The New Zealand Māori cricket team is a team that represented the Māori community of 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...

 in the 2001 Pacifica Cup

Pacifica Cup

The Pacifica Cup was an international cricket tournament contested in 2001 and 2002 by teams from the Pacific Islands.-First round:The eight participating teams were divided into two pools of four teams for the first round.-Pool 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...

 tournament. Whilst their rugby union

New Zealand Maori rugby union team

New Zealand Māori is a rugby union team that traditionally plays teams touring New Zealand. A prerequisite for playing in this team is that the player is to have Māori whakapapa or genealogy. In the past this rule was not strictly applied. In the past non-Māori players who looked Māori were often...

 and rugby league counterparts

New Zealand Maori rugby league team

-See also:* New Zealand national rugby league team* New Zealand Māori rugby union team* New Zealand Māori cricket team-External links:* Google Books...

 play often, this is the only appearance to date of the cricket team.

2001 Pacifica Cup

The New Zealand Māori team took part in the first Pacifica Cup. They topped their first round group, winning all three of their matches against the Cook Islands, Papua New Guinea and Samoa. They then beat Tonga in the semi-finals before beating Fiji in the final to win the tournament. They did not compete in the 2002 tournament.

Players

The following players played for the New Zealand Māori in the 2001 Pacifica Cup:

• R. Bird
• B. J. Cochrane
• Leigh Kelly - previously played first-class cricket
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   for Wellington
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• David Little - previously played first-class and List A cricket for Wellington
• Peter McGlashan
  Peter McGlashan
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   - has since played international Twenty20
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   cricket for New Zealand
• Jonathan McNamee - previously played for New Zealand Under-19s
• T. Nukunku
• P. T. Otto
• J. Paine
• Jesse Ryder
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   - has since played first-class and List A cricket for Central Districts
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   and Wellington, Twenty20 cricket for Wellington, List A cricket as an overseas player for Ireland and is a middle order batsman in the Tests and opens the batting in One Day Internationals and Twenty20
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  's for New Zealand
• Tane Topia - played one List A match for Auckland
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• Ash Turner - has since played first-class and List A cricket for Wellington
• George Waller