New Zealand

8:00 AM GMT Adelaide Strikers 2 for 130 (Devine 65*, McGrath 36) beat Perth Scorchers 7 for 126 (Redmayne 51, Barsby 31, Schutt 2-14, Devine 2-23) by eight wickets Sophie Devine marched the Adelaide Strikers all over Perth Scorchers and into Sunday’s WBBL final, and in doing so closed to within 14 runs of surpassing

3:33 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff New Zealand have had a major boost ahead of the first Test against Australia next week with Trent Boult and Colin de Grandhomme both making good progress in their recoveries from injury. NZC confirmed the pair would travel to Perth with the squad on Saturday having come through a training

2:15 AM GMT New Zealand Cricket has lodged a complaint with Tauranga police over the racial abuse directed at Jofra Archer near the end of the first Test against England at Bay Oval. Information gathered from an inquiry which included studying CCTV footage, listening to audio, interviewing bystanders and obtaining material on social media has

7:59 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff New Zealand have been awarded the Christopher Martin-Jenkins Spirit of Cricket award for their “sporting conduct” in the aftermath of the World Cup final at Lord’s. Kane Williamson‘s side were beaten to the trophy after a tied super over in the final by virtue of having scored fewer boundaries, and

7:20 AM GMT New Zealand are “quietly optimistic” that Trent Boult and Colin de Grandhomme will be fit to play in Australia. Boult and de Grandhomme missed the second Test against England after sustaining injuries during the victory in Mount Maunganui. And while New Zealand coach, Gary Stead, admits it is too early to know

11:59 AM GMT It speaks volumes for the enduring skills of Neil Wagner that, while other bowlers will look back at this series and shudder, he will reflect on it with a satisfied smile. For while bowlers as celebrated as Jofra Archer and Stuart Broad have laboured without much success – Archer has taken two

9:05 AM GMT Stuart Broad has challenged England’s batsmen to bat for 150 overs and “set up the game” over the next couple of days in Hamilton. Having been frustrated for hundreds of overs by New Zealand’s batsmen in the series to date, Broad urged his team-mates to show similar determination if England are to

5:34 AM GMT Ross Taylor believes the depth in New Zealand cricket is “definitely the best” it has been at any point of his career. Despite losing Trent Boult and Colin de Grandhomme to injury ahead of the second Test in Hamilton, Taylor is confident New Zealand can continue to flourish as a result of

2:29 PM GMT Sidharth Monga If Test cricket is professional wrestling, Neil Wagner is an ECW guy. ECW was aggressive, it was extreme, it was chaotic, it was “hardcore”. Traditional rules and grammar don’t apply to hardcore wrestling. There are no disqualifications, it is not confined to a ring, foreign objects are allowed. Wagner doesn’t

12:35 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff “The main thing now is every Test counts,” said Tim Paine, after his Australia side secured 60 World Test Championship (WTC) points by thrashing Pakistan at the Gabba last week. “Unless it’s England and New Zealand.” Paine was right: while New Zealand’s series against England counts towards the ICC’s Test

2:37 AM GMT Trent Boult and Colin de Grandhomme have been ruled out of New Zealand’s squad for the second Test with injury. Northern Districts all-rounder Daryl Mitchell has been called into the squad as a replacement for de Grandhomme and will probably play while Lockie Ferguson and Matt Henry, already part of the squad,

1:20 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Trent Boult is likely to miss the second Test of New Zealand’s series against England after leaving the field due to a pain in the right-hand side of his ribs on the fifth day of the first Test. Boult, who bowled one over on the final day before going off,

8:00 AM GMT A desire not to spend another day in the field helped drive BJ Watling to the Bay Oval’s first Test century. In warm weather and on a surface tough for both bowlers and run-scoring, Watling batted throughout the day to take New Zealand into the lead an hour or so before stumps.

7:58 AM GMT It took 2,000 years to build the Great Wall of China and 1,600 years to build Stonehenge. The Sagrada Familia – started in 1882 – is still not complete. And let’s not even mention Brexit. The point? Sometimes it takes time to build something worthwhile (which is very much not a political

10:01 PM GMT Kane Williamson feels that deciding the result of the World Cup final on boundary countback was “not really cricket”. New Zealand and England could not be separated after a Super Over ended in a tie, but England were awarded the game – and the World Cup trophy – on the basis of

9:50 AM GMT At the end of the English domestic season Ryan ten Doeschate made a revealing comment. Asked whether he intended to play for Essex for another season in the County Championship, he replied he wasn’t sure. “Batting at No. 6,” he said, “it’s where you blood someone to bat. And there are a

9:21 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Lockie Ferguson says that international cricket has had an “awesome year with fast bowlers”, and that he hopes to “bring a little bit of anxiety” to England and Australia’s batsmen after being named in New Zealand’s squads for their upcoming Tests against those opponents. Ferguson is in line for a

4:20 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Lockie Ferguson is set to make his Test debut over the coming weeks, having been named in a 15-man New Zealand squad to play England and Australia. Ferguson, who finished as second leading wicket-taker at the 50-over World Cup this summer, has played 44 white-ball internationals, but a Test call-up

5:37 AM GMT Alagappan Muthu It’s Fergie time All three matches of the final round of the Plunket Shield ended in a draw but that didn’t mean you should’ve taken your eyes off them. Because it’s when you do silly things like that that you run the risk of becoming a meme. Like the guy

2:04 AM GMT Deivarayan Muthu The ultra-short boundaries at Eden Park, known as the postage stamp, are mean to the bowlers. They can be even meaner when rain cuts a 20-over series decider into 11 overs. After England’s bowlers suffer at the hands of Martin Guptill and Colin Munro, Eoin Morgan launches the visitors’ chase

Shane Bond worked as a bowling consultant with England on the 2017-18 Ashes tour © Getty Images Shane Bond has registered his interest in becoming England bowling coach, with the role currently vacant following Chris Silverwood‘s promotion to head coach. Bond, who is currently filling in for Shane Jurgensen as New Zealand’s bowling coach for

9:09 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff New Zealand know they can’t afford to loosen their grip on the T20 series against England when they carry a 2-1 lead into the penultimate game in Napier on Friday. Colin de Grandhomme, whose 55 off 35 balls earned him Player of the Match honours and provided the crux of

8:00 AM GMT Toss New Zealand chose to bat first against England Tom Banton and Matt Parkinson have been handed their England debuts and the chance to impress ahead of the T20 World Cup next year. Banton, whose cavalier stroke-making at the top of the Somerset order saw him win both the PCA and Cricket

9:47 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff New Zealand plan to carry the momentum of a 21-run victory over England into their third T20I after a tough run for the host nation’s sporting teams. Questions about the All Blacks’ semi-final defeat to England in Japan last weekend come heavily laden with apology in recognition of the fact

8:02 AM GMT Alagappan Muthu Two nail-biting final-day finishes might just have made up for one washout in the second round of the Plunket Shield. HEYMDIS (Here’s everything you missed doing important stuff): Conway to go There was a touch of the pristine about the 334th ball that Devon Conway faced at Basin Reserve. There

8:57 AM GMT Alagappan Muthu “Great memories. Yeah, it was a great day and hopefully can get another one tomorrow.” Long before #BoundaryCountback (Sorry, Jimmy) but in the lead-up to it, Tim Seifert walked out under lights in Wellington and went beserk. It was only his 10th time at the crease in international cricket, his

8:51 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff New Zealand captain Kane Williamson‘s bowling action is legal again, the ICC confirmed, following an assessment in Loughborough on October 11. Williamson had been reported during the Galle Test in August earlier this year. He bowled three overs of offspin in that game, conceding nine runs without taking a wicket.

Michael Snedden’s first-class debut came after a switch to Wellington © Getty Images Tuesday was special for the Snedden family as Michael Snedden, the 27-year-old medium-fast bowler, became the latest from the family to play first-class cricket – he is the first fourth-generation cricketer in New Zealand’s first-class history. Michael follows in the footsteps of

12:34 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Devon Conway earned himself a place in New Zealand cricket history with an unbeaten 327 against Canterbury in the Plunket Shield. Conway, the South African-born batsman who qualifies for New Zealand next September, already had 261 to his name after a commanding display on the opening day in Wellington and

12:39 AM GMT Alagappan Muthu Saturday is taking far too long to come, but while we wait for the All Blacks to have better luck than the Black Caps and therefore completely erase everything that happened one July evening at some random cricket ground let’s focus on a sport that is totally devoid of contact