There is no need to over complicate what the Blackcaps are up to. Aotearoa has Tim Southee, Trent Boult and Kane Williamson as the core of their 1st 11 and for all the chat about different Blackcaps pieces, three of Aotearoa's greatest cricketers ever are the key players.
Another round of Hallyburton Johnston Shield games means our first sighting of Wellington Blaze and Canterbury Magicians this summer.
Recipes are like instructions. They are useful, really helpful in fact but with all our wisdom we usually take a quick squiz of the outline and biff those instructions away.
Last summer Canterbury were a dominant force in Aotearoa cricket, including a Plunket Shield championship where Canterbury were the only team to register more than three wins and 70 points.
Round rua of Aotearoa's Plunket Shield is underway and big boy runs are being scored.
Aotearoa's move to open the batting with Daryl Mitchell at the T20 World Cup was a surprise, although Mitchell's quality shouldn't be a surprise to anyone sipping on a twist of kiwi cricket juice.
Aotearoa's Hallyburton Johnstone Shield began over the weekend with two fixtures between Otago Sparks and Central Districts Hinds.
Playing against Pakistan in a stadium full of Pakistani faithful was always going to be a challenging test for Aotearoa given recent events.
Aotearoa's Plunket Shield is underway with Wellington Firebirds grabbing a 5-wicket win over Otago Volts while Central Districts Stags and Canterbury played out a draw.
This summer's Women's Big Bash League was meant to be all about the Indian wave and South Africa's women bolstering their WBBL crew.
Day tahi of Aotearoa's Plunket Shield was rolled up and smoked by Central Districts Stags debutant Bayley Wiggins, while Wellington Firebirds batter Troy Johnson also throw his name into the 'check his stats mixer'.
There’s a T20 World Cup underway now and the Blackcaps have a reputation to uphold. They’re the current and inaugural World Test Champions. They have made consecutive ODI World Cup finals and four straight semi-finals. They were semi-finalist at the 2016 edition of the T20 Worlds.
Spin, spin, spin. We're all sniffing around covid pondering about the value of spin bowling at this T20 World Cup.
Aotearoa heads into the T20 World Cup with two frontline spinners that we're all pretty chuffed to have in Mitchell Santner and Ish Sodhi.
Major tournaments call for major players they don't get much more major in the Blackcaps white-ball realm than Kane Williamson and Martin Guptill.
Lockie Ferguson and Kyle Jamieson have been strolling down two very different T20 paths this year leading into the T20 World Cup.
Every team enters the T20 World Cup with oodles of x-factor and Aotearoa is no different.
We are building Plunket Shield buzz here so kick back, spark it up and start to meditate on Aotearoa cricketing funk.
Plunket Shield cricket is coming. Whatever amount of help you need to build the Plunket Shield fizz, fizz on up...
Leaving Pakistan ahead of five T20I games wasn't ideal preparation for the upcoming T20 World Cup but a collection of Aotearoa's best cricketers trooping through the Indian Premier League's second stanza kept the flame alive.