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Mitchell Johnson wants Australia to continue dominating New Zealand after their strong performance in the opening Twenty20 in Wellington on Friday. Johnson was Man of the Match in the crushing six-wicket win, which was set up by some extreme speed from Australia’s fast bowlers.New Zealand were dismissed for 118, with Johnson (3 for 19), Shaun Tait and Dirk Nannes combining for seven victims as they unleashed spells touching 150kph. “I just think we’re in a good state of mind at the moment and we’re looking forward to keeping, I guess, dominating,” Johnson said after the match. “When we’ve got a few guys in our side who can bowl … 150-plus, it probably does make a bit of a difference.”You don’t really get an easy run at it if first-change and second-change can bowl that quick pace as well. It makes it tougher for their guys. I’m pretty glad we’re not facing us actually.”The Australians can wrap up a 2-0 result in the Twenty20s with a win in Christchurch on Sunday before the one-day international and Test series complete the tour. “Definitely guys were a little bit nervous coming over,” Johnson said. “We knew that New Zealand love the shorter forms of the game and do pretty well at it. There was nerves in the dressing room. I definitely felt it.”James Franklin, who top scored for the hosts with 43, believes his team can fight back from the opening disappointment. “With Twenty20 it comes down to a few guys doing exceptionally well on the night and we just didn’t have that,” he told NZPA. “We know if we can turn up as a group then three or four of us really stand up and contribute.”

Two further one-day games have been added to Bangladesh’s tour of England, Ireland and Scotland, with Netherlands and Scotland announcing that they will play a one-dayer each against the touring side in June. Scotland will play Bangladesh on July 19 in Glasgow, which will also serve as the neutral venue for the match against Netherlands the following day.Prior to these games, Bangladesh will be in Ireland, where they will play two ODIs at Stormont in Belfast on July 15 and 16.Richard Cox, the Netherlands board chief executive, believed the games would be an important benchmark for the sides. “This is an exciting opportunity to play an ICC Full Member in Scotland at the end of what will have been a long tour for the exciting Bangladesh squad,” he said.”This game will be a big test for our side and they will be relishing the opportunity to play Bangladesh whose footsteps we hope to follow in years to come. The game will come on the back of the ICC World Cricket League to be held in the Netherlands in June and we therefore hope to be well and truly ready for the challenge.”Roddy Smith, Cricket Scotland’s chief executive, said the team would be looking forward to the clash, scheduled after England’s visit on June 19. “These games are always a major test for our players and they will be relishing the opportunity to play Bangladesh on home soil,” he said.Richard Holsworth, the ICC Europe regional development manager, also welcomed the fixtures. “Bangladesh agreeing to play Ireland, Scotland and the Netherlands in one-day internationals this summer is great news for Europe and these countries. Now that all three high performance countries have a number of professional contracted players it is a hugely important they have regular competition with the Full Member countries.”

Rajasthan Royals are spearheading a drive to expand their brand by linking up with domestic teams from four other countries in a deal that would involving hosting joint tournaments. The said that Rajasthan are looking for partners in England, South Africa, Australia and West Indies which would give the Royals’ name year-round exposure.Sean Morris, the chief executive of Rajasthan, was excited at the prospect of the partnership, details of which are expected to be announced next week. “The opportunity to create a global brand is a unique one across all sports,” Morris told the paper, “and will enable us to take advantage of the changing landscape in cricket, not least in the areas of marketing and talent development.”The plan includes a tournament this year featuring the five teams who become part of the alliance. For their respective domestic Twenty20 tournaments, all teams will reportedly affix the term ‘Royals’ to their names, besides turning out in similar Royals kits. The teams will also share revenues from any global sponsor of the Royals brand. With Twenty20 tournaments in the five countries spread out across the year, the global brand will rarely be out of the spotlight.Rajasthan are captained by Shane Warne, whose former county Hampshire are one of the three English domestic teams linked with the deal, the others being Middlesex and Leicestershire. Rajasthan also have strong links with Cape Cobras, the South African franchise, with Graeme Smith playing for both teams and the two sides linked up last year for a match and Cricinfo understands this is another likely pairing.Hampshire chairman Rod Bransgrove confirmed his team were in negotiations with Rajasthan. “You would expect us to be at the forefront of the marketplace and we are in quite advanced discussions,” he told the . “There’s likely to be an announcement soon but I don’t want to go into too much detail at this stage except to say that Twenty20 is a fantastic opportunity.”

The might have rated Mysore as one of its top places tovisit this year, but the city is an unlikely setting for the mostimportant first-class match of the Indian domestic calendar. Ranji Trophy finalsare rarely held outside international centres, but the flatness of thetrack at the Chinnaswamy Stadium and the Karnataka State CricketAssociation’s (KSCA) desire to back their potent pace bowling resulted inthe Gangothri Glades landing the big game. That too barely four yearsafter holding its maiden first-class match.The organisers are understandably elated. “This is a great day for us,” says Sunaad Raghuraman, chairman of the KSCA Mysore Zone. “It is a greatoccasion. I’m sure it will create a lot of interest among the youngstershere. Mysore is fast becoming a big centre for cricket, a good alternativeto Bangalore.”It has been a hectic four days for them after Mysore was chosen as thevenue for the final. The ground was buzzing with activity a day before thegame; shamianas had just been erected over the stands, seating was beingarranged – sofas and chairs were being brought in – and a makeshift pressbox was being set up.Of the many things to be put in place before the match, the two keyingredients that needed to be looked after are the pitch and the outfield.The greenish track has been deemed satisfactory by both teams, who expectplenty of pace and bounce and feel it will last all five days. The unevenoutfield, though, has come in for criticism, with Mumbai coach Praveen Amresaying, “there are high chances of the fielders getting injured.”Little can be done about it by the final, but the organisers say there are plans to replace the existing wild grass with Bermuda grass, a staple of many sports fields.Mysore held two Ranji matches earlier this season, but neither had afull-fledged television broadcast, entailing more work before this game.”We have built two separate enclosures for the television crew,”Harikrishna Kumar, convenor of KSCA Mysore zone, said. “We have alsoconstructed stands for the correct positioning of the cameras.”Over the past few years, several Ranji finals in big cities have beenplayed in front of paltry crowds. India’s tour of Bangladesh hasrobbed the final of the star wattage of Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid andZaheer Khan, but over the next week a full house is expected to cheer onthe home side.”I think that’s the advantage of playing in a centre likethis. People of Mysore really enjoy the game,” Robin Uthappa, theKarnataka captain, said. “Generally, even if it is a league game, thereare four or five thousand people. So we are obviously expecting a lotmore. It’s good to have the home support backing you and the crowd behindyou. It’s a first for a lot of boys and I am sure they are looking forwardto it.”Along with crowds comes the question of security of players. “One hundred and fiifty people from police department have been assigned for the match, a privatesecurity agency has been engaged, and 50 people from the National CadetCorps will be on duty,” Kumar says, before adding, “The crowd here is verygood. There shouldn’t be any disturbance.”After Karnataka’s semi-final, Dravid had said the future of Ranji Trophylies away from the metros. “More and more games must now be played insmaller places, as long as the facilities are good,” he said. Mysoreis doing its best to present the case for the small towns.

India may have squared the series with a record chase but MS Dhoni has said the team will have to pull up their socks before they can claim to be a quality Twenty20 side. India’s successful chase of a target of 207, the highest successful chase in this format, snapped a four-game losing streak but their bowling and fielding left much to be desired.It was the second match in a row that Sri Lanka were allowed to cross 200, and the fielding was worse than in Nagpur, with six catches going down. “We could be the best team in the world in this format, but our bowling and fielding has got to improve,” said Dhoni. “We have been struggling with our bowling for some time, not just in the Twenty20 format, but in the one-day version as well.”If we could improve that aspect of the game, we would be a difficult team to beat. We certainly have the batting and this team has got character, but there are areas in which we need to improve.”That India managed to emerge triumphant owed plenty to Virender Sehwag’s 36-ball 64, Yuvraj Singh’s unbeaten 60 off 25 balls, and Dhoni’s quick 46. These three innings allowed India chase down Sri Lanka’s total of 206 for 7 with five balls to spare. “We had the firepower to chase this score, but we needed a good start,” said Dhoni. “Even if you lose a wicket at the top, the player who comes in ought to score at a brisk pace. That didn’t happen for us in the first game in Nagpur, but we were perfect here. Overall, you need every batsman to contribute and that’s exactly what happened in this game.”I’ve never seen a team dropping six catches, but then Sri Lanka missed as many run-out chances. In an international game, you have to take those chances whatever the reasons may be.”Kumar Sangakkara’s 31-ball 59 had been the foundation of Sri Lanka’s imposing total, but he was left to look on in frustration as Sri Lanka outdid India’s butter-fingered performance. “We did well to create that total which I thought was more than enough to win us this game,” he said. “We bowled the first six overs really well, but those catches and those run outs really mattered in the end. We had our chances, quite a few of them really, and we didn’t take them.”From there on, it was just a case of trying to contain because once we let go of the chances, there was no way of putting pressure on the opposition.”Yuvraj, whose rambunctious innings made a massive difference, said his 28th birthday was his best to date. “This is my best birthday till now. I am very happy the way we played, especially the batsmen. Frankly I was not expecting to score 60 of 25 balls.”He also credited India’s coach Gary Kirsten. “He is the best coach that I have ever played under,” said Yuvraj. “He understands the game and the pressure.”The sides will now begin a five-match ODI series on December 15 in Rajkot.

Group B

ScorecardCheteshwar Pujara’s scintillating double-century and an unbroken 272-run partnership with Ravindra Jadeja, who compiled a hundred, helped Saurashtra pile up a massive score against Maharashtra in Rajkot. Resuming on 236 for 2, the hosts lost Shitanshu Kotak, but not before he completed his century. But an agonising day unfolded for the Maharashtra bowlers as Pujara and Jadeja treated them with utter disdain during their excellent fourth-wicket stand. Pujara’s innings was studded with 22 fours and a six, while Jadeja hit seven fours and three sixes during his 189-ball stay. In reply, Maharashtra finished the day on 53 for 1, losing Harshad Khadiwale.
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Twin unbeaten fifties from KB Pawan and Amit Verma ensured a satisfactory day for Karnataka against Bengal in Mysore. Saurasish Lahiri’s quickfire 37 was the only highlight for Bengal, as they finished on 324 from their overnight score of 252 for 5. R Vinay Kumar and Sreesanth Aravind were Karnataka’s most successful bowlers, picking up three wickets apiece. Though Karnataka lost captain Robin Uthappa early during the reply, the third-wicket stand of 149 between Pawan and Verma gave Karnataka full control of proceedings, even looking good for first-innings points in this top-of-the-table clash.
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Piyush Chawla was the wrecker-in-chief as Baroda were bowled out against Uttar Pradesh (UP) in Ghaziabad. With no play possible on the first day, Baroda chose to bat but lost three quick wickets for 20. Azhar Bilakhia (35) put on a 57-run partnership with half-centurion Rakesh Solanki, before Chawla weaved his magic. Irfan Pathan boosted the total with a quick-paced fifty coming in at No. 7, and Chawla then proceeded to wrap up proceedings by the 70th over. The UP openers Tanmay Srivastata and Shivakant Shukla safely negotiated the 11 overs remaining in the day.Group A

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How Punjab wished Murali Vijay had not been released from India’s Test squad against Sri Lanka. The Tamil Nadu right-hander’s sparkling century put them on top in Amritsar, as they emphatically strode to first-innings points. Once L Balaji had wrapped up the Punjab innings inside the first nine overs of the day, Tamil Nadu made light work of overhauling Punjab’s total of 228. The 154-run opening stand between Vijay and Abhinav Mukund set the tone, before Vijay combined with Arun Karthik for another century stand. Vijay hit 16 fours and three sixes during his 218-ball innings. Legspinner Sarabjit Ladda (3 for 90) led the fightback for Punjab as they accounted for six Tamil Nadu batsmen, but the visitors’ lead had crossed the 100-mark and threatened to increase more.
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Bhavin Thakkar’s watchful fifty ensured Himachal Pradesh took first-innings points against defending champions Mumbai at the Bandra-Kurla Complex, even though they were cleaned up by Harmeet Singh and Iqbal Abdullah. Continuing from 100 for 3 the previous day, Thakkar steadied the innings even as wickets kept falling around him. However, Harmeet and Abdullah, who took four wickets apiece, could not prevent HP going past Mumbai’s first-innings total of 162. Mumbai went about erasing the 84-run deficit in confident fashion as openers Sahil Kukreja and Ajinkya Rahane saw them through to the end of the day, putting on 53. HP offspinner Sarandeep Singh was no-balled for a suspect action in his third over of Mumbai’s second innings, after which he was taken off the attack.
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Bad weather disrupted proceedings yet again in Hyderabad, as the home team could add just 34 to their overnight score against table-toppers Gujarat. Anirudh Singh brought up his fifty but was one of the wickets to fall, along with overnight batsman Syed Quadri. There were three pitch inspections at 11:00 am, 12:00 pm and 1:00 pm and play could only begin after 1:30 pm. But there was to be no post-tea session as play was called off at 3:11 pm.
ScorecardAn unbeaten 78-run stand between wicketkeeper Mahesh Rawat and Krishnakant Upadhyay propped up Railways against Orissa in Bhubaneswar but rain played spoilsport, bringing a premature end to the day’s play. A middle-order collapse resulted in Railways slumping to 219 for 8 from their overnight score of 176 for 4. However, bad light meant just 35.4 overs could be managed as Debasis Mohanty, who was the pick of the Orissa bowlers, finished with three wickets. Basanth Mohanty and Alok Chandra Sahoo gave him good support, picking up two apiece.

Mickey Arthur, the South Africa coach, has warned England of facing a more intimidating opposition in the ODI series which begins on Friday in Johannesburg. Arthur conceded the hosts were a “little too friendly” at the start of the tour, when England and South Africa drew the Twenty20 series 1-1.”I thought during the Twenty20 we were a little too friendly,” Arthur said on Wednesday. “There was ‘Hello Trotty’ [Jonathan Trott] and ‘How are you, Trotty?’. I saw one of our quick bowlers having lunch with him a couple of days before a game.”That is all great and they can be good mates, but I thought the series started off a bit too friendly. We upped the voltage a couple of days ago. We needed to up the ante a little.”South Africa came back strongly in the Twenty20 internationals, recovering from a one-run loss [by D-L method] to inflicting an 84-run defeat on England in the second game in Centurion.Asked if any players in the England line-up had the talent to make it to the South African team, Arthur singled out Kevin Pietersen as the closest prospect, but added South Africa had batsmen who could measure up to his quality.”It is a tough call because KP has done it over a longer time and really is world class,” Arthur said. “But we have world-class young players as well in AB de Villiers and JP Duminy, and we are not even touching the guys we know are world class: Graeme Smith and Jacques Kallis.”I have read that Ian Chappell compares Duminy to Brian Lara and Ricky Ponting as the next player who will bring crowds into the grounds, and De Villiers is right up there, too.”Arthur has targeted individual England players in his comments, and defended the strategy. Referring to the “criminal” use of legspinner Adil Rashid in Centurion, where he conceded 25 off one over, Arthur said: “That was a genuinely honest feeling about Rashid. And if we put a bit of pressure on by giving honest opinions, then great. We know which England players we want to target. Once you become the focus of the media, you have to be strong to deal with it. It is part of the hurly-burly of international cricket.”

Match facts

Wednesday, November 11
Start time 14.30 local time (09.00GMT)

Big Picture

India have struggled to counter Doug Bolinger’s pinpoint accuracy•Getty Images

For India, it’s a bleak and depressing one. Three successive losses have cost them the series against a patchwork-quilt Australian side. Despite an appalling injury list, Australia have managed to hold their nerve at key moments. India have lapsed back into 1990s mode, with stellar individual performances like Sachin Tendulkar’s 175 in Hyderabad expected to paper over collective weakness. That hasn’t happened, and the pre-series hype of going for the No.1 ranking now sounds pathetic.For the second series in a row at home, they head to Mumbai, the heartland of Indian cricket, with the cause hopelessly lost. Back in 2007, Zaheer Khan and Murali Kartik pulled off a late show to give the scoreline (4-2) a slightly more respectable look, and that’s as much as India can aspire to at the DY Patil Stadium. As for Australia, having won the Champions Trophy and now swatting aside the challenge of one of their big rivals away from home, this is a happy time, an occasion to revel in the success of a system that can produce stand-ins like Doug Bollinger and Clint McKay. Even with half the first team back home nursing injuries and niggles, they’ve been far too good.

Form guide

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Sachin Tendulkar: That dazzling century at Hyderabad aside, he has contributed just 100 in five innings. This, though, is a special game, the first time he’ll be playing in front of his home crowd since the terror attacks in Mumbai a year ago. Some of his greatest innings against Australia have come in Mumbai (twin fifties in the Test in 2001, and 90 in the World Cup of 1996), but they never resulted in Indian wins. He’ll be desperate to change that.Doug Bollinger: A generation ago, Brett Schultz’s left-arm pace caused India immense discomfiture on a tour of South Africa. Bollinger, who’s as quick and more accurate, has had a similar impact since his introduction into this series, taking nine wickets at 19.33. The caught-and-bowled dismissal of Tendulkar was the big moment in the six-wicket romp in Guwahati, and there should certainly be enough bounce at the Navi Mumbai venue to keep him interested.

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India have to make a choice. Do they opt to give the fringe players a chance, or do they focus on the victory that would claw back some pride? Had the series been won rather than lost, Sudeep Tyagi and Amit Mishra would certainly have been given outings. Mishra could yet play in place of Ravindra Jadeja, but Virat Kohli is unlikely to get a game, given how the frontline batsmen have struggled at times. Ishant Sharma could make a return with the Test series against Sri Lanka now just four days away.India: (probable) 1 Sachin Tendulkar, 2 Virender Sehwag, 3 Gautam Gambhir, 4 Yuvraj Singh, 5 Suresh Raina, 6 MS Dhoni (capt/wk), 7 Harbhajan Singh, 8 Praveen Kumar, 9 Amit Mishra, 10 Ishant Sharma, 11 Ashish Nehra.With Mitchell Johnson and Shane Watson flying home on Tuesday night to get some rest ahead of the upcoming home season, Australia are certain to give one-day debuts to Andrew McDonald and Burt Cockley. There could also be an opportunity for Jon Holland, the left-arm spinner who has watched from the sidelines, while Nathan Hauritz has been the most economical bowler in the series.Australia: (probable) 1 Shaun Marsh, 2 Adam Voges, Ricky Ponting (capt), 4 Cameron White, 5 Michael Hussey, 6 Andrew McDonald, 7 Graham Manou (wk), 8 Clint McKay, 9 Jon Holland, 10 Doug Bollinger, 11 Burt Cockley.

Pitch and conditions

The DY Patil Stadium can seat 55,000 and has one of the best facilities in the country. Even the square was prepared with the help of 200 tonnes of soil flown in from South Africa. There should be enough pace and bounce to keep the quick bowlers interested, though no one can be certain how it will play given that it’s the first international match at the venue. During the IPL final in 2008, the slow bowlers had some joy, and the batsmen also enjoyed an outfield where the ball raced to the ropes.Rain is forecast for tomorrow and the overcast conditions should further encourage the seamers. India’s practice session on the eve of the game was cancelled due to persistent showers.

Stats and trivia

• Australia have won two of the three one-day matches they’ve played in Mumbai. The loss came in the dead rubber in 2007.
• Michael Hussey averages 104.33 in the series and is the only batsman on either side with more than 300 runs.
• The top six for Australia have averaged 42.96 in the series so far, as opposed to India’s 34.70

Quotes

“Even though the series is won, it’s not as if we’re going to leave everyone out now and not worry too much about the last game. We feel we’ve started something here with this group, not only here but since the one day series in England, we’ve started to get a really good feeling around the group and I don’t want to abandon that or let that go. It’d be nice to finish off on a winning note.”
“We haven’t backed the opportunities that we have got. A majority of the batsmen haven’t contributed at the same time.”

Graham Manou is putting off that chat with the Australia selectors over what might happen next. He knows the answer: everything depends on Brad Haddin’s fingers and fitness.Manou was the last-minute replacement for Haddin in the third Ashes Test, had the best five days of his playing life, but ended the match with what would eventually be diagnosed as a fractured hand after being hit by Stuart Broad. In the next game Haddin came back and will have the spot as long as his bones stop breaking, which is a shame for Manou, who is by far the better keeper.Tasmania’s Tim Paine went over to England for the one-day series and has fitted in with bat and gloves ever since, leaving Manou in a tricky place. Being the understudy is always a worrying position, but Manou can avoid thinking about his international future by concentrating on the plight of South Australia, the unpredictable outfit he captains.”It’s nice to be home amongst family and friends, and to get back in the swing of things with the Redbacks,” he said. “An experience like the Test has certainly allowed my eyes to be opened even wider. More so to the realms of possibility of what our squad can achieve, not necessarily just this year, but over the next four years. This group certainly has the potential over the next little while to play some exciting and good cricket and hopefully in that next bracket of four years there’s a Shield victory in there somewhere.”The aim is as big as Manou hoping for a full series under the baggy green for South Australia haven’t reached a final since they won in 1995-96. One thing they have had during the off-season is a stable playing roster and the only major changes are the exit of Mike Deare, the SACA’s chief executive, and the batting coach Kim Harris, who was a strong ally for the top seven.”It certainly is nice,” Manou said of the lack of movement. “That’s what gives the group a bit of comfort in some ways. We always talk about playing our best cricket when we’re in a calm state, you certainly feel more in control of what you’re able to do individually and collectively.”Even in England Manou was thinking about what the squad needed to do when he came back. Only in the first week of October did he trust his hand enough to go on to the field, playing some practice games in Queensland. He knows that if the team has a strong season it will also help his claims.The misdiagnosis after the Test at Birmingham allowed him to stay with the squad for the entire tour, although he was unavailable for the final game when the fracture was finally revealed. “There obviously was always a break there,” he said. “It wasn’t until we went to Canterbury for the tour game [before the final Test] and I put my hand through a jumper and spread my fingers apart and it was quite painful. So then I had some scans and they eventually confirmed that there was a break in there. I was just wondering whether the English were trying to play some funny buggers with me.”He smiles as he says it, but after a Test taste he is desperate for more action, even though the road is going to be blocked by Haddin. Jamie Cox is the state’s high performance manager and doubles as a national selector. Manou will chat with him at some stage, but doesn’t want the answer to diminish his Ashes experience.”I haven’t really broached the subject, to be honest,” he said. “Just the emotion of the series as a group, and myself, being the first time I was away with the Australian guys, I just wanted to get away and let all that sink in.”It’s probably a subject I might get to sit down with Coxy or one of the selectors before the start of the season and just ask how I should continue to develop my cricket. To do that would be nice, but it’s still important that I continue to play the same role that I have over the past couple of years anyway.”

New Zealand will host six Tests in a summer for the first time after confirming their series against Pakistan, Bangladesh and Australia for 2009-10. The season features a three-Test series against Pakistan, who will be the ‘home’ team after relocating the games to New Zealand due to security concerns in Pakistan, while the heavy schedule has forced Australia’s tour to be cut to two Tests instead of three.The first Test against Pakistan is in Dunedin from November 24, before the series moves on to Wellington and Napier in December. After a break over Christmas and January, the New Zealanders host Bangladesh for a Twenty20, three ODIs and a one-off Test in Hamilton during February.Australia’s tour features two Twenty20s in late February before a five-match ODI series for the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy and two Tests – rather than the originally scheduled three – in Wellington and Hamilton starting on March 19 and 27 respectively. It will be the first time in 20 years that New Zealand have hosted Australia for a series of fewer than three Tests and it confirms that Australia and New Zealand players will not be available for IPL till March 31.”Playing Test cricket in New Zealand after the cessation of daylight saving and deep into the second week of April is not realistic,” Justin Vaughan, the chief executive of New Zealand Cricket, said. “Therefore our only option has been to limit the series to two Tests.”This is shaping up as a very exciting season for cricket fans – and a really busy one for the Black Caps. New Zealand has never before hosted more than five Tests in a season, so the six Test matches being played this summer is a tremendous programme.”The summer will feature two one-day internationals against Australia at Auckland’s Eden Park, which will at the time remain under redevelopment with a reduced capacity. Only 8000 seats will be available for each of those games, instead of the usual level of up to 25,000, and fans can pre-register for tickets at the New Zealand Cricket website.Pakistan in New Zealand
November 18-20 – Warm-up match
November 24-28 – 1st Test at University Oval, Dunedin
December 3-7 – 2nd Test at Basin Reserve, Wellington
December 11-15 – 3rd Test at McLean Park, Napier
Bangladesh in New Zealand
February 3 – Twenty20 international at Seddon Park, Hamilton
February 5 – 1st ODI at McLean Park, Napier
February 8 – 2nd ODI at University Oval, Dunedin
February 9 – 3rd ODI at AMI Stadium, Christchurch
February 15-19 – Only Test at Seddon Park, Hamilton
Australia in New Zealand
February 26 – Twenty20 international at Westpac Stadium, Wellington
February 28 – Twenty20 international at AMI Stadium, Christchurch
March 3 – 1st ODI at McLean Park, Napier
March 6 – 2nd ODI at Eden Park, Auckland
March 9 – 3rd ODI at Seddon Park, Hamilton
March 11 – 4th ODI at Eden Park, Auckland
March 13 – 5th ODI at Westpac Stadium, Wellington
March 19-23 – 1st Test at Basin Reserve, Wellington
March 27-31 – 2nd Test at Seddon Park, Hamilton