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Cricket: Rich domestic batting form boosts options

Cricket: Groundsman calls batsmen 'useless'

The most brutally honest comment in the lead-up to today's third cricket Test in Napier came from the local groundsman.

Cricket: The new generation to lead bowling attack

All's well in the seam bowling department - but for how long? asks David Leggat.

Cricket: Watling arrives to optimistic praise from skipper Vettori

Cricket: Taylor irritated by test ton misses

Cricket: Pace seems way forward for decider

New Zealand may revise their recent policy of playing two spinners in the Napier test.

Cricket: Injury scare for O'Brien

Cricket: Run machine Taylor feeling the strain

The only New Zealand batsman fulfilling his job description against Pakistan admits sharing the pressure of his peers.

Cricket: Patience the word over shonky batting

New Zealand's penetrative though undermined bowlers have given their shonky batsmen the benefit of some extreme doubt.

Cricket: Batsmen face axe after Pakistan level series

Cricket: Live scoring NZ v Pakistan

Cricket: Black Caps must make history to win

Even without Shane Bond, NZ bowlers do well but the Black caps' embattled batsmen have it all to do.

Cricket: O'Brien set to retire for Rosie

Iain O'Brien just wanted to slip the announcement out in Napier and depart with little fanfare.

<i>Paul Lewis</i>: We're getting a bit sick of it

<i>Mark Richardson</i>: Poor technique is letting our top order down

Cricket: Bowlers step up after Bond

Cricket: Where have the gritty batsmen gone?

Cricket: Eye on top coaching job but not just yet