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New Zealand cricket team in Australia in 2016–17

International cricket tour

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ23019811 ↗
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The New Zealand cricket team toured Australia in December 2016 to play three One Day Internationals (ODIs) matches. The matches were played for the Chappell–Hadlee Trophy.

The series ended with a 3–0 victory to Australia. It was just the second time New Zealand had suffered a whitewash to Australia, the first being in New Zealand in 2005.

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“New Zealand cricket team in Australia in 2016–17” enters the record as international cricket tour. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Zealand, cricket and team can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016, 2005—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Zealand, cricket and team.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q23019811. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2016 and 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “New Zealand cricket team in Australia in 2016–17” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.