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2023–24 Plunket Shield Season
The 2023–24 Plunket Shield was the 95th season of the Plunket Shield, the domestic first-class cricket competition that is played in New Zealand. The tournament started on 20 October 2023, and the final round of matches began on 24 March 2024. Central Districts are the defending champions, having won their 12th title the previous year. Wellington won the tournament to clinch their 22nd Plunket Shield title, finishing on 94 points with 4 wins, despite rain washing out the final day of the last round. Points table Fixtures Round 1 ---- ---- Round 2 ---- ---- ---- Round 3 ---- ---- Round 4 ---- ---- Round 5 ---- ---- Round 6 ---- ---- ---- Round 7 ---- ---- ---- Round 8 ---- ---- ---- References External links Season home at ESPN cricinfo {{DEFAULTSORT:2023-24 Plunket Shield season Plunket Shield 2023–24 New Zealand cricket season Plunket Shield New Zealand has had a domestic first-class cricket championship since the 1906–07 se ...
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New Zealand Cricket
New Zealand Cricket, formerly the New Zealand Cricket Council, is the governing body for professional cricket in New Zealand. Cricket is the most popular and highest profile summer sport in New Zealand. New Zealand Cricket operates the New Zealand cricket team, organising Test tours and One-Day Internationals with other nations. It also organises domestic cricket in New Zealand, including the Plunket Shield first-class competition, The Ford Trophy men's domestic one-day competition, the Hallyburton Johnstone Shield women's domestic one-day competition, as well as the Men's Super Smash and Women's Super Smash domestic Twenty20 competitions. Scott Weenink is the Chief Executive Officer of New Zealand Cricket. Tom Latham is the current Blackcaps Test captain, succeeding Tim Southee who still represents the team. Sophie Devine is the current White Ferns captain. History On 27 December 1894, 12 delegates from around New Zealand met in Christchurch to form the New ...
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Sean Solia
Sean Mikaele Solia (born 15 December 1992) is a New Zealand-Samoan cricketer. He has played international cricket for Samoa, and since 2016 has played in New Zealand domestic cricket for Auckland. Early life He comes from Auckland and attended St Peter's College. His father is Samoan. Domestic career Solia made his first-class debut for Auckland against Canterbury on 22 November 2016 in the 2016–17 Plunket Shield season. He made his Twenty20 debut for the Auckland Aces on 4 December 2016 in the 2016–17 Super Smash. He made his List A debut for Auckland on 15 January 2017 in the 2016–17 Ford Trophy, scoring 152 runs. In June 2018, he was awarded a contract with Auckland for the 2018–19 season. In September 2018, he was named in the Auckland Aces' squad for the 2018 Abu Dhabi T20 Trophy. In June 2020, he was offered a contract by Auckland ahead of the 2020–21 domestic cricket season. In March 2022, in the 2021–22 Plunket Shield season, Solia scored his maiden ce ...
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Seddon Park
Seddon Park is a cricket ground in Hamilton, New Zealand. It is the fourth-largest cricket ground in the country, and is renowned for its "village green" setting, affording a picnic atmosphere for spectators. History Seddon Park was named after Richard Seddon the longest-serving Prime Minister of New Zealand. The Hamilton Borough Council named it in July 1906 before it was developed. It was first used for a major cricket match in February 1914, when the touring Australians played a South Auckland XVIII in a two-day match. It has been in constant use since. Due to sponsorship from Trust Bank and subsequently Westpac, the ground was known as Trust Bank Park from 1990 to 1997, as WestpacTrust Park from 1997 to 2003, and as Westpac Park from 2003 to 2006. It reverted to its original name in 2006, when Westpac decided to end its sponsorship of a number of sporting events and grounds in New Zealand. Seddon Park staged one of the matches in the 1992 Cricket World Cup and three mat ...
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Ben Lockrose
Benjamin Nicholas John Lockrose (born 24 March 2000) is a New Zealand cricketer. He made his Twenty20 debut for Otago in the 2017–18 Super Smash on 28 December 2017. Prior to his Twenty20 debut, he was named in New Zealand's squad for the 2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup. Lockrose was born at Portsmouth in England and moved to New Zealand when he was five years old and was educated at Otago Boys' High School in Dunedin.Ben Lockrose
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Jacob Duffy
Jacob Duffy (born 2 August 1994) is a New Zealand cricketer who plays for Otago. Duffy made his senior debut in an HRV Cup match against Northern Districts in January 2012. He made his international debut for the New Zealand cricket team in December 2020. Duffy was born at Lumsden in the Southland Region and was educated at Southland Boys' High School in Invercargill. Career Duffy was the joint-leading wicket-taker in the 2017–18 Plunket Shield season for Otago, with 29 dismissals in eight matches. In June 2018, he was awarded a contract with Otago for the 2018–19 season. He was the leading wicket-taker for Otago in the 2018–19 Ford Trophy, with 25 dismissals in eleven matches. He was the joint-leading wicket-taker for Otago in the 2018–19 Super Smash, with thirteen dismissals in nine matches. In June 2020, Duffy was offered a contract by Otago ahead of the 2020–21 domestic cricket season. In November 2020, Duffy was named in the New Zealand A cricket team for pr ...
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Scott Kuggeleijn
Scott Christopher Kuggeleijn (born 3 January 1992) is a New Zealand international cricketer. He plays first-class cricket for Northern Districts. Domestic and T20 career In the 2016–17 Ford Trophy, Kuggeleijn took the most wickets in the tournament, with seventeen dismissals in nine matches. In June 2018, he was awarded a contract with Northern Districts for the 2018–19 season. In March 2019, he played for Chennai Super Kings as an injury replacement during the 2019 Indian Premier League. In 2021, he signed for Royal Challengers Bangalore, again as an injury replacement, but did not play a match for the side. In 2024, he played inaugural season of Nepal Premier League for Sudurpaschim Royals and finished the season as highest wicket taker of tournament. International career In April 2017, he was named in New Zealand's One Day International (ODI) squad for the 2017 Ireland Tri-Nation Series. He made his ODI debut for New Zealand against Ireland on 14 May 2017. He scored 11 ...
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Max Chu
Max Wilkie Chu (born 21 March 2000) is a New Zealand cricketer. He made his first-class debut for Otago in the 2018–19 Plunket Shield season on 1 March 2019. Prior to his first-class debut, he was named in New Zealand's squad for the 2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup. In February 2019, he also played for the New Zealand XI side in a 50-over tour match against Bangladesh. He made his Twenty20 debut on 14 December 2019, for Otago in the 2019–20 Super Smash. In June 2020, he was offered a contract by Otago ahead of the 2020–21 domestic cricket season. He made his List A debut on 19 February 2021, for Otago in the 2020–21 Ford Trophy. In November 2021, in the 2021–22 Plunket Shield season, Chu scored his maiden century in first-class cricket with 103 not out. Personal life Chu was born at Dunedin in 2000 and educated at Otago Boys' High School in the city.
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Wayne Knights
Wayne Roger Knights (born 25 August 1970) is a New Zealand cricket umpire. Along with Tim Parlane, Knights umpired the final of the 2015–16 Ford Trophy, in January 2016. He was added to the ICC International Panel of Umpires in June 2016. He stood in his first One Day International (ODI) match, between New Zealand and Bangladesh, on 26 December 2016. Knights made his Twenty20 International (T20I) umpiring debut in a match on 3 January 2017, also between New Zealand and Bangladesh. He was one of the twelve on-field umpires for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20. He was named as one of the sixteen umpires in January 2020, for the 2020 Under-19 Cricket World Cup, in South Africa. He stood in his first Test match on 3 December 2020, between New Zealand and the West Indies. In January 2023, he was named as one of the on-field umpires for the 2023 ICC Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup. See also * List of Test cricket umpires * List of One Day International cricket umpires * List ...
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Billy Bowden
Brent Fraser "Billy" Bowden (born 11 April 1963) is a New Zealand cricket umpire and former cricketer. He was a player until rheumatoid arthritis forced him to retire. He is well known for his dramatic signalling style which includes the famous "crooked finger of doom" out signal. On 6 February 2016, Bowden stood in his 200th One Day International match in the game between New Zealand and Australia in Wellington. Early life and career Bowden was born in the Auckland suburb of Henderson and was educated at Westlake Boys High School. In March 1995, Bowden officiated his first One Day International between New Zealand and Sri Lanka at Hamilton. In March 2000 he was appointed his first Test match as an on-field umpire, and in 2002 he was included in the Emirates Panel of International Umpires. A year later he was asked to umpire at the Cricket World Cup in South Africa, and was chosen to be the fourth umpire in the final between Australia and India. Shortly after this he was dul ...
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