Plunket ShieldMatch · First-class
Wellington Firebirds beat Central Stags by 3 wickets - Match Info
Pukekura Park, New Plymouth, . Central Stags won the toss and chose to bat.
Central Stags229 & 252105 ov
Wellington Firebirds242 & 240/767.4 ov
Wellington Firebirds won by 3 wickets
Match details
- Match
- Match, First-class · Plunket Shield 2014/15
- Date
- (Sun 8 Mar, 14:00 PKT)
- Venue
- Pukekura Park, New Plymouth, New Zealand
- Toss
- Central Stags, chose to bat
- Result
- Wellington Firebirds won by 3 wickets
- Umpires
- Chris Brown (Cook Islands), Phil Jones (New Zealand)
- Match referee
- Dave Quested (New Zealand)
Head to head (First-class)
Played 18 · CS won 6 · WF won 7 · Drawn 5
Last 2 meetings
Recent results (First-class)
- L vs ND · ND 374 & 273/8d v CS 300/6d & 304Northern Districts won by 43 runs
- D vs ND · ND 556/9d v CS 401/9 & 268/5Match drawn
- D vs OV · CS 289 v OV 13/0Match drawn
- W vs AA · CS 159 & 333 v AA 117/9 & 130/9Central Stags won by 245 runs
- L vs CAN · CAN 269 & 412/7d v CS 305 & 274Canterbury won by 102 runs
- D vs OV · WF 297 & 255/5 v OV 251/8dMatch drawn
- L vs OV · WF 272 & 318 v OV 377 & 214/4Otago Volts won by 6 wickets
- L vs CAN · WF 263 & 264 v CAN 356 & 172/1Canterbury won by 9 wickets
- L vs ND · ND 223 & 347/6d v WF 117 & 58Northern Districts won by 395 runs
- L vs AA · WF 199 & 133 v AA 205/8d & 128/4Auckland Aces won by 6 wickets
Top players in this fixture
CS v WF First-classs, among players who have played for either side in the last 18 months.
| Most runs | M | Runs | HS | Avg | SR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Papps WF | 2 | 280 | 117 | 93.33 | 49.73 |
| Will Young CS | 2 | 216 | 121 | 54.00 | 63.16 |
| Carl Cachopa CS | 2 | 156 | 90 | 39.00 | 71.23 |
| Jamie How CS | 2 | 140 | 51 | 35.00 | 57.14 |
| Ben Smith CS | 1 | 133 | 133 | 133.00 | 47.84 |
| Most wickets | M | Wkts | Econ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Gillespie WF | 2 | 10 | 4.11 |
| Brent Arnel WF | 1 | 8 | 2.86 |
| Doug Bracewell CS | 1 | 6 | 3.69 |
| Jeetan Patel WF | 2 | 5 | 2.43 |
| James Franklin WF | 2 | 4 | 3.96 |
First-classs at Pukekura Park
- Matches
- 1
- Average 1st-innings score
- 556
- Won batting first
- 0
- Won chasing
- 0
- Highest total
- 556/9 by Northern Districts ()