They both wear maroon and gold and they're both the defending first-class cricket champions in their respective countries.
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Could this be the score of the summer? The Northern Knights have contracted an England test, ODI and T20i wicketkeeper-batsman and a star County top order allrounder to increase their HRV Cup armoury.
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The Northern Knights will be missing one of their most senior players next season after long-time wicketkeeper-batsman Peter McGlashan today announced his retirement from all cricket.
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A day after celebrating their Plunket Shield championship triumph, the Yahoo!NZ Northern Knights were celebrating again at the 2012 Northern Districts Cricket Annual Awards, held at SKYCITY Hamilton on Friday evening.
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After 22 wickets fell in a single day, the Yahoo!NZ Northern Knights and Auckland Aces are both expecting a result in their Plunket Shield season opener, in progress at Whangarei's Cobham Oval.
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Over 1000 listeners have joined an online protest www.ipetitions.com/petition/radiosport/ against Radio Sport's unpopular move to axe one of New Zealand's great summer traditions.
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A public backlash against Radio Sport's decision to axe its traditional live cricket commentary this summer has rapidly gone viral.
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Northern Districts Cricket today announced eleven players offered domestic contracts for the 2011/12 season.
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Former BLACKCAPS skipper Daniel Vettori is leading the pack and winning the popularity stakes as the Yahoo! New Zealand Northern Knights auction off their autographed 2011 playing shirts for charity.
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A bag of prestigious awards have capped a boom year for Cook Islands Cricket, whose development into a top Pacific cricket nation is fostered by the support of the Northern Districts Cricket Association.
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HAMILTON — With his reputation for hilarious entertainment preceding him, just one table remains to be sold for international Australian cricketer Greg Ritchie's evening of stand-up mirth this Thursday in Hamilton.
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Outstanding seam bowler Graeme Aldridge was last night named Northern Districts' Cricketer of the Year at the association's 2010/11 season awards in Hamilton.
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The Yahoo!Xtra Northern Knights will head to Rangiora to try to beat the Canterbury Wizards for the 2011 Plunket Shield without the services of their regular captain and with a first-class debutant on tha plane.
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Northern Districts Maori will take a big step forward for Maori sport today (Friday April 1) when it takes on visiting national team the Cook Islands in a Twenty20 contest at Hamilton’s international cricket venue Seddon Park.
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The first domestic representative Maori cricket team will face its first test in Hamilton this Thursday when Northern Maori takes on Waikato University in a one-day match that Northern Districts Cricket anticipates will be the beginning of structured Maori cricket programmes within and beyond the region.
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The Yahoo!Xtra Northern Knights have got back two key players for their top of the table Plunket Shield clash with the Central Stags in Napier on Monday.
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Bay of Plenty Women have defeated Hamilton to claim the Northern Districts Women’s District Association Championship Cup for the first time in their history.
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First the Yahoo!Xtra Northern Knights pulled off a record-setting Plunket Shield victory in Whangarei, now Hamilton have wrenched the coveted Hawke Cup off Marlborough in Blenheim in an exceptional week for Northern Districts cricket supporters.
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New Zealand Cricket has today confirmed further adjustments to the quake-affected Plunket Shield competition for the season.
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The Yahoo!Xtra Northern Knights to reassemble in Whangarei tomorrow will be the same squad originally chosen for the round six Plunket Shield match against the Wellington Firebirds, selectors confirmed today.
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New Zealand Cricket has made its decision regarding the allocation of points from the round five Plunket Shield match between the Canterbury Wizards and the Wellington Firebirds, which was cancelled in the aftermath of the Christchurch Earthquake last week.
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All remaining rounds of New Zealand's first-class cricket competition, the Plunket Shield, have been moved forward to new dates in order to allow the quake-affected Canterbury Wizards team to deal with the impact of the Christchurch earthquake yet remain an integral contestant in the premier national competition.
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The Yahoo!Xtra Northern Knights selectors have made one change to the squad that defeated the Auckland Aces inside three days in the fifth round of the Plunket Shield.
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Northern Districts Cricket has three collector's items coming from the Cricket World Cup in India, signed by the BLACKCAPS and Australian cricket teams, for auction on TradeMe.
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Profits from tomorrow evening's televised Titans International Twenty20 match at Seddon Park in Hamilton will be donated to the Christchurch Earthquake Canterbury Relief Fund.
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The inclusion of former BLACKCAPS batsman Hamish Marshall as an overseas player for the first time this summer is the biggest feature of the Yahoo!Xtra Northern Knights squad named today.
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BLACKCAPS selector Mark Greatbatch is set to make a return to the game as a player in the Titans International Twenty20 match in Hamilton, it was announced today.
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Yahoo!Xtra Northern Knights coach Grant Bradburn has high hopes for the cricketing future of exciting young fast bowler Andrew Mathieson.
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The Yahoo!Xtra Northern Knights’ selectors have named a fresh-look squad to resume the quest to defend the Plunket Shield in Whangarei next week.
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Tickets have gone on sale and the first of the Australian big names have been confirmed for Hamilton's Titans International Twenty20 match next fortnight.
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Yahoo!Xtra Northern Knights bowler Graeme Aldridge is the new holder of the record for the highest tally of wickets in the New Zealand domestic One-Day competition history.
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The Yahoo!Xtra Northern Knights selectors have named squad of 13 for Sunday’s must-win national one day semi-final playoff in Queenstown.
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The Yahoo!Xtra Northern Knights will travel to Queenstown tomorrow to meet the Otago Volts in the first of the domestic one-day playoffs on Sunday.
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Popular big-hitting batsman Nathan Astle is looking forward to dusting off his bat for one more round with Australia in the Titans International Twenty20 cricket spectacular.
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After recovering from a groin injury, recent BLACKCAP Daniel Flynn returns to the Yahoo!Xtra Northern Knights for their final round clash this Wednesday.
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Members of New Zealand’s BLACKCAPS will take a break from playing Pakistan in The National Bank ODI Series to honour their captain Daniel Vettori in a special tribute dinner in his home town of Hamilton this Wednesday, February 2.
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A long-serving Hamilton cricketer who has performed at both Hawke Cup and Northern Districts A level has been rewarded for strong performances over the past few seasons with a call-up into the Yahoo!Xtra Northern Knights for tomorrow's match against the Wellington Firebirds.
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The Yahoo!Xtra Northern Knights are determined to make hay while the sun shines when they meet the Otago Volts in Whangarei today in a crucial encounter in the national men's one-day competition.
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The first big name of next month's Titans International Twenty20 has been penned in with the announcement today that former BLACKCAPS skipper Stephen Fleming will captain the Samsung Masters against their Australian rivals.
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The Yahoo!Xtra Northern Knights welcome back two BLACKCAPS and farewell another for their round five clash in the men's domestic one-day competition.
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Anton Devcich is on his way to Invercargill to join the Yahoo!Xtra Northern Knights one-day side as cover for batsman BJ Watling.
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The Yahoo!Xtra Northern Knights head to Whangarei for their first home match of the men's domestic one-day competition this Sunday as the only side in the country to have won two from two.
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Some of the best-known names in Australian cricket are set to play a team of our own legends in a Titans International Twenty20 coming to New Zealand next month.
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The Yahoo!Xtra Northern Knights begin their men's one day competition defence today, Sunday, away against HRV Cup champions, the Auckland Aces, at Colin Maiden Park.
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In-form opening batsman Brad Wilson has been handed the captaincy reins of the Yahoo!Xtra Northern Knights named today for the remaining rounds of the HRV Cup, with usual skipper James Marshall remaining part of the squad.
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The Yahoo!Xtra Northern Knights have named a powerful squad for the HRV Cup round five clash against the Canterbury Wizards at Seddon Park, with the Knights bringing in returning BLACKCAPS Scott Styris and Tim Southee.
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Swashbuckling Australian opening batsman David Warner will take his place at the top of the order for the Yahoo!Xtra Northern Knights on Friday night at Seddon Park, in round five action of the HRV Cup.
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It's the one domestic cricket title that eluded them last summer, but the Yahoo!Xtra Northern Knights have just surged to the top of this summer's HRV Cup Twenty20 leaderboard after a second-round, eight-wicket win over the Auckland Aces followed up by crushing the Otago Volts by nine wickets in the third round at Oamaru yesterday evening.
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Dynamic international Twenty20 star David Warner makes his debut for the Yahoo!Xtra Northern Knights against the Otago Volts in Oamaru tomorrow.
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In a landmark first for Northern Districts cricket, Yahoo!Xtra is going into bat for Plunket Shield and national one-day champions the Northern Knights.
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HAMILTON — Breaking a window will definitely be out when the Yahoo!Xtra Northern Knights (and an all-star line-up of ring-ins) hit Hamilton's Hood Street this Wednesday for a public game of street cricket in the city's premier entertainment district as they launch into their HRV Cup Twenty20 season.
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Cups of a completely different sort were the talking point at the Northern Knights’ official season launch in Hamilton, where a designer bra made from a pair of Knights cricket gloves was revealed in front of sponsors, VIP’s and the Plunket Shield and national men’s one-day champions, the Northern Knights.
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ND brings three of the world's top Twenty20 batsmen to New Zealand for their approaching HRV Cup season.
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After five seasons playing for the Auckland Aces, big-hitting BLACKCAP Scott Styris will play for the Northern Knights in the 2010/11 season - his old province and the reigning national champions in both four-day and one-day cricket.
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With less than a day to run, bidding is heating up in the Northern Knights' charity fundraising auction on TradeMe - but there are still some great bargains going for Knights supporters.
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Super spinner Daniel Vettori is once again leading the way as the Northern Knights cricket team raises money for the New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation.
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The Northern Districts Cricket Association and their Northern Knights team are raising money for their official charity, the New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation, by auctioning their inaugural pink HRV Cup Twenty20 playing shirts on TradeMe.
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The Northern Knights have named Hamish Marshall in their side for round eight of the national one-day cricket competition, against the Auckland Aces at Cobham Oval in Whangarei.
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Here's a chance to own a truly unique piece of sporting memorabilia.
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Even more great prizes are being rolled out for the public in the Northern Knights' successful pink campaign in support of the New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation.
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Former BLACKCAP and now Gloucestershire player Hamish Marshall is returning to the Northern Knights to play the remainder of the summer, following the completion of the HRV Cup.
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Northern Knights fans have one more shot at winning a trip for two to the United States to attend a USPGA golf event and meet professional caddy - and newly crowned NZ Saloon Car Champion - Steve Williams.
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Northern Knights coach Grant Bradburn has no qualms about meeting his star import Thilkaratne Dilshan for the first time just before the team's pivotal HRV Cup clash with the Firebirds on Friday.
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Huntly Speedway and Northern Districts Cricket have partnered up to deliver a fantastic opportunity for anyone attending one of their events this summer.
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Northern Districts Cricket has started rolling out the prizes on its fun new website www.howcricketchangedmylife.com.
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Northern Districts Cricket is pushing the boundaries again - this time with the launch of an innovative new website.
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The Northern Knights have launched a colourful uniform to be worn in their HRV Cup Twenty20 domestic matches this summer.
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The Northern Districts Cricket Association and the Northern Knights have announced that The New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation will be the official charity for their 2009/10 cricket season.
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ND Cricket have signed star Sri Lankan batsman Thilkaratne Dilshan for their Twenty20 cricket campaign this summer.
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WAIKATO — Hamilton, New Zealand With last week's announcement of New Zealand Crickets BLACKCAPS and New Zealand A squads there came a pat on the back for NDCrickets Cricket Operations Manager, Pat Malcon.
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WAIKATO — Hamilton, New Zealand On the back of continued support of ABN AMRO Craigs, Northern Districts Cricket has named 17 up-and-coming players to form the ABN AMRO Craigs NDCricket Academy.
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When Indian batting superstar Sachin Tendulkar scored his 42nd test century at Seddon Park, Hamilton, in March, Northern Districts Cricket scorer Bill Andersson was the man tasked with keeping track of the avalanche of runs.
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