Mark Richardson

New Zealand Cricket (NZC) has offered contracts to 20 players for the next 12 months (from June 1), based on criteria which assessed a player's likely playing value to NZC over the contract period

Mark Richardson is 148 runs and two innings away from becoming the fastest New Zealand Test batsman to reach 2000 runs

"Graft, block, scratch, poke and prod" was New Zealand batsman Mark Richardson's summation of his batting style after a continued batting throughout his side's innings as it struggled to get in front of India in the first National Bank Test in

The preferred 20 players who have been offered contracts by New Zealand Cricket have been named today with no significant surprises

Mark Richardson's remarkable entrée into Test cricket continued on new terrain in the West Indies today with Grenada's new ground the latest to witness his ability to get out in the 90s

Rather like a business chief executive marking up a a rising sales graph, Mark Richardson, the 31-year-old Auckland opening batsman, added another asset to his portfolio with a century against Otago at Colin Maiden Park today

Having already lost the services of internationals Matt Horne and Paul Wiseman, Otago coach Glenn Turner was philosophical about today's announcement that Mark Richardson has joined the list of Otago's departing players

It was almost as if New Zealand had taken over the picturesque Thames Valley village of Datchet on Sunday

Odd things have happened to touring teams who visit Paarl

No sooner had Mark Richardson jetted into Zimbabwe to start his international cricket career than it felt like he was on his way home again

Twenty-nine year-old Otago batsman Mark Richardson rewrote the record books yesterday when he scored only the sixth triple century by a New Zealander in first-class cricket

Mark Richardson was entitled to pinch himself and ask if it was really happening when he flew out of Auckland Airport today bound for Singapore, then on to Zimbabwe, as a member of the New Zealand cricket team