Blair Tickner

Photo Credit: Canterbury Cricket Blair Tickner and Finn Allen have accepted their first New Zealand Cricket central contracts, effectively filling the vacancies created by the departures of Trent Boult and Colin de Grandhomme, respectively. Tickner, the Central Stags pace bowler, has...

Photo Credit: New Zealand Cricket BLACKCAPS pace bowler Kyle Jamieson will return home to New Zealand after an MRI scan revealed a stress-reaction to his lower left back. The 27-year-old sustained the injury while bowling on day three of the second...

Photo Credit: ICC The BLACKCAPS have confirmed a 15-man squad to face England in the upcoming three-Test series, with the addition of Michael Bracewell as 16th man for the first Test starting at Lord’s in London on Thursday. Bracewell is covering...

Photo Credit: New Zealand Cricket Three of the BLACKCAPS touring party are in isolation after testing positive for Covid-19 on the morning of the first Tour match against Sussex in Brighton. Henry Nicholls, Blair Tickner and bowling coach Shane Jurgensen have...

Photo Credit: ICC Wellington Firebirds all-rounder Michael Bracewell has capped off an impressive season with inclusion in the BLACKCAPS Test squad for the upcoming tour of England. The 31-year-old earned his maiden T20I and One Day International calls ups over the...

Photo Credit: Cricket Scotland Wellington Firebirds all-rounder Michael Bracewell has been named in the BLACKCAPS for the first time, seven months on from having to turn down his maiden call up. The in-form 31-year-old’s been included in both the T20 and...

Photo Credit: Canterbury Cricket Cam Fletcher and Blair Tickner have earned their maiden Test call-ups, while Colin de Grandhomme and Hamish Rutherford have been recalled as part of an extended BLACKCAPS squad for the first ANZ Test against South Africa, starting February 17 at Christchurch’s Hagley Oval. The larger...

Photo Credit: New Zealand Cricket At 10.30am this morning it’s exactly one week until the start of the 2021/22 NZC home summer of cricket. The first balls of the season will be bowled in the Plunket Shield at Hagley Oval and...