New Zealand Cricket have offered their players at international and domestic levels of the game a players' payment pool.

Gillespie's plight a reminder that Kiwis not alone in injury wars

Cricket players have been offered contract in New Zealand sport

Iain Robertson has been given the captaincy of the first Canterbury team named for the series.

There was a lot more cricket left in the New Zealand-India series but the draw at Mohali ensured that arguments about the respective merits of the two teams remained inconclusive

Ray Price took a career-best 6 for 121 to bowl Australia out for 403, a first-innings lead of 95

Michael Kasprowicz, the Queensland fast bowler, has been chosen as Brett Lee's replacement in the 14-man Australian team for the Travelex one-day international tour of India

It was a sight to be expected

Ricky Ponting dished out a batting lesson of his own with an unbeaten 137, as Australia reached 245 for 3, just 63 behind Zimbabwe's first-innings total of 308

Richard Hadlee on Craig McMillan

England women cricket's leading batsman Claire Taylor is going to try her hand playing for Canterbury in the State League competition this summer

Daniel Vettori, the left-arm spinner, looks as happy as a pig in muck

Stuart Carlisle scored his maiden Test century as Zimbabwe battled to a respectable position in the second Test at Sydney

Heath Streak decided to bat first after winning the toss in the second Test at Sydney

Jason Gillespie has been ruled out of the Australian squad for the one-day triangular series in India

Mark Richardson - a very special batsman © AFP Mark Richardson's delayed start to Test cricket hasn't prevented him from jointly achieving the record of being the fastest player to score 2000 runs for the country

Zimbabwe had some reason to think that the spate of injuries suffered by the Australians might make their job in the second Test a little easier, instead it has possibly got tougher

Brad Williams, Simon Katich and Brad Hogg come in to the injury-hit Australian team, while Zimbabwe are expected to name an unchanged team

Mark Richardson and Lou Vincent authored another chapter as New Zealand continue to rewrite the record books

New Zealand look to the Bangladesh tour as a confidence booster for the season ahead