NZ Cricket officials were caught short by the comment from the Indian board secretary, Anurag Thakur, that a pink Kookaburra will be used in one of the three tests this year.

The Black Caps look set to play their second day-night test when they tour India later this year.

South Africa's resistance to playing a pink-ball test in Australia in November may also be a grim pointer of hopes of playing a day-night test in NZ next year.

Of all the names in all the languages, you had to go and choose this one. Allegedly. Please, Chris. Say it's all a joke.

West Indies fast-bowler Tino Best has an outrageous claim to have "slept with 500-650 women" while on tour with the West Indies between 2003 and 2014.

Famine to feast; New Zealand are now enjoying a cosy relationship with Australia.

He may be Wisden's top cricketer but we're not sure if Kane Williamson has a future as a model.

New Zealand captain Suzie Bates' cricketing pedigree has been recognised at the highest level as Wisden's Leading Women's Cricketer of the World.

Kane Williamson has furrowed fresh cricketing ground, becoming the first New Zealander selected as Wisden's Leading Cricketer in the World.

A former West Indies cricketer has been booted out of the country.

Off White Thunder and Kev head to Ben Burn Park to talk the week's off-piste cricket happenings.

A former England bowler is out for the start of the county season after being struck in the nether regions - without his box.

Kiwi-born cricketer has laid bare the "complete devastation" he felt at losing the World Twenty20 final to West Indies.

Dwayne Bravo has blasted the West Indies Cricket Board as 'the most unprofessional board in the world'

The pair's famous grudge erupted again in the final of the World Twenty20 when Samuels chose to use his post-match media interviews as an opportunity to attack Warne.