Wellington, Apr. 6 : Staring down the barrel of a 600-plus run chase in the third test against India, New Zealand coach Andy Moles has asked his batsmen to concentrate on saving the test on a playable pitch rather than trying to be heroes and win it.
The world record chase is 418-7 by the West Indies against Australia in Antigua in 2003 and New Zealand''s best is 324-5 against Pakistan in Christchurch in 1994.
Wellington (New Zealand), Apr. 6 : Former Black Caps captain Stephen Fleming and former Black Cap bowler Richard Petrie have set up Digital Publications, a company with the New Zealand licence for SmartBook software, which lets companies distribute large, media-rich documents electronically without losing image quality.
Wellington - A rescue operation was launched Monday to save two Italian sailors stranded on a crippled yacht in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, about halfway between New Zealand and Chile.
An oil tanker was diverted to their aid, but New Zealand's Rescue Coordination Centre said it was 800 nautical miles from the 10-metre yacht and would not reach them for nearly three days.
Wellington - A rescue operation was launched Monday to save two Italian sailors stranded on a crippled yacht in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, about halfway between New Zealand and Chile.
An oil tanker was diverted to their aid, but New Zealand's Rescue Coordination Centre said it was 800 nautical miles from the 10-metre yacht and would not reach them for three days.
Wellington, Apr 5 : New Zealand coach Andy Moles has rubbished suggestions that Jeetan Patel should be picked regardless of whether a pitch favours spinners or seamers.
"We always look at the surface first and the team is selected based on that. Jeetan bowled really well in Napier and there's no doubting that when the wicket suits two spinners, we are lucky to have someone of his quality ready to play," Moles told Sunday News.
Wellington - The head of New Zealand's main returned servicemen's organization urged young people to stay away from annual World War I commemorations in Turkey because they are damaging the environment and disrespecting the dead, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
Tens of thousands of young New Zealanders and Australians go to the Gallipoli peninsula every year to mark the anniversary of their ancestors' disastrous landing on April 25, 1915, to fight Turkish troops.
Wellington, Apr. 6 : Staring down the barrel of a 600-plus run chase in the third test against India, New Zealand coach Andy Moles has asked his batsmen to concentrate on saving the test on a playable pitch rather than trying to be heroes and win it.
Wellington (New Zealand), Apr. 6 : Former Black Caps captain Stephen Fleming and former Black Cap bowler Richard Petrie have set up Digital Publications, a company with the New Zealand licence for SmartBook software, which lets companies distribute large, media-rich documents electronically without losing image quality.
Wellington - A rescue operation was launched Monday to save two Italian sailors stranded on a crippled yacht in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, about halfway between New Zealand and Chile.
Wellington - A rescue operation was launched Monday to save two Italian sailors stranded on a crippled yacht in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, about halfway between New Zealand and Chile.
Wellington, Apr 5 : New Zealand coach Andy Moles has rubbished suggestions that Jeetan Patel should be picked regardless of whether a pitch favours spinners or seamers.
Wellington - The head of New Zealand's main returned servicemen's organization urged young people to stay away from annual World War I commemorations in Turkey because they are damaging the environment and disrespecting the dead, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
