The New Zealand A cricket team is a cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 team representing New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

, and is the "second tier" of international New Zealand cricket below the full New Zealand cricket team

New Zealand cricket team

The New Zealand cricket team, nicknamed the Black Caps, are the national cricket team representing New Zealand. They played their first in 1930 against England in Christchurch, New Zealand, becoming the fifth country to play Test cricket. It took the team until 1955–56 to win a Test, against the...

. The team played its first game, against an England XI, in 1996/97. New Zealand A have played fewer games in their history than most other A sides, partly because of a three-year gap between 2000/01 and 2003/04 in which they played no matches at all.

Season-by-season results summary

New Zealand A matches		First-class v A team			Other first-class			List A v A team			Other List A
Season	Venue	W	D	L	W	D	L	W	L	NR	W	L	NR
1996/97	New Zealand	-	-	-	1	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
1997/98	New Zealand	-	-	-	1	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
1998/99	New Zealand	1	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	0	-	-	-
1999/2000	New Zealand	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	2	1	-	-	-
2000	England	-	-	-	2	3	1	-	-	-	2	2	1
2000/01	New Zealand	-	-	-	1	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	New Zealand	3	0	0	-	-	-	2	0	0	-	-	-
2004/05	South Africa	0	2	1	-	-	-	0	3	0	-	-	-
2005/06	Sri Lanka	1	2	0	-	-	-	1	4	0	2	0	0