Rugby, league & cricket

Football shares the New Zealand calendar with winter and summer codes that draw bigger local crowds. This section covers those codes for the punter who bets beyond the round ball.

Rugby union, NRL and AFL lead, and cricket takes over in summer. Super Rugby Pacific and the All Blacks draw the crowds in winter, the Warriors and Black Caps beyond that, and a mismatch is normally priced with a handicap or line bet.

The ban reaches events anywhere, a match abroad included. For NZ events, an operator wishing to take bets from customers in other countries needs the sport’s national organisation to agree.

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