T In dition to cricket, other sports have also used the Basin Reserve, including rugby union, a rugby league Test match, a football pre-season match and exhibition Australian rules football matches.

his is the biggest crowd at the Basin Reserve in the modern era. Players involved in the match included Shane Warne, Stephen Fleming, Tana Umaga, Richard Hlee, Martin Crowe, other famous er New Zealand cricketers, current All Blacks Richie McCaw and Conr Smith and actors Russell Crowe, Ian McKellen. More than $500,000 was raised towards the relief efforts.

On 13 March 2011, the Basin Reserve was host to "Fill the Basin" a cricket event intended to raise for the 2011 Canterbury earthquake. The game was played in front of more than 10,000 people with people sitting between the boundary rope and the fence.

In what may be a one-off occasion, it returned during the Australian Tour in 2005 follog a decision that the pitch at Hamilton's Westpac Park was unfit for cricket, however it is scheduled to host two more One-day internationals against Pakistan in 2017/18 and One-day international against India in 2018/19.

The first Test match played at the ground was between New Zealand and England, beginning on 24 January 1930. One-day international cricket was played at the Basin Reserve until 1999, after which it moved to the larger crowd capacity Westpac Stium on the other side of Wellington.