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New Zealand fielders may wear a black cap (in the style of a baseball cap rather than the baggy cap worn by some teams) or a white sun hat with the New Zealand Cricket logo in the middle. Helmets are also coloured black (although until 1996, they used to be white with the silver fern logo encased in a black circle).
Named because the team wears white, due to a former FIFA regulation reserving black for referees. Beach Blacks [6] Beach volleyball (men) Beach Ferns [6] Beach volleyball (women) Black Brooms [7] Quidditch/Quadball: Disbanded 2023 [8] Black Caps [9] Cricket (men) Since January 1998, after a competition to choose a name for the team. [9] Black ...
This is a list of New Zealand Test cricketers. A Test match is an international cricket match between two of the leading cricketing nations. The list is arranged in the order in which each player won his Test cap. Where more than one player won his first Test cap in the same Test match, those players are listed alphabetically by surname.
The New Zealand national rugby union team have competed since 1884, and there are a number of individual records achieved since that time. The team is also known as the All Blacks, and have competed in Test rugby since their match against Australia in 1903.
New Zealand played its first test in 1930 but had to wait until 1956 to win its first test. The national team began to have more success in the 1970s and 1980s. New Zealand's most famous cricketer, the fast bowler Richard Hadlee who was the first bowler to take 400 wickets in test cricket, played in this era.
The New Zealand Natives were the first New Zealand team to wear black uniforms, and the first to perform a haka. [198] Dave Gallaher played in New Zealand's first ever test match in 1903 and also captained the 1905 Originals. Along with Billy Stead, Gallaher wrote the famous rugby book The Complete Rugby Footballer. [199]