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New Zealand cricket team
New Zealand cricket team In international cricket, known as the BLACKCAPS for the men’s team and WHITE FERNS for the women’s team , In men’s international cricket, New Zealand is represented by its national team and Currently Mitchell Santner leads the team in ODI and T20I cricket, while Tom Latham leads the team in Test cricket.
Statistics on Team Performance :
1537 international matches were played, with 618 wins.
681 losses
17 ties
Draws: 170
51 No Results
team current ranking is:
Fifth in the Tests
Fourth in T20Is and fifth in ODIs
BLACKCAPS History and Achievements:
When New Zealand played its first Test match against England in Christchurch in 1930 they became the fifth country to play Test cricket. It took them 26 years to win their first Test match against the West Indies at Eden Park in Auckland in 1956 and They played their first One Day International against Pakistan in Christchurch during the 1972–73 season and New Zealand Cricket is in charge of organizing the national team.
after winning the ICC CT in 2000, New Zealand is the first-ever WTC champion, having done so in 2021. They have participated in the T20 World Cup final once and the CWC final twice.
History of new zealand
In the history of international cricket the Black Caps have accomplished important milestones:
ICC Cricket World Cup: They made it to the ICC Cricket World Cup finals in 1975, 2015 and 2019 and In 2015 they finished second to Australia.
ICC Champions Trophy: They won the ICC KnockOut competition in 2000 which is now known as the ICC Champions Trophy.
Test Rankings: The team has consistently been ranked among the top Test cricket teams and has held the top spot at various points in time.
As of 2024, the team has participated in all the 31 ICC Men’s events taking place from 1975 onwards and have made six final appearances out of which they won two titles.
They defeated India in October 2000 to win the Knockout Trophy their first ICC Title and In 2015 they advanced to their first CWC Final after defeating South Africa. They defeated India in the subsequent edition to advance to their second consecutive Final. Then, in June 2021, they defeated India to win the first WTC, and five months later, they defeated England to advance to their first T20 WC Final.
- Champions of the ICC World Test Championship: 2019–2021.
- World Cup: 2015, 2019 were the runners-up .
- T20 World Cup: 2021 was the runner-up .
- Champions Trophy: First-ever Champions: 2000.
- First runners-up: 2009.
New Zealand world records
One of New Zealand’s top all round players Richard Hadlee set a world record in 1988 when he took 374 Test wickets against India in Bangalore and Hadlee finished his career with 431 wickets and became the first bowler to reach 400 Test wickets against India in 1990 in Christchurch and Kapil Dev later beat him for the record.
Although the Black Caps have yet to win the trophy, they are well-known for holding the record for the most appearances in the semifinals of any nation.
In One Day Internationals (or any other form of international cricket), Corey Anderson holds the record for the second-fastest century and He reached his century in just 36 balls while playing against the West Indies. When AB de Villiers scored a century in just 31 balls against the West Indies, Corey Anderson lost the record.
The first such instance occurred in 1996 when the entire New Zealand team won man of the match against the West Indies in a One Day International.
With 467 against Sri Lanka in 1991, Andrew Jones and Martin Crowe held the record for the highest third-wicket partnership in Test history. At the time, it was also the highest partnership for any wicket.
In their 1973 match against Pakistan Brian Hastings and Richard Collinge amassed the highest 10 wicket partnership at the time with 151 runs between them.
At Christchurch in 2002, Nathan Astle scored the fastest double century in Test cricket history against England.[48] His second hundred came off just 39 deliveries, and he reached 200 off 153 balls.
In the end, he was out for the dreaded double Nelson 222 and He needed just 114 balls to reach the first hundred. Adam Gilchrist had held the record for Australia vs South Africa in Johannesburg in 2002 but Astle broke it by 59 balls.
The world record for the fastest Test century which was scored off 54 balls in his final Test match against Australia in Christchurch on 20 February 2016 is held by Brendon McCullum.
Brendon McCullum holds the world record for the most sixes in Test cricket with 107 and He broke Adam Gilchrist’s record of 100 in his most recent Test match and This record was previously held by Chris Cairns.
Brendon McCullum became the first batsman to score 200 runs in T20 International Cricket (116* against Australia and 123 against Bangladesh).
The record for the highest individual score in T20 International cricket was held by Brendon McCullum who scored 123 against Bangladesh at Pallekele and He lost the record to Aaron Finch who scored 156* against England at Southampton.
Kane Williamson has the tenth highest ODI batting average among batsmen who have played in at least 100 matches while Ross Taylor is in eighth place.
On the same day, New Zealand defeated Zimbabwe twice for scores of 59 and 99 (Harare 2005). Zimbabwe was only the second team to be dismissed twice in one day, after India in Manchester in 1952 . The entire test was finished in two days and This accomplishment was then duplicated at Napier in 2012 when NZ ended the match in three days by dismissing Zimbabwe for 51 and 143.
The New Zealander with the most hundreds in Test cricket at 33 is Kane Williamson.
Colin Munro is the first player to reach three hundreds in T20 Internationals and On 3 January 2018 he achieved this by hitting 104 off 88 balls against the West Indies which included three fours and ten sixes.
Ross Taylor is the first player to play 100 Test matches ODIs and T20Is.
ICC Cricket World Cup record
| Year | First Round | Second Round | Semi Final | Final | Position | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pos | P | W | L | T | NR | Pts | Pos | P | W | L | T/NR | PCF | Pts | ||||
| 1975 | 2/4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | Lost to WI by 5 wickets | Did not qualify | 4/8 | |||||||
| 1979 | 2/4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | Lost to ENG by 9 runs | 4/8 | ||||||||
| 1983 | 3/4 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | Did not qualify | 5/8 | ||||||||
| 1987 | 3/4 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 6/8 | |||||||||
| 1992 | 1/9 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 14 | Lost to PAK by 4 wickets | Did not qualify | 3/9 | |||||||
| 1996 | 3/6 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | Did not qualify | 7/12 | ||||||||
| 1999 | 3/6 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4/6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0/1 | 2 | 5 | Lost to PAK by 9 wickets | Did not qualify | 4/12 |
| 2003 | 3/7 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 5/6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 8 | Did not qualify | 5/14 | |
| 2007 | 1/4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3/8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 10 | Lost to SL by 81 runs | Did not qualify | 3/16 |
| 2011 | 4/7 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | Lost to SL by 5 wickets | 4/14 | ||||||||
| 2015 | 1/6 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | Beat SA by 4 wickets (DLS) | Lost to AUS by 7 wickets | 2/14 | |||||||
| 2019 | 4/10 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 11 | Beat IND by 18 runs | Lost to ENG by 9 boundaries | 2/10 | |||||||
| 2023 | 4/10 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 10 | Lost to IND by 70 runs | Did not qualify | 4/10 | |||||||
ICC Men’s T20 World Cup
ICC Champions Trophy
| year | Positions | win | loss | NR | NRR | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 3/3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.030 |
| 2004 | 2/3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.603 |
| 2006 | 2/4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.572 |
| 2009 | 1/4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.782 |
| 2013 | 3/4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.777 |
| 2017 | 4/4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | −1.058 |
The Plunket Shield, named for the governor-general, Lord Plunket, marked the start of first class cricket in New Zealand in 1906 and It began as a set of competitions between five regions and evolved into a league between 1921 and 22 and In 1975–76 Shell Oil took sponsorship and added a new award for the same rivalry called the Shell Trophy.
Coaching Staff currently
Head coach Gary Stead and batting coach Luke Ronchi
The bowling coach, Jacob Oram
James Foster, fielding coach