New Zealand Cricket
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- NZC redirects here. For the award for bravery, see New Zealand Cross
New Zealand Cricket, formerly the New Zealand Cricket Board, is the governing body for professional cricket in New Zealand.
New Zealand Cricket operates the New Zealand cricket team, organising Test tours and one-day internationals with other nations. It also organises domestic cricket in New Zealand, including the State Championship first-class competition, the State Shield domestic one-day competition and The Twenty20 competition
Martin Snedden is the current Chief Executive Officer of New Zealand Cricket. The national captain is Stephen Fleming
[edit] Teams
New Zealand Cricket involves the following first-class teams:
- Auckland Aces
- Canterbury Wizards
- Central Districts Stags
- Northern Districts Knights
- Otago Volts
- Wellington Firebirds
[edit] Cricket development
New Zealand Cricket has established High Performance Cricket training centre based at Lincoln University.
New Zealand Cricket operates grassroots development programme ‘MILO’ for school kids.
New Zealand has many private cricket academy and Bracewell Cricket Academy based Rathkeale College is one of the largest cricket academy, providing an Overseas Cricket Development Programme, a Pre-Season Coaching Camp, a Festival of Cricket etc.
