Northern Districts Knights

The Yahoo!Xtra Northern Knights are one of six New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 first class cricket teams that make up New Zealand Cricket

New Zealand Cricket

New Zealand Cricket, formerly the New Zealand Cricket Board, is the governing body for professional cricket in New Zealand. Cricket is the most popular and highest profile summer sport in New Zealand....

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It is based in the northern half of the North Island

North Island

The North Island is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, separated from the much less populous South Island by Cook Strait. The island is in area, making it the world's 14th-largest island...

 of New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 (excluding Auckland

Auckland

The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...

). The domestic competition is made up of the Plunket Shield - first class four day cricket, Men's One Day - limited overs cricket and the shop window - HRV Cup which is the Twenty20 competition. Previously it has competed in the State Championship

State Championship

New Zealand has had a domestic first-class cricket championship since the 1906–07 season. It is currently known as the Plunket Shield, reintroducing the name used in the early stages for the 2009–10 season.-Plunket Shield:...

 first class competition, the State Shield

State Shield

The New Zealand limited-overs cricket trophy is the main domestic List A limited overs cricket competition in New Zealand. Previous sponsor State Insurance did not renew naming rights in 2009, resulting in the competition being renamed the New Zealand Cricket one-day competition...

 domestic one day competition and the State Twenty20.

Honours

• Plunket Shield (1)

1962-63, 2009-10.

• Shell Trophy/State Championship (5)

1979-80, 1991-92, 1992-93, 1999-00, 2006-07.

• State Shield (7)

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

Grounds

• Seddon Park
  Seddon Park
  Seddon Park is a cricket ground in Hamilton, 4th largest city in New Zealand and is renowned for its "village green" setting, affording a picnic atmosphere for spectators. It is the 4th largest proper Cricket Ground in New Zealand. The Stadium was named after the former New Zealand Prime Minister...
  
  , Hamilton
  Hamilton, New Zealand
  Hamilton is the centre of New Zealand's fourth largest urban area, and Hamilton City is the country's fourth largest territorial authority. Hamilton is in the Waikato Region of the North Island, approximately south of Auckland...
  
  (primary home ground)
• Bay Oval
  Bay Oval
  Bay Oval is a cricket ground in Mount Maunganui, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand.First known as Blake Park, it held its first List A match in 1987/88 Shell Cup when Northern Districts played Central Districts...
  
  , Blake Park Mount Maunganui
  Mount Maunganui
  Mount Maunganui is a town in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, located on a peninsula to the north of Tauranga. It was independent from Tauranga until the completion of the Tauranga Harbour Bridge in 1988....
  
  
• Cobham Oval, Whangarei
  Whangarei
  Whangarei, pronounced , is the northernmost city in New Zealand and the regional capital of Northland Region. Although commonly classified as a city, it is officially part of the Whangarei District, administered by the Whangarei District Council a local body created in 1989 to administer both the...
  
  
• Harry Barker Reserve
  Harry Barker Reserve
  Harry Barker Reserve is a cricket ground in Te Hapara, Gisborne, New Zealand which is named after the former mayor of Gisborne. The first recorded match held on the ground came in 1948 when Poverty Bay played Hawkes Bay in the 1948/49 Hawke Cup. The local council purchased the ground in 1962,...
  
  , Gisborne
  Gisborne, New Zealand
  -Economy:The harbour was host to many ships in the past and had developed as a river port to provide a more secure location for shipping compared with the open roadstead of Poverty Bay which can be exposed to southerly swells. A meat works was sited beside the harbour and meat and wool was shipped...
  
  
• Owen Delany Park
  Owen Delany Park
  Owen Delany Park is a multi-purpose sports stadium located in Taupo, New Zealand. The main sports are Rugby and Cricket though, several other sports are accommodated on a permanent basis with numerous other events on an oneoff basis.-History:...
  
  , Taupo
  Taupo
  Taupo is a town on the shore of Lake Taupo in the centre of the North Island of New Zealand. It is the seat of the Taupo District Council and lies in the southern Waikato Region....
  
  

2010/11 Squad

Players who represented Northern Districts in 2010/11.

Players with international caps are listed in bold.

Name	Nat	Batting Style	Bowling Style	Notes
Batsmen
James Marshall James Marshall (cricketer) James Andrew Hamilton Marshall is a New Zealand cricketer. He is the identical twin brother of Hamish Marshall.The versatile James Marshall can play as both opener and middle-order batsman...		RHB	RM Fast bowling Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling...	Captain Captain (cricket) The captain of a cricket team often referred to as the skipper is the appointed leader, having several additional roles and responsibilities over and above those of a regular player... , former New Zealand Test and ODI player
Daniel Flynn		RHB	LUS Left-arm unorthodox spin Left-arm unorthodox spin, or chinaman, is a type of bowling in the sport of cricket using the hand wrist. Left-arm unorthodox spin bowlers use a wrist hand action to spin the ball which turns from off to leg side of the cricket pitch...	New Zealand Test player
Hamish Marshall Hamish Marshall Hamish John Hamilton Marshall is a New Zealand cricketer. He is the identical twin brother of James Marshall. Hamish and James became the second pair of twins to play Test cricket, and are the first identical pair.Marshall, a middle-order batsman, made his Test debut against South Africa in...		RHB	RM Fast bowling Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling...	Former New Zealand Test and ODI player
Kane Williamson Kane Williamson Kane Stuart Williamson is a New Zealand Test cricketer. He plays for Northern Districts, making his first-class debut in December 2007...		RHB	OB Off break Off break is a type of delivery in the sport of cricket. It is the attacking delivery of an off spin bowler. Off breaks are known as off spinners....	New Zealand Central Contracted Player
Herschelle Gibbs Herschelle Gibbs Herschelle Herman Gibbs is a South African cricketer, more specifically a batsman.Gibbs was schooled at St Joseph's Marist College and then Diocesan College in Rondebosch...		RHB	OB Off break Off break is a type of delivery in the sport of cricket. It is the attacking delivery of an off spin bowler. Off breaks are known as off spinners....	South Africa T20 player
Michael Parlane Michael Parlane Michael Edward Parlane is a New Zealand cricketer. He played 64 first-class matches for Northern Districts before shifting to Wellington to extend his first-class career. He was born in Pukekohe. He is the older brother of Neal Parlane....		RHB
Brad Wilson		RHB	OB Off break Off break is a type of delivery in the sport of cricket. It is the attacking delivery of an off spin bowler. Off breaks are known as off spinners....	New Zealand Emerging Player
Brad Hodge Brad Hodge Bradley John Hodge is an Australian and Victorian cricketer. He attended St Bede's College in Mentone, Victoria. He is a right hand batsman who bats in the middle order, as well as a part time right arm off spin bowler....		RHB	OB Off break Off break is a type of delivery in the sport of cricket. It is the attacking delivery of an off spin bowler. Off breaks are known as off spinners....	Overseas Player
All-rounders
Daniel Vettori Daniel Vettori Daniel Luca Vettori ONZM is a cricketer for the New Zealand cricket team. He is the eighth player in Test history to take 300 wickets and score 3,000 runs. He is the youngest player to have represented New Zealand in Test cricket, having made his debut in 1996–97 at the age of 18...		LHB	SLA	New Zealand Central Contracted Player and New Zealand Captain
Scott Styris Scott Styris Scott Bernardo Styris is an Australian-born New Zealand cricketer. An allrounder, Styris is an aggressive right-handed middle order batsman and a right-arm medium pace bowler....		RHB	RFM Fast bowling Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling...	New Zealand Central Contracted Player
Bradley Scott		LHB	LFM Fast bowling Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling...	New Zealand, New Zealand "A"
Joseph Yovich Joseph Yovich Joseph Adam Frank Yovich is a New Zealand cricketer. A solid all-rounder for Northern Districts, although it seemed he might be considered for the Black Caps in the future at the beginning of his career, for various reasons he never made it...		LHB	RFM Fast bowling Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling... > |New Zealand "A"
Jonathon Boult Jonathon Boult Jonathon James Boult is a New Zealand cricketer.He made his first-class debut for Northern Districts against Auckland in March 2009, scoring 31 and 5 and taking four wickets in the second innings....		LHB	OB Off break Off break is a type of delivery in the sport of cricket. It is the attacking delivery of an off spin bowler. Off breaks are known as off spinners....
Anton Devcich Anton Devcich Anton Paul Devcich is a New Zealand cricketer. A left-handed batsman who occasionally bowls left-arm orthodox spin, he plays for Northern Districts Knights.His main team is the Hamilton Boys High School First XI...		LHB	SLA
Wicket-keepers
Peter McGlashan Peter McGlashan Peter Donald McGlashan is a cricketer who has represented New Zealand in two Twenty20 Internationals and four One Day Internationals. A right-handed wicket-keeper batsman, he plays for Northern Districts in domestic cricket...		RHB		New Zealand ODI Player
Bradley Watling		RHB		New Zealand Central Contracted Player
Craig Kieswetter Craig Kieswetter Craig Kieswetter is an England cricketer of South African and Scottish heritage. He is a wicket-keeper batsman. An aggressive batsman, he began his career with the South Africa Under-19s, before stating that he wished to play international cricket for England. He began playing county cricket for...		RHB		Overseas player
Owen Ivins		RHB		New Zealand Under 19 Squad Member
Bowlers
Graeme Aldridge Graeme Aldridge Graeme William Aldridge in Christchurch) is a New Zealand cricket player who plays first class cricket for Northern Districts Knights as a specialist bowler since 1998–99. Aldridge has represented New Zealand A once, on tour of Sri Lanka in 2005–06, but has never earned a full national...		RHB	RFM Fast bowling Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling...	New Zealand A
Brent Arnel Brent Arnel Brent John Arnel is a New Zealand cricketer who plays for the Northern Districts. A promising junior cricketer, Arnel plays club cricket in Hamilton with Fraser Tech. He made his first class debut for Northern Districts in 2006, playing against Canterbury...		RHB	RMF Fast bowling Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling...	New Zealand Central Contracted Player
Trent Boult Trent Boult Trent Boult is a New Zealand Under–19 cricketer. Born in Rotorua, Boult is a right–handed batsman and left–arm medium–fast opening bowler. He accompanied the New Zealand A team on their winter training tour in 2007. On 9 February 2007, Boult took two wickets for 28 runs and...		RHB	LMF Fast bowling Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling...	New Zealand 'A' Former New Zealand U-19
Te Ahu Davis Te Ahu Davis Te Ahu Trevor Davis is a New Zealand cricketer who played in the Under-19 Cricket World Cup in 2004. He is a right-handed batsman and right arm fast-medium bowler who plays his domestic cricket for Northern Districts...		RHB	RFM Fast bowling Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling...	Former New Zealand Under 19 Player, New Zealand Emerging Player
Tim Southee		RHB	RMF Fast bowling Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling...	New Zealand Central Contracted Player
Anurag Verma		RHB	RM Fast bowling Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling...	New Zealand Under 19 Player

Notable players

New Zealand  

• Chris Cairns
• Lance Cairns
  Lance Cairns
  Bernard Lance Cairns is a former all-rounder who played for the New Zealand cricket team, and is the father of New Zealand cricketer Chris Cairns....
  
  
• Barry Cooper
  Barry Cooper (cricketer)
  Barry George Cooper in Whangarei) was a New Zealand cricketer who played 62 first-class matches for the Northern Districts Knights in the 1980s and in the 1990s and he played for Northland in the Hawke Cup....
  
  
• Cliff Dickeson
  Cliff Dickeson
  Clifford Wayne Dickeson is a former New Zealand cricketer who played 90 first-class matches for Northern Districts and taking a record 282 wickets for the province. Nowadays he coaches the Northern Districts in the State League....
  
  
• Simon Doull
  Simon Doull
  Simon Blair Doull is a New Zealand radio personality, commentator and former international cricketer. He was a right arm medium pace swing bowler, and played in 32 Test matches and 42 One Day Internationals for the New Zealand national cricket team...
  
  
• Daniel Flynn
• Matthew Hart
  Matthew Hart
  Matthew Norman Hart is a New Zealand cricketer. Hart, a left-arm orthodox spinner, played in 14 Tests between 1994 and 1996, claiming 29 wickets including one five-wicket haul against South Africa...
  
  
• Robert Hart
  Robert Hart (cricketer)
  Robbie Hart is a New Zealand cricketer. He was the first choice Test wicket-keeper for the New Zealand cricket team after the retirement of Adam Parore....
  
  
• Gareth Hopkins
• Geoff Howarth
  Geoff Howarth
  Geoffrey "Geoff" Philip Howarth OBE is a former New Zealand cricketer, who remains the only New Zealand captain to have positive win-loss records in both Test cricket and ODI cricket. Howarth played some Test cricket with his elder brother, Hedley Howarth, but most of his 47-Test career did not...
  
  
• Hamish Marshall
  Hamish Marshall
  Hamish John Hamilton Marshall is a New Zealand cricketer. He is the identical twin brother of James Marshall. Hamish and James became the second pair of twins to play Test cricket, and are the first identical pair.Marshall, a middle-order batsman, made his Test debut against South Africa in...
  
  
• James Marshall
  James Marshall (cricketer)
  James Andrew Hamilton Marshall is a New Zealand cricketer. He is the identical twin brother of Hamish Marshall.The versatile James Marshall can play as both opener and middle-order batsman...
  
  
• John Parker

• Tim Southee
• Scott Styris
  Scott Styris
  Scott Bernardo Styris is an Australian-born New Zealand cricketer. An allrounder, Styris is an aggressive right-handed middle order batsman and a right-arm medium pace bowler....
  
  
• Bert Sutcliffe
  Bert Sutcliffe
  Bert Sutcliffe MBE was a New Zealand Test cricketer. Sutcliffe was a successful left-hand batsman. His batting achievements on tour in England in 1949, which included four fifties and a century in the Tests, earned him the accolade of being one of Wisden's Five Cricketers of the Year...
  
  
• Shane Thomson
  Shane Thomson
  Shane Alexander Thomson is a former New Zealand cricketer. He played 19 Tests and 56 One Day Internationals for New Zealand. He was dropped by the national selectors after the 1996 Cricket World Cup....
  
  
• Daryl Tuffey
  Daryl Tuffey
  Daryl Raymond Tuffey is a New Zealand cricketer who has represented New Zealand at Test and ODI level, and plays domestic first class cricket for Northern Districts Knights. He is playfully known as Daryl "Huffy-Puffy" Tuffey by his Northern Districts team mates due to his heavy breathing when...
  
  
• Daniel Vettori
  Daniel Vettori
  Daniel Luca Vettori ONZM is a cricketer for the New Zealand cricket team. He is the eighth player in Test history to take 300 wickets and score 3,000 runs. He is the youngest player to have represented New Zealand in Test cricket, having made his debut in 1996–97 at the age of 18...
  
  
• David White
  David White (cricketer)
  David John White is a former New Zealand cricketer who played in 2 Tests and 3 ODIs in 1990 and played 99 first-class matches for Northern Districts. White also played for Poverty Bay and the Bay of Plenty in the Hawke Cup. He was born in Gisborne....
  
  
• John Wright
  John Wright (cricketer)
  John Geoffrey Wright is a former international cricketer representing - and captaining - New Zealand, and, following his retirement in 1993, coaching the Indian national cricket team from 2000 to 2005. He made his international debut in 1978 against England...
  
  
• Bryan Young
  Bryan Young (cricketer)
  Bryan Andrew Young is a cricketer who has played 35 Tests and 74 One Day Internationals for New Zealand. He is perhaps most well known for pocketing the ball after taking a catch while fielding in the slips....
  
  

England  

• Graeme Hick
  Graeme Hick
  Graeme Ashley Hick MBE is a Zimbabwean-born cricketer who played 65 Test matches and 120 One Day Internationals for England. He played county cricket for Worcestershire for his entire English domestic career, a period of well over twenty years, and in 2008 he surpassed Graham Gooch's record for...
  
  
• Andrew Strauss
  Andrew Strauss
  Andrew John Strauss, OBE is an English cricketer who plays county cricket for Middlesex County Cricket Club and is the captain of England's Test cricket team. A fluent left-handed opening batsman, Strauss favours scoring off the back foot, mostly playing cut and pull shots...
  
  
• Matthew Maynard
  Matthew Maynard
  Matthew Maynard is an English former cricketer. He played in four Tests and fourteen ODIs for England....
  
  

Sri Lanka  

• Tillakaratne Dilshan
  Tillakaratne Dilshan
  Tillakaratne Mudiyanselage Dilshan born October 14, 1976 in Kalutara, Sri Lanka is a Sri Lankan cricketer and captain of the Sri Lanka national cricket team since April 2011. He has been a member of the team since November 1999, and was also known as Tuwan Mohammad Dilshan prior to his conversion...
  
  

External links

• Northern Knights Official Website
• Northland Cricket Association
• Counties Manukau Cricket Association
• Hamilton Cricket Association
• Bay of Plenty Cricket Association
• Poverty Bay Cricket Association
• Papakura Cricket Club