As Aotearoa's White Ferns tune up for their intriguing series against England, they will again be tasked with the balance of relying on the senior world-class players and getting the most out of the young group plugging holes in the squad.
No one in the kiwi cricket whare would have been surprised that Colin Munro and Ross Taylor were left out of the Blackcaps T20 World Cup squad.
Aotearoa's Blackcaps squad for the T20 World Cup was announced and while it doesn't serve as a straight up representation of Aotearoa's best T20 cricketers, there is a core group of slick cricketers ready to chase more major tournament success.
Aotearoa's Blackcaps will play five T20I in Bangladesh and three ODIs in Pakistan before shuffling the deck, ushering in a fresh crop of kiwi cricket troopers to share the good word in Pakistan and United Arab Emirates.
Leading into the T20 World Cup, Aotearoa's Blackcaps will tap into Asian conditions with tours of Bangladesh and Pakistan concentrated around T20I cricket.
The strangest yarn in Aotearoa sport that no one really wants to acknowledge has been and still is the White Ferns dip in form from competing among the world's best to struggling for a win.
Another summer of domestic cricket lurks on the horizon and the recent confirmation of contracts dished out has a fresh crop of young talent moving into the domestic cricket circuit.
No T20 Blast, this week has been all about County Championship cricket over in England and Aotearoa's cricketers on the Kiwi County Tour got busy with their mahi.
Aotearoa's domestic cricket contracts are now being wrapped up with the second round of contracts seeing most teams add a couple fringe lads to their contracted list.
The big cricketing theme at the Niche Cache is wiggling towards T20 World Cup and as the Kiwi County Tour mahi rolls on, optimism grows in these pages of what the Blackcaps could do in another major tournament.
The domestic cricket schedule over in England is a hot shambles and yet Aotearoa's cricketers on the Kiwi County Tour continue to dominate.
As Devon Conway takes the piss in England and Glenn Phillips transforms into off-spinning G-Philly, two of Aotearoa's hostile seamers in Lockie Ferguson and Adam Milne grabbed headlines with hat-tricks to finish the first stanza of T20 Blast cricket.
England's T20 Blast will take a wee break as they now switch up to deliver their 'The Hundred' doosra, although we do have some of our kiwi cricketers sliding into County Championship antics during this phase.
Credit to the Blackcaps legends who don't need T20 cricket gigs. Double down on that and chur to the true avant-garde Test cricketers who are chillin' in isolation - as true artists tend to do
Winning the World Test Championship as a lovely achievement for Aotearoa's Blackcaps. This marked the climax of a treacherous journey through self-awareness and development, plenty of mahi boiled down to six days and one trophy.
Monday 28 March, 1955. The New Zealand cricket team were bowled out for 26 in a Test against England in Auckland – to this date still the lowest ever score in a completed Test innings.
I hope the skies over Southampton were clear enough for the full moon to peak through and illuminate celebrations for the Blackcaps. T
The first round of domestic cricket contracts have been dished out and there is little movement between the teams again this winter as most promote from within.
Beneath the joy of Blackcaps vs India, England's T20 Blast roles on and a bunch of our favourite kiwi cricketers are already making a mark on the competition while a bunch more will link up with their teams after the World Test Championship Final.
Having dismantled England on their home turf, we now have a World Test Championship Final between the greatest cricketing nation in the world (India) and the best sporting nation in the world (Aotearoa).