2025/26 Ford Trophy: Round Two Basics
Auckland have back to back wins on home turf to start Ford Trophy and all other teams except for Otago have a win so far.
Auckland have back to back wins on home turf to start Ford Trophy and all other teams except for Otago have a win so far.
Auckland, Canterbury and Central Districts had wins to start the domestic cricket summer.
Across the six T20Is scheduled for Blackcaps over the past month there were only three results and all of them were losses for New Zealand.
The domestic cricket summer starts in a week with Ford Trophy sparking up the action. Every team has high quality young cricketers with fresh Blackcaps likely to start the season in domestic cricket and a wave of lads who will soon elevate to the Blackcaps mix.
New Zealand is 9-4 in T20Is this year and they take on England in their next series with these two teams sharing a 3-3 record since the start of 2020.
New Zealand's White Ferns have started the ODI World Cup with two losses and while there is still room for a positive outlook, their 4-11 record in ODIs since the start of 2024 suggests that they won't be good enough to bounce back from these defeats.
New Zealand slipped to their fifth consecutive T20 loss vs Australia in home conditions and offered a fresh dose of funky wrinkles after the two losses a Bay Oval.
New Zealand start the Women's ODI World Cup on Wednesday and while there is a strong group of leaders who are likely to dominate the White Ferns' mahi throughout the tournament, there are also a few sneaky important players who are likely to play most games.
The New Zealand A cricket team continued their undefeated streak to eight First-Cass games with a win and a draw in South Africa, with four wins and two draws in their last six games overseas.
After winning every game of the T20 tri-series in Zimbabwe, New Zealand returns to Aotearoa to host Australia for three T20Is with a squad that continues to integrate the best emerging cricketers into the regular flow for Blackcaps.
Praise the lands of Aotearoa because the White Ferns squad for the 2025 ODI World Cup is a fair reflection of New Zealand's best cricketers.
The New Zealand A cricket team is about to start their second overseas tour of 2025 with three List-A games followed by two First-Class games in South Africa.
New Zealand did what needed to be done in Zimbabwe for a tour that was the perfect mix of ruthless performances for the best players and a splendid development opportunity for younger players, as well as the new Blackcaps coach.
New Zealand grabbed another Test win in Zimbabwe and after winning all five of their T20 tri-series games, they finish the tour of Zimbabwe with eight wins and no losses.
New Zealand got the job done in the first Test vs Zimbabwe and they have a chance of grabbing the most Test wins for all nations in Zimbabwe heading into the second Test.
Aotearoa are Zimbabwe tri-series champions after defeating South Africa in the final, winning all five games of the tri-series and taking their record since the last T20 World Cup to 12-3.
New Zealand's Test series in Zimbabwe isn't part of the World Test Championship but it's our first dose of Test cricket in a while and an important phase for the Blackcaps to lay some foundations in the longest format.
The Blackcaps have won their first two games of the T20 tri-series in Zimbabwe featuring impressive mahi from emerging batters Tim Robinson and Bevon Jacobs in the first game, plus the continued excellence of Matt Henry.
The New Zealand A women's cricket team went down 1-5 to England A across both formats and there were many intriguing performances from the kiwi outfit that can bolster White Ferns depth
Aotearoa's development pipeline is on show again in the emerging talent who got their first domestic cricket contracts from the first round of announcements.