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It was the 1524th Test match in cricket history

At 20 and poised on the threshold of his first extensive first-class and one-day season, Wellington off-spinner Jeetan Patel manifests many of the quirks which flood the personalities older, more time-worn bowlers

Chris Nevin and James Franklin make an odd couple - the former short, stocky and with a batting approach which mixes urgency and pugnacity; the other tall, more languid and more fluent, an easy shot-maker

Storms of a type not seen in Canterbury for 30 years may have blown over the region in recent weeks but New Zealand Cricket's turf manager Karl Johnson says preparation for the CricInfo Women's World Cup is on track

John Wright once declared in one of those pithy player profiles; best opponent, best movies, best records and that sort of thing, that he would most like to be a jet pilot

Dion Nash has become such a crucial element in New Zealand's cricket equation he cannot afford to be lost at such an early stage of his career if back problems are likely to persist for him

2000 New Zealand Cricket Almanack, in association with SKY Television

"It's news to me," was New Zealand Cricket chief executive Christopher Doig's comment that the Basin Reserve has been confirmed as Wellington's venue for the Boxing Day Test against Zimbabwe

Cricket in New Zealand is on track

New Zealand's worst spin bowling fears have materialised

If New Zealand can score 465 runs with such a mixture of batting as it did in setting a record total against Zimbabwe in the second Test at Harare, what is it capable of when getting everything together

Christchurch's Jade Stadium returns to the Test cricket fold this summer when hosting the third test with Pakistan

Wellington's build-up for the new cricket season has received a boost with two games against New South Wales being confirmed

Dynamic Wellington-born businessman Sir Ron Brierley was tonight awarded life membership of Cricket Wellington

WELLINGTON, March 27 -- Captain Steve Waugh reflected on one of the most traumatic eras in Australian cricket tonight as his team blazed to a standard never before reached by a team wearing the baggy green cap

As they seemed fated to do, West Indies lost the second Test to New Zealand by an innings and 105 runs with a day to spare at the Basin Reserve yesterday, but the West Indians had fought tenaciously, and deserved better than what appeared to be

Not even a small classic of an innings by Brian Lara and a fantastic defensive effort by Adrian Griffith could stop the West Indies sliding closer to defeat by the end of the third day of the second Test against New Zealand at the Basin Reserve

'Christmas Day in the Workhouse' could be the theme of the West Indies preparations for the second and final test beginning at the Basin Reserve, Wellington on Boxing Day