19 Feb 2023 Kaipaki Cricket Club 272/8 (40 ov) defeated NZ Croatia Cricket 199 (33) After all the wild weather of Cyclone Gabrielle, a fine day was a welcome one as our players looked forward to continuing our longstanding friendship/rivalry with Kaipaki Cricket Club. The NZ Croatia team turned up ready for action, some for the first time, at the charming Kaipaki Nation Oval, home of the old Seddon Park scoreboard. The day also saw the debut of two members of Croatia Heritage. Congratulations to Dominic Arnerich (cap #43) and Mark Dutton (cap #44). This was made even more special as Domin ..read more

AUCKLAND ACES left-armer BEN LISTER has become the latest New Zealand Croatia representative to be called up for a national team. The 26-year-old paceman has been on a steady upward curve since his Aces debut at the tail of 2017 and has now been picked for the New Zealand A tour of India in September 2022 - his first selection for a top level NZC side. Lister and young Aces team-mate QUINN SUNDE are both professional cricketers contracted by Auckland Cricket this season and, while keeper-batsman Sunde has yet to get his Aces career going, Lister has racked up 61 wickets (with a best of 5-2 ..read more

Everyone in our club is absolutely proud and thrilled to congratulate DANIEL MARSIC & JOHN VUJNOVICH on their selection this week for the Croatia national cricket team!  For Daniel, it’s his maiden national call-up in a 14-man Croatia squad heading to Finland next week to compete in the ICC Sub-Regional T20 World Cup Qualifying Group A Tournament, while JV was a regular member of Croatia at a roll call of European festivals and ICC tournaments with 44 caps between 2000 and 2012. The European Sub-Regional Qualifiers mark the first step towards the 2024 ICC Men's T20 W ..read more

CITY CRICKET CLUB Whangarei will be celebrating its 75th Jubilee this Labour Weekend, 2021. The home club of our past president Joey Yovich and venue for a number of excellent New Zealand Croatia matches, we invite our club members to support Joey, City and its members in celebrating a key milestone for the club and the events under the jubilee mantle, 'The Tale of Two Cities'. Registrations are NOW OPEN! FRIDAY 22nd OCTOBER 2021: ‘Bruce Marshall Memorial’ Ambrose Golf Tournament Enter a team for an unforgettable day at the Mt Denby Whangarei Golf Club. Open for ladies and gents, $50 per in ..read more

Longtime Northern Knight and former BLACKCAPS international ANTON DEVCICH announced his retirement from cricket on 19 July 2021. New Zealand Croatia Cricket joins with the cricket community in congratulating 'Devi' on a long and competitive career that ultimately saw him play T20 cricket all around the globe. Having represented ND since the age of 19, the Hamilton lad with Croatian family roots in Podgora made his first-class debut against the Otago Volts at Gisborne in January 2005. He was one of four 19-year-old debutants in that team, the others being Brad Wilson, Daniel Flynn and Te Ah ..read more

COBHAM CRICKET CLUB v NZ CROATIA - SUNDAY 21 FEBRUARY 2021 Now that we are back at Alert Level 1, our FREE ENTRY charity games against the Cobham Cricket Club are all on this Sunday at Cobham Oval! The first T20 game will start at 10am with the second kicking off at 2pm. We hope to see all our members there! The bar in the pavilion will be open from 10am through to 6pm with a cast of all-stars and former BLACKCAPS and first-class players on both sides. A few changes below for our side, with some of our originally selected players having qualified for Club Finals in Auckland. Go well lads. T ..read more

NZ Croatia Kookaburra XI v Auckland Cricket • Developing Future Aces Sunday 6 December 2020 MATCH REPORT We opened the season with our annual fixture against the Auckland Cricket Association, a match sponsored by our friends at KOOKABURRA. This fixture gives an opportunity for our players and guest players to match up against tough opposition and to play alongside invited KOOKABURRA players - the likes of BLACKCAPS James Marshall, Dion Nash, Paul Hitchcock, Richard Jones. The traditional fixture started back in 2014 and we now find the ledger squared up at two wins apiece, with a fe ..read more

A victory for New Zealand Croatia, against a Kapaki side featuring two former first-class players in Dean Askew and Glen White and Northern Spirit's Emma Parker, was the perfect way to start the 2020s. SCORES Luke Franich made his debut for us in this annual fixture at just 14 and Luke's father John whipped up a CricHQ fixture for us with scoring - thank you John. We managed to field 10 Croatian players and one guest player, as well as debuting two new players, batsman Luke and swing bowler Edmund Sumich who both received their caps. Everything ran smoothly, and pretty close to time! The ..read more

March 18 2020 - UPDATE - the below EVENT is cancelled due to Covid-19 We're used to him captaining New Zealand Croatia, but our founder member and past president Joey Yovich has elected to bat for the other team in our first New Zealand Croatia-Cobham Cricket Club T20 doubleheader at Cobham Oval - home of one-eyed Yovich's beloved City Cricket Club. As the king of Cobham Oval, this will no doubt be a right royal day out in Whangarei with free admission, an amazing line-up full of ex-BLACKCAPS and current and former Northern Districts and other representative players turning out for the Cobh ..read more