Central Districts cricket team

Central Stags
Personnel
Captain	Will Young
Coach	Heinrich Malan
Team information
Colours	Green gold
Founded	1950
Home ground	McLean Park; Pukekura Park; Fitzherbert Park; Saxton Oval
Capacity	30,000
Official website:	Central Stags

Central Districts, also known as the Central Stags, are a first-class cricket team based in central New Zealand. They are the men's representative side of the Central Districts Cricket Association.

They compete in the Plunket Shield first-class competition, the Ford Trophy domestic one day competition and the Burger King Super Smash Twenty20 competition. They are one of six teams that make up New Zealand Cricket. They were the fifth of the current teams to compete in the Plunket Shield, which they entered for the first time in the 1950–51 season.

Central Districts comprises eight district associations: Hawke's Bay, Horowhenua-Kapiti, Manawatu, Taranaki, Wairarapa and Wanganui in the North Island, and Marlborough and Nelson in the South Island.^[1] Two of New Zealand's premier cricketing schools, New Plymouth Boys' High School and Palmerston North Boys' High, have produced a number of Stags players.

Honours

Plunket Shield (9)

1953–54, 1966–67, 1967–68, 1970–71, 1986–87, 1991–92, 1998–99, 2005–06, 2012–13, 2017–18

Ford Trophy (6)

1984–85, 2000–01, 2003–04, 2011–12, 2014–15,^[2] 2015–16

Super Smash (2)

2007–08, 2009–10

Grounds

Contracted players for 2016/17 season

No. denotes the player's squad number, as worn on the back of their shirt.
denotes players with international caps.

No.	Name	Nationality	Birth date	Batting style	Bowling style	Notes
Captain
4	Will Young	New Zealand	(1992-11-22) 22 November 1992	Right-handed	Right arm off break
Wicketkeeper
2	Dane Cleaver	New Zealand	(1992-01-01) 1 January 1992	Right-handed	Leg break
Batsmen
12	Ross Taylor	New Zealand	(1984-03-08) 8 March 1984	Right-handed	Right arm off break	NZC contract
42	Tom Bruce	New Zealand	(1991-08-02) 2 August 1991	Right-handed	Right arm off break
–	Greg Hay	New Zealand	(1984-07-14) 14 July 1984	Right-handed	Right arm off break
9	Ben Smith	New Zealand	(1991-01-07) 7 January 1991	Right-handed	Right arm off break
All-rounders
6	Doug Bracewell	New Zealand	(1990-09-28) 28 September 1990	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	NZC contract
17	George Worker	New Zealand	(1991-08-02) 2 August 1991	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox	NZC contract
Bowlers
7	Adam Milne	New Zealand	(1992-04-13) 13 April 1992	Right-handed	Right arm fast-medium	NZC contract
11	Ryan McCone	New Zealand	(1987-09-05) 5 September 1987	Left-handed	Right-arm medium
12	Seth Rance	New Zealand	(1987-08-23) 23 August 1987	Right-handed	Right arm fast-medium
13	Blair Tickner	New Zealand	(1993-10-13) 13 October 1993	Right-handed	Right arm fast-medium
21	Ajaz Patel	New Zealand	(1988-10-21) 21 October 1988	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
11	Navin Patel	New Zealand	(1994-09-03) 3 September 1994	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
23	Bevan Small	New Zealand	(1992-02-24) 24 February 1992	Right-handed	Right arm fast-medium
10	Ben Wheeler	New Zealand	(1991-11-10) 10 November 1991	Right-handed	Left arm medium-fast

^[3]

Notable players

New Zealand

England

Peter Trego

Sri Lanka

Mahela Jayawardena

Records

See List of New Zealand first-class cricket records

References

External links

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[1] Central Districts Cricket Association – Districts Archived 5 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine.. Retrieved 5 January 2006

[2] ttp://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/65658070/andrew-mathieson-has-a-field-day-as-central-stags-win-national-oneday-cricket-final

[3] ttp://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/sport/cricket/82028344/Navin-Patel-and-Bevan-Small-pick-up-final-contracts-for-Central-Districts

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