New Zealand Domestic Cricket
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INDIA; PAKISTAN; IRELAND; NEW ZEALAND;
SOUTH AFRICA; SRI LANKA; WEST INDIES; ZIMBABWE
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NEW ZEALAND DOMESTIC CRICKET
This page consists of links to full match and highlight videos, match reports, and scorecards for Men's and Women's Domestic competitions for the 2020-2021 season. I am providing links to matches that took place in 2021 (the "back end" of most of these competitions). I will provide some hints to help you easily find the same links for the "front end" of the competitions. January 1, 2021 is an arbitrary date, but one I chose to make the task of finishing this page easier for me. Next October, I will cover the season in real time, as I am doing now with English domestic cricket.
This page is an attempt to bring several sources together on one page, to be a sort of one stop shop for fans of domestic cricket. I hope you find it useful and enjoyable. This is part of a larger project to bring together match videos and information about domestic cricket in all of the full member ICC countries and regions.
The competitions are, in order:
First Class: Plunket Shield (Rounds 5-8)
List A:
Ford Trophy (Rounds 7-Final),
Haliburton Johnstone Shield (Final only,as that was the only one streamed)
T20
Dream 11 Supersmash (both men's and women's) (Elimination Final and Final)
To skip to a different competition, use the find in page function on your device and search for the competition of your choice.
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Meet the Teams
*Men's and Women's together on the same page
Auckland Aces; Canterbury (Christchurch); Central Districts Stags; Northern Districts*; Otago Volts*; Wellington Firebirds*
Women's
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2020-2021 Plunket Shield
1ST CLASS (4 DAYS, 96 OVERS PER DAY) The competition was played between November 2020 and April 2021. Only the matches played in 2021 (Round 5-8) will be covered here. For matches before 2021 (Rounds 1-4), consult the NZ Domestic Cricket Match Reports (see below for a hint on how to do this quickly and easily) and back track.
For more statistics and records see the Cricinfo Plunket Shield Statistics page. For selected video highlights from the first half of the season, consult the
Plunket Shield Video Highlights Playlist at NZ Cricket Youtube. It appears there are no full match videos for the first half.
Plunket Shield Page at Cricinfo (all results, scorecards, match articles, statistics, tables).
An easy way to find old match reports on a site that doesn't sort them by competition is to use the address itself to search them. All NZ Domestic matches are at a base address:
Within that they are arranged by "page" number in order to keep only a certain amount on any page.
If you are looking for a match report from 4 months ago, simply change the number after the p= while the address is in your browser's address box. Try changing 1 to 5
Look at the dates of the reports. If they are later than the date you want, use a higher number (the higher the number, the further back in history you go). In this way you can quickly locate the report you are looking for, with minimal scrolling. For the competition, look at the picture. If there is a white uniform it is most likely a Plunket Shield report. Colored uniforms mean it is a short form game (50 over or T20, either men's or women's). There are other lower level domestic competitions covered by NZ cricket, and they are all jumbled together chronologically. So use the one organizing feature of this information, the chronology, to best advantage. Use the scorecard list above to establish the date.
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COMPLETE LADDER (INCLUDING POINTS EXPLANATION). There were no Playoffs or Championship matches.
WINNER: CANTERBURY (CHRISTCHURCH)
New Zealand cricket makes available live and on demand selected full match videos of its domestic long form (1st Class 4 Day) competition, the Plunket Shield. Six regional teams compete in an 8 match Round Robin plus competition. The video is produced from a single static camera, often without sound. But the entire matches are there. Of course short highlights are also provided. For the full match videos, a small, all encompassing video scoreboard is at the bottom of the screen.
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Note: for all matches below, the Match Report links directly to highlights (for streamed matches). The scorecard link (SCORE) in the report links to a "Match Centre" for that match, which offers interactive video of all boundaries and wickets both in the scorecard and in the ball by ball commentary [see summary or or ball by ball for these highlights in sequence]. Statistics (wagon wheels, partnerships [first class], manhattans, worms and run rates [List-A]) are also available.
Note: Home side is listed 1st
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Round 8--April 3
Central Districts Stags v Canterbury (Christchurch)& (bowl)
Central Districts 207 (90.1 overs) and 299/5(d) (114)
Canterbury 391 (143.1)
MATCH DRAWN
Scorecard (NZC)
Match Report (NZC)
FULL MATCH VIDEO
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Otago Volts (Dunedin) v Northern Districts& (bowl)
Otago 272 (85.5 overs) and 266 (104.3)
Northern Districts 222 (64) and (target=317) 317/7 (115.4)
NORTHERN DISTRICTS WON BY 3 WICKETS
Scorecard (NZC)
FULL MATCH VIDEO (NZC)
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Eden Park Outer Oval, Auckland (1--Candy Hub--the Outer Oval is directly adjacent and to the left of Eden Park Stadium) (2--NZ Cricket) (3--cricinfo) (4--City--Wikipedia)
Auckland Aces v Wellington Firebirds
Wellington& (bat) 342 (125.5 overs) and 298/7(d) (61.3
Auckland 368 (123.5) and (target=273) 267/7 (71)
MATCH DRAWN
Match Report: (including daily and full match video highlights) (NZ Cricket)
Full Match Video
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Round 7--March 27
Eden Park Outer Oval, Auckland (1--Candy Hub--the Outer Oval is directly adjacent and to the left of Eden Park Stadium) (2--NZ Cricket) (3--cricinfo) (4--City--Wikipedia)
Auckland Aces v Canterbury (Christchurch):
&Auckland 235 (86.4 overs) and 317/3(d) (98);
Canterbury 131 (58.4) (target=444) and 192/4 (89)
MATCH DRAWN
FULL MATCH VIDEO
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Otago Volts (Dunedin) v Central Districts Stags:
&Otago 393 (120.2 overs) and 292/7(d) (70)
CD 353/9(d) (96.2) (target=333) and 288 (70)
OTAGO WON BY 44 RUNS
Scorecard (cricinfo)
FULL MATCH VIDEO
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Wellington Firebirds v Northern Districts
Wellington 414/4(d) (127 overs)
&Northern Districts 97/4 (45)
MATCH DRAWN
Scorecard (cricinfo)
FULL MATCH VIDEO
Day 3: (No Play--Rain)
Day 4: (No Play--Rain)
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Round 6--March 19
Northern Districts v Wellington Firebirds
&Northern Districts 246 (80.4 overs) and 422/5(d) (112)
Wellington 395 (147.2) and (target=274) 108/5 (47)
MATCH DRAWN
Scorecard (NZ Cricket)
FULL MATCH VIDEO
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Otago Volts v Auckland Aces
&Auckland 351/8 (95.2 overs) Otago 259/5 (80.5) There was no play on Day 4.
MATCH DRAWN
Scorecard (NZ Cricket)
FULL MATCH VIDEO
Day 1: No full match video available
Day 2: Technical issues make the 17 overs available unwatchable
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Canterbury (Christchurch) v Central Districts Stags
&Central Districts 149 (75.1 overs) and 170 (83)
Canterbury 281 (81.3) and (target=38) 39/1 (10.5)
CANTERBURY WON BY 9 WICKETS
Scorecard (NZ Cricket)
This win, along with Northern Districts draw, clinched the Plunket Shield for Canterbury.
FULL MATCH VIDEO (Match ended on the third day)
Day 1 (Video starts at 78/6 (36 overs) of Central Districts 1st Innings
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Round 5--March 11
Canterbury (Christchurch) v Otago Volts
Canterbury 517 (112.5 overs) and 209/5(d) (39.3)
&Otago 375/6 (126) and (target=351) and 163 (63)
CANTERBURY WON BY 188 RUNS
Note: this match featured the largest partnership in the competition by LJ Carter and CD Fletcher for Canterbury, 305 for the 6th wicket. Canterbury was 188/5 (53.6) when the partnership started. It ended when Carter got out at 493/6 (107.1).
Scorecard (NZ cricket)
FULL MATCH VIDEO (sound)
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Central Districts Stags v Wellington Firebirds
Central Districts 175 (70 overs) and 245/9(d) (60.2)
&Wellington 104 (45.3) and (target=316) 256 (90)
CENTRAL DISTRICTS WON BY 60 RUNS
Scorecard (NZ Cricket)
Match Report (including daily and match video highlights)
FULL MATCH VIDEO (NO PLAY ON DAY 1)
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Northern Districts v Auckland Aces
Auckland 141 (48.1 overs) and 141/2 (65.4)
&Northern Districts 281 (68)
MATCH DRAWN
Scorecard (NZ Cricket)
In this rain marred draw Auckland's Louis Delport spun his way to only the 9th First Class Hat Trick in the side's 138 year history. The last 2 of the 3 wickets are linked in a twitter post within the match report. You can see them all from the interactive scorecard linked to in the match report (they are the last 3 of Delport's 7 wicket haul linked to in his bowling line). Interestingly, though the match lasted barely over 200 overs, both Delport and ND's Scott
Kuggeleijn took 7 wickets in an innings. Again, the linked scorecard shows them all.
FULL MATCH VIDEO
Day 1 (No Play)
Day 3 (No Play)
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Men's List-A--Limited Overs
50 over--Ford Trophy. The Ford Trophy was a 10 match, double round robin competition, followed by a playoff for 2nd place and then a final. It was played in 2 parts, from November 29-December 15 (Round 1-6) and then continued from January 15-March 6 (Rounds 7-10, Playoff, and Final). Here I will only cover the 2021 portion of the schedule.
All scorecards, and Statistics for this competition (NZ Cricket Archive)
All NZ cricket videos (full match and highlights). Unfortunately, there is no way to search this, you must simply scroll. However, a couple of overall YOUTUBE searches can make this easier:
"Ford Trophy Round 5"
"Ford Trophy Round 5 Highlights" (etc.)
Match Reports
and change the number after p= while it is in your address box. The higher the number, the further back in history you go. Look for colored uniforms, as the words "Ford Trophy" are not always in the title. Synch these dates to the dates listed in the scorecard link above.
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2020-2021 FORD TROPHY
WINNER: CANTERBURY (CHRISTCHURCH), RUNNER UP: NORTHERN DISTRICTS
FINAL--March 5, 2021
Canterbury (Christchurch) v Northern Districts
The Teams: *men's and women's integrated alphabetically
&Northern Districts 289/7
Canterbury 292/2 (45 overs)
CANTERBURY WON BY 8 WICKETS WITH 30 BALLS LEFT TO BOWL
Henry Nicholls carried his bat and was the match top scorer
127 in 144 balls, 12 fours
to lead Canterbury to the championship. They easily met their target, with Nicholls and Ken McClure putting on 150 runs for the second wicket, sealing the win.
Scorecard (NZ Cricket)
Match article (there are several links to twitter highlights embedded in the report)
FULL MATCH VIDEO (COMMENTARY--A COMMERCIAL QUALITY VIDEO)
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ELIMINATION FINAL--March 3
Northern Districts v Wellington Firebirds
Northern Districts 352/8 (42 overs)
&Wellington 145/7 (26.1 overs)
NORTHERN DISTRICTS WON BY 138 RUNS (DUCKWORTH/LEWIS METHOD)
Scorecard (NZ Cricket)
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ROUND 10--February 28
Wellington Firebirds v Otago Volts
&Wellington 427/8
Otago 345 (41.2 overs)
WELLINGTON WON BY 82 RUNS
Wellington's 427 is the highest List-A score in the history of New Zealand cricket. Finn Allen's 100 in 50 balls ties him with Peter Fulton for the fastest century in Ford Trophy history.
Scorecard (NZ Cricket)
Match Report (including match video highlights)
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Canterbury (Christchurch) v Auckland Aces
Canterbury 238/5
Aukland 225/8
CANTERBURY WON BY 13 RUNS
Scorecard (29 over match)
Match Report (including match video highlights)
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Northern Districts v Central Districts Stags
Central Districts 253 (49.1 overs)
&Northern Districts 257/5 (47.2)
With the win, ND guaranteed a place (at home in the Trophy Elimination Final.
NORTHERN DISTRICTS WON BY 5 WICKETS WITH 22 BALLS LEFT TO BOWL
Scorecard (NZ Cricket)
No video available
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ROUND 9--February 26
Wellington Firebirds v Otago Volts
Wellington 340/8
&Otago 342/4 (49.1 overs)
OTAGO WON BY 6 WICKETS WITH 5 BALLS LEFT TO BOWL
Match Report (including match video highlights)
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Northern Districts v Central Districts Stags
Northern Districts 194 (48.3 overs)
&Central Districts 196/4 (34.3 overs)
CENTRAL DISTRICTS WON BY 6 WICKETS WITH 93 BALLS LEFT TO BOWL
Scorecard (NZ cricket)
Match Report (including match video highlights)
FULL MATCH VIDEO (video begins at 7/1 (1.4 overs) in Northern District's Innings
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Canterbury (Christchurch) v Auckland Aces
Canterbury 313/4
&Auckland 97
CANTERBURY WON BY 216 RUNS
Scorecard (NZ Cricket)
Match Report (including match video highlights)
FULL MATCH VIDEO (video begins at 19/0 (3.2 overs) in Canterbury's Innings
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ROUND 8--February 21
Wellington Firebirds v Northern Districts
&Wellingon 188 (46.5 overs)
Northern Districts 171 (48.4)
WELLINGTON WON BY 17 RUNS
Scorecard (NZ Cricket)
Match Report (including match video highlights)
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Otago Volts v Canterbury (Christchurch)
&Otago 263/9
Canterbury 232 (48.5 overs)
OTAGO WON BY 31 RUNS
Match Report (including match video highlights)
FULL MATCH VIDEO (sound)
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Eden Park Outer Oval, Auckland (1--Candy Hub--the Outer Oval is directly adjacent and to the left of Eden Park Stadium) (2--NZ Cricket) (3--cricinfo) (4--City--Wikipedia)
Auckland Aces v Central Districts Stags
&Auckland 311/9
Central Districts 218 (39.3 overs)
AUCKLAND WON BY 93 RUNS
Auckland opening bastsman Cole Briggs came within 1 run of beginning his List-A career with centuries in his first 2 list A Innings. No one in the history of New Zealand List-A competition has ever done it.
101 on 104 balls, 7 fours and 1 six
99 on 104 balls, 11 fours and 1 six
Match Report (including match video highlights)
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ROUND 7--February 19
Eden Park Outer Oval, Auckland (1--Candy Hub--the Outer Oval is directly adjacent and to the left of Eden Park Stadium) (2--NZ Cricket) (3--cricinfo) (4--City--Wikipedia)
Auckland Aces v Central Districts Stags
&Central Districts 309/7
Auckland 310/4 (47.1 overs)
AUCKLAND WON BY 6 WICKETS WITH 23 BALLS LEFT TO BOWL
Match Report (including match video highlights)
FULL MATCH VIDEO (video begins at 27/0, 4.5 overs in CD's Innings)
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Otago Volts v Canterbury (Christchurch)
&Canterbury 271
Otago 217
CANTERBURY WON BY 54 RUNS
Match Report (including match video highlights)
FULL MATCH VIDEO (Sound)
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Wellington Firebirds v Northern Districts
Northern Districts 205 (49.1 overs)
&Wellington 207/9 (48.3)
WELLINGTON WON BY 1 WICKET WITH 9 BALLS LEFT TO BOWL
Scorecard NZ Cricket)
Match Report (including match video highlights)
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Women's List A
Halliburton Johnstone Shield--50 overs. The competition began November 21 2020 and ended March 21, 2021. The only video coverage I could find for this Tournament was the Final.
WINNERS: CANTERBURY WOMEN
COMPLETE LADDER (NZ Cricket)
COMPETITION CENTRE FOR EVERY MATCH (INCLUDES TEAMS, OVERALL LEAGUE STATISTICS); EACH INDIVIDUAL MATCH LINKS TO A MATCH CENTRE WITH BALL BY BALL COMMENTARY, SCORECARDS. AND MATCH STATISTICS
Match Reports (NZ Cricket)
Use the scorecards above to fix the date. Then use the address to search for your match report of interest. Change the number after the p= while the address is in the address bar. The higher the number, the further back in history you will go.
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FINAL--March 21
Eden Park Outer Oval, Auckland (1--Candy Hub--the Outer Oval is directly adjacent and to the left of Eden Park Stadium) (2--NZ Cricket) (3--cricinfo) (4--City--Wikipedia)
Auckland Hearts v Canterbury Magicians
The Teams:
&Auckland 185 (47.5 overs)
Canterbury 188/2 (37.4)
CANTERBURY WOMEN WON BY 8 WICKETS WITH 74 BALLS LEFT TO BE BOWLED
Amy Satterthwaite was the player of the match: 4 for 27 in 8.5 overs and 73 on 80 balls with 9 fours, including a 166 run second wicket partnership with Captain and opener Frankie MacKay: 94 not out on 112 balls with 10 fours. Katie Perkins led Auckland with 52 on 64 balls with 4 fours.
Scorecard (NZ Cricket)
Match Report (link to match centre may not work)
Match Centre (interactive video of all boundaries and wickets, statistics, etc).
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T20 Men's and Women's
2020-21 Dream 11 Supersmash, Men's and Women.
Both competitions were played from December 24, 2020 to February 13, 2021. Matches in both competitions were played as a series of women's/men's doubleheaders at the same venues. It was a double round robin, followed by an Elimination Final between the 2nd and 3rd place teams, and then a Final.
The competitions were covered at the Dream 11 Supersmash website. All match scores, scorecards, and match stories can be found there.
The NZ Cricket site has a Playlist of highlights that for both competitions. Men's and Women's highlights are integrated.
All Match Artcles: (Dream 11 Supersmash)
2021 Tournament begins with Previews
and ends with Finals
Note the structure of the address. Men's and women's matches are integrated together. Selected highlights are integrated with their matches. A different way to look at highlights than the playlist above. Note that these "pages" should be at stable addresses until the next Supersmash Tournament.
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Women's
All Scorecards, Statistics (NZ Cricket)
Women's
FINALS--February 13
Wellington Blaze v Canterbury Magicians
Wellington 125/8
Canterbury 126/6 (19.4 overs)
CANTERBURY WON BY 4 WICKETS WITH 2 BALLS LEFT TO BOWL
In spite of a hat trick in the 10th over by Mellie Kerr, which set the winners back at 40/5, they were able to recover and win on the back of an unbroken 66 run 6th wicket partnership between Kate Ebrahim and Lea Tahuhu. Ironically, a misfield in the outfield by Kerr in the penultimate over helped Canterbury over the line. Sophie Devine of Wellington led all scorers with 47 runs in 45 balls with 4 fours. Tahuhu, who came in with her team at 60/6 in the 13th over, scorched Wellington for 38 in 20 balls with 1 four and 3 sixes.
Match Report (Dream 11 Supersmash)
MATCH VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS (NZ Cricket Youtube)
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ELIMINATION FINAL--February 11
Auckland Hearts v Wellington Blaze
&Wellington 150/6
Auckland 115/7
WELLINGTON WON BY 35 RUNS
Melie Kerr scored 54 not out on 44 balls with 6 fours and was 2 for 16 from 4 overs with the ball as Wellington moved on to the final.
Scorecard (NZ Cricket)
Match Report (Dream 11 Supersmash)
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Men's
FINAL LADDER (NZ Cricket)
All Scorecards, Statistics (NZ Cricket)
FINAL--February 13
Wellington Firebirds v Canterbury Kings
Canterbury 175/8
&Wellington 178/5 (19.4 overs)
WELLINGTON WON BY 5 WICKETS WITH 2 BALLS LEFT TO BOWL
Devon Conway carried his bat and led Wellington to victory with 93 in 63 balls with 11 fours and a 6 as they got over the line with 2 balls to spare. Logan van Beek led the Wellington bowlers with 3 for 28, helping to restrict them just enough.
Scorecard (NZ Cricket)
Match Report (Dream 11 Supersmash)
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ELIMINATION FINAL--February 11
Canterbury Kings v Central Districts Stags
&Central Districts 180/7
Canterbury 181/6 (19.5 overs)
CANTERBURY WON BY 4 WICKETS WITH 1 BALL LEFT TO BOWL
Will Young's crushing century (101 in 46 balls with 1 four and 10 sixes) was not enough to send CD to the final, as a 132 run partnership in 13.3 overs between Captain Cole McChonchie and Cam Fletcher lifted the winners from 38/4, helping them over the line with one ball to spare.
Scorecard (NZ Cricket)
Match Report (Dream 11 Supersmash)