Tag: New Zealand

Rare home win on the cards for South Africa

South Africa will be looking to secure just their second home test series win in over four years when they take on New Zealand...

Philander ruled out of 2nd Test

Vernon Philander has been ruled out of the second Test against New Zealand in Port Elizabeth, which starts on Friday, after suffering a recurrence...

New Zealand face South African mountain to climb

New Zealand have done absolutely nothing to suggest they can upset South Africa in the first test of the two-match series beginning at Newlands...

Facebook criminals suspected of £500m heist

Acting on information from Facebook’s security team, the FBI said the suspects from Britain, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, New Zealand, Peru and the...

NZC apologises to Ross Taylor

New Zealand Cricket Chairman Chris Moller has apologised to Ross Taylor for the manner in which the team's captaincy changeover played out, but he...

New Zealand thrash Pakistan Greens to lift rugby title

New Zealand College raffles rugby club trashed Pakistan green to lift Punjab international sports festival rugby event here at DHA rugby ground Lahore. A...

Rain has final say on stop-start day

New Zealand's reception on their tour of Sri Lanka was cold and rainy, as the hosts' seamers left their batting in disarray on a...

Rain delays Sri Lanka, Kiwis one-off T20

The rain stopped the Sri Lanka and New Zealand one-of T20 match at a time when the Kiwis were at 24 for five...

NZ great Crowe diagnosed with cancer

Former New Zealand captain Martin Crowe has been diagnosed with cancer, leaving his family "in shock", the batting great's manager has revealed. Crowe, 50,...

‘Voodoo lily’ stinks out New Zealand botanic garden

A “grotesque” plant that mimics the smell of rotting flesh to attract flies has gone on display in Wellington’s Botanic Gardens. The dracunculus vulgaris,...

Hobbit treasure to become legal tender in New Zealand

New Zealand will release commemorative “The Hobbit” coins worth thousands of dollars ahead of next month’s premier of director Peter Jackson’s latest Tolkien epic....

Mike Tyson barred from entering NZ

The New Zealand government on Wednesday blocked former heavyweight boxing champion and convicted rapist Mike Tyson from entering the country. Tyson had originally been granted...

Win, then hope for the best for West Indies and New...

New Zealand players may have had a gastro problem or three, but surely they and West Indies have received the best of Sri Lankan...

England, NZ determined to put it right

Defending champions England and New Zealand hope to put their World Twenty20 campaigns back on track after losing their Super Eights group one matches...

Sri Lanka eliminate New Zealand in Super Over

Sri Lanka beat New Zealand in a one over eliminator after the 40-over Super Eights contest was sensationally tied at Pallekele stadium on Thursday....

New Zealand locks horns with West Indies

New Zealand, losing finalists in 2009 and 2010, opens its campaign at the ICC Women's World Twenty20 2012 against West Indies, touted to be...

World T20 gets new water to stop stomach bug

World Twenty20 organisers have changed the bottled water supplier and called in food inspectors to check the spread of suspected gastro virus at the...