Australia's cricket stars have produced some stunning verbal slip-ups ahead of tomorrow's Twenty20 clash with New Zealand.

NZ and Australia will eyeball each other for the first time tomorrow night hoping to draw a line in the sand ahead of the Twenty20 cricket World Cup in April.

Australia arrived yesterday, primed to carry on the carnage of their splendid summer.

NZ's top cricketers face tough decisions after the IPL confirmed next month's tournament will not shift countries despite terror threats.

Shane Bond hit the ground running on his return to international cricket, saying Australia had received an easy run all summer.

A security report for cricket's IPL, commissioned by the NZ players association, paints a bad picture, star batsman Ross Taylor admits.

Another Bangladesh tour has come and gone and how much the wiser are we about the state of New Zealand's game?

Bangladesh's batsmen have spent their time at Seddon Park this week like millionaires on a weekend splurge.

Bangladesh have suffered multiple early setbacks after being set a target of 404 to win the one-off cricket test against NZ.

So New Zealand would run through test cricket's weakest nation, would they?

The NZ men's hockey team will stay in Perth for the time being rather than travel on to India for the Hockey World Cup.

Govt officials are liaising with sports bodies in light of terror threats targeting sports events in India as the NZ hockey team prepares to travel there.

New Zealand have plenty of runs in the bank thanks to two big individual deposits in the one-off test against Bangladesh.

A militant group with links to al Qaeda has warned the world not to send sports people to competitions in India, including the Commonwealth Games.