Mathew Sinclair

Yasir Hameed and Imran Farhat notched up commanding hundreds, as Pakistan beat New Zealand by 49 runs in the final one-day international at Rawalpindi

In his Down Under View, Lynn McConnell urges New Zealand's latest recruits to strike while the iron is hot

England 86 for 0 (Croft 31*, Ali 31*, Maynard 20*, Nazir 0-9) v Pakistan 65 for 4 (Nazir 27, Latif 24, Croft 2-4) Scorecard Robert Croft gave David Graveney, the chairman of selectors, who was watching on from the sidelines, a timely reminder

New Zealand, under interim coach Ashley Ross, are going to great lengths to replicate the conditions that they are likely to face on their tour of India next month, and their final training camp - at Christchurch next week - will feature noisy

For the first time in nine years, New Zealand have a batsman among the top eight in the world rankings

Central Districts fast-medium bowler Michael Mason and Auckland one-day specialist Paul Hitchcock are the big winners in the New Zealand cricket teams to tour India and Pakistan named today

Movement of players within New Zealand's domestic cricket has resulted in a re-balancing of player experience, especially when international players are taken out of the picture

Pardon me for interrupting, but in a game which revels in spurious statistics there is one that defies belief doing the rounds in New Zealand cricket at the moment

As new coach John Bracewell ponders the direction the New Zealanders take over the next few years, he would do well to ponder on performance statistics from the last summer

New Zealand Cricket (NZC) has offered contracts to 20 players for the next 12 months (from June 1), based on criteria which assessed a player's likely playing value to NZC over the contract period

Mathew Sinclair is as well aware as everyone that his call-up for the New Zealand one-day side was unexpected, but he is determined to grasp the lifeline that has been thrown him for a resumption to his international career

The preferred 20 players who have been offered contracts by New Zealand Cricket have been named today with no significant surprises

Here lies the secret behind the success of the great converter - Mathew Sinclair, who scored his ninth career 150-plus innings yesterday

New Zealand No 3 batsman Mathew Sinclair ended his Yorkshire League season on Saturday having seen his Cleethorpes club score 100 points in the league for the first time

Mathew Sinclair has carved a name for himself in English club cricket history by becoming the first player to score 1000 runs before the end of June

Mathew Sinclair's innings of 199 not out in the Yorkshire League at the weekend has been described as one of the finest innings ever seen in the League

New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming made no bones of the fact that he was going to play county cricket with the expressed intention of learning how to score centuries

A third Mathew Sinclair century in three days wasn't enough to help Cleethorpes to a win over Barnsley in the Yorkshire League yesterday

New Zealand's last minute dash to Sharjah was always going to be a risk