Statistics from round eight of the Plunket Shield

The Otago Volts were bowled out for just 63 by the Auckland Aces at Colin Maiden Park. This was their fifth lowest total against the Aces and their lowest since being bowled out for 50 in 1988-89. It was a measure of revenge for Auckland who were bowled out for their lowest ever total against the Volts, when they were dismissed for just 46 at University Oval last season.           
           
Mitchell McClenaghan was the destroyer finishing with figures of eight for 23. Only Albert Wensley, the Sussex professional, has had better figures against Otago with nine for 36 back in the 1929-30 season. In fact Robert Neill, a leg-break bowler with figures of nine for 71 and nine for 86, both against Canterbury back in the nineteenth century, is the only other bowler with better figures than McClenaghan for the Aces.  
         
Gareth Hopkins set a new record for most wicketkeeping dismissals in an innings for Auckland against Otago, when taking six catches in the Volts first innings. This also equalled the Auckland record against all teams that Hopkins shares with Reece Young. The one catch he took in the second innings also enabled him to equal the record for most dismissals in a match against Otago.           
           
Hopkins also scored 109 not out during the Auckland innings and in doing so became only the second player in New Zealand history to score a century and make five or more wicketkeeping dismissals in an innings. Adam Parore is the only other player to have performed this feat when he scored 102 and took five catches for the Aces against Wellington in 1992-93.           
           
Bhupinder Singh recorded his best bowling figures and first five wicket bag when he finshed with sic for 50 in the Volts second innings.  
                    
Mathew Sinclair has become the most prolific batsman in New Zealand domestic cricket passing the 8,323 runs that Bert Sutcliffe amassed during his career for Auckland, Otago and Northern Districts. Sinclair has now scored 8,371 runs for the Central Stags. These two are comfortably ahead of the third player on the list, Craig Cumming, who has scored 7,903 runs for Canterbury and Otago.           
           
Tom Latham scored his maiden first-class century when compiling 145 in the Canterbury Wizards first innings. Carl Cachopa followed up his maiden century in his last innings with a career-best 151 during the Central Stags first innings while Will Young, recently appointed captain of the New Zealand Under 19 team, scored his first half-century when unbeaten with fifty at the Stags first innings declaration.           
           
BJ Barnett became the two hundred and seventy seventh player for the Central Stags, top scoring with forty not out as the Stags were rolled for 118 in their second innings.           
           
James Marshall played his one hundred and fifteenth game to move him level with his coach, Grant Bradburn, as having played the most matches for the Northern Knights. Hamish Marshall became the eighth Knights player to pass four thousand runs for his association following Joseph Yovich who achieved the feat two matches back.    
          
Daniel Flynn scored his ninth century for the Knights to move within one of the record holder, Graeme Hick. It was his first against the Wellington Firebirds and took his run tally for the Knights past two thousand five hundred runs.           
           
Graeme Aldridge took his wickets total against the Firebirds to fifty two, the third Knights bowler to reach fifty wickets against the Firebirds. He took his career tally for Northern to 268 with only Cliff Dickeson with 282 victims for the Knights ahead of him.           

Brent Arnel passed 150 wickets for the Knights during the match. He now has 154 wickets which leaves him eighth on the list of wicket-takers for Northern Districts. 
          
Mark Gillespie took another five wickets for the Firebirds to leave him just four short of two hundred and fifty. However he did achieve a personal milestone during the match reaching exactly one thousand runs for Wellington.