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India and New Zealand will square off in the first semi-final of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 and it will be a clash between Virat Kohli and Kane Williamson in a knock-out game after 11 years.

What was in Central Districts' stable was enough to entice new coach Rob Walter north.

Henry Nicholls scored 113 for Canterbury in the record-breaking Ford Trophy victory over the Auckland Aces. Black Caps batsman Henry Nicholls has guided Canterbury to a critical Ford Trophy win with a classy century, scoring more than the Auckland Aces could muster in their run chase. Canterburys 216 run victory – the biggest in Ford Trophy history – cements its spot as the first side to qualify for the playoffs and in the box seat to host them. Nicholls, who notched his sixth List A cent...

Mitchell fires Canterbury into Super Smash final Newshub 11/02/2021 © Image - Photosport, video - Spark Sport Daryl Mitchell in action The Canterbury Kings will play the Wellington Firebirds in Sundays T20 Super Smash final after a stunning last-over win against the Central Stags. Will Youngs rapid century looked to have the Stags on track for victory and with the Kings 35/4 in the 6th over, chasing 181, the task was stiff for the red and blacks. But Blackcaps all-rounder Daryl Mitchell (8...

MARTY MELVILLE/PHOTOSPORT/Supplied Wellington Blaze all-rounder Sophie Devine pipped Canterbury Magicians all-rounder Frankie Mackay to the MVP award on the back of a strong bowling display. Wellington Blaze all-rounder Sophie Devine did just enough to claim the Stuff MVP award in the final round of the Twenty20 Super Smash, but it wasnt enough to help her side advance straight to Saturdays grand final. Devine took 4-21 with the ball as the Blaze dismissed the Auckland Hearts for 110 – enoug...

Central Stags batsman Ross Taylor clattered the Canterbury bowlers all over McLean Park. Everyone awaited a response when Ross Taylor, dropped from the Black Caps Twenty20 side in December, was challenged to prove the selectors wrong in Central Stags green. It took a while, until the Stags’ final regular season Super Smash match, but Taylor made his statement with a megaphone against Canterbury Kings, raining down seven sixes on McLean Park on Friday night. Taylor’s power-packed 65 off 36...

Eleven of the 16 balls Finn faced on his way to 50 went to or over the boundary rope, including a booming six over backward point off Black Cap Blair Tickner, who could only run his fingers through his moustache in frustration. Left-armer spinner Jayden Lennox bowled him in the ninth over, but Allen and fellow opener Devon Conway had well and truly broken the back of the chase with 107 runs on the board. MARTY MELVILLE/PHOTOSPORT Wellington Firebirds batsman Finn Allen celebrates his 50 again...

Unwanted Black Cap plays leading role as Central Stags cement themselves in the top three, while all-rounder takes stunning catch.

The Stags’ bad run of form in the Plunket Shield and Ford Trophy is behind them.

Holly Huddleston took her total for the season to four points after a strong performance for the Auckland Hearts on Monday, where she scored 18 off 16 balls, then took 3-8 off 3.2 overs as they beat the Canterbury Magicians. In the men’s competition, Allen went clear at the top, but is being marked closely by Central Stags opener George Worker. The Firebirds opener smashed 75 off 39 balls as they beat the Northern Knights on Saturday – his third fifty in five outings – to claim his thi...