Cricket bosses are scrambling to deal with the latest club v country problem after Colin de Grandhomme was surprisingly picked in Australia's Big Bash draft.

The Black Caps' hopes of winning back the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy have been enhanced by the return of Matt Henry.

Life keeps getting better for Maniototo farmgirl Eden Carson, whose taste of international cricket at the Commonwealth Games has left the young White Ferns spinner wanting more - once her veterinary studies are done, she tells Merryn Anderson.

It will be the quickest format ever seen for professional cricketers when the SKYEXCH 6IXTY tournament begins in the West Indies - the equal shortest, being the same length as a 10-over match, but quicker.

Ben Stokes has revealed he is taking medication for anxiety due to his ongoing mental-health issues as he continues to struggle with the death of his father.

Four batsmen posted half centuries as New Zealand overhauled the West Indies' total of 301-8 to win the deciding one-day international by five wickets.

Some of Hawke's Bay's finest cricketers are looking to fundraise more than $30,000 so they can travel to Australia to represent New Zealand at the 2022 Indoor Cricket World Cup in October.

Finn Allen made 96 and Tim Southee took 4-22 as the Black Caps beat the West Indies by 50 runs under the Duckworth-Lewis system in the second one-day international to level the three-match series.

Former Black Caps captain Ross Taylor has revealed that New Zealand Cricket missed its chance to recruit a teenage Ben Stokes, after Taylor spotted his raw talent while playing County Cricket.

Taylor, writing in his new book 'Ross Taylor: Black & White', recalls playing with the future England superstar at Durham in 2010 and trying to facilitate a shift back to his country of birth.

Stokes, England's current Test captain and long rated as one of the best all-rounders in world cricket, was raised in New Zealand before moving to the UK aged 12 to settle in Cumbria where his father was offered a job as a rugby league coach. Taylor believes there was a window of opportunity to poach Stokes while his New Zealand roots were still laid bare.

"He was 18 or 19 and very much a Kiwi. Over a Guinness, I asked him if he wanted to come and play in New Zealand. He was keen, so I sent a message to New Zealand Cricket CEO Justin Vaughan, saying this guy Stokes was a really good young cricketer and interested in playing for New Zealand."

Taylor goes on to say that Vaughan may not have held the young Stokes in as high regard as himself and so made no major moves to secure his trade.

"Vaughan replied along the lines that he could start playing domestic cricket and we would see where it went.

"I went back saying we would have to offer him more than that because he wouldn't be interested if it meant starting on the bottom rung of the ladder. Obviously it didn't come to anything.

"Ben was sincere about playing for New Zealand but NZC would've had to have acted swiftly and decisively and given him some pretty solid assurances, which Vaughan clearly wasn't prepared to do."

At the end of what was an impressive debut season for Durham in 2010, Stokes was selected for England's Performance Programme - a pathway to international cricket for promising young players - and made his ODI debut in August 2011 as a 20-year-old.

The 2019 ODI World Cup became the most poignant reminder of this missed opportunity as Stokes produced a man-of-the-match performance to help England claim the tournament trophy, and break the hearts of scores of Black Caps fans in doing so.

Just months later, Stokes was officially nominated for the New Zealander of the Year awards - another slap in the face for cricket-loving Kiwis - though it seemed he retained the humility of his Cantabrian roots as he swiftly turned it down and withdrew from the voting process.

Finally, in April this year, Stokes achieved a first for the England Test team that still looks like a faraway prospect on home shores: he became the side's first Māori captain.

While most Black Caps fans have only been able to dream of the idea of Stokes batting and bowling alongside the likes of Kane Williamson, Brendon McCullum, Daniel Vettori, Trent Boult, Tim Southee and Martin Guptill, Ross Taylor did more than that, but was left with the empty idea of what could have been.

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The Black Caps have slumped to a five-wicket defeat to the West Indies in their first ODI in Barbados, snapping their ODI winning streak.

The Black Caps' nine game winning streak in the Twenty20 format has come to an end in a dead rubber loss to the West Indies in Kingston this morning.

The Black Caps have demolished the West Indies by 90 runs to win their Twenty20 series with a game in hand, after posting a record batting total that the home side never looked like chasing down.

Former New Zealand bowler Murphy Su'a has revealed a targeted racist incident involving a senior player in the 1990s.

Black Caps great Ross Taylor says he has experienced racism in New Zealand cricket.

The Black Caps First XI produced a first class victory in their opening Twenty20 clash against the West Indies today in which may go down as one of the longest matches in cricket's shortest format.

New Zealand cricket great Ross Taylor has revealed that current Black Caps players made racially insensitive comments towards him.

Former South African cricket umpire Rudi Koertzen died overnight following a car crash. He was 73.

Trent Boult's time as a regular member of the Black Caps across all three formats has come to an end.

Black Caps veteran Trent Boult is still part of the side's plans for the Twenty20 World Cup later this year after asking for a release from his central contract from New Zealand Cricket.

The White Ferns will face England for the bronze medal after taking Australia to the final over but losing by five wickets at Edgbaston tonight.

In my 40 years of journalism, nothing has felt remotely as difficult as writing this, because the emotions are still so raw.

Australia's women's cricket team have won gold in controversial fashion at the Commonwealth Games after fielding a player who tested positive for Covid-19 just hours before the match began.

An unbeaten century partnership between Mitchell Santner and Daryl Mitchell led New Zealand to an eight-wicket win over the Netherlands and Twenty20 series sweep on Friday.

Fortunately for the White Ferns, they were already assured a semifinal spot before their destruction by England.

The fringe players are certainly making the most of their chances for the Black Caps. Mark Chapman scored his first century for New Zealand as the Black Caps chased down 302 to defeat Scotland in their only ODI in Edinburgh.

Three decades after his test debut, Heath Davis has become the first male New Zealand international cricketer to come out as gay.

The Black Caps brushed aside Scotland to sweep the two-match Twenty20 series after posting their highest total in the format before winning by 102 runs.

Fourteen years after playing basketball at the Olympics, Suzie Bates put on a show during her Commonwealth Games cricket debut.