Cricket?

 Spring and Summer weather in Canterbury, particularly for the Canterbury Plains, is predictable: Almost every year late October and November produce warming, dry and settled conditions, December and early January have all sorts of crap conditions, often hot and cold in the same day with constant showers (rather than steady rain), late January, February and March are usually back to warm settled stuff, all with the possibilities of the odd hot (36-40C) day thrown in.

So why does NZ Cricket continue to schedule Hagley Oval test matches in ChCh for December?

Do they hate test cricket (The only form of real cricket!) that much?