New Zealand national cricket team

The New Zealand men's national cricket team, nicknamed the Black Caps, represents New Zealand in men's international cricket and is organised by New Zealand Cricket. It played its first Test in 1930 against England in Christchurch, becoming the fifth country to play Test cricket, and played its first One Day International in the 1972 to 1973 season against Pakistan in Christchurch. New Zealand won the inaugural ICC World Test Championship in 2021 and the ICC Champions Trophy in 2000, and was runner-up at the Cricket World Cup in 2015 and 2019. The team has taken part in every ICC men's event held since 1975, and it became known as the Black Caps in January 1998 after a naming competition run by its sponsor of the time.