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6 unusual facts about New Zealand national cricket team


1917 New Zealand rugby league season

Railway XIII included Ces Dacre, who later represented New Zealand at cricket.

Chris Whelan

Whelan then returned to first-team action, and in June returned his best List A figures of 4–78 against the New Zealanders at Worcester.

Craig Jennings

During the same season he also represented the county in 2 List-A matches against the touring New Zealanders and Gloucestershire in the totesport League.

Ian Harvey

Against New Zealand he failed with the bat making just 2 but he bowled economically again taking 1/11 in 6 overs.

Richard Stemp

Stemp was a slow left arm bowler, and was a member of the England squad picked to play New Zealand in 1994, but was left out of the final eleven.

Sajid Mahmood

He made his One Day International debut for England against New Zealand at Bristol in July 2004, but his seven overs proved expensive, conceding 56 runs without a wicket.


Bowl-out

The first international bowl-out in a Twenty20 match took place on 16 February 2006, when New Zealand beat West Indies 3-0 in Auckland.

Halstead

Other players to have played both first class cricket and for the club include former Essex and Leicestershire man Darren Robinson, international coach Richard Pybus and New Zealand U-19 and Canterbury bowler Matt Henry.

Hamish Bennett

Hamish Kyle Bennett (born 22 February 1987 in Timaru) is an international cricketer who has played Test and One Day International (ODI) cricket for New Zealand.

History of cricket in New Zealand from 1918–19 to 1945

An Australian team toured New Zealand in 1920-21 to play first-class matches versus New Zealand national team (twice) and provincial teams including Auckland, Wellington, Canterbury and Otago.

Sir Julien Cahn's cricket team, captained by George Heane, toured New Zealand in February and March 1939 to play ten matches including one first-class fixture against the New Zealand national cricket team at Basin Reserve; this match was drawn.

New Zealand cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2013–14

The New Zealand cricket team are currently competing against Sri Lanka in a tour consisting of three ODIs and two Twenty20s.

Stuart McCullum

A left-handed opening batsman who occasionally kept-wicket, he is the father of New Zealand international players Brendon and Nathan McCullum.


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