2020/21 Plunket Shield All Stars
The Plunket Shield is with Canterbury and the leaves are falling, meaning that it is time for another Plunket Shield All Stars team to be named.
The Plunket Shield is with Canterbury and the leaves are falling, meaning that it is time for another Plunket Shield All Stars team to be named.
The 2020/21 kiwi cricket summer has been all about Canterbury. Canterbury women won the Super Smash and Hallyburton-Johnstone Shield, the only female competitions to win while Canterbury men have added Plunket Shield glory to their Ford Trophy win.
The whispers from Wellington started to percolate. Another South African had made the move to Aotearoa and this bloke arrived with nothing promised to him, just a fresh start and a hope to play his best cricket.
And so the Aotearoa summer comes to an end with the Blackcaps bullying all cricketing tourists.
As the third and final T20I against Australia fell victim to rain, we continue on the journey of trying to figure out what's doing with Aotearoa White Ferns.
Welcome back ODI cricket! Having made a hard and fast visit into the minds of kiwi cricket fans with three ODIs against Bangladesh, ODI cricket drifts back into the abyss.
Maybe The Niche Cache has read the whole Aotearoa White Ferns situation completely wrong?
Kyle Jamieson and Finn Allen aren't just young Auckland cricketers making waves in Aotearoa, one with the ball and one with the bat.
If anyone had any questions or queries about Aotearoa's best cricketing province, then his summer has emphatically delivered answers with Canterbury stacking four trophies into their cabinet prior to the season officially coming to an end.
Plunket Shield cricket is back and the second stanza of four-day cricket in Aotearoa signals a slow shift into Autumn.
No matter how weird the White Ferns ODI slump has been in recent years, moving into the T20I section of this series against England there was a slither of optimism that the shorter format would see the kiwis find a groove.
Series decider, clutch moments, big game players and a T20I series win over Australia for Aotearoa's Blackcaps.
Sometimes a game of cricket can boil down to the best player doing what he does best and for Canterbury's Ford Trophy final win over Northern Districts, the work of Henry Nicholls led Canterbury to victory.
Australia have bounced back with two wins in Wellington over Aotearoa's Blackcaps, bringing the series level at 2-2 with the funky decider coming tomorrow.
Two things were clear as Aotearoa’s most significant ever clash of heavyweight boxers took place last weekend. One was that Junior Fa was being seriously underrated by a lot of people. The other was that the respective strengths of the two fighters was always going to make a knockout victory for either dude extremely unlikely.
In a game impacted by rain, Northern Districts Knights defeated Wellington Firebirds to lock in a Ford Trophy final spot against Canterbury.
The three Ford Trophy finalists have been summoned and with Canterbury locked in for the super-duper final, it leaves Northern Districts Knights hosting Wellington Firebirds for a trip down to Christchurch.
Aotearoa's White Ferns have snapped an 11 game losing streak in ODI cricket, finally! What if I also told you that the White Ferns last three wins have all come in the third game of three-game ODI series, after the White Ferns had lost the first two games.
We've had a hearty buffet of fun Blackcaps T20I shenanigans in these two wins from Devon Conway's effortless wizardry to Martin Guptill back in his groove and the spin duo sharing 4 wicket-hauls.
We’ve been through the intricate negotiations, we’ve been through the injury delay, we’ve been through the promotional yarns, we’ve been through the niggly back and forth between camps (mostly), and on Saturday night the hype becomes reality as the most consequential local heavyweight clash in history takes place.