An Australian TV personality has engaged in an extraordinary war of words with controversial West Indian cricket star Chris Gayle.

Under fire player scores the fastest ever Big Bash 50.

There has never been a more composed stroke in New Zealand's one-day international cricket history.

New Zealand batsmen have produced an extraordinary run of world milestones over the past year.

Captain Williamson - 72 off 48 balls - and Martin Guptill with 87 off 58, carried New Zealand to what transpired was an easy win, to set up an enticing decider in Wellington on Friday night, putting on 171. That eclipsed by one run the old mark for highest T20 international stand for any wicket

Kane Williamson is well aware of the vagaries of T20. ''Fickle'' he has called it, and to illustrate the point, consider the first two games against Pakistan.

New Zealand poleaxed Pakistan by 10 wickets and bagged a world record partnership into the bargain in levelling their three-game T20 series.

Indian billionaire's lawyer says a lack of fresh evidence stopped multi-million-dollar civil claim against former cricketer.

Rolling coverage of the second T20 clash New Zealand and Pakistan at Seddon Park.

Kevin Hart, veteran of 37 summers behind the microphone at the venue, is retiring.

Former New Zealand cricketer Chris Cairns' return to the workforce could be fraught with more problems than first thought.

Colin Munro has become a one-man T20 wrecking crew, writes Andrew Alderson.

The prospects of a New Zealand team entering Australia's Big Bash League are still a long way off, according to Cricket Australia's Mike McKenna.

Eden Park's new boss acknowledges mistakes were made by the organisers of Friday night's T20 clash between New Zealand and Pakistan.

So where might Cairns' future employment come from? From the outside looking in, he has three obvious options, writes Andrew Alderson.

The Plunket Shield is NZ's premier domestic competition. It should be treated as such, writes David Leggat.