Cricket: Spinner's learning curve on sharp rise
Ish Sodhi's development as a test spinner will make its sharpest climb in the next 10 days.
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Bad light halts Black Caps
Brendon McCullum led the way as New Zealand posted 503, before India’s response was stopped by bad light on 130-4.
Cricket: Pieterson a reflection of his time - neo-liberal and selfish to the core
The early history of test cricket runs parallel with the fall of empires and the rise of the modern nation state.
Century makers help turn the tide
Having been sent in and had their top order swept away, New Zealand scrapped hard and by stumps had decisively won back the honours from India at Eden Park yesterday.
Cricket: Wary skipper sounds note of caution
Lest it be suggested New Zealand might be getting a touch cosily confident before today's first test against India, Brendon McCullum yesterday made it emphatically clear they're not.
David Leggat: McCullum's men need to keep up their good work
Success at Eden Park and/or the Basin Reserve will be hard earned. There can't be any corner-cutting, writes David Leggat.
Cricket: Indian players not so keen on green-top pitch
The Indian players walked up and down the Eden Park pitch for today's first test, peering at it as if searching for worms.
Herald Cricket: Black Caps ready for India
The Black Caps will keep an unchanged eleven for tomorrow's first test against India in Auckland. Herald sports experts Andrew Alderson and Wynne Gray come in off the long run up to give their opinion in the chances for both teams.
Pilot impersonator's appeal dismissed
A repeat pilot impersonator sentenced to 300 hours' community work for flying a plane without a license has had an appeal against his sentence dismissed.
Cricket: Captain concedes English have 'areas to improve on...'
There were laughs in the crowd when Stuart Broad produced with a straight face one of cricket's great understatements.
Cricket: Aussie selectors bide time in filling test spot
Australia will assess the conditions in Centurion, Johannesburg, before deciding who fills George Bailey's vacant spot in the test side.
Cricket: Skipper has delivered
The focus of the New Zealand cricket team's recent success has rightly been on Ross Taylor and Kane Williamson and the conveyor belt of effective, competitive pace bowlers.
Mark Richardson: ODI plan a stroke of genius
They have nippy fast-medium bowlers who will swing the ball and they can add the clever Zaheer Khan, writes Mark Richardson.
Cricket: Ten-ton Taylor shows the way
Kane Williamson and Ross Taylor further resuscitated the nations' cricketing pulse in the final one-day international against India.
Andrew Alderson: Anderson rides highs and lows of summer
If there's a lesson to be learned from the NZ-India series, it's to be wary of the hero-to-zero mantra spawned by knee-jerk reactions to success and failure, writes Andrew Alderson.
Taylor leads Black Caps to epic triumph
Ross Taylor's ninth one-day international century has eased New Zealand to an epic one-day series triumph over world champions India...
Cricket: Cook counts on 'seeing sheep' to get over tour torture
England cricket captain Alastair Cook went home yesterday looking forward to "seeing a few sheep" but with important decisions to make about the future direction of the team.