NZC posted a heartwarming video of family members of New Zealand cricketers introducing the players one by one. For some players, it was their wife/partner making the introduction while for others it was their kids.
First appointed for a two-year term in late 2018, Stead had his contract renewed in 2020 until the end of the upcoming ICC Cricket World Cup in India, and will now stay on until the conclusion of the current World Test Championship cycle, in June 2025,
The camp, held as part of the Vitasta Festival, was inaugurated by Bharat Singh Manhas, JKAS Secretary of the Academy, amidst the presence of renowned artist Masood Hussain and Ravinder Sharma, Programme Officer of NZCC.
He is just the fourth chief executive, after Chris Doig, Martin Snedden and Justin Vaughan, to lead NZC since the adoption of the Hood Report recommendations in 1995.
Kerr, the first player to be awarded the newly-minted Debbie Hockley Medal for the most outstanding women's cricketer of the year, was also named the ANZ Women's T20I Player of the Year.
Mitchell, who also won the Redpath Cup for men's first-class batting, was recognised for a stand-out year across the board but particularly at the Test level.
The squad will stop over in the UAE on the way to England for its white ball commitments, and play all three games under lights. It will be only the second time New Zealand has played the UAE in a full international, following the 1996 World Cup ODI between the two sides at Faisalabad, in Pa
He was a right-handed opening batter who debuted in February 1968 and represented New Zealand in 13 Test matches, scoring 598 runs at an average of 23.92, with five half-centuries.
The three-match ODI series against Pakistan will start from January 9 and will go on till January 13. New Zealand will then travel to India for a white-ball series consisting of three ODIs and three T20Is from January 18 onwards.