Another summer without cricket

According to Jonathan Millmow, writing in the Dominion Post, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have been ruled out as replacements for the Zimbabwe tour at the start of the New Zealand season. It is looking increasingly likely that there will be no replacement and that the cricket season will not start until mid-February when the West Indies arrive for a full tour. Prior to that we will have only domestic cricket and three one-dayers against Australia (in early December) and three one-dayers against Sri Lanka (in early January) to keep us occupied.