Allan Robert Border is an Australian cricket commentator and former international cricketer. A batsman,Border was for many years the captain of the Australian team,and led his team to victory in the 1987 Cricket World Cup,the maiden world title for Australia. His playing nickname was "A.B.". He played 156 Test matches in his career,a record until it was passed by fellow Australian Steve Waugh. Border formerly held the world record for the number of consecutive Test appearances of 153,before it was surpassed in June 2018 by Alastair Cook,and is second on the list of number of Tests as captain.
The New Zealand national cricket team represents New Zealand in men's international cricket. Nicknamed the Black Caps,they played their first Test in 1930 against England in Christchurch,becoming the fifth country to play Test cricket. From 1930 New Zealand had to wait until 1956,more than 26 years,for its first Test victory,against the West Indies at Eden Park in Auckland. They played their first ODI in the 1972–73 season against Pakistan in Christchurch. New Zealand are the inaugural champions of WTC which they won in 2021 and they have also won ICC CT in 2000. They have played in the CWC final twice and the T20 WC final once.
Mark John Greatbatch is a former New Zealand international cricketer. He scored more than 2,000 runs in his 41 Test matches for New Zealand. A left-handed batsman and very occasional right-arm medium pace bowler in first class cricket for Auckland and Central Districts,Greatbatch scored 9,890 first class runs in total as well as being an occasional wicket keeper.
Raymond Illingworth CBE was an English cricketer,cricket commentator and administrator. As of 2015,he was one of only nine players to have taken 2,000 wickets and made 20,000 runs in first-class cricket. He played for Yorkshire,Leicestershire (1969–1978) and England (1958–1973) and was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1960.
Bert Sutcliffe was a New Zealand Test cricketer. Sutcliffe was a successful left-hand batsman. His batting achievements on tour in England in 1949,which included four fifties and a century in the Tests,earned him the accolade of being one of Wisden's Five Cricketers of the Year. He captained New Zealand in four Tests in the early 1950s,losing three of them and drawing the other. None of Sutcliffe's 42 Tests resulted in a New Zealand victory. In 1949 Sutcliffe was named the inaugural New Zealand Sportsman of the Year,and in 2000 was named as New Zealand champion sportsperson of the decade for the 1940s.
Walter Mervyn Wallace was a New Zealand cricketer and former Test match captain.
John Garry Bracewell is a former New Zealand cricketer who was most recently the coach of the Irish national team. He played 41 Test matches between 1980 and 1990,as well as 53 One Day Internationals. He was the second New Zealand cricketer to score 1000 runs and take 100 wickets in Test cricket.
Geoffrey Ian Allott is a former New Zealand cricketer who played in 10 Tests and 31 One Day Internationals (ODIs) from 1996 to 2000. In the New Zealand domestic competition he played for the Canterbury cricket team as an opening bowler. Allot retired from all cricket in 2001,following series of injuries. Allott was a member of the New Zealand team that won the 2000 ICC KnockOut Trophy.
Bruce Adrian Edgar is a former cricketer who represented New Zealand in both Test and One Day International (ODI) format. A chartered accountant by profession,Edgar played as a left-handed opening batsman and an occasional wicketkeeper during one of New Zealand's most successful eras in international cricket. He gained respect across the cricket world for his courage against the fastest bowlers of his era,his classically straight batting technique,and his outstanding teamwork.
Hedley John Howarth was an international cricketer who played 30 Tests and nine One Day Internationals for New Zealand. The elder brother of Geoff Howarth,former New Zealand captain,he was born and died in Auckland.
Jeetan Shashi Patel is a former New Zealand international cricketer. A right arm off spin bowler,he played for Wellington in New Zealand and Warwickshire in England. He is currently the spin bowling coach for the England cricket team.
The Auckland cricket team represent the Auckland region and are one of six New Zealand domestic first class cricket teams. Governed by the Auckland Cricket Association they are the most successful side having won 28 Plunket Shield titles,ten wins in The Ford Trophy and the Super Smash four times. The side currently play their home games at Eden Park Outer Oval.
Mark Gordon Burgess is a former cricketer who played Test cricket for New Zealand from 1968 to 1980,captaining the team from 1978 to 1980. A right-handed batsman,who bowled right-arm off-breaks,Burgess played in New Zealand's first One Day International (ODI) in 1973.
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.
The Bangladesh cricket team toured New Zealand between 19 December 2007 and 16 January 2008 to play three one day internationals (ODIs) and two Test matches. This was the second Bangladeshi tour to New Zealand and the third series between the two countries following New Zealand's 2004–05 tour to Bangladesh. The teams also met in the pool stage of the 2003 Cricket World Cup and at the Super 8 stage of the 2007 Cricket World Cup.
The 2008–09 international cricket season was between September 2008 and March 2009. The season saw the security concerns for cricket in Pakistan reach a pinnacle. The ICC Champions Trophy,scheduled to be held in Pakistan in September 2008,was postponed to 2009 after five of the participating nations refused to send their teams for the event. In November 2008,a Pakistani militant group launched terror attacks in Mumbai. This led to India cancelling their tour of Pakistan originally scheduled for January and February 2009. Sri Lanka agreed to tour Pakistan in place of India. However,the tour was jeopardised by a terror attack in Lahore where gunmen fired at a bus carrying the Sri Lankan team,injuring six team members. The Champions Trophy was later relocated to South Africa. No international cricket were played in Pakistan for more than five years. This period of isolation ended when Zimbabwe toured Pakistan in May 2015. After successfully hosting a few T20Is against World-XI,the Sri Lanka cricket team and the West Indians from 2017 to 2018,a few matches of the Pakistan Super League from 2017 to 2019,the whole season in 2020 as well as hosting complete tours against Sri Lankan and Bangladeshi cricket teams respectively during the 2019–20 season,built a good reputation of Pakistan. Hence,by the end of 2019,the Pakistan Cricket Board,announced that they would no longer play any of their future home matches at a neutral venue,indicating that International Cricket has returned to the country on full-time basis.
An Australian team toured New Zealand and Fiji from February to April 1905 to play four first-class matches including two against New Zealand,which had not then attained Test status. Although it was the fifth Australian team to tour New Zealand,it was the first one to play matches on even terms,which therefore have first-class status. On previous tours all matches had been against teams of 15,18 or 22 players. As well as the two matches against New Zealand,the Australians played first-class matches against Canterbury and Otago. The other games were non-first-class against Auckland,Wellington and Fiji.
An Australian cricket team toured New Zealand from February to April 1921 to play nine first-class matches including two against New Zealand. The Australians also played the main provincial teams.
The Australia national cricket team toured New Zealand from February to April 1928 and played six first-class matches including two against the New Zealand national cricket team. This was before New Zealand began playing Test cricket.
The New Zealand Under-23 cricket team played 12 matches of first-class cricket in New Zealand between the 1962–63 season and the 1980–81 season.
