New Zealand Sports News

Rain disrupts test as Black Caps 381/7 25/11/2009 15:28:02 The Black Caps have lost just the one wicket so far on day two of the first cricket test against Pakistan in Dunedin. New Zealand reached 381/7 shortly after lunch, with...

St Louis Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols has unanimously won baseball's National League MVP Award. It is his second straight MVP Award and third after picking up the honour in 2005. Pujols, who led the majors in home runs with 47,...

As Toby Robson searches for clean clothes, he ponders an intriguing positional battle where the All Blacks are awash with options...Three weeks into covering an All Blacks tour for the first time and suddenly clean clothes were as scarce as...

ASB Classic organisers have unveiled the "strongest ever" field for January's tournament in Auckland. For the first time the eight seeds will be ranked in the top 30. Italian Flavia Pennetta will be the tournament's top seed. She will be...

Jerome Kaino's selection speaks volumes for what the All Blacks will face at Stade Velodrome on Sunday. The muscle of Kaino has edged out the speed of Adam Thomson on the blindside flank in one of three changes to the...

Marc Lieremont has dump tackled the idea his French side are favourites when they come up against the All Blacks on Saturday. The French go into the game on the back of an impressive 20-13 win over world champions South...

The Black Caps recovered from a horror start to be 75 for two at lunch on the opening day of the first cricket test against Pakistan at Dunedin's University Oval today. Opener Martin Guptill was unbeaten on 46 and Ross...

The surface is uneven, the grass very clumpy with a few bare patches across the pitch as well . It is the type of ground on which rolled or sprained ankles would be a common occurrence. It would be surprising...

If England's rugby over the course of this benighted month had been anywhere near as "brilliant" as the job apparently being done by the Red-Rose coaching team – yes, Martin Johnson did indeed use the B-word to describe the most...