24-554: The Sir Richard Hadlee Medal is an annual award introduced in 2011 by New Zealand Cricket to recognise the best New Zealand men's cricketer of the previous year. It is named in honour of New Zealand cricketer, Sir Richard Hadlee . The women's version of this medal was introduced in 2023 as the Debbie Hockley Medal. New Zealand Cricket New Zealand Cricket , formerly the New Zealand Cricket Council ,
48-599: A business deal with USACA which would see New Zealand play a certain number of games in the US and also make its players available to participate in any Twenty20 leagues in the USA. A new company was created called Cricket Holdings America LLC. This new company will hold the rights to hold Twenty20 leagues within the United States. New Zealand Cricket chief Justin Vaughan said he was happy with
72-539: A talent identification programme and oversaw the Selection Panel. New Zealand has many private cricket academies. The Bracewell Cricket Academy based at Rathkeale College is one of the largest cricket academies, providing an Overseas Cricket Development Programme, a Pre-Season Coaching Camp and a Festival of Cricket. There are over 100,000 registered cricketers in New Zealand. By way of comparison, Australia and
96-554: A tour by India generates "many times" more income than tours by Australia , South Africa and England and that the Indian tour was worth more to NZC than the payout from the Cricket World Cup , which was around $ 20m. The article also states that over the past two years, NZC's income has been around $ 30m, but this year (2009) Vaughan is hoping to get more than $ 40 million from broadcast rights, sponsorship and ticket sales. In 2007,
120-553: Is the governing body for professional cricket in New Zealand . Cricket is the most popular and highest profile summer sport in New Zealand . New Zealand Cricket operates the New Zealand cricket team , organising Test tours and One-Day Internationals with other nations. It also organises domestic cricket in New Zealand, including the Plunket Shield first-class competition, The Ford Trophy men's domestic one-day competition,
144-725: The Hallyburton Johnstone Shield women's domestic one-day competition, as well as the Men's Super Smash and Women's Super Smash domestic Twenty20 competitions. Scott Weenink is the Chief Executive Officer of New Zealand Cricket. Tom Latham is the current Blackcaps Test captain, succeeding Tim Southee who still represents the team. Sophie Devine is the current White Ferns captain. On 27 December 1894, 12 delegates from around New Zealand met in Christchurch to form
168-517: The New Zealand Cricket Council . Heathcote Williams was elected the inaugural president, and Charles Smith the secretary. The council's aims were to promote and co-ordinate cricket in New Zealand and to organize international tours from and to New Zealand. New Zealand Cricket has established a high performance cricket training centre based at Lincoln University . It also operates a grassroots development programme for school children called 'MILO Kiwi Cricket'. John Wright , former NZ opening batsman,
192-408: The Plunket Shield first-class competition, The Ford Trophy men's domestic one-day competition, the Hallyburton Johnstone Shield women's domestic one-day competition, as well as the Men's Super Smash and Women's Super Smash domestic Twenty20 competitions. New Zealand Cricket provides competition structures for the following Major Association domestic teams: New Zealand Cricket involves
216-616: The Plunket Shield . The Plunket Shield competition was instigated in October 1906 with the donation of a shield by William Plunket, 5th Baron Plunket , who was the Governor-General of New Zealand from 1904 to 1910. For the 1906–07 inaugural season, the Shield was allotted by the New Zealand Cricket Council "to the Association whose representative team it considers to have the best record for
240-411: The 1921–22 season, the four principal teams (minus Hawke's Bay, which lost first-class status) played each other in a single round-robin series of matches. Central Districts entered the competition in 1950–51, and Northern Districts in 1956–57. Shell Oil became principal sponsor in 1974–75 and a new trophy was introduced. Games were played over three days during this period, with an over-limit on
264-748: The ICC sold the rights to broadcast the World Cup, the Champions Trophy and the ICC World Twenty20 to ESPN Star Sports until 2015 for US$ 1 billion. NZC will receive a slice of that. In November 2017, Star Sports acquired the broadcast and digital rights for New Zealand Cricket for all men's and women's international matches being organised in the country till April 2020 for the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. On 19 December 2010, after months of negotiations, New Zealand Cricket announced it had signed
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#1733085800360288-550: The UK have around 500,000 each. According to Mark O'Neill, New Zealand's batting coach from 2007 to 2009, the competition at club level in NZ is nowhere near as intense as in Australia. "In Sydney there are 20 first grade teams, each club has five grades. To get to first grade you've got to be a friggin' good player and once you get there the competition is very, very fierce. Unfortunately it's not
312-470: The competition was decided by challenge matches among Auckland, Wellington , Canterbury, Otago and, on two occasions, Hawke's Bay . Auckland defeated Canterbury by an innings in the first challenge match in December 1907. A proposal in 1912 that the Shield should be decided by an inter-provincial tournament rather than by the challenge system was rejected as impracticable at the time. However, starting with
336-427: The development because New Zealand was a small market and to exploit a market will allow New Zealand Cricket to secure its funding in the long-term and will also allow cricket to develop popularity as a game in the United States of America. Plunket Shield New Zealand has had a domestic first-class cricket championship since the 1906–07 season. Since the 2009–10 season it has been known by its original name of
360-534: The first innings. In latter years the format was experimented with, introducing a shorter second round, various bonus points systems, and eventually a knockout final. During this period the Plunket Shield was contested in occasional games between the North Island and South Island teams – they played a three-day match in December 1977 and one-day matches in the 1981–82, 1993–94 and 1994–95 seasons. The format and
384-483: The following women's domestic teams: New Zealand Cricket derives most of its revenue from the sale of two types of broadcasting rights. Host nations pick up all the expenses of touring teams, but get sole access to all broadcast rights and gate receipts. In November 2007 it was announced that NZC had made a 5-year deal for the broadcasting rights to home internationals for NZ$ 65.4m with Sony Entertainment Television . The previous four-year deal between NZC and ESPN-Star
408-436: The principal sponsor were changed in 2001–02 season. State Insurance (more commonly just called 'State') replaced Shell Oil. The competitions were renamed to reflect the new sponsor's name, so despite the fact that New Zealand does not have political 'states', the correct name for the first-class competition was the 'State Championship'. Each of the provincial teams played in a single round-robin series of four-day matches. There
432-458: The same standard [in NZ]. Competition is everything and the only way the New Zealand guys are going to get that is to play the world's best players." New Zealand Cricket operates the men's, women's and men's and women's Under 19 New Zealand cricket team , organising Test tours and One-Day Internationals with other nations. It also organises domestic and Māori domestic cricket in New Zealand, including
456-467: The season". After the Council awarded the Shield to Canterbury , chiefly because Canterbury were the only provincial team to beat the visiting MCC , Auckland representatives complained that Auckland should have received the Shield as their team was superior but had not had the chance to prove it as none of the other provincial teams had played Auckland during the season. Beginning with the 1907–08 season,
480-513: Was a target of 112 overs in each day's play. After the round-robin the two highest-ranked teams played a five-day final. A List A 50-over competition known as the State Shield was run from late December to the end of January, culminating with a semi-final (second versus third) and final (the semi-final winner against the top qualifier) early in February. In 2006, a provincial Twenty20 competition
504-431: Was abolished, meaning that the team with the most points at the end of the competition wins the title. Hawke's Bay played twice in the Plunket Shield, in the 1914/15 and 1920/21 seasons, losing both matches. Points are awarded at the conclusion of each match. With no final, the team with the most points is declared the champion. The points system for the 2023/24 season was as follows: If two or more teams are equal at
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#1733085800360528-517: Was appointed acting high performance manager for NZC in November 2007 before taking up the head coach position in December 2010. Former Australian coach John Buchanan was appointed as NZC Director of Cricket in May 2011 as the architect of a new high performance programme. He performed a number of key duties including the establishment of clear and consistent national coaching philosophies, the implementation of
552-466: Was begun, and was played during February and early March. The top two sides qualified for the final. It was called the State Twenty20 . When State Insurance withdraw from their sponsorship, the Plunket Shield was reinstated for the 2009–10 season. New Zealand Cricket stated that the naming rights were no longer for sale and that the competition would henceforth be known as the Plunket Shield. The final
576-588: Was for only NZ$ 14.4m. Part of the 5-fold increase in value is due to the Indian team's tour of NZ in 2009. Immediately prior to the 2009 Indian tour of NZ the Sunday Star Times reported that "NZ Cricket hits $ 25m jackpot". The article claimed that NZ Cricket will get $ 1 million for each of the 22 days the Indians take the field and that NZ Cricket had insured against loss of income for the sale of TV rights due to bad weather. NZC boss Justin Vaughan also said that
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