New Zealand Cricket Team

Captains: Tim Southee (Test), Kane Williamson (ODI, T20I)
Coaches: Gary Stead (head coach), Luke Ronchi (batting coach), Jacob Oram (bowling coach), James Foster (fielding coach)
First international match: 1930
Cricket board: New Zealand Cricket (NZC)
ICC titles: 2

New Zealand are renowned for punching above their weight and being resourceful despite being among the least-populated Test-playing nations.

They have won the inaugural World Test Championship (2021) and the ICC KnockOut Trophy, the predecessor to the Champions Trophy (2000), and have made it to the final of the 2015 and the 2019 ODI World Cups, along with four semi-finals and a final in their first eight T20 World Cup appearances.

In terms of history, the men's team played their first Test in 1930 but had to wait 26 years to register their first win. Their ascent in the '70s and '80s coincided with the career of Richard Hadlee, one of the greatest allrounders of all time and the first bowler to take 400 Test wickets.

Martin Crowe, one of their greatest batters, also got among the ranks during the era, as the side developed a string of successful players, including John Wright, Lance Cairns, and Jeremy Coney. It allowed them get off to a stronger start in ODI cricket, as evidenced by their progress to the semi-finals in the first two World Cups.

New Zealand were late to creating a fully professional system but it has allowed them to build successful teams thereafter, especially the ones led by Stephen Fleming, Brendon McCullum, and Kane Williamson, who is arguably their greatest batter of all time. McCullum's captaincy holds significance in terms of the culture and fearless style he brought to the side. New Zealand hold the records for the fastest Test hundred (off 54 balls by McCullum) and double-hundred (off 153 balls by Nathan Astle).

They do not have a local franchise-based T20 league but have produced globetrotters like Trent Boult and James Neesham, and continue to adapt to the changing cricketing landscape.

Tests: 5
ODIs: 5
T20Is: 5

Tests: Most runs | Most wickets | Highest Totals | Lowest Totals
ODIs: Most runs | Most wickets | Highest Totals | Lowest Totals
T20Is: Most Runs | Most Wickets | Highest Totals | Lowest Totals

1956: First Test match win, Auckland

1962: First overseas Test match win, Cape Town

1969: First Test series win, in Pakistan

2000: ICC KnockOut win, Nairobi

2019: Tied 2019 ODI World Cup final and Super Over with England, but lost on the basis of boundary count

2021: World Test Championship win, Southampton