Canterbury finds the going tough while five-wicket bags to Blair Tickner and Ajaz Patel see the Stags prevail in the Plunket Shield's pressure cooker penultimate round
27 Mar, 2018 in Match Reports
The Otago Volts aren't going quietly in this Plunket Shield season, ending the Aces' slim title hopes inside two days with a pace bowling frenzy
26 Mar, 2018 in Match Reports
Have the Wellington Firebirds just dropped the Shield? Ish Sodhi snares his career-best figures and second first-class seven-for in the space of a week to hand the title contenders a damaging loss
26 Mar, 2018 in Match Reports
Despite having become the third team to drop out of contention for the $75,000 Plunket Shield championship, Northern Districts are poised to have a major influence over who claims the coveted prize in a fortnight's time
25 Mar, 2018 in Domestic News
The Wellington Firebirds haven't laid hands on the Plunket Shield since 2003/04. Now, after 14 long years, they're the front-runners for the first-class national title with just two games to go, under a new captain who only joined the side this season. So how's he travelling?
22 Mar, 2018 in Domestic News
After a tense Round Eight the Plunket Shield becomes a three-horse race, a dramatic draw between the two top contenders putting the Plunket Shield on course for a gripping conclusion
20 Mar, 2018 in Domestic News
All eyes were on the capital and a gripping top-of-the-table clash as the Central Stags and Wellington Firebirds wrestled for the Plunket Shield in one of the great contests of the season
20 Mar, 2018 in Match Reports
Yet another Sodhi seven-for consoles ND as they roll out of Plunket Shield contention in a weather-dampened draw, but what does it mean for the competition front-runners?
20 Mar, 2018 in Match Reports
The eighth-round Plunket Shield match between Canterbury and the Auckland Aces at Mainpower Oval, Rangiora, was abandoned this morning because of safety concerns over the pitch
19 Mar, 2018 in Domestic News
The record had stood since the summer of 1930/31. Until now.
19 Mar, 2018 in Match Reports
The Plunket Shield leaders are set for a big rematch at the Basin tomorrow against the only team to have handed them a defeat this summer
16 Mar, 2018 in Domestic News
More Michael Papps milestones but it was fellow veteran Jeetan Patel's 10 wickets that sealed the deal as the Firebirds closed out a nailbiter to head back to the top of the first-class table
13 Mar, 2018 in Match Reports
It took a cyclone to save the Aces from the brink of defeat against the Stags after Greg Hay and Will Young centuries, backed up by twin Ajaz Patel five-wicket bags
12 Mar, 2018 in Match Reports
Canterbury's decision to bat first backfired as Jimmy Baker picked up his second first-class five-wicket bag in as many matches, then Daniel Flynn and Henry Cooper smashed up the local batting records
12 Mar, 2018 in Match Reports
It's looking like a three-horse race at the top of the first-class table with two of the top trio about to go head to head in Auckland
08 Mar, 2018 in Domestic News
It was all happening in Round Six with two hat-tricks, nine five-wicket bags and only one match-winning century as the first-class Plunket Shield swung back into action (see what we did there?)
05 Mar, 2018 in Domestic News
Fresh off their Ford Trophy celebrations, the Auckland Aces charged to a solid victory against ND in the first-class arena with a rare hat-trick in the mix to boot
04 Mar, 2018 in Match Reports
Seth Rance, Neil Wagner and Ajaz Patel all claimed five-wicket bags, but it was a doughty batsman carrying his bat who cemented a hard fought win in Napier
04 Mar, 2018 in Match Reports
It's all happening on day two of the Plunket Shield with first-class hat-tricks at both ends of the country rewriting New Zealand cricket history
02 Mar, 2018 in Domestic News
Firebird Iain McPeake had headed into his third season without a first-class five-for to his name. Now he has two, and Logan van Beek a hat-trick as they led their side to victory inside one and a half days
02 Mar, 2018 in Match Reports
