Parlane's 94-ball 117 included seven fours and four sixes and Kitchen ended unbeaten on 110 after 81 balls - lifting his average from 25 to 29.6 in the course of his innings. The speed of his century has been bettered only by Brendon McCullum (52...

Today, one of them, wearing a sullen look, said: "we could have got each and every one of them." There had been camaraderie and chattiness among the IPL's expats on Friday morning when Donald met Stephen Fleming, Darren Lehmann and Ray Jennings at...

Ryder's average ranks him among the New Zealand batting greats. Of the nine players to average over 40 with a minimum of 20 innings, he is seventh, ahead of Bert Sutcliffe (40.10) and Stephen Fleming (40.06) - but statistics can be deceiving. Since...

If the sledge had been over the top, the umpires would have done something on the field; they didn’t. Former New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming's once told his players to expect to be sledged by Australia, and to be ready with comebacks; they fired...

It was 17 innings since his previous hundred, a whirlwind 138 against Australia in Hamilton in March, 2010. Six of those knocks were half-centuries, so that word was beginning to be uttered as it was in hushed tones during former skipper Stephen...

It was 17 innings since his previous hundred, a whirlwind 138 against Australia in Hamilton in March 2010. Six of those knocks were half-centuries, so that word was beginning to be uttered as it was in hushed tones during former skipper Stephen...