New Zealand national cricket team

New Zealand national cricket team

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The New Zealand national cricket team, nicknamed the Black Caps, contend their initial take a look at in 1930 against England in city, turning into the fifth country to play take a look at cricket. From 1930 New Zealand had to attend till 1956, over twenty six years, for its initial take a look at ending, against the West Indies at Eden Park in Auckland. They contend their initial ODI within the 1972–73 season against Pakistan in city.

The current take a look at, One-day and Twenty20 captain is Kane Williamson, who replaced Brendon McCullum who announced his retirement in late December 2015. The national team is union by New Zealand Cricket.

The New Zealand cricket team became referred to 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. Official New Zealand Cricket sources typeset the nickname as BLACKCAPS. This is one in all several national team nicknames associated with the All Blacks.

As of twelve March 2019, New Zealand have played 1309 Internationals, winning 496, losing 594, tying 11 and drawing 165 matches while 43 matches ended yielding no result. The team is ranked 2nd in Tests, 3rd in ODIs and 6th in T20Is by the ICC.

·        History

·        Beginnings of cricket in New Zealand

The reverend Henry Williams provided history with the primary report of a game of cricket in New Zealand, when he wrote in his diary in December 1832 about boys in and around Paihia on Horotutu Beach playing cricket. In 1835, Darwin and HMS hound dog known as into the Bay of Islands on its epic travel of the planet and Darwin witnessed a game of cricket contend by freed Māori slaves and therefore the son of a missionary at Waimate North. Darwin in The Voyage of the Beagle wrote:

several young men redeemed by the missionaires from slavery were employed on the farm. In the evening I saw a celebration of them at cricket.

The first recorded game of cricket in New Zealand happened in Wellington in December 1842. The Wellington Spectator reports a game on twenty eight December 1842 contend by a "Red" team and a "Blue" team from the Wellington Club. The first absolutely recorded match was according by the Examiner in Nelson Viscount Nelson Admiral Nelson Lord Nelson admiral full admiral} between the Surveyors and Nelson in March 1844.

The first team to tour New Zealand was Parr's all England XI in 1863–64. Between 1864 and 1914, twenty two foreign groups toured New Zealand. England sent six groups, Australia 15 and one from Fiji.

World records

Richard Hadlee, one in all New Zealand and therefore the world's best all-rounders, took the world record for most Test wickets (374) vs India at Bangalore in 1988. Hadlee was the primary bowler to achieve four hundred take a look at wickets, vs India at city in 1990, and finished his career with 431 wickets. He subsequently lost the record to Kapil Dev.

Corey Anderson holds record for the second quickest century in at some point Internationals (or the other format of international cricket). Playing against West Indies, he scored his ton in just 36 balls. Corey Anderson lost the record to AB de Villiers when AB scored a century in just 31 balls against West Indies.

In a One Day International in 1996, the entire New Zealand team were awarded man of the match in this match against the West Indies, the first such occasion.

Andrew Jones and Martin Crowe held the highest ever 3rd-wicket partnership in Tests, with 467 against Sri Lanka in 1991, which at the time was the highest partnership for any wicket.

Brian Hastings and Richard Collinge along scored 151 runs for the 10th-wicket against Pakistan in 1973, the very best 10th-wicket partnership at the time.

Nathan Astle scored take a look at cricket's quickest ever double century versus England, at Christchurch in 2002. He scored 200 off 153 balls with the second hundred coming off just 39 deliveries. He was eventually out for 222—the awful double Nelson. He knocked the first hundred off 114 balls. Astle smashed the record by fifty nine balls, previously held by Adam Gilchrist Australia vs South Africa Johannesburg 2002.

Brendon McCullum holds the world record for the fastest Test hundred in terms of balls faced. It was scored off 54 balls on 20 February 2016, against Australia during his final Test match, in Christchurch.[citation needed]

Brendon McCullum holds the world record for the most sixes in Test cricket with 107. He passed Adam Gilchrist's record of 100 in his final Test match. This record was also previously held by Chris Cairns.

·        Team colours

New Zealand's kit is factory-made by Canterbury of recent Zealand, World Health Organization replaced previous manufacturer WStar in 2009. When enjoying take a look at cricket, New Zealand's cricket whites feature the silver fern badge on the left of the shirt, the name and logo of the sponsors Amul on the right, the Ford brand on the left sleeve and therefore the Canterbury brand on the correct sleeve. New Zealand fielders could wear a black cap (in the fashion of a jockey cap instead of the dishevelled cap worn by some teams) or a white sun hat with the New Zealand Cricket brand within the middle. Helmets are colored black (although till 1996, they used to be white with the silver fern logo encased in a black circle).

In restricted overs cricket, New Zealand's ODI and Twenty20 shirts feature the ANZ logo across the centre, with the silver fern badge on the left of the shirt, Canterbury logo on the correct sleeve and therefore the Ford brand on the correct. In ODIs, the kit includes a black shirt with blue accents and black trousers,