The Auckland Tuatara won both of their Friday night double-header games against the Melbourne Aces in Melbourne and will look to seal a series victory on Saturday.

Southern shearers opened a big weekend of shearing sports in New Zealand with a near cleansweep of all five places in the Open shearing final at the Northern Southland Community Shears near Lumsden today.

Wellington Firebirds 122 all out in 18.2 overs (Colin Munro 4-15, Mitchell McClenaghan 3-32, Adam Hose 38) lost to Auckland Aces (Mark Chapman 47-, Colin Munro 41) by six wickets at Basin Reserve, Wellington.

The All Blacks Sevens team will be looking to kick off 2019 in style when they take to the field in Hamilton next weekend at the HSBC New Zealand Sevens.

After a shocking run of injuries at the end of last year, Coach Clark Laidlaw has an almost fully fit squad.

The squad is;

The resurgent Central Stags are out to make it three wins on the bounce with a near full-strength line-up when they return to Napier’s McLean Park 7PM this Saturday evening 19 January 2019.

2019 is proving to be the year of the Ultramarathon right here in New Zealand with a record 2000 eager runners already signed up for the Tarawera Ultramarathon with weeks still to go until race day. This makes it by far the largest ultramarathon to ever to take place in New Zealand.

The All Whites are confirmed to play against the Republic of Ireland in November this year. The Fritz Schmid coached team will take on the World No 33 at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin in an international friendly on Thursday 14 November.

Waikato farmer Lee Cheyne isn’t going to let a few hundred kilometres stand between him and the chance to help boost the shearing competitions over the next few weeks.

A good opening round win at the prestigious J.P Morgan Tournament of Champions in New York for Auckland’s Campbell Grayson.

The two young Central Stags allrounders have each had an exciting start to their Domestic careers.