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Gary Stead has been appointed as the replacement for Mike Hesson, who resigned from the post in June 2018 citing personal reasons, for the role of New Zealand’s cricket coach today. Stead has stated that it will be an honour and privilege to work with the team to help them develop.

New Zealand Cricket (NZC) Board has declined the invitation from the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to tour Pakistan for a full series owing to security reasons. As a result, the possibility of New Zealand playing in Pakistan for the first time in fifteen years has been all but ruled out now.

Kiwi leg-spinner Ish Sodhi, who got an IPL call-up just a few weeks back, feels that Indian Premier League is a fast-moving competition and is improving cricket at a very rapid rate. He described the cash-rich league’s experience as ‘surreal’ and wanted to learn as much as he can from Shane Warne.

England, who won convincingly against the Kiwis in the recently concluded away ODI series, have climbed up the ICC One Day International rankings to claim the top from India. England’s last series defeat in ODIs came on the tour of India and since then, have won all the ODI series they have played.