Northern Districts cricket team

Northern Districts

Top: Northern Districts Cricket logo Bottom: Emblem for the Twenty20 team, the Northern Knights
Personnel
Captain	Dean Brownlie
Coach	James Pamment
Chief executive	Ben MacCormack
Team information
Colours
Founded	1955
Home ground	Seddon Park
Capacity	10,000
History
First-class debut	Auckland in 1955 at Hamilton
Plunket Shield wins	8
Ford Trophy wins	7
Super Smash wins	2
Official website	Northern Districts Cricket

The Northern Districts cricket team are one of six New Zealand first-class cricket teams that make up New Zealand Cricket.

They are based in the northern half of the North Island of New Zealand (excluding Auckland). They compete in the Plunket Shield first-class competition, the Ford Trophy domestic one-day competition and the Super Smash T20 competition as the Northern Knights.

Northern Districts, the last of the six current teams to attain first-class status, joined the Plunket Shield competition in 1956–57. The six district associations that make up Northern Districts are the Northland Cricket Association, Counties Manukau Cricket Association, Waikato Valley Cricket, Hamilton Cricket Association, Bay of Plenty Cricket and Poverty Bay Cricket Association.^[1]

Honours

• Plunket Shield (8)

1962–63, 1979–80, 1991–92, 1992–93, 1999–00, 2006–07, 2009–10, 2011–12.

• Ford Trophy (7)

1979–80, 1994–95, 1997–98, 2002–03, 2004–05, 2008–09, 2009–10.

• Super Smash (2)

2013–14, 2017–18

Grounds

• Seddon Park, Hamilton (primary home ground)
• Bay Oval, Blake Park Mount Maunganui
• Cobham Oval, Whangarei
• Harry Barker Reserve, Gisborne
• Owen Delany Park, Taupo

Squad

Northern Knights celebrate taking Martin Guptill's wicket, 26 December 2011.

Contracted players for the 2017/18 Season^{[2] [3] [4]}

• 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
Batsmen
22	Kane Williamson	New Zealand	8 August 1990	Right-handed	Right arm off break	NZC contract
4	Dean Brownlie	New Zealand	30 July 1984	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	Captain
–	Daniel Flynn	New Zealand	16 April 1985	Left-handed	Slow left-arm wrist-spin	Occasional Wicket-keeper
–	Joe Carter	New Zealand	17 December 1992	Right-handed
–	Bharat Popli	New Zealand	30 May 1984	Right-handed
All-rounders
78	Corey Anderson	New Zealand	13 December 1990	Left-handed	Left arm medium-fast	NZC contract
–	Colin de Grandhomme	New Zealand	22 July 1986	Right handed	Right-arm fast-medium	NZC contract
–	Mitchell Santner	New Zealand	25 July 1993	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox	NZC contract
1	Jonathon Boult	New Zealand	29 November 1985	Left-handed	Right arm off break
–	Brett Hampton	New Zealand	30 April 1991	Right-handed	Right arm medium-fast
47	Daryl Mitchell	New Zealand	20 May 1991	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
Wicket-keepers
11	BJ Watling	New Zealand	9 July 1985	Right-handed	–	NZC contract
24	Tim Seifert	New Zealand	14 December 1994	Right-handed	–
Bowlers
8	Trent Boult	New Zealand	22 July 1989	Right-handed	Left arm medium-fast	NZC contract
16	Tim Southee	New Zealand	11 December 1988	Right-handed	Right arm medium-fast	NZC contract
–	Neil Wagner	New Zealand	13 March 1986	Left-handed	Left-arm fast–medium	NZC contract
17	Ish Sodhi	New Zealand	31 October 1992	Right-handed	Right arm leg break	NZC contract
44	Scott Kuggeleijn	New Zealand	3 January 1992	Right-handed	Right arm fast-medium
–	James Baker	New Zealand	16 February 1988	Right-handed	Right arm medium-fast
–	Zak Gibson	New Zealand	19 March 1997	Right-handed	Right arm fast-medium
–	Tony Goodin	New Zealand	23 November 1988	Right-handed	Right arm fast-medium

See also

• List of Northern Districts representative cricketers

References

External links

• Northern Districts Cricket
• Northern Knights Official Website
• List of first-class matches played by Northern Districts
• Northern Districts cricket team

Further reading

• Winston Hooper, Everest to Vettori: The ND Story, Northern Districts Cricket, Hamilton, 2006