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A day after IPL 2021 had to be postponed because of the Covid-19 situation, all eight franchises have started to disband, with their players and support staff trying to find a way back home quickly. Most of the players from England have reached the UK. The Australians, the biggest overseas contingent in the IPL with

News New Zealand allrounder to stay in UK following World Test Championship final Hampshire have signed Colin de Grandhomme, the New Zealand allrounder, for the second half of the T20 Blast. Having undergone ankle surgery after missing the home international season through injury, de Grandhomme is expected to be fit enough to take his place

News The ODI champions slip to fourth but remain the top-ranked side in the T20I standings, ahead of India by five points New Zealand have overtaken world champions England to become the No.1 side in the ICC men’s ODI rankings, advancing by two slots during the annual update. England, who have dropped to fourth in

News The batter pulled up with a calf problem while batting as the squad returned to training Ross Taylor limped out of New Zealand’s first training session ahead of their departure for England with a calf injury. He was batting in the marquee that has been built at the high performance centre in Lincoln to

Edgbaston will host the women’s T20 event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games © Getty Images Australia, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, England and a nation from the Caribbean have all qualified for the women’s event 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, Women’s cricket will feature at the Games for the first time, and cricket for

News Middle-order batter could also play two Championship games; James Harris joins Glamorgan on loan Gloucestershire have announced the signing of Glenn Phillips, the New Zealand batter, for the duration of their T20 Blast campaign. Phillips, 24, dislodged Ross Taylor to become a member of New Zealand’s first-choice T20I side this season, playing all 14

News New Zealand allrounder hopes to recover in time after missing home season due to ankle injury All members of New Zealand’s Test squad still currently at home have received their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine ahead of the tour of England, and allrounder Colin de Grandhomme is confident he will be fit for

Some Full Members want an expanded World Cup © Getty Images Chief executives of cricket boards will start hammering out on Thursday what cricket’s next eight-year calendar will look like. CEC (the ICC’s chief executives’ committee) meetings on the 2023-31 cycle have so far been exploratory in nature, in trying to suss out member views

News Amelia Kerr, Devon Conway also pick up top honours at the New Zealand Cricket Awards New Zealand captain Kane Williamson has been awarded the Sir Richard Hadlee medal for the fourth time in six years, while women’s allrounder Amelia Kerr and rising star Devon Conway also claimed top honours at the New Zealand Cricket

News The batsman is expected to make his Test debut against England after prolific limited-overs performances Devon Conway has had his New Zealand residency visa approved, which means he will be able to return to the country after the tour of England. Although eligible to play for New Zealand since last August, his residency application

News Doug Bracewell, who played his last Test in 2016, has also been selected Rachin Ravindra and Jacob Duffy join Devon Conway as the three players uncapped at Test level included in New Zealand’s 20-man squad for their tour of England, which will include the World Test Championship final against India. Doug Bracewell, who played

Australia 271 for 7 (Haynes 87, Lanning 49, Healy 44, Kasperek 6-46) beat New Zealand 200 (Kerr 47, Jonassen 3-29) by 71 runs What do you do when you’ve just broken a world record for the most consecutive wins in your sport? If you’re Meg Lanning’s irrepressible Australians, you celebrate your 22nd consecutive win momentarily,

News Coach Peter Fulton and players Henry Nicholls, Will Williams and Matt Henry praise the team’s efforts Canterbury were crowned Plunket Shield champions on Tuesday, with the club amassing its fourth trophy of the 2020-21 domestic season in New Zealand. The women had already won the one-day Hallyburton Johnstone Shield and the Super Smash titles

Play 01:11 ‘Special feeling’ to break ODI world record – Alyssa Healy Australia insist they hadn’t spoken about a potential new ODI winning streak of 22 matches and had largely downplayed the topic when asked in the lead-up, but having secured the victory over New Zealand in the first ODI in Mount Maunganui, Alyssa Healy

News The batsman’s residency status is causing issues but the coach is in no doubt he is a Test player New Zealand coach Gary Stead is hopeful that issues around Devon Conway‘s ability to leave and return to the country in the prevailing Covid-19 border restrictions will be sorted in time for him to be

Report Regular captain Mahmudullah was ruled out of the fixture due to a strained left thigh muscle Bangladesh chose to bowl vs New Zealand Bangladesh and New Zealand got a taste of what they should be ready for in a World Cup year: a truncated clash, reduced to 10-overs a side, after intermittent rain delayed

News Explosive NZ batsman offers a peek into the way his mind works after he helped beat Bangladesh in Auckland In explaining how he got off the mark with a reverse sweep in two successive T20Is, Finn Allen provided a glimpse into his mindset. He used the word fearless up front. It can come across

News Coach Bob Carter said “cricket must come second” to the importance of Devine’s health New Zealand will make a late decision on the availability of captain Sophie Devine for the T20I decider against Australia after she withdrew from the game in Napier suffering from fatigue at the end of a long season. Ahead of

‘There was plenty of nerves, it was really cool to be back wearing the black jersey’ – Adam Milne © Getty Images Adam Milne felt like he was making his debut again as he returned to international cricket after two and a half years on Tuesday. Multiple injuries, including a stress fracture on his ankle,

News Australia’s bowlers almost turned the game around but New Zealand’s lower order came through Beth Mooney believed Australia’s bowlers could close out the second T20I in Napier, but conceded the visitors had been under par with the bat on a surface where they were not able to significantly accelerate. Despite only having 129 on

News The fast bowler’s remarkable catch to remove Liton Das added to an impressive list in Wellington Trent Boult took a stunning catch a third man to remove Liton Das in the third ODI against Bangladesh in Wellington, adding to a lengthy list of spectacular takes by the fast bowler, not least at the Basin

News New Zealand allrounder to arrive for group stage after completion of IPL Jimmy Neesham, the New Zealand allrounder, is to join Essex for this summer’s Vitality Blast. The 30-year-old will arrive in England following on from the IPL and is set to be available throughout the group stage. Neesham’s previous involvement on English soil

News “I couldn’t have asked for it to go any better than what I did today.” For newcomers Devon Conway and Daryl Mitchell, the Wellington ODI turned out to be a dream outing as they both struck maiden ODI centuries. Mitchell reached the personal landmark off the last ball of the New Zealand innings, as

News Batsman insists he can still do the job in the shortest format, even though he hasn’t always been in the running for selection Ross Taylor has said that he has eyes on the T20 World Cup later this year even though he hasn’t featured in the last two New Zealand squads in this format.

Big Picture At the crack of dawn on Bangladesh’s 50th Independence Day, there is hope that the cricket team in New Zealand will deliver a performance that matches the grand occasion. Many fans back home will be hoping that when they wake up on Friday, Bangladesh will be going toe-to-toe with New Zealand in Wellington.

News New Zealand batsman to play three games before Australia’s Cameron Bancroft arrives New Zealand batsman Will Young will join Durham for the early part of the 2021 Championship season. Young, the 28-year-old right-hander, will arrive in the UK ahead of Durham’s second game of the season, at Essex starting on April 15, and will

News Competing in events of “national interest” will be one of the criteria used to judge eligibility New Zealand’s cricketers could be eligible for early Covid-19 vaccines after the government laid out its priority list with competing in events of “national significance” among the criteria. The process will begin on March 31, so it will

News The New Zealand captain’s 110 took his side to an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series The second ODI against Bangladesh was the third occasion when Tom Latham scored an unbeaten century in a successful ODI chase for New Zealand. This time there was a slight difference. Latham had to drag his side out

News Six IPL-bound players, including Kane Williamson, will miss the series against Bangladesh Finn Allen has been handed his first New Zealand call-up for the T20I series against Bangladesh, in a squad missing six IPL-bound players, while Adam Milne is in line for a return to international cricket after more than two years out of

News The Association has won four trophies this season having also taken the Ford Trophy and women’s Super Smash Canterbury may need a bigger trophy cabinet after becoming the first team to win four domestic titles in a New Zealand season with the men’s side clinching the Plunket Shield and the women claiming the one-day