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Governing body for professional cricket in New Zealand This article is about the governing body. For the sport, see Cricket in New Zealand. "NZC" redirects here. For the awards for bravery, see New Zealand Cross (1999) and New Zealand Cross (1869).

New Zealand Cricket
Official website

Sport	Cricket
Jurisdiction	National
Abbreviation	NZC
Founded	27 December 1894 (130 years ago) (1894-12-27) at Christchurch, New Zealand
Affiliation	International Cricket Council
Affiliation date	1926; 98 years ago (1926)
Regional affiliation	East Asia-Pacific
Affiliation date	1996; 28 years ago (1996)
Headquarters	Auckland, New Zealand
President	Lesley Murdoch
Chairman	Diana Puketapu-Lyndon
CEO	Scott Weenink
Men's coach	Gary Stead
Women's coach	Ben Sawyer
Other key staff	Selector Sam Wells
Sponsor	ANZ, Asahi, Canterbury, Dream11, Dulux, Ford, Gillette, G.J. Gardner Homes, KFC, LifeDirect, Pals, Powerade, Spark, Tegel
www.nzc.nz

New Zealand Cricket, formerly the New Zealand Cricket Council, 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, 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.

History

On 27 December 1894, 12 delegates from around New Zealand met in Christchurch to form 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.

Cricket development

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, 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 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 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 the same standard . Competition is everything and the only way the New Zealand guys are going to get that is to play the world's best players."

Domestic competitions

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 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.

Men's Teams

New Zealand Cricket provides competition structures for the following Major Association domestic teams:

Auckland Aces
Canterbury (known as Canterbury Kings for Twenty20)
Central Stags
Northern Districts (known as Northern Brave for Twenty20)
Otago Volts
Wellington Firebirds

Women's Teams

New Zealand Cricket involves the following women's domestic teams:

Auckland Hearts
Canterbury Magicians
Central Hinds
Northern Districts (known as Northern Brave for Twenty20)
Otago Sparks
Wellington Blaze

Funding

New Zealand Cricket derives most of its revenue from the sale of two types of broadcasting rights.

Broadcasting rights to home internationals.
A share of the broadcasting rights the ICC sells to its tournaments, such as the World Cup.

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 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 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, 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.

Partnership with USA Cricket (2010)

On 19 December 2010, after months of negotiations, New Zealand Cricket announced it had signed 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 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.

References

"New Zealand Cricket (NZC)". Retrieved 20 August 2023.
"Cricket Conference: Formation of a New Zealand Council". Press. Vol. LI, no. 8987. 28 December 1894. p. 3.
"Cricket". Media Resources – Tourism New Zealand's site for international media and broadcast professionals. 16 September 2009. Archived from the original on 22 May 2010. Retrieved 16 September 2009.
"how many cricket players are there throughout the UK". Archived from the original on 26 September 2007. Retrieved 2 May 2007.
"Hot for it". Archived from the original on 5 September 2007. Retrieved 11 May 2007.
Barclay, Chris (19 January 2008). "Cricket: The Aussie with hard words for our top order". The New Zealand Herald. NZPA. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
Donaldson, Michael (21 February 2009). "NZ Cricket hits $25m jackpot". The Sunday Star-Times. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
"A key new partnership". New Zealand Cricket. Retrieved 11 November 2017.
"Star Sports bag telecast rights for International matches in New Zealand". CricTracker. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
Penna, Peter Della (19 December 2010). "USA Cricket News: USA and New Zealand sign deal to promote cricket". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 22 August 2013.

External links

New Zealand Cricket website
Blackcaps Official Facebook page
White Ferns Official Facebook page
NZC Community Cricket Official Facebook page

v t e Cricket in New Zealand
Governing body	New Zealand Cricket
National Teams	Men Women M U-19 W U-19 New Zealand A Māori
Men's Domestic Teams	Auckland Canterbury Central Districts Northern Districts Otago Wellington
Women's Domestic Teams	Auckland Hearts Canterbury Magicians Central Hinds Northern Districts Otago Sparks Wellington Blaze
Domestic Competitions	Plunket Shield (Men's First-class) Ford Trophy (Men's List A) Men's Super Smash (Men's Twenty20) Hallyburton Johnstone Shield (Women's One-day) Women's Super Smash (Women's Twenty20) Hawke Cup
Test & ODI Grounds	Hagley Oval, Christchurch Basin Reserve, Wellington Eden Park, Auckland McLean Park, Napier Seddon Park, Hamilton University Oval, Dunedin Wellington Regional Stadium Queenstown Events Centre Cobham Oval, Whangarei Bay Oval, Tauranga
Player lists	Test cricketers Test wicket-keepers ODI cricketers Twenty20 Players Captains Auckland Canterbury Central Districts Northern Districts Otago Wellington
Records	Test ODI T20I Women's ODI Women's T20I
Series lists	Australia (Chappell–Hadlee Trophy Trans-Tasman Trophy)
History	to 1890 1882–83 1890–91 to 1918 1918–19 to 1945 1945–46 to 1970 1970–71 to 2000 from 2000–01

New Zealand cricket seasons

First-class

Plunket Shield

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List A

The Ford Trophy	2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24 2024–25
Hallyburton Johnstone Shield	2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24

Twenty20

Men's Super Smash	2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24 2024–25
Women's Super Smash	2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24 2024–25

Others

1882–83 New Zealand cricket season

v t e Full Members of the International Cricket Council
As of 22 June 2017
Afghanistan	Men Women Afghanistan A U-19 Grounds
Australia	Men Women Australia A U-19 Indigenous Grounds
Bangladesh	Men Women Bangladesh A U-23 U-19 Grounds
England	Men Women England Lions U-19 Grounds
India	Men Women India A U-19 Grounds
Ireland	Men Women Ireland Wolves U-19 Grounds
New Zealand	Men Women New Zealand A U-19 Māori Grounds
Pakistan	Men Women Pakistan A U-19 Grounds
South Africa	Men Women South Africa A U-19 Grounds
Sri Lanka	Men Women Sri Lanka A U19 Grounds
West Indies	Men Women West Indies A U-19 Grounds
Zimbabwe	Men Women Zimbabwe A U-19 Grounds

v t e Sports governing bodies in New Zealand (NZL)
Summer Olympic sports	Archery Athletics Badminton Basketball Beach volleyball Boxing Canoeing Cycling Diving Equestrian Fencing Field hockey Football Golf Gymnastics Handball Judo Modern pentathlon Rugby 7s Rowing Sailing Shooting Swimming Synchronized swimming Table tennis Taekwondo Tennis Triathlon Volleyball Water polo Weightlifting Wrestling
Winter Olympic sports	Biathlon Bobsleigh Curling Skating (figure, speed & short track) Ice hockey Luge Skeleton Skiing Alpine Cross country Nordic combined Freestyle Jumping Snowboarding
Other IOC recognised sports	Air sports Auto racing Bandy Baseball Billiard sports Boules Bowling Bridge Chess Cricket Dance sport Floorball Gliding Karate Korfball Lifesaving Motorcycle racing Mountaineering and climbing Netball Orienteering Pelota vasca Polo Powerboating Racquetball Roller sports Rugby union Softball Sport climbing Squash Sumo Surfing Tug of war Underwater sports Water ski Wushu
Paralympics and disabled sports	Deaf Sports New Zealand
Other sports	Australian League Football American football Backgammon Bowls Caving Fullbore rifle Gaelic Games Go Rugby league Rugby union Pro Box NZ New Zealand Professional Boxing Association Professional boxing in New Zealand Fish & Game New Zealand
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