Robbie Hart

Robbie Hart, the former New Zealand wicketkeeper, announced his retirement from cricket, so that he could concentrate on his career outside the game

Badani makes a century as tour match drifts towards its inevitable drawn conclusion.

Central Districts fast-medium bowler Michael Mason and Auckland one-day specialist Paul Hitchcock are the big winners in the New Zealand cricket teams to tour India and Pakistan named today

New Zealand Cricket selection manager Sir Richard Hadlee today named the TelstraClear Black Caps Test and one-day squads for the up-coming tour of India and Pakistan

Movement of players within New Zealand's domestic cricket has resulted in a re-balancing of player experience, especially when international players are taken out of the picture

Pardon me for interrupting, but in a game which revels in spurious statistics there is one that defies belief doing the rounds in New Zealand cricket at the moment

As new coach John Bracewell ponders the direction the New Zealanders take over the next few years, he would do well to ponder on performance statistics from the last summer

New Zealand Cricket (NZC) has offered contracts to 20 players for the next 12 months (from June 1), based on criteria which assessed a player's likely playing value to NZC over the contract period

As I write this I'm looking out onto Westpac Park as the rain comes down causing a delay to the start of our round seven State Championship game against Canterbury - another must win game for us if we are to compete at the top of the table in this

New Zealand wicket-keeper Robbie Hart admitted to a pang of regret when breaking a sequence of 85 unbroken matches for his Northern Districts side today, but it was only a momentary pang

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The preferred 20 players who have been offered contracts by New Zealand Cricket have been named today with no significant surprises

Now that the focus of everyone involved in New Zealand cricket is back on the field of play nobody has more reason to relish the prospect of a new season than Northern Districts captain Robbie Hart

Robbie Hart has been reappointed as captain of the State Northern Knights for the 2002/03 season

As I write this the State Northern Knights are in Rotorua preparing to play Wellington in the sixth round of the State Shield

Exciting things are happening in the Knights environment

The Knights squad is full of expectation and ambition as we go about our preparation for the State Max, State Championship and State Shield competitions which will shortly be upon us

At a time when the passion of some of our top sports people is increasingly being questioned it is indeed refreshing to spend time in the company of the State Northern Districts Knights captain for the 2001/02 season Robert Hart

Northern Districts have re-appointed wicket-keeper Robert Hart as their captain for the forthcoming season