Australian wicketkeeper Ian Healy wonders if the WAGs are to blame for Australia's woeful performance overnight (NZT).

Rain of biblical proportions, or a handful of miraculous acts, may be the only roadblocks to England taking an unassailable 3-1 lead in the five-Test series.

Adam Milne is back in the Black Caps set-up after World Cup injury, but a cautious approach means he is unlikely to face Zimbabwe tonight.

Stuart Broad takes eight wickets as Australia are routed in fourth Ashes test.

Openers Martin Guptill and Tom Latham both struck centuries as New Zealand crushed Zimbabwe by 10 wickets in the second ODI.

A spirited record ninth wicket stand put some substance into Zimbabwe's innings in the second ODI against New Zealand.

New Zealand's defeat to Zimbabwe was "not a train wreck". Then again, on the back of a week-long camp in Potchefstroom, it wasn't flash either. David Leggat reports.

Michael Guerin fills in for Tony Veitch this week on the Vent and talks to Eric Young about whether fans should care about an ODI defeat.

Michael Guerin fills in for Tony Veitch this week on the Vent, joined by Prime news presenter Eric Young to talk the big issues from the sporting weekend.

In the last of the series which celebrates the winners of this year's Sir Peter Blake Leadership Awards we look at Brendon McCullum.

The combined effects of another crushing defeat and the damage that the exclusion of Brad Haddin at Edgbaston has done to team spirit threaten to open cracks in the Australian cricket camp so wide....

A century to Ross Taylor has led the Black Caps to a big first innings total against Zimbabwe.

The importance of New Zealand's limited overs tour of Zimbabwe and South Africa has been downplayed, but it shapes as a key indicator of whether Kane Williamson is the heir apparent to Brendon....

Selectors have assured Michael Clarke he has all the time he needs to fix his struggling form after the captain took the blame for Australia's crushing Ashes loss to England at Edgbaston yesterday.

Michael Clarke concedes he has become a passenger for Australia, but the captain is yet to contemplate Test retirement.

Australia have suffered an eight-wicket loss in the third Ashes Test, with a dropped catch capping a miserable three days for Michael Clarke.

Development of players will be a key plank of New Zealand's African safari, starting against Zimbabwe in Harare tomorrow night.

There has long been a brutality about the work of Australia's selection panels, and so far this Ashes series is no different, writes David Leggat.

In just two days, Australia have lost 17 wickets and they're currently 168-7 at stumps with a lead of just 23, and the media's knives are sharp.