Today’s opening ODI between the Black Caps and Sri Lanka will offer a chance for those on the fringes to play their way into the Champions Trophy squad. But given the nature of contemporary cricket, what happens at the Basin Reserve will be equally influential as matches played in Australia,

The Black Caps have clinched the T20 series with a game to spare, after successfully defending their tally of 186 runs at Mt Maunganui's Bay Oval.

Matt Henry is six weeks away from his first chance to spearhead the Black Caps attack on the world stage. Based on the seamer’s first warm-up run, it should be a bountiful hunt for wickets. New Zealand opened the ODI series against Sri Lanka with a performance they would do well to replicate at the Champions Trophy,

Daryl Mitchell and Michael Bracewell have made half centuries in a 105-run sixth wicket partnership to help lead New Zealand to an eight-run win over Sri Lanka in the first of three T20 internationals.

New Zealand have produced a dominant performance to comprehensively beat Sri Lanka in the first of three one-day internationals a chilly Basin Reserve in Wellington.