WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Rob Walter has been hired to coach the New Zealand men’s cricket team in all three formats as a replacement for Gary Stead .

Walter coached South Africa’s teams in the one-day and Twenty20 formats from January 2023 until April this year. Before then he coached New Zealand’s Otago province for five years and at the Central Districts association.

He guided South Africa to the semifinals of the 2023 World Cup and the Champions Trophy earlier this year in the ODI format and to the final of the T20 World Cup last year .

Stead was New Zealand head coach in all three formats from 2018 until earlier this week, when New Zealand Cricket announced it was seeking a replacement.

Stead announced in March he was stepping down from his roles in the limited-overs fo

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