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Canterbury cricket team

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Personnel
CaptainNew Zealand Peter Fulton
CoachNew Zealand Gary Stead(cricketer, born 1972)
Team information
Founded1864
Home groundHagley Oval
Capacity20,000
Official websiteCanterbury Cricket
Canterbury Kings

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 Georgie Pie 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.

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.

2005-06.

Grounds

Canterbury play their home matches at Mainpower Oval in Rangiora. Their usual home Queen Elizabeth II Park in Christchurch has been out of action since The February 22 Earthquakes and are now located in the Hornby area of Christchurch; they formerly played at Jade Stadium and Hagley Oval.

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.
  • ‡ denotes players with international caps.
No. Name Nationality Birth date Batting Style Bowling Style Notes
Batsmen
– Dean Brownlie ‡  New Zealand (1984-07-30) 30 July 1984 (age 40) Right-handed Right arm medium NZC contract
– Peter Fulton ‡  New Zealand (1979-02-01) 1 February 1979 (age 45) Right-handed Right arm medium NZC contract, captain
– Simon Keen  Australia (1987-10-04) 4 October 1987 (age 37) Left-handed Right arm medium
– Henry Nicholls  New Zealand (1991-11-15) 15 November 1991 (age 33) Left-handed Right arm off break
– Shanan Stewart  New Zealand (1982-06-21) 21 June 1982 (age 42) Right-handed Right arm medium
– George Worker  New Zealand (1989-08-23) 23 August 1989 (age 35) Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox
All-rounders
– Ryan McCone  New Zealand (1987-09-05) 5 September 1987 (age 37) Left-handed Right arm medium-fast
– Suryansh Dwivedi ‡  India (1995-07-10) 10 July 1995 (age 29) Right-handed Right arm medium
Right arm off break
– Logan van Beek  New Zealand/ Netherlands (1990-09-07) 7 September 1990 (age 34) Right-handed Right arm medium-fast Played T20I for Netherlands
Wicket-keepers
– Brad Cachopa  New Zealand (1988-08-08) 8 August 1988 (age 36) Right-handed —
– Tom Latham ‡  New Zealand (1992-04-02) 2 April 1992 (age 32) Left-handed Right arm medium NZC contract
Bowlers
– Todd Astle ‡  New Zealand (1986-09-24) 24 September 1986 (age 38) Right-handed Right arm leg break
– Hamish Bennett ‡  New Zealand (1987-02-22) 22 February 1987 (age 37) Left-handed Right arm fast-medium
– Andrew Ellis ‡  New Zealand (1982-03-24) 24 March 1982 (age 42) Right-handed Right arm medium-fast
– Matt Henry  New Zealand (1991-12-14) 14 December 1991 (age 32) Right-handed Right arm fast-medium
– Ronnie Hira ‡  New Zealand (1987-03-23) 23 March 1987 (age 37) Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox
– Edward Nuttall  New Zealand (1993-07-15) 15 July 1993 (age 31) Left-handed Left arm medium-fast

Notable players

Records

See List of New Zealand first-class cricket records

References

http://www.nzcpa.co.nz/news/recent-news/nr1175555685.html

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