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Stokes branded a three-format schedule as “unsustainable” when calling time on his ODI career 13 months ago.

Ben Stokes has been named in the 15-player group to face New Zealand in four World Cup warm-up games in September

By introducing four weeks of paid parental leave for partners if re-elected, the Labour Party would move New Zealand out of an undesirable and tiny club of OECD nations. Only the United States and Israel would then not offer something similar after the birth (or adoption) of a baby.

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Fears that country would not embrace tournament have been dispelled with record attendances

The Ashes may not yet have been reduced to speck-in-rear-view-mirror status, but England’s focus has already shifted towards white-ball endeavours, with squads for the late-summer’s series against New Zealand and Ireland set to be announced on Wednesday.

Germany’s foreign minister has abandoned a trip to Australia, New Zealand and Fiji after a problem with her government plane twice forced it to return to Abu Dhabi, delaying her by more than a day

The National Party’s promised ban on cellphones in schools has been touted by leader Christopher Luxon as a “common sense” and “practical” way to address New Zealand’s poor academic achievement.