New Zealand

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

3:16 AM GMT New Zealand 91 (Moni 4-18) beat Bangladesh 74 (Jensen 3-11) by 17 runs Tournaments are all about surviving and advancing. New Zealand survived an almighty scare against Bangladesh at the Junction Oval, setting a new Women’s World T20 record for the lowest total defended, but will need to play much better to

10:25 AM GMT Amid all the carnage left in the wake of the February 2011 earthquake in Christchurch, the city also lost its primary cricket venue, Lancaster Park. With time, the boutique Hagley Oval, located within the approximately 165-hectare Hagley Park, became the city’s new Test centre. The two venues can’t be any more dissimilar

Neil Wagner in his bowling action © Getty Images Big picture In Wellington, India came face to face with how subtle New Zealand’s home advantage is. Theirs is not the kind of dominance that comes from knowing no other place can produce two spinners of the quality you have. Or batsmen who demoralise opponents before

5:42 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Virat Kohli has endured one of his quietest tours in recent memory, with scores of 2 and 19 in the first Test in Wellington following seven limited-overs innings with only one half-century. New Zealand are determined to ensure his lean run continues into the last match of India’s tour as

7:55 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff New Zealand’s fledgling pace star Kyle Jamieson was “quite relaxed” leading up to his Test debut, and following his success in that game, he confident there’s “still a lot more to come” from him. Speaking the day after New Zealand thumped India in Wellington, Jamieson spoke of his transition from

12:53 AM GMT Neil Wagner is almost certain to be back in New Zealand’s bowling attack for the second Test against India, which begins in Christchurch on Saturday. Wagner missed the first Test in Wellington on paternity leave, but he will return to the squad on Wednesday, replacing Matt Henry. The debut performance of Kyle

12:49 AM GMT New Zealand 348 (Williamson 89, Taylor 44, Jamieson 44, Sharma 5-68, Ashwin 3-99) and 9 for 0 beat India 165 (Rahane 46, Jamieson 4-39, Southee 4-49) and 191 (Agarwal 58, Southee 5-61, Boult 4-39) trail by 10 wickets The big boys of New Zealand fast bowling, Trent Boult and Tim Southee, did

2:11 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff New Zealand captain Kane Williamson reserved special praise for his team’s fast-bowling trio of Tim Southee, Trent Boult and debutant Kyle Jamieson after their win against India in Wellington. The three quicks took 18 of the 19 wickets taken by the home side in the Test, not allowing India to

1:56 PM GMT New Zealand 131 for 3 (Devine 75*) beat Sri Lanka 127 for 7 (Atapattu 41, Jensen 3-16) by seven wickets Sophie Devine wants to lead by example as New Zealand captain it was no surprise that she was unbeaten to marshal her team to a victory that stretched them for stages. In

7:27 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Kyle Jamieson will make his Test debut in Neil Wagner’s absence, and it will be a toss-up between Ajaz Patel and Daryl Mitchell for the final spot in the XI – depending entirely on conditions at Wellington’s Basin Reserve – New Zealand captain Kane Williamson announced a day off from

4:32 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Fast bowler Matt Henry has been called up to the New Zealand Test squad as cover for Neil Wagner, who is awaiting the birth of his child. New Zealand Cricket tweeted that Henry will arrive in Wellington on Wednesday evening for the Test starting on Friday. Henry will join Trent

12:06 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff The big news in the New Zealand Test squad, apart from the post-injury comeback for Trent Boult, was the return to the arena for 31-year-old left-arm spinner Ajaz Patel in place of Mitchell Santner. It’s a good change, as far as former batting coach Craig McMillan is concerned, because Patel