New Zealand national cricket team

New Zealand national cricket team
Test status received	1930
First Test - Match	against England in Christchurch , January 1930
First ODI	against Pakistan in Christchurch , February 1973
First T20I	against Australia in Auckland , February 2005
captain	Kane Williamson ( Test , ODI & T20 )
Coach	Gary Stead
Official ICC test ranking	2 of 12
Official ICC ODI ranking	3 of 20
Official ICC T20I ranking	6 of 84
World Cup participation	12
First World Cup	1975
Best World Cup result	Final (2015, 2019)
Champions Trophy participation	8th
First Champions Trophy	1998
Best Champions Trophy result	Winner (2000)
World Twenty20 participations	6th
First World Twenty20	2007
Best World Twenty20 result	Semi-finals (2007, 2016)
As of May 26, 2020

The New Zealand national cricket team , whose players are also known by the nickname Black Caps , represents New Zealand in international cricket . The team is represented by New Zealand Cricket and has been a full member of the International Cricket Council since 1930 . So the team has test status .

history

Until the test status

Cricket has been practiced in New Zealand since the first half of the 19th century; the first game against an international team was against an English team in 1864.

Test status until the advent of one-day cricket

New Zealand became the fifth nation to gain test status in 1930 when it played a test match against England in Christchurch, which it lost with 8 wickets. Until the Second World War, the team played mainly against England and twice against South Africa , but could not win any of these games. The first victory came in 1956 against the West Indies . But even after that almost all games were lost or ended in a draw, so that by 1970 only seven wins out of 95 games.

One-day cricket up to the turn of the millennium

With the advent of one-day cricket , New Zealand found its way into international cricket better. In the first two events of the World Cup in 1975 and 1979 , the team advanced to the semi-finals. In the following two editions ( 1983 and 1987 ) you failed in the preliminary round. New Zealand also steadily improved in test cricket in the 1970s and 1980s. A big reason for this was bowler Richard Hadlee , who improved the attack tremendously. At the Cricket World Cup 1992 they failed again in the semifinals, but only because they lost twice in the tournament against the eventual title winner Pakistan , while they won against all other teams. In the next edition in 1996 they lost to Australia in the quarter-finals before failing again in 1999 against Pakistan in the semi-finals.

Since the turn of the millennium

In 2000 , New Zealand won an international tournament for the first time when the Champions Trophy could be won. At the Cricket World Cup 2003 it was only enough for the Super 6 round, which was mainly due to the rating system. Since New Zealand refused to play against Kenya in Nairobi in the preliminary round for safety reasons , these points were missing in the following round because they were carried over to this round. In 2007 they reached the semi-finals in both the One-Day World Championship and the newly created Twenty20 World Championship . Even if the team was eliminated from the next four Twenty20 World Championships in the Super 8 or Super 10 round, it managed to reach the semifinals of the 2011 Cricket World Cup . During 2015 Cricket World Cup , in which New Zealand next to Australia was one of the hosts, they could qualify for the finals for the first time. There they defeated Australia with 7 wickets. In the 2019 edition , they were also able to qualify for the final, but failed after the game and Super Over ended in a draw in the final, to England, as they had less boundaries during the game.

Captains

Test match captains

The following players played as captains in test matches for New Zealand.

No.	Surname	Period
1	Tom Lowry	1929-1931
2	Curly Page	1931-1937
3	Walter Hadlee	1945–1951
4th	Bert Sutcliffe	1951-1954
5	Merv Wallace	1952-1953
6th	Geoff Rabone	1953-1955
7th	Harry Cave	1955-1956
8th	John Reid	1955-1965
9	Murray Chapple	1965-1966
10	Barry Sinclair	1965-1968
11	Graham Dowling	1967-1972
12	Bevan Congdon	1971-1975
13	Glenn Turner	1975-1977
14th	John Parker	1976-1977
15th	Mark Burgess	1977-1981
16	Geoff Howarth	1979-1985
17th	Jeremy Coney	1984-1987
18th	Jeff Crowe	1986-1988
19th	John Wright	1987-1990
20th	Martin Crowe	1990-1994
21st	Ian Smith	1990-1991
22nd	Ken Rutherford	1992-1995
23	Lee Germon	1995-1997
24	Stephen Fleming	1996-2007
25th	Dion Nash	1998-1999
26th	Daniel Vettori	2007-2011
27	Ross Taylor	2011-2016
28	Brendon McCullum	2013-2016
29	Kane Williamson	2016-present
30th	Tom Latham	2019-2020

Stages

The following stadiums served New Zealand as the home testing venues.

No.	Stadion	city	First edition
1	Lancaster Park (Jade Stadium, AMI Stadium)	Christchurch	January 10, 1930
2	Basin Reserve (The Basin)	Wellington	January 24, 1930
3	Eden Park No. 1 (Eden Park)	Auckland	February 14, 1930
4th	Carisbrook	Dunedin	March 11, 1955
5	McLean Park	Napier	February 16, 1979
6th	Seddon Park	Hamilton	February 22, 1991
7th	University oval	Dunedin	January 4, 2008
8th	Hagley Oval	Christchurch	December 26, 2014
9	Bay oval	Mount Maunganui	November 21, 2019

Balance sheet

The team has the following results against the other full members of the ICC in Test, ODI and Twenty20 cricket ( as of August 1, 2020 ).

opponent	Testing					ODIs					Twenty20s
	Sp.	S.	U	N	N	Sp.	S.	U	N	NO	Sp.	S.	U	N	NO
Afghanistan	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Australia	60	8th	0	34	18th	138	39	0	92	7th	9	1	1	7th	0
Bangladesh	15th	12	0	0	3	35	25th	0	10	0	7th	7th	0	0	0
England	105	11	0	48	46	91	43	3	41	4th	21st	7th	0	12	0
India	59	12	0	21st	26th	110	49	1	55	5	16	8th	0	6th	0
Ireland	0	0	0	0	0	4th	4th	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0
Pakistan	58	12	0	25th	21st	107	48	1	55	3	21st	8th	0	13	0
Zimbabwe	17th	11	0	0	6th	38	27	1	9	1	6th	6th	0	0	0
Sri Lanka	36	16	0	9	11	99	49	1	41	8th	19th	10	1	7th	1
South Africa	45	4th	0	25th	16	71	25th	0	41	5	15th	4th	0	11	0
West Indies	47	15th	0	13	19th	65	28	0	30th	7th	13	6th	3	3	1

International tournaments

World Cricket Championship

• 1975 semi-finals
• 1979 semi-finals
• 1983 preliminary round
• 1987 preliminary round
• 1992 semi-finals
• 1996 quarter-finals
• 1999 semi-finals
• 2003 Super 6
• 2007 semi-finals
• 2011 semi-finals
• 2015 2nd place
• 2019 2nd place

Champions Trophy

• 1998 quarter-finals
• 2000 winner
• 2002 preliminary round
• 2004 preliminary round
• 2006 semi-finals
• 2009 2nd place
• 2013 preliminary round
• 2017 preliminary round

World Twenty20

• 2007 semi-finals
• 2009 Super 8
• 2010 Super 8
• 2012 Super 8
• 2014 Super 8
• 2016 semi-finals

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Why cricket? - New Zealand cricket ( English ) NZ History. Retrieved August 15, 2012.
2. ↑ England tour of New Zealand, 1929/30 ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved August 15, 2012.
3. ^ West Indies tour of New Zealand, 1955/56 ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved August 15, 2012.
4. ↑ Statistics / Statsguru / Test matches ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved August 15, 2012.
5. ↑ Kiwi chief slams format ( English ) BBC. March 16, 2003. Retrieved August 15, 2012.
6. ↑ The time period refers to the corresponding cricket season in which the first or last game of the time as captain took place
7. ↑ Records / New Zealand / Test Matches / Result Summary ( English ) Cricinfo. Accessed July 31, 2020.
8. ↑ Records / New Zealand / One-Day Internationals / Result Summary ( English ) Cricinfo. Accessed July 31, 2020.
9. ↑ Records / New Zealand / Twenty20 Internationals / Result Summary ( English ) Cricinfo. Accessed July 31, 2020.