New Zealand were the first team to qualify for the final after Australia were docked penalty points for slow over-rate during the Border-Gavaskar series. India booked their berth for the summit clash after defeating England 3-1 at home.
Ahead of the start of the final against India on June 18, we take a look at New Zealand's road to the WTC final.
Delhi Capitals pacer Avesh Khan emerged as one of the four standby players when the BCCI picked India's squad for the World Test Championship (WTC) final against New Zealand and the five-match Test series against England. The 24-year-old said he and his family was preparing for Iftar when he got news of his selection.
New Zealand suspends entry for all travellers from India for two weeks following a surge in coronavirus cases.
New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern temporarily suspends entry for all travellers from India, including its own citizens, following a high number of positive COVID-19 cases arriving from there. The suspension starts on April 11 and will be in place until April 28: Reuters
A powerful earthquake of magnitude 6 on the Richter scale, hit the east coast of North Island of New Zealand on Monday, as per the National Center for Seismology.
Allen went on to get to his half century in just 18 balls, thus equalling Colin Munro's record for the second-fastest half-century by a Kiwi batsman in T20Is. Allen fell in the last over of the innings.
The earthquake was registered at 00:16 GMT, with the epicenter located at a depth of 9 kilometers (over 5 miles) 181 kilometers northeast of the city of Gisborne.
The magnitude 8.1 quake was the largest in a series of tremors that hit the region over several hours, including two earlier quakes that registered magnitude 7.4 and magnitude 7.3.
New Zealand emergency services ordered coastal communities across large swathes of the North Island to evacuate Friday amid fears a powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake in the Pacific would generate a tsunami.
A strong earthquake jolted New Zealand on Thursday. The quake measured 7.3 on the Richter Scale and struck east of New Zealand's north Island. NEMA and GNS Science are assessing the earthquake parameters to determine if there is a tsunami risk to New Zealand.
Williamson's 238, along with 157 from Henry Nicholls and unbeaten 102 from Daryl Mitchell, helped the Black Caps declare their first innings on 659/6 in reply to Pakistan's 297.
Williamson-led New Zealand defeated Pakistan by 101 runs to take a 1-0 lead in the two-Test series.
The Kiwis have now won five Test matches in four series and are on 300 points.
Brenton Tarrant, the Australian-born attacker who killed 51 Muslim worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch, travelled extensively around the world, including India where he spent nearly three months, before moving to New Zealand to carry out the country’s worst massacre in 2019, according to a detailed report into the shootings released on Tuesday.
West Indies, who were six down for 196 in the second innings after being forced to follow on, are still 185 runs behind.
The 29-year-old all-rounder, who holds the record for the second-fastest hundred in ODIs, will start with Major League T20 Cricket in the USA
A multi-national company in New Zealand is going to start 4-day work week for employees with no pay cuts. The trial will be a year long experience, said Unilever New Zealand, adding all 81 employees will be eligible to participate beginning this month. The company may also consider it adopting globally.
Watling picked up the injury in the opening round of the Ford Trophy, New Zealand Cricket informed on Tuesday.
Dr Gaurav Sharma, one of the youngest and newly-elected MPs in New Zealand, on Wednesday took oath in Sanskrit in the country's Parliament.
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