Michael Rae made his first appearance in County Championship cricket with Warwickshire and of course the headband king took some wickets.

All the Kiwi County Tour action last week was in Division One as Will Young's Nottinghamshire had a win over Tom Bruce and Will Williams for Lancashire, while Nathan Smith held things down for Worcestershire in their draw vs Kent.

Will Young joined Nathan Smith in churning out impressive County Championship mahi over the weekend as both scored runs in Division One and Smith snared his usual dose of wickets.

Nathan Smith is leading the Kiwi County Tour with runs and wickets for Worcestershire as he continues to flex as one of Aotearoa's best emerging cricketers.

County Championship cricket has started in England which means that a selection of Aotearoa cricketers will be highlighted throughout the Kiwi County Tour.

Along with Will Young hitting a century in his third consecutive Kiwi County Tour, Somerset won the T20 Blast with Matt Henry and Ish Sodhi playing crucial roles.

Matt Henry continues to gather wickets on the Kiwi County Tour, but not as many as his former Canterbury comrade Will Williams.

Henry Shipley and Tom Latham played their first County Championship games of the winter as the Kiwi County Tour rolls along, now taking a wee break for T20 Blast cricket.

Fresh off a summer in which Henry Shipley bumped his way into the Blackcaps mixer, he now joins Sussex for a stint of County Championship cricket.

Matt Henry, Ajaz Patel and Doug Bracewell were the only Kiwi County Tour lads in action over the past week and these three delivered plenty of County Championship funk.

Kiwi County Tour cricket has been rolling along for a few weeks with the arrivals of Daryl Mitchell, Matt Henry and Ajaz Patel adding extra intrigue.

There isn't a hefty Kiwi County Tour crew this winter rolling through County Championship fixtures, however the stars aligned ahead of Matariki for Glenn Phillips, Rachin Ravindra, Jacob Duffy and Will Williams to all lace up in the same round.

No T20 Blast, this week has been all about County Championship cricket over in England and Aotearoa's cricketers on the Kiwi County Tour got busy with their mahi.

The domestic cricket schedule over in England is a hot shambles and yet Aotearoa's cricketers on the Kiwi County Tour continue to dominate.

As Devon Conway takes the piss in England and Glenn Phillips transforms into off-spinning G-Philly, two of Aotearoa's hostile seamers in Lockie Ferguson and Adam Milne grabbed headlines with hat-tricks to finish the first stanza of T20 Blast cricket.