Auckland Cricket

Cricket Express has signed up for another three years as Auckland Cricket's preferred retail cricket supplier.

The Auckland Aces will be bolstered by the return of Blackcaps Colin Munro and Kyle Mills for the start of their Ford Trophy campaign against the Canterbury Wizards today.

Australian batsman Aaron Finch will join the Auckland Aces for their crucial HRV Cup semi-final clash with the Wellington Firebirds tomorrow.

The HRV Cup reaches its final stages this weekend and as the Aces head to Wellington for a semi-final date with the Firebirds, the figures are in on what has been a hugely successful season for crowd attendance in Auckland.

The Aces will head into their do or die last round HRV Cup match with the Central Stags tomorrow afternoon with an unchanged side.

Dean Bartlett will join the Auckland Aces on their trip to Rangiora to face the Canterbury Wizards in a game they must win if they are to have any chance of making an HRV Cup semi-final.

Australian Twenty20 specialist Brad Hodge is one of the new names amongst three changes in the Auckland Aces side to play their first HRV Cup game of the season this Friday night in Wellington.

Daryl Tuffey has pulled the curtain down on a 16 year domestic and international cricket career.

The Auckland Hearts cricket team will have two new faces at the helm this season with Haidee Tiffen announced as coach and Dean Flyger named as her assistant.

The Auckland Aces have announced a 14 man squad for the HRV Cup which kicks off this Sunday against the Wellington Firebirds.