98-467: Wellington Regional Stadium (commercially known as Sky Stadium through naming rights) is a major sporting venue in Wellington , New Zealand . The stadium's bowl site size is 48,000 m (520,000 sq ft). The stadium was built in 1999 by Fletcher Construction and is situated close to major transport facilities (such as Wellington railway station ) one kilometre (0.62 mi) north of
196-485: A VideoCrypt decoder and a UHF aerial, both of which were supplied by when joining Sky. The signal was sent with the picture scrambled using VideoCrypt technology; the decoder was used to unscramble the picture. Sky Movies was the only channel broadcast in NICAM stereo; Sky Sport and Sky News were broadcast in mono. The original decoder didn't actually support stereo sound; if a subscriber wanted to watch Sky Movies in stereo,
294-413: A 1% shareholder) as well as CNN and HBO providing it with a supply of sports, news and movies for the three channels. Sky News screened a mixture of CNN International and BBC news bulletins and a replay of the 6 pm One Network News bulletin from TVNZ , later changing to a replay of the 3 News 6 pm bulletin from TV3 . The Sky News channel was later discontinued and became branded as
392-668: A 320GB HDD. The quality of My Sky HDi is 576i via component and 720/1080i via HDMI. A new feature was released exclusive to My Sky HDi on 6 July 2010 called Record Me. This feature allows subscribers to press the green button on programme advertisements to record that advertised programme. In May 2009, Sky introduced copy protection on My Sky and My Sky HDi decoders limiting the ability to copy material from My Sky/My Sky HDi to DVD/HDD recorders and to PCs. Sky Box Office channels, including adult channels are copy protected so DVD/HDD recorders and PCs will not record from these channels. Other channels are not copy protected. Copy protection technology
490-640: A 4 Test series were won easily by the West Indies but New Zealand won the fourth to notch up its first Test victory. It had taken them 45 matches and 26 years to attain. In the next 20 years, New Zealand won only seven more Tests. For most of this period New Zealand lacked a class bowler to lead their attack although they had two excellent batsmen in Bert Sutcliffe and Glenn Turner and a great all-rounder in John R. Reid . Reid captained New Zealand on
588-455: A CNN channel. In 1994, Sky launched two further channels – Discovery Channel and Orange ; Orange later became known as Sky 1 and then The Box . Discovery Channel broadcast on a channel already used by Trackside . The Trackside service was available free to air to anyone who could receive the UHF signal without the need for a Sky decoder, Discovery Channel screened outside of racing hours and
686-456: A chance to compete more regularly than Test cricket with the better sides in world cricket. In one-day cricket a batsman does not need to score centuries to win games for his side and bowlers do not need to bowl the opposition out. One-day games can be won by one batsman getting a 50, a few others getting 30s, bowlers bowling economically and everyone fielding well. These were requirements New Zealand players could consistently meet and thus developed
784-614: A changing of an era in the Australian team, New Zealand was rated as a chance of winning especially in New Zealand. New Zealand lost both series by 2–0 In February 2016, Kane Williamson was appointed as the captain of the team after Brendon McCullum's retirement after playing his 101st test against Australia at Christchurch. Williamson's first international series as the full-time captain was Men's T20 World Cup 2016 in India in which
882-415: A crushing 64-run victory to get through to the semis. In semis they faced Pakistan, a team who had managed to knock New Zealand out from last World Cup at this very stage. New Zealand beat Pakistan this time in a thrilling run-chase to enter the final. In the final, they faced India who had knocked out world champions Australia and defending champions South Africa. New Zealand won the toss and opted to bowl but
980-606: A decent allowance to tour New Zealand ensured that this was the only Test Australia played against New Zealand between 1929 and 1972. In 1949 New Zealand sent one of its best-ever sides to England. It contained Bert Sutcliffe , Martin Donnelly , John R. Reid and Jack Cowie . However, 3-day Test matches ensured that all 4 Tests were drawn. Many have regarded the 1949 tour of England among New Zealand's best ever touring performances. All four tests were high-scoring despite being draws and Martin Donnelly's 206 at Lord's hailed as one of
1078-760: A dimension to the NZ bowling attack that had been missing since Hadlee retired, taking 87 wickets at an average of 22.09. The rise of the financial power of the BCCI had an immense effect on NZ cricket and its players. The BCCI managed to convince other boards not to pick players who had joined the rival Twenty-20 Indian Cricket League . NZ Cricket lost the services of Shane Bond , Lou Vincent , Andre Adams , Hamish Marshall and Daryl Tuffey . The money to be made from Twenty-20 cricket in India may have also induced players, such as Craig McMillan and Scott Styris (from Test cricket) to retire earlier than they would have otherwise. After
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#17327972067761176-506: A disastrous campaign as they got knocked out by Bangladesh and ended the tournament without a single win, the worst performance for them in an ICC Event. After that the team had to wait four months for their next tour which was to India in which both the ODI and T20I series were closely contested but New Zealand lost both by a scoreline of 2–1. The home season started with whitewash of the West Indies across formats followed by whitewash of Pakistan in
1274-712: A game on 28 December 1842 played by a "Red" team and a "Blue" team from the Wellington Club. The first fully recorded match was reported by the Examiner in Nelson between the Surveyors and Nelson in March 1844. The first team to tour New Zealand was Parr's all England XI in 1863–64. Between 1864 and 1914, 22 foreign teams toured New Zealand. England sent 6 teams, Australia 15 and one from Fiji . On 15–17 February 1894
1372-532: A good one-day record against all sides. Perhaps New Zealand's most infamous one-day match was the "under arm" match against Australia at the MCG in 1981. Requiring six runs to tie the match off the final ball, Australian captain Greg Chappell instructed his brother Trevor to bowl the ball underarm along the wicket to prevent New Zealand batsman Brian McKechnie from hitting a six. The Australian umpires ruled
1470-594: A new digital decoder, manufactured by Kaon. The Kaon Sky box includes built-in Wi-Fi. A Sky Link adapter device can be ordered for free by customers, in order to use a Wi-Fi connection on current My Sky boxes. The Kaon box has an ability to block recording features and storage capacity. The decoder upgrade allowed Sky to cease broadcasting scrambled channels using H.262 video compression in favor of H.264 , which means Sky roughly doubled its capacity on satellite for additional channels and possibly Ultra H.265 HD broadcasts in
1568-666: A new partnership that would allow Sky to remain the exclusive distributor of HBO and Max content in New Zealand. SoHo would also be revamped as a linear HBO channel showing HBO Original content. The Max hub and the revamped HBO channel would be hosted on Sky Box, Sky Pod and Sky Go . The Neon streaming service would also host the Max hub. Sky defines a virtual channel order that groups channels by their content. Black Caps Test kit ODI kit T20I kit The New Zealand national cricket team represents New Zealand in men's international cricket . Nicknamed
1666-412: A new record crowd for a football match in New Zealand of 37,034 fans thanks to extra seating install in the stadium for the match. On 2 March 2019, the stadium drew its second largest crowd to date with an attendance of 46,474 for Eminem 's Rapture concert. On 5 February 2020, Queen + Adam Lambert performed at the stadium during their Rhapsody Tour . On 8 December 2022, Guns N' Roses performed at
1764-762: A partnership with Discovery New Zealand to provide coverage of The Championships, Wimbledon for free-to-air channel Three . In response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine , Sky removed Russian state TV channel RT from its programming. Sky spokesperson Chris Major stated that their decision to remove RT came following complaints from customers and consultation with the Broadcasting Standards Authority . In July 2023, Warner Bros. Discovery renewed its HBO Max programme supply agreement with Sky but decline to confirm whether it would launch its own streaming service in New Zealand. On 22 October 2024, Sky and Warner Bros. Discovery confirmed
1862-439: A pay television service was new to New Zealand and Sky had early problems. These included viewer acceptance of subscriber television. It faced difficulty in educating retailers and customers on the use of the original decoders. However, this problem was eased with the introduction of easier-to-use decoders that allowed greater viewer flexibility. Sky originally launched on 18 May 1990 as an analogue UHF service. Subscribers required
1960-434: A series stack function. The software upgrade to My Sky boxes contained many bugs and caused thousands of customers to become disgruntled. The major issue was with the screen font which Sky later addressed in a future upgrade. In June 2016, Sky TV and Vodafone New Zealand (now One NZ) agreed to merge, with Sky TV purchasing 100% of Vodafone NZ operations for a cash payment of $ 1.25 billion NZD and issuing new shares to
2058-440: A thrashing in the first match, but not the second, which New Zealand lost by an innings and 358 runs – currently the second-largest defeat in New Zealand first-class history. In 1927 NZ toured England . They played 26 first-class matches, mostly against county sides. They won seven matches, including those against Worcestershire , Glamorgan , Somerset and Derbyshire . On the strength of the performances of this tour New Zealand
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#17327972067762156-402: A tour to South Africa in 1961–62 where the five-test series was drawn 2–2. The victories in the third and fifth tests were the first overseas victories New Zealand achieved. Reid scored 1,915 runs in the tour, setting a record for the most runs scored by a touring batsman of South Africa as a result. New Zealand won their first test series in their three match 1969/70 tour of Pakistan 1–0. This
2254-517: Is a New Zealand broadcasting company that provides pay television services via satellite , media streaming services, and broadband internet services. As of 31 December 2022, Sky had 1,023,378 residential television subscribers consisting of 517,003 satellite subscribers and 506,375 streaming subscribers. Additionally, Sky had 23,156 broadband customers. Despite the similarity of name, branding and services, such as Sky Go and MySky shared with its European equivalent, Sky Group , there
2352-445: Is a list of every active player who is contracted to New Zealand Cricket, has played for New Zealand since November 2023 or was named in the recent Test, ODI or T20I squads. Uncapped players are listed in italics . Last updated: 25th November 2024 New Zealand's kit is manufactured by Canterbury of New Zealand , who replaced previous manufacturer WStar in 2009. When playing Test cricket, New Zealand's cricket whites feature logo of
2450-469: Is no connection between the companies. The company was founded by Craig Heatley , Terry Jarvis , Trevor Farmer and Alan Gibbs in 1987 as Sky Media Limited. It was formed to investigate beaming sports programming into nightclubs and pubs using high performance 4-metre satellite dishes by Jarvis and an engineering associate Brian Green, but was redirected into pay television following successful bidding in early 1990 for four groups of UHF frequencies in
2548-418: Is not built into other decoders. On 1 July 2011, a version of the same decoder with a 1TB hard drive was launched as My Sky+. In November 2005, Sky announced it had purchased the free-to-air channel Prime TV for NZ$ 30 million. Sky uses Prime TV to promote its pay content and to show delayed sports coverage. New Zealand's Commerce Commission issued clearance for the purchase on 8 February 2006. Prime
2646-684: Is ranked 5th in Tests , 5th in ODIs and 4th in T20Is by the ICC . As of 2022, the team has participated in all the 29 ICC Men's events taking place from 1975 onwards and have made six final appearances out of which they won two titles. In October 2000 they won the Knockout Trophy by defeating India which was their maiden ICC Title. They defeated South Africa to reach their maiden CWC Final in 2015 . In
2744-524: The 2015 Cricket World Cup . On 4 April 1996, New Zealand achieved a unique world record, where the whole team was adjudged Man of the Match for team performance against 4-run victory over the West Indies. This is recorded as the only time where whole team achieved such an award. New Zealand started the new millennium by winning the 2000 ICC KnockOut Trophy in Kenya to claim their first ICC tournament. This
2842-572: The 2020 Summer Olympics , instead of its own free-to-air channel Prime . On 27 October 2020, Sky announced a partnership with Spark, where the Sky Sport Now streaming service would be bundled with Spark Sport for a NZ$ 49.99 monthly subscription. On 9 June 2021, Sky announced an exclusive partnership with Disney to provide Sky Broadband customers with a 12-month subscription to the Disney+ streaming service. On 24 June 2021, Sky announced
2940-877: The 2022-23 A-League Women season , after their inaugural season was based in Wollongong, Australia due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia . In 2000, the then-Westpac Stadium hosted the Edinburgh Military Tattoo . This was the first time the event was hosted outside Edinburgh, Scotland. They returned to Wellington to play at the stadium again in February 2016. In 2002, during an England versus Black Caps cricket match, director Peter Jackson recorded 30,000 fans chanting in Black Speech for
3038-636: The Auckland , Hamilton and Tauranga regions. Initially operating only in the Auckland region, Sky contracted Broadcast Communications (now Kordia ) to provide the broadcast service and transmission from its Panorama Road studios, formerly owned by defunct broadcaster Northern Television. The first Sky subscriber was former Speaker of the House of Representatives Jonathan Hunt , according to Helen Clark , former Prime Minister of New Zealand. The concept of
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3136-710: The Australian Football League (AFL), played home games on Anzac Day at the venue from 2013 to 2015. Off-field facilities built into the stadium also included the New Zealand Institute of Sport, and a campus for the Wellington School of Cricket, run by the Wellington Cricket Association . Wellington Phoenix Women has confirmed they will play the majority of their home games at Sky Stadium for
3234-759: The Bay of Islands on its epic circumnavigation of the Earth and Darwin witnessed a game of cricket played by freed Māori slaves and the son of a missionary at Waimate North. Darwin in The Voyage of the Beagle wrote: several young men redeemed by the missionaries from slavery were employed on the farm. In the evening I saw a party of them at cricket. The first recorded game of cricket in New Zealand took place in Wellington in December 1842. The Wellington Spectator reports
3332-663: The Black Caps ( Māori : Pōtae Pango ), they played their first Test in 1930 against England in Christchurch , becoming the fifth country to play Test cricket. From 1930 New Zealand had to wait until 1956, more than 26 years, for its first Test victory, against the West Indies at Eden Park in Auckland . They played their first ODI in the 1972–73 season against Pakistan in Christchurch. New Zealand are
3430-597: The Los Angeles Galaxy . LA Galaxy won 4–1 in front of 31,853 spectators, the largest crowd for non-national football (soccer) match in New Zealand history. On 17 January 2008, the stadium hosted the kickoff show of the Oceania leg of the Police Reunion Tour and over Easter the inaugural two-day " Rock2Wgtn " music festival, headlined by Kiss and Ozzy Osbourne . Attendance over the two days
3528-739: The World Heavyweight Championship (WWE) Also in 2006, a concert was held by the Rolling Stones , which ended the Australasian leg of its A Bigger Bang World Tour , On 14 October 2007, Australia defeated New Zealand in the Centenary Test rugby league game. The 58–0 defeat set a new record for the largest loss by the New Zealand national rugby league team. On 1 December 2007, the stadium hosted an exhibition match between Wellington Phoenix FC and
3626-453: The 48th attempt. Hadlee took 10 wickets in the match. During the 1980s New Zealand also had the services of one of its best-ever batsman, Martin Crowe and a number of good players such as John Wright , Bruce Edgar , John F. Reid , Andrew Jones , Geoff Howarth , Jeremy Coney , Ian Smith , John Bracewell , Lance Cairns , Stephen Boock , and Ewen Chatfield , who were capable of playing
3724-585: The Black Caps in January 1998, after its sponsor at the time, Clear Communications , held a competition to choose a name for the team. This is one of many national team nicknames related to the All Blacks . As of 21 September 2023, New Zealand have played 1472 international matches, out of which they have won 584, lost 654, tied 17 and drew 170 matches while 47 matches ended up as no result. The team
3822-518: The CBD. It was built on reclaimed railway land , which was surplus to requirements. The stadium also serves as a large-capacity venue for concerts and is known colloquially as "The Cake Tin". The stadium was built in 1999 by Fletcher Construction and was the first bowl stadium built in New Zealand. It was built to replace Athletic Park , which was no longer considered adequate for international events due to its location and state of disrepair. The stadium
3920-658: The Chappell-Hadlee Trophy against Australia but went onto lose to South Africa in T20I, ODI and Test series. New Zealand started the 2017 international season with a tri-series involving hosts Ireland, and Bangladesh as a preparation for upcoming Champions Trophy in England. New Zealand managed to win the tri-series as they finished at the top of the points table but the Champions Trophy turned out to be
4018-569: The Government and will be recycled to support new broadcasting ventures. In April 1997, Sky introduced a nationwide analogue direct broadcasting via satellite (DBS) service over the Optus B1 satellite . This allowed it to offer more channels and interactive options, as well as nationwide coverage. It upgraded it to a digital service in December 1998. While some channels on the UHF platform were shared with other channels, Sky Digital screened
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4116-564: The Neon brand but uses Lightbox's interface and includes content drawn from both Neon and the old Lightbox. On 21 May 2020, Sky announced its plans to launch fibre broadband internet plans in 2021. Sky raised $ 157 million from investors with a discounted share issue to cover the cost of entering the broadband market. On 10 September 2020, Sky announced that a number of its staff members including Sky's then CEO, Martin Stewart, were trialing
4214-548: The New Zealand national cricket team played under the name of Aotearoa for their first match against Zimbabwe to celebrate te Wiki o te Reo Māori (Māori Language Week). In mid-2015 New Zealand toured England, performing well, drawing the Test series 1–1, and losing the One Day series, 2–3. From October to November 2015, and in February 2016, New Zealand played Australia in two Test Series, three and two games respectively. With
4312-550: The ODI series but after that New Zealand lost the T20I series to Pakistan and in the process lost their No. 1 ranking in T20Is. Then they took part in the first ever T20I tri-series involving full-members the Trans-Tasman T20I Tri-Series in which they ended up runners-up to Australia and England finished third. Then they played England where they lost the ODI series but then managed to win the test series. This
4410-678: The Sky toll-free help-desk, Sky posted update messages on their website advising customers that they were working with Optus to restore service by midnight. Sky credited customers with one day's subscription fees as compensation for the downtime at a cost to the company of NZ$ 1.5 million. Sky switched its DBS service to the Optus D1 satellite on 15 November 2006. It later expanded its transponder capacity on this satellite to allow for extra channels and HD broadcasts. In December 2005, Sky released its own digital video recorder (DVR), which essentially
4508-464: The UHF platform. NICAM stereo was eventually removed from Sky Movies, the CNN channel was discontinued in 2004 with the UHF frequencies issued to Māori Television . Sky switched off its analogue UHF TV service on 11 March 2010 at midnight. Sky used a portion of the freed up UHF and radio spectrum to launch its joint venture, Igloo , in December 2012. The remaining unused spectrum was relinquished back to
4606-645: The Vodafone Group. Vodafone UK will get 51% stake of the company. However, the proposed merger was rejected by the Commerce Commission which saw a plunge in Sky TV's shares. Sky continued to be a wholesale channel provider to Vodafone until 31 March 2023. In late February 2018, Sky TV announced that it would be splitting its existing Sky Basic service into two new packages called Sky Starter and Sky Entertainment, giving new and existing customers
4704-627: The Wellington region. On the 27th January 2024 The Foo Fighters played for the first time in Wellington on their World Tour. The stadium hosted several matches for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup . The stadium also hosted the semi-finals for OFC qualification for the 2026 FIFA World Cup . Reference: Reference: Since its opening in 2000, Wellington Regional Stadium has hosted six New Zealand rugby league internationals. The results were as follows;. Sky (New Zealand) Sky Network Television Limited , more commonly known as Sky ,
4802-510: The West Indies and India in 2013/14 and both Pakistan and Sri Lanka in 2014/15 increasing New Zealand's rankings in both Test and ODI formats. In the series against India McCullum scored 302 at Wellington to become New Zealand's first Test triple centurion . In early 2015 New Zealand made the final of the Cricket World Cup, going through the tournament undefeated until the final, where they lost to Australia by seven wickets. In 2015
4900-585: The World Cup which included a quarter-final clash between the hosts New Zealand and West Indies . Guns N' Roses performed at the stadium during their Not in This Lifetime... Tour on 2 February 2017. On 11 November 2017, the stadium hosted its third World Cup qualification inter-confederation play-off with the New Zealand men's national football team drawing 0–0 against Peru in front of
4998-488: The annual World Rugby Sevens Series for national rugby sevens teams. Sky Stadium regularly serves as a home venue for All Blacks rugby matches. Sky Stadium is also the home venue for A-League team Wellington Phoenix FC , the stadium often referred to as "The Ring of Fire" by Phoenix supporters. It also serves as a major home venue for the New Zealand men's national football team (the All Whites), notably hosting
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#17327972067765096-490: The black and gold colours of Wellington and a design based on a strip worn by Wellington Rugby league teams in the 1970s. The Warriors lost the game late in the match in front of 28,096 fans. On 20 November 2013, the stadium hosted the second leg of the World Cup qualification inter-confederation play-off against Mexico, which resulted in New Zealand failing to qualify for the 2014 FIFA World Cup . On 15 November 2014,
5194-573: The broadband service in their homes. This testing was later expanded to a small group of customers in December 2020. On 24 March 2021, Sky launched the broadband service initially for existing satellite customers only. Sky later expanded the offering to new customers on 17 May 2021. On 22 August 2019, it was announced that Sky had signed a six-year agreement to take over from Westpac as the naming sponsor of Wellington Regional Stadium , effective 1 January 2020. On 28 November 2019, Sky announced that TVNZ would be its free-to-air broadcast partner for
5292-684: The chief executive role in January 2001. On 21 February 2019, Martin Stewart replaced John Fellet as CEO. He had previously worked for BSkyB , The Football Association and OSN . On 1 December 2020, Stewart left the company to return home to Europe. Sophie Maloney was immediately appointed to the CEO position. In February 2015, Sky launched its own subscription-based video streaming service called Neon to allow New Zealanders to stream various HBO films and shows and to compete with US-based streaming service Netflix , which launched in New Zealand in March 2015. Sky had initially planned to launch Neon in 2014 but
5390-493: The company expanded to Rotorua , Wellington and Christchurch . Then in 1994, the company expanded to Hawke's Bay , Manawatu , Southland and Otago , followed by the Wairarapa , Taupō , and Wanganui regions in 1995. Its final UHF expansion, in 1996, was to Taranaki , Whangārei , and eastern Bay of Plenty Region . Following the launch of the digital satellite service in 1998 (see below), Sky began reducing services on
5488-570: The decision seemed to backfire as India romped to a 141 run opening partnership in 27 overs, New Zealand somehow managed to pull things back but the target was a daunting 265, and in reply they struggled for the most part of their innings but in the end, it was a 122-run partnership between Chris Cairns and Chris Harris that took them close the target before Cairns finished the game with two balls to spare as New Zealand won its first-ever ICC event. Shane Bond played 18 Tests for NZ between 2001 and 2009 but missed far more through injury. When fit, he added
5586-733: The demise of the Indian Cricket League Bond and Tuffey again played for New Zealand. Vettori stood down as Test captain in 2011 leading to star batsman Ross Taylor to take his place. Taylor led New Zealand for a year which included a thrilling win in a low scoring Test match against Australia in Hobart , their first win over Australia since 1993. In 2012/13 Brendon McCullum became captain and new players such as Kane Williamson , Corey Anderson , Doug Bracewell , Trent Boult and Jimmy Neesham emerged as world-class performers. McCullum captained New Zealand to series wins against
5684-734: The end of 2001, when the two parties entered an agreement to carry the channels in November of that year. A SkyMail email service was featured for a time starting November 2002, but was later pulled due to lack of interest (including the wireless keyboards they had produced for it). The unreliability of the ageing Optus B1 satellite was highlighted when the DBS service went offline just before 7 p.m. NZST (8 a.m. London, 3 a.m. New York) on 30 March 2006. The interruption affected service to over 550,000 customers and caused many decoders to advise customers of " rain fade ." Due to excessive volume of calls to
5782-488: The finest innings ever seen there. Despite being winless, New Zealand did not lose a test either. Prior to this, only the legendary 1948 Australian team, led by the great Don Bradman , had achieved this. New Zealand played its first matches against the West Indies in 1951–52, and Pakistan and India in 1955/56. In 1954/55 New Zealand recorded the lowest ever innings total, 26 against England. The following season New Zealand achieved its first Test victory. The first 3 Tests of
5880-531: The first team representing New Zealand played New South Wales at Lancaster Park in Christchurch. New South Wales won by 160 runs. New South Wales returned again in 1895–96 and New Zealand won the solitary game by 142 runs, its first victory. The New Zealand Cricket Council was formed towards the end of 1894. New Zealand played its first two internationals (not Tests) in 1904–05 against a star-studded Australia team containing such players as Victor Trumper , Warwick Armstrong and Clem Hill . Rain saved New Zealand from
5978-517: The future. The upgrade of transponders to H.264 was completed in March 2019. Free-to-air channels such as Prime, Edge TV and Bravo Plus 1 remain in H.262 to be accessible to non-Sky subscribers such as Freeview viewers. Additionally, the My Sky HDi and My Sky + decoder software was upgraded to use the same system software as the new Kaon boxes. The new Sky software had features such as internet capability, search functionality, favourite channels, and
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#17327972067766076-615: The home leg of their 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification match against Bahrain. During the summer the stadium generally hosts international and occasionally domestic limited overs cricket , with the home team being the New Zealand Black Caps for the international contests and Wellington Firebirds for the domestic competition. The stadium has also been used for rugby league matches, including national team fixtures and New Zealand Warriors away fixtures. The St Kilda Football Club , an Australian rules football club in
6174-566: The inaugural champions of WTC which they won in 2021 and they have also won ICC CT in 2000 . They have played in the CWC final twice and the T20 WC final once. Tom Latham is the current captain of the team in Test cricket following Tim Southee 's resignation. ODI and T20I captaincy remains unconfirmed following Kane Williamson 's resignation. The national team is organised by New Zealand Cricket . The New Zealand cricket team became known as
6272-469: The match 1–0, with a record crowd at the time of 35,194 for a football match in New Zealand. On 28 January 2010, AC/DC kicked off the Australasian leg of its Black Ice World Tour at the stadium. The concert quickly sold out so a second was scheduled for 30 January. The stadium was also a venue for Bon Jovi 's The Circle Tour in 2010. The stadium hosted eight games during the 2011 Rugby World Cup including two quarter-final matches. On 25 April 2013,
6370-469: The move as legal even though to this day many believe it was one of the most unsporting decisions made in cricket. When New Zealand next played in the tri-series in Australia in 1983, Lance Cairns became a cult hero for his one-day batting. In one match against Australia, he hit six sixes at the MCG , one of the world's largest grounds. Few fans remember that New Zealand lost this game by 149 runs. However, Lance's greatest contribution to New Zealand cricket
6468-526: The next edition they reached their second successive Final by defeating India . Then in June 2021 they won the inaugural WTC by defeating India and five months later they reached their maiden T20 WC Final by defeating England . The reverend Henry Williams provided history with the first report of a game of cricket in New Zealand, when he wrote in his diary in December 1832 about boys in and around Paihia on Horotutu Beach playing cricket. In 1835, Charles Darwin and HMS Beagle called into
6566-668: The occasional match-winning performance and consistently making a valuable contribution to a Test match. The best example of New Zealand's two star players (R. Hadlee and M. Crowe) putting in match-winning performances and other players making good contributions is New Zealand versus Australia, 1985 at Brisbane. In Australia's first innings Hadlee took 9–52. In New Zealand's only innings, M Crowe scored 188 and John F. Reid 108. Edgar, Wright, Coney, Jeff Crowe, V. Brown, and Hadlee scored between 17 and 54*. In Australia's second innings, Hadlee took 6–71 and Chatfield 3–75. New Zealand won by an innings and 41 runs. One-day cricket also gave New Zealand
6664-412: The option of building bundles. The Sky Starter package would cost $ 24.91 monthly, replacing the earlier Sky Basic service which cost $ 49.91 monthly with extra charges for sports, movie, and other premier channels. The price reduction came in response to fierce competition from streaming services such as Netflix , Lightbox , and Amazon Prime Video , which had caused the loss of 38,000 satellite subscribers
6762-439: The previous year. Unlike its competitors, Sky TV was dependent on a linear broadcasting model and its exclusive rights to rugby union , rugby league , netball , and cricket content. While Sky had TV hoped that this change would attract new customers, the company's stock market shares dropped by 10% in response to investor concerns about future revenue, knocking NZ$ 100 million off its market value. In early March 2018, it
6860-740: The same channels 24 hours a day. Orange (later known as Sky 1 and The Box ) extended to screening 24 hours a day on Sky Digital but was only available to Sky UHF subscribers between 4 pm and 6 am. Discovery Channel was available to Sky Digital subscribers 24 hours a day but UHF subscribers could only receive the channel outside of Trackside's broadcast hours. Digital versions of free-to-air channels have always been available on Sky Digital meaning that some subscribers did not need to purchase any equipment to receive digital TV when New Zealand switched off its analogue service. While most free-to-air channels have been available on Sky Digital, TVNZ channels TVNZ 1 and TVNZ 2 did not become available until
6958-413: The sound of 10,000 chanting Uruk-hai during the Battle of Helm's Deep in the film The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers . On 4 March 2006, WWE 's first New Zealand show, WWE SmackDown Road to WrestleMania 22 Tour , was held at the stadium. 23,875 people attended the televised event. There were nine matches, including a triple threat match between Kurt Angle , The Undertaker , and Mark Henry for
7056-608: The sponsors Gillette on the left of the shirt, the ANZ logo on the left sleeve and on the middle of the shirt and the Canterbury logo on the right sleeve. 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
7154-422: The stadium during their 2020 Tour . The Foo Fighters were supposed to play a week later on the 15 December, however it was cancelled after the death of Foo Fighters' drummer Taylor Hawkins. On 2 February 2023, Ed Sheeran performed as part of his +–=÷× Tour . The crowd of 47,000 was the largest ever attendance for an event at the stadium. Organisers said just over a third of the crowd (16,200) were from outside
7252-540: The stadium hosted the 2014 Rugby League Four Nations Final. It was the first Four Nations Final held in New Zealand, though the Mount Smart Stadium in Auckland hosted the inaugural final of the tournament, then known as the Tri-Nations, in 1999 . The stadium was one of the venues for 2015 Cricket World Cup which was co-hosted by New Zealand and Australia. It hosted a total of four matches during
7350-568: The stadium hosted the first AFL game outside of Australia for premiership points with St Kilda hosting Sydney with Sydney winning by 16 points in front of 22,546 spectators. On 11 May 2013, the stadium and Wellington hosted its first National Rugby League fixture since 2004 with the Auckland -based New Zealand Warriors hosting the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs at the stadium for 'The Capital Clash'. The Warriors wore their 'Capital Clash' jerseys which incorporated
7448-732: The subscriber had to feed the audio from another source such as a NICAM stereo capable VCR . Free-to-air broadcasts were shown in the early morning hours on Sky News and between 5 pm and 6 pm on Sky Sport until mid-1991; however, those without a Sky subscription could view the broadcasts without a UHF decoder by tuning their TV to the Sky News or Sky Sport UHF channel, as the signals were not scrambled during those times. The original channel lineup consisted of three channels, Sky Movies (later renamed to HBO before reverting to its original name), Sky Sport and Sky News. Sky rapidly won long term rights from US sports network ESPN (which became
7546-540: The table for their first six games. Their formed dipped after that initial burst as they managed to lose their next three group games convincingly and only just managed to get through to the semi-finals on net run-rate. In the semi-final, they stunned favourites India on the reserve day to reach a second consecutive final. In the final , the scores were tied after 50 overs and again after the Super Over. England won by having hit more boundaries. This boundary countback rule
7644-563: The team won all four of its group games but lost to England in the semi-final at Delhi. After the annual rankings update on 4 May 2016 the team was awarded the No. 1 ranking in T20Is. The team then got into a rough patch after the T20WC where they would go onto lose away series to South Africa, India and Australia. In their home season they managed to beat Pakistan for the first time in a test series after 32 years, whitewashed Bangladesh across formats, won
7742-468: The test rankings table. After this in their home season they beat Sri Lanka across formats, lost to India in the ODI series before managing to beat them in the T20I series and lastly they beat Bangladesh across formats and consequently they climbed to No. 2 spot in Test rankings. New Zealand started the 2019 season with the Cricket World Cup in England & Wales. New Zealand had a terrific start to their World Cup campaign as they remained unbeaten and top of
7840-608: The touch of a button. There was software in My Sky that after an hour of no signal from Sky then the decoder locks playback of pre-recorded programmes. This was discovered on 30 March 2006, after the ageing Optus B1 satellite was out of alignment for a 13-hour period and therefore unable to broadcast Sky to over 600,000 subscribers. This generation of box was replaced by My Sky HDi when it launched on 1 July 2008. These boxes allow connection of up to four satellites which can work with its four TV tuner cards in any combination. The device has
7938-469: The transaction, NEP will be Sky's outsourced technical production partner in New Zealand until at least 2030. The sale was cleared by the Commerce Commission on 5 February 2021. In February 2013, News Corp announced it would be selling the 44 percent stake in Sky TV that it acquired via a merger with Independent Newspapers Ltd in 2005. From November 2015, Sky started replacing the legacy standard digital decoders and original 2005 My Sky decoders with
8036-437: Was TVNZ's outside broadcast division, that had dominated the market. Moving Picture's assets were eventually sold when Sky's sports rights increased in the mid 2000s and OSB took hold. OSB owned the following vehicles (until 2020's sale), based in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch; On 12 August 2020, Sky announced it had sold Outside Broadcasting to NEP New Zealand, part of American production company NEP Group . As part of
8134-435: Was a knockout tournament where teams were seeded according to their performance in Cricket World Cup 1999, the top five teams from that world cup gained direct entry to quarter-finals and while remaining six teams had to play the pre-quarter finals. New Zealand gained direct entry to quarter-finals where they faced Zimbabwe against whom they had recently lost an ODI series, after a nervy start they pulled things back and romped to
8232-473: Was also built to provide a larger-capacity venue for One Day International cricket matches, due to the Basin Reserve ground losing such matches to larger stadiums in other parts of the country. Westpac Trust, later known as just Westpac , signed on to be the naming sponsor for the stadium when it opened in 2000. That arrangement continued for twenty years until 31 December 2019. On 22 August 2019, it
8330-493: Was an upgraded set top box similar to Foxtel IQ in Australia or TiVo in the United States. Called My Sky, it offered viewers the ability to pause live television, rewind television, record up to two channels at once straight to the set top box and watch the start of a recorded programme while still recording the end. It also gave viewers access to a revamped Guide and the new Planner, used to plan and access recordings at
8428-617: Was announced that Sky had signed a six-year agreement to take over as the naming sponsor of the stadium from 1 January 2020. The stadium is a multi-purpose facility, though used mainly for sporting events. It is the home of the Wellington Lions Mitre 10 Cup rugby team and the Hurricanes Super Rugby team. The stadium also hosted the Wellington Sevens , one of the events that was part of
8526-452: Was around 50,000. New Zealand hosted the 2008 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup . Six pool matches and two playoff matches were played at the then Westpac Stadium. Due to FIFA rules disallowing host stadia to be named after non-FIFA sponsors, the stadium was officially known as "Wellington Stadium" during the event. The stadium hosted the national team's 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifying match on 14 November 2009 against Bahrain . New Zealand won
8624-626: Was cancelled after the outbreak of the war. New Zealand's first Test after the war was against Australia in 1945/46. This game was not considered a "Test" at the time but it was granted Test status retrospectively by the International Cricket Council in March 1948. The New Zealand players who appeared in this match probably did not appreciate this move by the ICC as New Zealand were dismissed for 42 and 54. The New Zealand Cricket Council 's unwillingness to pay Australian players
8722-550: Was criticised and a couple of months later ICC abolished the rule. In December 2022, captain Kane Williamson stepped down as test captain and was replaced by Tim Southee . Williamson will remain the white-ball captain. Listed chronologically in order of first match. Neutral fixtures such as World Cup and World Cup Qualifier games are included. New Zealand Cricket released the list of their 2023–2024 national contracts on 9 July 2024. 21 players received contracts. This
8820-428: Was delayed by systems bugs. On 16 August 2019, Sky announced it had purchased Coliseum Sports Media's global rugby streaming service RugbyPass for approximately US$ 40 million. On 19 December 2019, it was announced that Sky would be purchasing Spark New Zealand 's streaming service Lightbox . On 14 June 2020, Sky confirmed that Lightbox would be merged into the Neon app on 7 July 2020. The merged service retains
8918-596: Was granted Test status . In 1929/30 the M.C.C toured NZ and played 4 Tests all of 3 days in duration. New Zealand lost its first Test match but drew the next 3. In the second Test Stewie Dempster and Jackie Mills put on 276 for the first wicket. This is still the highest partnership for New Zealand against England. New Zealand first played South Africa in 1931–32 in a three match series but were unable to secure Test matches against any teams other than England before World War II ended all Test cricket for 7 years. A Test tour by Australia, planned for February and March 1940,
9016-542: Was his son Chris Cairns . Chris Cairns made his debut one year before Hadlee retired in 1990. Cairns, one of New Zealand's best all-rounders, led the 1990s bowling attack with Danny Morrison . Stephen Fleming , New Zealand's most prolific scorer, led the batting and the team into the 21st century. Nathan Astle and Craig McMillan also scored plenty of runs for New Zealand, but both retired earlier than expected. Daniel Vettori made his debut as an 18-year-old in 1997, and when he took over from Fleming as captain in 2007 he
9114-502: Was only available to Sky subscribers. Orange broadcast from 10 am onwards each day with Juice TV screening outside of Orange's broadcast hours, Juice TV was available originally free to air. Cartoon Network shared the same channel as Orange from 1997 to 2000 screening between 6 am and 4 pm with Orange screening after 4 pm. In 2000, Cartoon Network was replaced with Nickelodeon . Later, funding allowed Sky to extend its coverage throughout most of New Zealand: In 1991,
9212-422: Was regarded as the best spinning all-rounder in world cricket. On 26 August 2009, Daniel Vettori became the eighth player and second left-arm bowler (after Chaminda Vaas ) in history to take 300 wickets and score 3000 test runs, joining the illustrious club. Vettori decided to take an indefinite break from international short form cricket in 2011 but continued to represent New Zealand in Test cricket and returned for
9310-559: Was renamed to Sky Open in 2023. In July 2010, Sky purchased Onsite Broadcasting, later Outside Broadcasting (OSB), from Australia's Prime Media Group. The sale price was $ 35 million but once liabilities were taken into account the net amount was $ 13.5 million. Since 2001, OSB provided outside broadcast facilities for Sky's sporting coverage and was also contracted out by Sky to other broadcasters like TVNZ, TV3, Warner Bros., Fox Sports, Channel 9, Ten Network, Channel 7 and BBC among others. It effectively replaced Moving Pictures, which
9408-513: Was reported that Sky TV CEO John Fellet was pursuing talks with Netflix and Amazon Prime to share content and services. Fellet hoped to mimic the UK-based television company Sky plc 's success in negotiating a bundling package with Netflix. On 26 March 2018, John Fellet announced his intention to step down from his position, after being CEO for 17 years. Fellet had been with the company since 1991, first as chief operating officer before taking on
9506-456: Was the first ever series win by New Zealand after almost 40 years and 30 consecutive winless series. In 1973 Richard Hadlee debuted and the rate at which New Zealand won Tests picked up dramatically. Hadlee was one of the best pace bowlers of his generation, playing 86 Tests for New Zealand before he retired in 1990. Of the 86 Tests that Hadlee played in New Zealand won 22 and lost 28. In 1977/78 New Zealand won its first Test against England, at
9604-551: Was their first test series win against England after 19 years and 4th overall in their 87 year old rivalry. New Zealand played no matches in the 2018 season. In 2018–19 they began with a tour of UAE in Oct–Dec 2018 to play Pakistan. The tour started with New Zealand suffering a whitewash in the T20I series but they drew the ODI series, 1–1. New Zealand produced a stunning act of resilience to register their first away test series win against Pakistan after 49 years. This put New Zealand 3rd on
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