Nick Beard

Nick Beard, the Otago spinner, has had his bowling action cleared after he underwent biometric testing in Australia

A wrap of Plunket Shield matches played from February 14

Otago scored a crushing 82-run win over Wellington at the University Oval in Dunedin

A round-up of the third round of Plunket Shield matches

Lively scoring rates and sporting declarations were not sufficient to generate a result in the first unofficial Test between New Zealand A and Zimbabwe A in Harare

New Zealand Cricket has moved closer to resuming bilateral ties with Zimbabwe after a break of five years by naming an A team to tour the country in October

A round-up of 40-over matches on the sixth day of the Emerging Players tournament in Brisbane

Otago and Central Districts kept up the push for a spot in the finals by squeezing out tight wins in the seventh round

Stephen Moore and Ben Scott starred with fighting fifties for the England Lions as their two-day tour match against New Zealand Emerging Players drifted to a draw

The rain sweeping across the country took a little while to reach the south east, but once it did it spelt the end for the second ODI between England Under-19s and New Zealand Under-19s

The second youth Test ended in an honourable draw at Worcester, with Dan Redfern holding tight for England with an unbeaten 79 as his team-mates succumbed to Nick Beard, who claimed five wickets

A round-up of the third day's action of the Under-19 World Cup warm-up matches