Black Caps

Black Caps bowler Tim Southee will rejoin New Zealand squad for the second cricket Test against the West Indies in Hamilton.

New Zealand have gone 1-0 up in their two-test series against the West Indies with a dominant win in the first match in Wellington.

The Black Caps have won the first cricket Test against the West Indies in Wellington. See how it all went down with RNZ's live commentary and scoring here.

The West Indies are putting in a much-improved second innings effort with the bat but New Zealand remain in control after the third day of the first cricket test in Wellington.

The Black Caps have a big lead over the West Indies heading into day three of the first cricket Test in Wellington. Follow live commentary here.

The Black Caps have taken a first innings lead over the West Indies in the first cricket test against New Zealand in Wellington.

A busy summer of cricket begins for the Black Caps today when the first test against the West Indies begins at the Basin Reserve in Wellington.

Central Districts batsman George Worker has replaced Tim Southee in the Black Caps squad for the first test against the West Indies in Wellington.

The former Black Caps spinner Jeetan Patel will take over the captaincy of his English County side Warwickshire.

The Wellington wicketkeeper Tom Blundell will make his Test debut in the New Zealand cricketers first match of the summer against the West Indies at the Basin Reserve this week.

BJ Watling will not keep wickets for New Zealand in the first test against the West Indies next week.

The New Zealand cricket selectors have named a squad of 12 for the first Test against the West Indies next month with a 13th to be named after New Zealand A play the tourists.

The Black Caps have fallen agonisingly short of claiming New Zealand's first one-day series win in India, after they were beaten by six runs in a thrilling third and final match in Kanpur.

Tom Latham hit an unbeaten hundred and added 200 in a stand with Ross Taylor to help New Zealand to a comfortable six-wicket victory over India in the first ODI in Mumbai.

The Black Caps are taking on India at a time when cricket in that country is thriving and former New Zealand fast bowler Shane Bond says the series will provide the ultimate benchmark.

India captain Virat Kohli has praised new spinners Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal and is tempted to play them together in India's one-day series opener against New Zealand in Mumbai.