New Zealand national cricket team
The New Zealand cricket team is the national team in the Cricket New Zealand on the world stage. The team will be represented by New Zealand Cricket and is since 1930 a full member of the International Cricket Council. So the team has test status.
- 2.1 Test Match Captains
- 4.1 Cricket World Cup
- 4.2 Champions Trophy
- 4.3 World Twenty20
History
Until the test status
Cricket is operated in New Zealand since the first half of the 19th century, the first game against an international team took place against an English team in 1864.
Test status until the advent of One-Day Cricket
Test status was New Zealand as the fifth nation in the year 1930, when it fought out a test match against England in Christchurch, which lost it with 8 wickets. Until the Second World War, the team played mainly against England and twice against South Africa, but have not won any of these games. The first victory was achieved only in 1956 against the West Indies. But even after that went almost all the games lost or ended draw, so get to 1970 only seven wins in 95 games.
One- day cricket until the turn of the millennium
With the advent of One-Day Cricket New Zealand was better in international cricket. In the first two sweeps of the World Cup in 1975 and 1979, the team came in each case before the semifinals. In the following two editions (1983 and 1987 ) then you have failed in each case in the preliminary round. Even in Test cricket to New Zealand increased steadily in the 1970s and 1980s. An important reason for this was bowler Richard Hadlee, who improved the attack tremendously. At the Cricket World Cup 1992 you failed again in the semifinals, but only because they lost a total of two times in the tournament against the eventual champions Pakistan, while they won against all other teams. In the next issue 1996 we failed against Australia in the quarter-finals, before once again failed in 1999 against Pakistan in the semi-finals.
Since the turn of the millennium
In 2000, New Zealand won the first time an international tournament, as the Champions Trophy was won. At the Cricket World Cup 2003 there was only enough for the Super 6 Round, which was due mainly to the rating system. Since New Zealand refused for security reasons in the first round to compete in Nairobi against Kenya, missing these points in the next round, as they were transferred to this. 2007, it reached the semifinals in both the one-day World Cup as well as the newly Twenty20 World Cup. Even if the team each in the Super 8 round was eliminated in the next three Twenty20 World Championships, he succeeded in 2011 reached the semi-finals at the Cricket World Cup. To this day, they are a better team at Limited -overs, as in Test cricket, where they rather belong to the weaker nations.
Captains
Test Match Captains
Stadiums
International Tournaments
Cricket World Cup
Champions Trophy
World Twenty20
- 2007 semi-final
- 2009 Super 8
- 2010 Super 8
- 2012 Super 8