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Great news for fans of fast bowling.
With their next Dream11 Super Smash match just around the corner, BLACKCAPS quick Adam Milne is out of Isolation and has been named in a strong Central Stags Ford Trophy one-day squad to play Northern Districts, tomorrow.
If the weather at Seddon Park obliges in an away clash with Northern Districts, it will be Milne’s first one-day Ford Trophy appearance for Central since the 2017/18 Grand Final in February 2018.
Taking notes will be Hamish Rutherford’s Otago Volts who are poised to play the Central Stags in Napier this Saturday in the T20 format – when the Central Hinds and Stags host a free admission Super Free Saturday at McLean Park.
The pace weapon is in line to make his first Dream11 Super Smash appearance since the 2019 Grand Final — won by the Stags at Seddon Park.
Milne took an explosive 3-12 on that occasion and since then the contracted Stag has overcome a niggly string of ankle injuries and surgeries to produce an outstanding calendar year’s cricket in which he won a BLACKCAPS recall, starred in the Big Bash, Vitality Blast, The Hundred and the IPL, and replaced Lockie Ferguson as the official injury replacement at the recent ICC World T20 Cup in which the BLACKCAPS finished runners-up.
The Ford Trophy is live-streamed and live-scored at nzc.nz and on the NZC app.
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The New Zealand national cricket team, known as the Black Caps, made their Test debut in 1930 against England in Christchurch, becoming the fifth nation to play Test cricket. After waiting 26 years for their first Test win against the West Indies in 1956, they also played their first ODI in 1972–73 against Pakistan. New Zealand are the inaugural World Test Championship champions (2021) and have won the ICC Champions Trophy (2000). They have reached the Cricket World Cup final twice and the T20 World Cup final once.
