Tim Seifert and Dane Cleaver have been in rampant run-scoring form throughout the first stanza of Plunket Shield cricket, while Cameron Fletcher and Ben Horne have been simmering away as well. What will 50-over cricket dish up for our wicket-keepers?
Suzie Bates and her White Ferns homies are back in Aotearoa playing domestic 50-over cricket, it wasn't the White Ferns who dominated the opening weekend's action though.
Shai Hope announced his arrival in Aotearoa with a hundy and there are a few intriguing pieces to the West Indies puzzle ahead of the first Test vs Aotearoa.
Stumps skittled, wrongies ripping and lifting leggies saw Ish Sodhi slide back into Plunket Shield glory with Northern Districts Knights.
Prepare yourself for a massive heavyweight slug-fest. The boxing world will be watching with fascination, the boxing media will be dangling on a string. And hopefully once David Higgins and Eddie Hearn are done with all that...
Aotearoa's 2nd XI cricketers gathered in Taupo to play the North Island 2nd XI T20 tournament and here's the Domestic Daily's notes, from Willem Ludick to Vishi Jeet and back around to Josh Clarkson and Raja Sandhu.
Tom Latham was a stroppy bugger, Mitchell Santner and Colin de Grandhomme scored runs and there's a splash of funk around that Blackcaps #5 spot in the wash up from the Blackcaps battlers in Plunket Shield.
Despite Derek de Boorder's lapping, Central Districts churned out the perfect batting game and Wellington's batsmen are doing enough. Just enough isn't usually good enough, but for Wellington it's doing the trick nicely.
Wellington's seamers steamed through Canterbury's batting line up, mind you it's a pre-Christmas seamer's paradise out there in Aotearoa.
Jahtearoa Niche Cache Cricket has been graced with a Big Bash League trial, so who makes the cut for the first kiwi BBL franchise?
Some Blackcaps strolled back into Plunket Shield and a whole lot of our Plunket Shield Soldiers were brushed aside as a result. That's not cool, so shout out to the Plunket Shield Soldiers who got cut for round four.
Lockie Ferguson becomes the hottest trend when he's steaming through opposition teams, but this ain't no trend. Ferguson's been doing this for a few years now with the red ball.
George Worker went big on his Plunket Shield return and we all know that he's sniffing around the Blackcaps. Where can he fit in and what format will offer the opportunity?
Central Districts Stags have a batting group churning out runs like the Niche Cache churns out domestic cricket content. Will Young's not in on the funk though and the Stags skipper is knee deep in a slump.
Warren Barnes had Jeet Raval jumping around, Lockie Ferguson had stumps rollin' and Otago's batsmen are in a slump. Get deep into some Plunket Shield funk from Auckland vs Otago (plenty more to come don't buzz).
Aotearoa's White Ferns have moved into their T20 series vs Pakistan and Sophie Devine's still smokin' runs, we look back a the ODI series as well to find a few themes in how the White Ferns are building depth.
NZC ain't making money, they signed a deal with Star Sports though! More shenanigans to digest folks.
Sound the alarm! We've got Test cricket coming to Aotearoa and West Indies have named their squad that will bring Test cricket to Aotearoa. Here's the info, so you know.
Sophie Devine scored some more runs in the second ODI vs Pakistan and Aotearoa grabbed another win.
Here are a few Plunket Shield cricketers who you are sleeping on; Michael Rae, Will Williams, Ben Horne.