It is the end of an era in New Zealand Cricket as the NZC ended their 24-year-long relationship with Sky Sport to sign with Spark Sport for a six-year broadcast deal. Spark Sport will add the men's and women's internationals, the domestic one-day cup final and T20 Super Smash in their roaster.

Aakash Chopra involved himself in a Twitter banter with his former teammate Deep Dasgupta as they had a difference of opinions on Dinesh Karthik’s action in the third T20I against New Zealand. Karthik had declined Krunal Pandya a single in the last over which turned decisive in the eventual result.

Vijay Shankar has stated that he has improved a lot by watching senior players like Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, and MS Dhoni bat and learnt a lot by observing how they approach their game. He has also added that it was important to assess situations and bat accordingly as per the plans.

There is no doubt that MS Dhoni’s fans - and he has an army - who love him to the core, but there have been some who always try to get in touch his feet on the field. While that is a common occurrence now, Dhoni showed sweet patriotism as he took the flag off the fan’s hand when he touched his feet.