New Zealand cricket team great Ross Taylor is all set to come out of retirement to play for Samoa in the T20 World Cup qualifying tournament in Oman.

"I haven't seen the side yet so can't say. (But) when you can leave that type of quality out, you've got to be pretty comfortable with the depth of your squad," Taylor told PTI.

New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon enjoyed a game of street cricket with former India captain Kapil Dev in New Delhi

The inaugural edition of IPL took place in 2008 and Rajasthan Royals emerged as the champions.

New Zealand became the first side in history to whitewash India 3-0 in a three-match Test series in India.

Ross Taylor said they didn't think of a 3-0 clean sweep over India in the Test series in their 'wildest dreams' as Tom Latham-led side completed a historic whitewash in Mumbai.

His hundred was the first by a Kiwi batter in India since Ross Taylor's Test hundred at the same venue in 2012.

Ahead of the first Test between Australia and New Zealand, Kiwi fast bowler Wagner had announced his retirement from international cricket.

New Zealand's former star batter Ross Taylor has suggested that fast bowler Neil Wagner's retirement was "forced", hinting at the possibility of unrest in the Kiwi camp.

India will be nervous facing New Zealand in the World Cup, reckons Ross Taylor, drawing parallels from the campaigns of both teams in the 2019 edition.