Richard Hadlee

John Wright has missed out on a place on New Zealand's selection panel, with the existing four-member group reappointed for at least a year

The news of Botham's knighthood is wonderfully appropriate and shamefully overdue

Cricketers who have received knighthoods

Outplaying England in every department, especially in the way their faster bowlers used a suspect pitch, New Zealand achieved their largest-ever victory in twelve hours' playing time.

For most of the 17 years Hadlee was a Test cricketer, he singlehandedly carried his side's attack like no other bowler had managed before and only Muttiah Muralitharan has managed since. His action, as smooth as whipped cream, combined menace with meannes

Glenn McGrath is still hoping to make his international return at the Champions Trophy in India in September

A look at West Indies' 1979-80 tour of New Zealand which was dogged by ill will and terrible sportsmanship

We asked you to pick out the greatest Test you had ever seen (or one you wished you had), and the responses ranged from the predictable to the not-so

I was 25 years of age and had to be the strike bowler as Richard Collingewas struggling

Glenn McGrath has lifted his sights to 600 Test wickets as he prepares to become the first Australia bowler to play a Test aged 35 since Ray Lindwall

A star-studded selection panel chaired by Sunil Gavaskar will choose the ICC World XIs for the six-day Super Test against Australia and three one-day matches in October

New Zealand have chosen the same 14-man squad that convincingly beat Bangladesh as they prepare for a considerable step up in class for the two-Test series against Australia, starting on November 18

There haven't been many moments in New Zealand's cricket history when there has been the chance to believe, firmly, that when the side takes the field its prospects of victory are better than 50%

A new annual one-day series, known as the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy, between Australia and New Zealand will start later this year, it was announced today

With the India - Australia Test series about to get under way, former and present cricketers give their opinions on what will happen, what will not, and everything in between

With the Australia-India Test series about to get under way, former and present cricketers give their opinions on what will happen, what will not, and everything in between

Perhaps it's something to do with Mars' alignment with the stars, well that will do as an excuse, but there seems to have been a fair bit of scuttlebutt about lately on the prospect of Craig Spearman once more gracing international cricket

For the first time in nine years, New Zealand have a batsman among the top eight in the world rankings

Central Districts fast-medium bowler Michael Mason and Auckland one-day specialist Paul Hitchcock are the big winners in the New Zealand cricket teams to tour India and Pakistan named today