Canterbury cricket team

Canterbury

Top: Canterbury Cricket logo
Bottom: Logo for Twenty20, Canterbury Kings
Twenty20 name Canterbury Kings
Personnel
Captain New Zealand Andrew Ellis
Coach New Zealand Gary Stead
Team information
Founded 1864
Home ground Hagley Oval
Capacity 20,000
History
First-class debut Otago
in 1864
at Dunedin
Official website: Canterbury Cricket
Canterbury Kings

First-class

One-day

T20

Canterbury is a New Zealand first class cricket team based in Canterbury, New Zealand. It is one of six teams that make up New Zealand Cricket and has been the second most successful domestic team in New Zealand history. They compete in the Plunket Shield first class competition, the Ford Trophy domestic one day competition. They also compete in the Burger King Super Smash competition as the Canterbury Kings.

Honours

1922-23, 1930–31, 1934–35, 1945–46, 1948–49, 1951–52, 1955–56, 1959–60, 1964–65, 1975–76, 1983–84, 1993–94, 1996–97, 1997–98, 2007–08, 2010–11, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2016-17.

1971-72, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1977–78, 1985–86, 1991–92, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1998–99, 1999-00, 2005–06, 2016-17.

2005-06.

Grounds

Canterbury play their home matches at Mainpower Oval in Rangiora and Hagley Oval in Christchurch.

Current squad

Chris Cairns starts a run-up at Eden Park in 2006
  • No. denotes the player's squad number, as worn on the back of their shirt.
  • double-dagger denotes players with international caps.
No. Name Nationality Birth date Batting Style Bowling Style Notes
Batsmen
–Michael Pollard New Zealand2 November 1989Right-handed
–Leo Carter New Zealand10 December 1994Left-handedRight arm off break
–Michael Davidson New Zealand3 September 1992Left-handed
–Ken McClure New Zealand25 October 1994Right-handedRight arm off break
–Henry Nicholls double-dagger New Zealand15 November 1991Left-handedRight arm off breakNZC contract
–Nick Kwant New Zealand1 March 1997Left-handed
All-rounders
–Andrew Ellis double-dagger New Zealand24 March 1982Right-handedRight arm medium-fastcaptain
–Cole McConchie New Zealand12 January 1992Right-handedRight arm off break
–Ben Stokes England4 June 1991Left-handedRight arm medium-fast
–Daniel Sams Australia27 October 1992Right-handedLeft-arm fast-medium
Wicket-keepers
–Cameron Fletcher New Zealand1 March 1993Right-handed
–Tom Latham double-dagger New Zealand2 April 1992Left-handedRight arm mediumNZC contract
Bowlers
–Todd Astle double-dagger New Zealand24 September 1986Right-handedRight arm leg break
–Jeremy Benton New Zealand23 March 1987Left-handedSlow left-arm orthodox
–Kyle Jamieson New Zealand30 December 1994Right-handedRight arm medium
–Matt Henry double-dagger New Zealand14 December 1991Right-handedRight arm fast-mediumNZC contract
–Edward Nuttall New Zealand15 July 1993Left-handedLeft arm medium-fast
–Henry Shipley New Zealand10 May 1996Right-handedRight arm medium-fast
–Will Williams New Zealand6 October 1992Right-handedRight arm medium

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Notable players

Records

See List of New Zealand first-class cricket records

References

  1. ↑ http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/81979633/leftarm-spinner-jeremy-benton-gains-final-canterbury-cricket-contract

https://web.archive.org/web/20081014092016/http://nzcpa.co.nz/news/recent-news/nr1175555685.html

Further reading

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