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White Ferns prepare for strong England side
February 16, 2012
A White Ferns side full of potential begin their series against the highly rated England Woman’s team tomorrow in a Twenty20 match at Westpac Stadium in Wellington. New Zealand will face the English side in five Twenty20 matches and three ODIs over the next 17 days at various venues around the country. England played the last of three warm-up matches against the NZ Emerging Player’s XI on Tuesday and were convincing victors in all three outings. Englis...
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Emerging Women’s squad to face Australia U21 announced
February 16, 2012
New Zealand Cricket today announced the Emerging Women’s team to take on the Australian U-21 side. All matches will be played at Bert Sutcliffe Oval in Lincoln with the first game on March 15. The teams will play two Twenty20 matches, followed by three 50-over matches. Emerging Women’s team:: Madeline Green: Auckland Hearts (Captain) Victoria Abbott: Otago Sparks Janet Brehaut: Canterbury Magicians Kate Broadmore: Centra...
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Poverty Bay retain ND Women’s Challenge Trophy
February 15, 2012
The Poverty Bay Women's Cricket team have successfully defended the ND Challenge Trophy for the 2011/12 season defeating Waikato Valley and Hamilton in emphatic fashion at the weekend in Mount Maunganui. Saturdays challenge Waikato Valley made 169/10 bowled out in the 36 over. Fern McIldowie 3-35 was the chief destroyer Mel Knight 2-33 off bowled tightly. It was Karen McDonald's slow mediums 1-20 that claimed the critical wicket of the former White Fern and previous international pl...
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Vettori, Watling, Boult named; Watling to be wicketkeeper
February 13, 2012
The Yahoo!NZ Northern Knights have named a strong side for their round five clash in the Plunket Shield. The Knights play the Central Stags at Harry Barker Reserve in Gisborne, starting on Friday. Three of the current BLACKAPS Test team will play with Daniel Vettori, BJ Watling and Trent Boult all using the Plunket Shield to prepare for the South African Test series. BLACKCAP contracted player, Daniel Flynn, will also have his first Plunket Shield outing of the summer, having re...
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WHITE FERNS & BLACKCAPS Double Header
February 10, 2012
Gates open 2pm Sunday 19th February 2012. WHITE FERNS v England at 2.45pm. BLACKCAPS v South Africa at 7pm. Tickets available at Ticketek.
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Strong line-up for Hawke Cup defence
February 10, 2012
Take a look at Hamilton's lineup for their second defence of the Hawke Cup for the season and one thing seems immediately apparent – that it couldn't get much stronger could it? It could have but challengers Wairarapa have escaped the unenviable task of confronting Black Cap Daniel Vettori, who was set to play in the three-day fixture starting today before realising he had a wedding to attend this weekend. Even without the champion all-rounder, Hamilton will boast five North...
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WEDNESDAY 14 MARCH - DINNER AT SKYCITY HAMILTON
February 10, 2012
On the eve of the BLACKCAPS v South Africa Test Match, we have an opportunity for you to join former BLACKCAP Simon Doull as MC and former South African batsman Barry Richards at a special event at SKYCITY Hamilton. Barry Richards played for South Africa in 1970 and in four test matches, he scored 508 runs at the high average of 72.57. His career was cut short by South Africa's exclusion from international cricket. He then spent his time playing first class cricket becoming a prolific...
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NZC launches video highlights for domestic cricket
February 9, 2012
New Zealand Cricket (NZC) has boosted its online offering with the introduction of video highlights for all domestic cricket matches. International video highlights have been offered since 2005 and the new domestic initiative has been launched with the highlights all Ford Trophy preliminary finals, including yesterday’s match between the Auckland Aces and Otago Volts. For matches that are shown on SKY TV a full clip is available while all other matches use the fixed point vide...
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Big Hits with Devi
February 9, 2012
Willy enters the sacred Knights dressing room and gets lessons from Devi about big hits and growing beards
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Real Men Wear Pink
February 9, 2012
Willy asks the boys about the pink uniform and their official charity, the New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation