMT New Zealand 142 for 5 (de Grandhomme 8*, Watling 0*, Shami 2-45) trail India 242 by 100 runs India began day two needing a big effort to stay alive in the Christchurch Test, but by the end of the first session they had sensationally pulled ahead of New Zealand with five wickets