NZ will want to banish any sinking feeling of history repeating as they start the fourth day against Pakistan today.

Vettori’s move up the order pays off as he and Brendon McCullum combine to put NZ in a strong position.

New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori likes the look of the McLean Park pitch for today's test series decider.

The most brutally honest comment in the lead-up to today's third cricket Test in Napier came from the local groundsman.

New Zealand's penetrative though undermined bowlers have given their shonky batsmen the benefit of some extreme doubt.

Depending on which batsmen have most raised the selectors' hackles, three players are in line for the axe.

Pakistan have beaten NZ today to set up a test series decider.

Even without Shane Bond, NZ bowlers do well but the Black caps' embattled batsmen have it all to do.

Senior Pakistani army officers have been targeted in a bloody militant suicide bomb attack that killed at least 40 people.

The bowlers have given New Zealand the upper hand going into day two of the second test against Pakistan.

Star bowlers Shane Bond and Iain O'Brien overcome injury to ensure a rare New Zealand victory but not before a scare.