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New Zealand Indoor Cricket have named a 12-man Open Men’s squad for the upcoming NZ-Asia Cup, scheduled to be held in India this upcoming May.
The Cup will be the first major international indoor cricket tournament since last year’s World Cup in Australia and will also mark the first tour of India by a New Zealand side.
The Kiwis will be hoping to repeat their performance from last time after securing the last NZ-Asia Cup title back in April 2019 in Singapore, when they defeated Sri Lanka in the final.
Other sides expected to feature alongside the hosts are UAE, Sri Lanka, Singapore and UAE, as well as potentially an Indian Development (India A) side.
Recently reappointed Open Men’s coach Leigh Kelly has retained six players from the World Cup touring party, in which they lost to Australia in the final.
Additionally, he has brought in some younger talent, with three players from the victorious Under-22 Men’s World Cup side set to make their Senior Men’s debuts.
Some other experienced personnel from the wider playing group have been added and will bolster the core of the overall squad.
New Zealand Men’s squad for the 2023 NZ-Asia Cup:
*Brackets denotes number of matches played
- Victor DAVIES (C) (44)
- Harlin AMARAL (Debut)
- Michael BARRY (22)
- Micah CONROY (Debut)
- Brendan CROOK (15)
- Darrin CROOK (29)
- Braden GARDNER (10)
- Stacy HYNDMAN (41)
- Matthew LATHAM (12)
- Curtis MILLARD (Debut)
- Tristan VAN INGEN-KAL (Debut)
- Todd WATSON (10)
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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.
