Black Caps opener Finn Allen scored his maiden Twenty20 ton for New Zealand as the side cruised to a 68-run win in the opening match against Scotland in Edinburgh this morning.

Kane Williamson will return to lead a 15-player squad on the Black Caps' first trip to the Caribbean since 2014.

The Black Caps have completed an unbeaten tour of Ireland after winning the third and final Twenty20 by six wickets in Belfast on Saturday

The decision from Ben Stokes, one of cricket's most versatile and damaging white-ball players, to retire from the ODI format at 31 should serve as a wake-up call for the sport's administrators.

A "bully" banned from cricket for more than three years after attacking opponents will be on a curfew for the next four months.

The latest vandalism at Rotorua's cricket nets has left an administrator fearing local programmes could be at risk if similar incidents continued.

Cricket legend Michael Slater has again fronted court after police were called to his house over a concern for his welfare.

The Black Caps have done it again, sneaking home against Ireland and winning the third one-day international by a single run.

The Central Stags have finalised their contract list for the 2022-23 season and a first-time recipient is right-arm pace bowler Liam Dudding.

Dylan Cleaver and ACC Head G Lane join Jason Hoyte for another episode of the BYC Podcast.

Michael Bracewell has earned his second straight man of the match to guide the Black Caps to a ODI series victory over Ireland with a game to spare.

All-rounder Michael Bracewell has saved the Black Caps from their first defeat to Ireland with some remarkable late hitting, denying the hosts a famous win in Dublin.

Former New Zealand test cricket captain, Barry Sinclair, has died aged 85.

A gang of fraudsters hired farm labourers to play in a fake "Indian Premier League" designed to dupe punters.

New Zealand's professional women's and men's cricketers will receive the same pay for the same work on the same day, in a landmark agreement struck between NZC, the six Major Associations, and the New Zealand Cricket Players Association.

Napier City Rovers are out to end a near 18-year absence from the highest level of domestic football.

Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow shredded India with unbeaten centuries as England rewrote history by winning their series-deciding test by seven wickets on the last day of the fifth test at Edgbaston overnight.

Steve Smith has cast doubt over "Bazball" working against the Australian attack in next summer's Ashes series and revealed the term has become a running joke in the camp.

England fast bowler Stuart Broad conceded 35 runs against India's Jasprit Bumrah in the most expensive over ever bowled in test cricket overnight.

Virat Kohli angered English cricket fans with a rogue act toward Jonny Bairstow as India took a strong grip on the Edgbaston Test.

By Andrew Alderson at Headingley

England's final day blitz provided an appropriate end to the 3-0 series victory of world champions New Zealand at Headingley.

New Zealand Cricket has announced a jam-packed home international schedule for the Black Caps and White Ferns.

A grandstand at the stadium in Galle, Sri Lanka, has collapsed in wild weather as rain buckets down ahead of day two of the first Australian Test.