New Zealand

John Reid spent weekdays selling fuel to farmers, weekends batting in the local park, and holidays playing for New Zealand. Oamaru on the South Island of New Zealand is a base camp for a farming community. Many decades back...

Merv Wallace should have been one of the greatest names in New Zealand's cricket history. That he wasn't largely because of the whims of selectors. Considered by many contemporaries to be one of the best New Zealand batsmen of...

For almost three-quarters of a century, he was at the forefront of New Zealand cricket as a player, captain, selector, and manager. The three of his five sons-Sir Richard, Dayle and Barry went on to play international cricket for...

One of the world's oldest Test cricketer dies in Auckland Gordon Lindsay's Dad' Weir, who was the world's oldest surviving Test cricketer at 95 years and 151 days, died on October 31, 2003, in Auckland after being in declining...

Former New Zealand Test batsman Bert Sutcliffe amassed a total of 2,627 runs on a 1949 tour of England. The left-hander who enchanted a generation of New Zealanders with his graceful stroke play in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s....

Well, to be honest, it says a lot for how good and effective Richard Hadlee was? That he bore fair comparison as a fast bowler with first Dennis Lillee and Michael Holding in the late 1970s. And then early...

He was a specialist’s wicketkeeper-batsman who played in the lower middle order. Ian Colqhoun was a right-handed batsman-wicketkeeper, came late to first-class cricket, not making his debut for Central Districts until he was 29. He was a school teacher and...