The New Zealand national rugby union team,commonly known as the All Blacks,represents New Zealand in men's international rugby union,which is considered the country's national sport. Famed for their international success,the All Blacks have often been regarded as one of the most successful sports teams in history.
Milford Laurenson "Curly" Page was a New Zealand Test cricketer and rugby union player,who represented his country in both sports.
Walter Arnold Hadlee was a New Zealand cricketer and Test match captain. He played domestic first-class cricket for Canterbury and Otago. Three of his five sons,Sir Richard,Dayle and Barry played cricket for New Zealand. The Chappell–Hadlee Trophy,which is competed for by ODI teams from New Zealand and Australia is named in honour of the Hadlee family and the Australian Chappell family.
Eric William Thomas Tindill was a New Zealand sportsman. Tindill held a number of unique records:he was the oldest ever Test cricketer at the time of his death,the only person to play Tests for New Zealand in both cricket and rugby union,and the only person ever to play Tests in both sports,referee a rugby union Test,and umpire a cricket Test:a unique "double-double".
Roger Charles Blunt was a cricketer who played nine Test matches for the New Zealand national cricket team.
Frederick Theodore Badcock was a New Zealand first-class and Test cricketer. Perhaps the best all-rounder in New Zealand in the inter-war period,he played seven Test matches for New Zealand between 1930 and 1933,including New Zealand's inaugural Test in 1930. He was the first players capped by New Zealand.
William Edward Merritt was a New Zealand Test cricketer who played for Canterbury and Northamptonshire,and a rugby league footballer who played for Canterbury,Wigan and Halifax.
Albert William Roberts was a New Zealand Test cricketer who played in five Test matches between 1930 and 1937.
This article describes the history of New Zealand cricket to 1890.
The New Zealand cricket team toured England in the 1927 season. The team contained many of the players who would later play Test cricket for New Zealand,but the tour did not include any Test matches and the 1927 English cricket season was the last,apart from the Second World War years and the cancelled South African tour of 1970,in which there was no Test cricket in England.
William Fergus McCormick was a New Zealand rugby union footballer who played for the All Blacks and Canterbury. McCormick first played representative rugby for Canterbury in 1958 when he played first five-eighth against Wellington. The following year he played twelve matches for Canterbury;the first of the season a 20–14 victory over the touring British Lions.
This article describes the history of New Zealand cricket from the 1890–91 season until 1918.
This article describes the history of New Zealand cricket from the 1918–19 season until 1945.
George Henry Noble Helmore was a New Zealand rugby union player who played for the first New Zealand national team on their 1884 tour of New South Wales. Although he never played a test match,he played seven matches and scored 16 points. He also played first-class cricket for Canterbury.
William Varnham Millton was a New Zealand rugby union player and cricketer. He was the first captain of the New Zealand national rugby union team,leading them on their 1884 tour of New South Wales,and represented Canterbury in both rugby union and cricket.
The 1888 British Isles tour to New Zealand and Australia was a tour by a British rugby union team,known at the time as the "English Footballers",throughout New Zealand and Australia. Although a private venture not organised by any official body,this was the first major tour of the Southern Hemisphere undertaken by a European rugby team. It paved the way for future tours by teams which are now known as British and Irish Lions.
Charlie James Pearce was a New Zealand rugby footballer who was part of the professional 1907-1908 New Zealand rugby tour of Great Britain.
James Ernest Amos (1907-1981) was a New Zealand rugby league footballer and coach who represented New Zealand and coached them,including at the 1954 World Cup.
Brigadier James Thomas Burrows was a New Zealand teacher,sportsman,administrator,and military leader.
William Thomas "Tabby" Wynyard was a rugby union footballer who toured with the 1888–89 New Zealand Native football team and the 1893 New Zealand team. He also played first-class cricket for both Wellington and Auckland.
