The , also known as the '''Black Caps''', played their first
Test in 1929-30 against
England in
Christchurch ,
New Zealand , becoming the fifth Test nation. It took the team until 1955-56 to win a Test, against the
West Indies at
Eden Park in
Auckland . They played their first
ODI in the 1972-73 season against
Pakistan in Christchurch.
The New Zealand cricket team became known as the Black Caps in January 1998, after its sponsor at the time,
Clear Communications , held a competition to choose a name for the team.
Players who have been awarded a central contract for 2007-8 are in bold.
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- Craig Cumming (right-hand bat)
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- (left-hand bat) (right-arm fast-medium)
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- Darryl Tuffey (right-arm fast-medium)
- (right-arm off-spin)
- (left-hand bat) (left-arm orthodox)
The following lineup is the XI from NZ's last test series v Sri Lanka .
1. Craig Cumming
2. Jamie How
3. Matthew Sinclair
4. Stephen Fleming(C)
5. Nathan Astle
6. Jacob Oram
7. Brendan McCullum
8. Daniel Vettori
9. James Franklin
10. Shane Bond
11. Chris Martin
NB: Cumming does not have a central contract so is unlikely to play in the next test. Astle has retired and is likely to be replaced by Scott Styris.
The following lineup is the preferred XI from the squad used during the
2007 Cricket World Cup .
1. Peter Fulton
2. Stephen Fleming (C)
3. Ross Taylor
4. Scott Styris
5. Craig McMillan
6. Jacob Oram
7. Brendan McCullum
8. Daniel Vettori
9. James Franklin
10. Shane Bond
11. Jeetan Patel
1985: Fourth
- 1986: Semi Finals
- 1990: Semi Finals
- 1994: Semi Finals
- ICC Knock-Out Trophy Nairobi Gymkhana Club Nairobi Kenya 2000 . New Zealand beat India in the final.
- 2003 Bank Alfala Series Trophy held in Sri Lanka (New Zealand,Pakistan,Sri Lanka)
- 2004 NatWest Series Trophy held in England (West Indies,England,New Zealand).
- 2005 Videocon TriSeries held in Zimbabwe (India,Zimbabwe,New Zealand).
- 299 Martin Crowe vs Sri Lanka , in Wellington , 1990 - 1991
- 267--- Bryan Young vs Sri Lanka , in Dunedin , 1996 - 1997
- 239 Graham Dowling vs India , in Christchurch , 1967 - 1968
- 224 Lou Vincent vs Sri Lanka , in Wellington , 2004 - 2005
- 222 Nathan Astle vs England , in Christchurch , 2001 - 2002
- 274--- Stephen Fleming vs Sri Lanka , in Colombo , 2003
- 262 Stephen Fleming vs South Africa , in Cape Town , 2005 - 2006
- 259 Glenn Turner vs West Indies , in Georgetown , 1971 - 1972
- 230 Bert Sutcliffe vs India , in New Delhi, 1955 - 1956
- 223--- Glenn Turner vs West Indies , in Kingstown , 1971 - 1972
Qualification 12 innings
§ The highest wicket stands for all Test nations. Equalled by Mushtaq Ahmed & Azhar Mahmood, Pakistan v South Africa, Rawalpindi, 1997/98.
Qualification 9 Matches
New Zealand is one of only two Test playing countries (the other is South Africa) to have two players who have achieved the allrounder’s double of 3000 Test runs and 200 Test wickets. The current (2007) list is:
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Two other NZ players have scored more than 1000 runs and taken 100 wickets.
Daniel Vettori has 2250 runs and 229 wickets.
John Bracewell scored 1001 runs and took 102 wickets.
No New Zealand player has ever achieved this. Only
Imran Khan and
Ian Botham (once each) have achieved this.
- Richard Hadlee 51 & 17 and 5-34 & 6-68 v West Indies at Dunedin 1979/80
- Richard Hadlee 54 and 9-52 & 6-71 v Australia at Brisbane 1985/86
- Richard Hadlee 68 and 6-80 & 4-60 v England at Nottingham 1986
- Dion Nash 56 and 6-76 & 5-93 v England at Lord's 1994
- Chris Cairns 72 and 3-73 & 7-27 v West Indies at Hamilton 1999/00
Bruce Taylor 105 & 5-86 vs India at Calcutta 1964/65 (on his debut)
12 instances
- 8 Warren Lees v Sri Lanka at Wellington (''all caught'') 1983/83
- 8 Ian Smith v Sri Lanka at Hamilton (''all caught'') 1990/91
- 7 (6 instances)
- 7 Ian Smith v Sri Lanka at Hamilton (''all caught'') 1990/91 (world record held with 3 other players)
- 5 (9 instances)
- 7 Stephen Fleming v Zimbabwe at Harare 1997 (world record held with 4 other players)
- 6 (3 instances)
- 5 Stephen Fleming v Zimbabwe at Harare 1997 (world record held with 4 other players)
- 4 (5 instances)
- Richard Hadlee , one of New Zealand and the world's best all-rounders, took the world record for Most Test Wickets (374) vs India at Bangalore in 1988 . He lost the record to Kapil Dev . Hadlee was the first bowler to reach 400 Test wickets vs India at Christchurch in 1990
- Andrew Jones and Martin Crowe held the highest ever 3rd-wicket partnership in Tests which at the time was the highest partnership for any wicket. {Link without Title} .
- Brian Hastings and Richard Collinge together scored 151 runs for the highest ever 10th-wicket partnership against Pakistan in 1973 . {Link without Title} .
- . He knocked the first hundred off 114 balls. Astle smashed the record by 59 balls, previously held by Adam Gilchrist Australia vs South Africa Johannesburg 2002 ).
- Auckland 1999 . He faced 77 balls in 101 minutes for his zero score.
- Danny Morrison held another "unwanted" record for the most ducks in Test cricket — (24). He lost the record to Courtney Walsh .
- Chris Cairns and his father Lance Cairns are one of the two father-son combination to each claim 100 Test wickets, South Africa's Peter and Shaun Pollock being the other.
- record of 84 (vs England , Lord's , London , 2004 ) and retired from Test cricket with 87. He has since been passed by both Adam Gilchrist (the current record holder) and Brian Lara.
- Fast Bowler Shane Bond holds the best strike rate in the history of One Day International cricket of 26.5 (one player out for every 26.5 balls bowled) {Link without Title} .
- The New Zealand team holds the dubious honour of the record for the most consecutive Test series played without a win - 30 series between 1929-30 and 1969-70 (40 years), comfortably ahead of Bangladesh on 16 series. {Link without Title}
- Another unenviable distinction is the largest margin defeat in the Cricket World Cup, by 215 runs, by Australia.(April 2007).
- New Zealand dismissed Zimbabwe (Harare 2005 ) twice in the same day for totals of 59 and 99. Zimbabwe became only the second team (after India Manchester 1952 ) to be dismissed twice in the same day. The whole Test was completed inside two days.
- Daniel Vettori scored NZ's fastest Test century. (vs Zimbabwe Harare 2005 ). Vettori needed only 82 balls to reach the 100 mark.
- In the same match, he became the third NZ cricketer (after Richard Hadlee and Chris Cairns ) to take more than 200 Test wickets.
- Lou Vincent holds the record for the highest one-day cricket innings by a New Zealander of 172 (vs Zimbabwe Bulawayo 2005 ). The previous best was Glenn Turner 171 not out (vs East Africa Birmingham 1975 ). Vincent and captain Stephen Fleming broke the New Zealand one-day opening partnership record against all countries. Their total of 204 beat Fleming and Nathan Astle 's 193 (vs Pakistan Dunedin 2000 - 2001 ). The team total of 397 was just one run short of the then record one-day total of 398 (Sri Lanka vs Kenya Kandy 1996 ).
- Brendon McCullum scored the fastest World Cup (2007) fifty (off 20 balls) for New Zealand against Canada, beating Mark Boucher's 21-ball record set against the Netherlands six days earlier.
