Rugby, league & cricket

Beyond the track, the codes that draw the biggest local crowds are rugby, league and cricket. This section follows them through the year.

Summer cricket and the Black Caps balance a winter of rugby union, NRL and AFL. Searches gather around the Warriors, the All Blacks and Super Rugby Pacific; handicaps or line betting are the usual way a mismatch gets a price.

No event is out of reach of the New Zealand prohibition on bets offered to people here, wherever it is held. Permission from the national sporting organisation is a condition for an operator abroad to take bets on NZ events from other countries.

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