Wellington, Canterbury and Central Districts had wins in Ford Trophy’s round three and along with Auckland, these four teams are 2-1 to start the season.

Auckland

Loss vs Canterbury | 2-1 | 10 points

Best Performers vs Canterbury

Jock McKenzie: 2w @ 7.5rpo
Simon Keene: 2w @ 7.8rpo
Ryan Harrison: 79 runs @ 168sr
Adithya Ashok: 61* @ 160sr

Best This Season

Cameron Fletcher: 104 runs @ 52avg/63sr
Bevon Jacobs: 98 runs @ 49avg/100sr
Ryan Harrison: 95 runs @ 47.5avg/128sr | 3w @ 23.6avg/5rpo
Adithya Ashok: 72 runs @ 72avg/144sr | 6w @ 22.6avg/5.4rpo
Simon Keene: 7w @ 16.2avg/4.9rpo

Notebook

Harrison hit his first 50+ score in domestic cricket vs Canterbury, also averages below 30 in FC and LA bowling. T20 batting strike-rate of 152 shows his hitting oomph.

Ashok, Harrison, Bevon Jacobs and Jimmy Neesham all have batting strike-rates over 100.

All five wicket-takers for Auckland (Keene, Ashok, Harrison, Jock McKenzie, Ben Lister) are averaging below 26.

Northern Districts

Loss vs Wellington | 1-2 | 5 points

Best Performers vs Wellington

Brett Hampton: 68 runs @ 111sr
Ben Pomare: 31 runs @ 62sr
Joshua Brown: 3w @ 5.3rpo
Tim Pringle: 2w @ 2.9rpo
Scott Kuggeleijn: 2w @ 7.3rpo

Best This Season

Kristian Clarke: 146 runs @ 146avg/90sr | 3w @ 47.3avg/5.9rpo
Ben Pomare: 103 runs @ 34.3avg/74sr
Scott Kuggeleijn: 5w @ 23.8avg/5.4rpo
Zak Gibson: 4w @ 18.2avg/3.4rpo

Notebook

Pomare's recent scores: 63, 7*, 30*, 5, 15, 4, 17, 55, 31.

Hampton's LA batting mahi: 35.7avg/109sr. He is the only ND batter over 100sr in Ford Trophy.

Pringle is averaging 20+ with the bat and below 30 with the ball in Ford Trophy.

Central Districts

Win vs Otago | 2-1 | 9 points

Best Performers vs Otago

Tom Bruce: 72 runs @ 76sr
Dane Cleaver: 31 runs @ 77sr
Josh Clarkson: 3w @ 2.3rpo
Raymond Toole: 2w @ 3.8rpo
Jayden Lennox: 2w @ 4.6rpo
Toby Findlay: 2w @ 5.5rpo

Best This Season

Curtis Heaphy: 93 runs @ 93avg/58sr
Brad Schmulian: 82 runs @ 27.3avg/57sr
Josh Clarkson: 12w @ 8avg/3.2rpo
Jayden Lennox: 6w @ 20.1avg/4.3rpo
Raymond Toole: 5w @ 24.4avg/5rpo

Notebook

Clarkson has 3+ wickets in all three Ford Trophy games so far. Now averaging 25.8 in LA bowling and his Ford Trophy batting average of 13.3 is higher than his bowling average this season.

Bruce had two ducks to start the season then his knock of 72 runs. A few weeks ago he had scores of 11* @ 69sr and 22 runs @ 116sr for Scotland.

Lennox has at least a wicket in five consecutive innings. He also has five batting innings of 50+ runs or not-out with scores of 17*, 5*, 88, 13*, 23*.

Wellington

Win vs Northern Districts | 2-1 | 8 points

Best Performers vs Northern Districts

Michael Snedden: 4w @ 5.5rpo
James Hartshorn: 2w @ 2.5rpo
Liam Dudding: 2w @ 2.7rpo
Tim Robinson: 113 runs @ 96sr
Jesse Tashkoff: 33 runs @ 97sr

Best This Season

Tim Robinson: 208 runs @ 69.3avg/98sr
Peter Younghusband: 85 runs @ 42.5avg/75sr
Gareth Severin: 82 runs @ 27.3avg/79sr
James Hartshorn: 7w @ 17.8avg/4.6rpo
Michael Snedden: 5w @ 26avg/6rpo
Liam Dudding: 4w @ 21avg/3.5rpo

Notebook

Robinson's recent scores: 106*, 13, 7, 2, 45, 50, 113.

Dudding's recent wicket hauls: 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 4, 0, 4, 0, 4, 3, 1, 1, 2.

Dudding is now averaging below 30 in FC and LA bowling.

Canterbury

Win vs Auckland | 2-1 | 9 points

Best Performers vs Auckland

Henry Nicholls: 138 runs @ 111sr
Tom Latham: 78 runs @ 87sr
Angus McKenzie: 2w @ 4.9rpo
Ish Sodhi: 2w @ 5.5rpo
Michael Rae: 2w @ 6rpo

Best This Season

Henry Nicholls: 266 runs @ 133avg/101sr
Matthew Boyle: 135 runs @ 45avg/96sr
Chad Bowes: 91 runs @ 30.3avg/93sr
Angus McKenzie: 8w @ 14.6avg/4rpo
Michael Rippon: 5w @ 25.6vg/5.1rpo

Notebook

Nicholls' recent scores: 34, 4*, 150*, 117*, 11, 138.

McKenzie has taken at least one wicket in 12 consecutive innings (1, 2, 1, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 1, 3, 3, 2).

Boyle's recent scores: 14, 2, 58, 34, 73, 28.

Otago

Loss vs Central Districts | 0-3 | 0 points

Best Performers vs Central Districts

Jarrod McKay: 3w @ 3.9rpo
Ben Lockrose: 2w @ 4.7rpo
Troy Johnson: 50 runs @ 125sr
Danru Ferns: 41 runs @ 178sr

Best This Season

Jack Boyle: 98 runs @ 32.6avg/63sr
Max Chu: 82 runs @ 27.3avg/69sr
Danru Ferns: 78 runs @ 39vg/113sr | 3w @ 54.6avg/6rpo
Jarrod McKay: 6w @ 15.5avg/3.7rpo
Ben Lockrose: 6w @ 21.6avg/4.5rpo
Matthew Bacon: 5w @ 24.2avg/4.8rpo

Notebook

Chu's recent scores: 9, 82, 33, 8, 15, 25, 36, 15, 31.

Lockrose has at least a wicket in seven consecutive innings with 2+ wickets in six of these innings. He averages over 30 with the ball in all three formats but is now below 40avg in LA with a T20 average of 33.9.

(Troy) Johnson's best batting format is LA with 32.4avg/77sr.

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