Wins for Canterbury, Central Districts and Wellington took them to 3-1 starts to the season, while Otago are still hunting their first win.

Auckland

Loss vs Central Districts | 2-2 | 10 points

Best Performers vs Central Districts

Rohit Gulati: 2w @ 3.2rpo
Harrish Kannan: 106 runs @ 87sr

Best This Season

Harrish Kannan: 132 runs @ 33avg/72sr
Ryan Harrison: 109 runs @ 36.3avg/109sr
Cameron Fletcher: 105 runs @ 35avg/63sr
Simon Keene: 8w @ 24.2avg/5.8rpo
Adithya Ashok: 6w @ 22.6avg/5.4rpo
Jock McKenzie: 6w @ 28.1avg/5.8rpo

Notebook

Kannan's scores this season: 16, 1, 9, 106.

Gulati played his first game for Auckland after four games for ND last summer. He has a wicket in all six innings bowled in domestic cricket with 2+ wickets in three innings.

Keene and McKeznie List-A career stats...

Simon Keene: 27.4avg/94sr | 25.3avg/5.5rpo

Jock McKenzie: 21avg/75sr | 36.7avg/5.5rpo

Jaskaran Sandhu made his domestic debut as a seaming all-rounder. Here's some of his mahi from the Under 19 Development Series a few weeks ago...

Northern Districts

Loss vs Canterbury | 1-3 | 5 points

Best Performers vs Canterbury

Rob O'Donnell: 106 runs @ 87sr

Tim Pringle: 2w @ 3.3rpo

Best This Season

Rob O'Donnell: 175 runs @ 43.7avg/81sr
Kristian Clarke: 147 runs @ 73.5avg/89sr | 3w @ 61.6avg/6.4rpo
Ben Pomare: 110 runs @ 27.5avg/66sr
Zak Gibson: 5w @ 18avg/3.4rpo
Tim Pringle: 5w @ 24avg/3.7rpo

Notebook

O'Donnell had three consecutive 20+ scores before his century.

Pringle's wickets this season: 0, 1, 2, 2.

Clarke has not taken a wicket since being called into the Blackcaps ODI squad.

Snehith Reddy debuted for ND at 18-years-old. Hit 15* @ 94sr and had scores of 60 runs and 33* vs a touring England team last summer.

Central Districts

Win vs Auckland | 3-1 | 14 points

Best Performers vs Auckland

Brad Schmulian: 136* @ 92sr
Tom Bruce: 63 runs @ 161sr
Will Young: 50 runs @ 91sr
Josh Clarkson: 4w @ 4.3rpo
Blair Tickner: 2w @ 3.8rpo
Ajaz Patel: 2w @ 6.5rpo
Jayden Lennox: 2w @ 7rpo

Best This Season

Brad Schmulain: 218 runs @ 72.6avg/75sr
Tom Bruce: 135 runs @ 33.7avg/99sr
Dean Foxcroft: 110 runs @ 27.5avg/91sr
Josh Clarkson: 16w @ 8.7avg/3.5rpo
Jayden Lennox: 8w @ 21.2avg/4.8rpo

Notebook

Schmulian averages 47 in LA batting.

Bruce has scores of 0, 0, 72 and 63 this season.

Clarkson has 3+ wickets in every games this season and 4+ wickets in three of the four games. Now averaging 24.9 in LA bowling.

Tickner's wickets this season: 1, 4, 4, 1, 2.

Lennox has a wicket in six consecutive innings with 2+ wickets in five of them.

Wellington

Win vs Otago | 3-1 | 12 points

Best Performers vs Otago

Peter Younghusband: 3w @ 3.9rpo | 27* @ 73sr
James Hartshorn: 2w @ 3.3rpo
Jesse Tashkoff: 2w @ 5rpo
Tom Blundell: 64* @ 76sr
Callum McLachlan: 47 runs @ 124sr

Best This Season

Tim Robinson: 208 runs @ 69.3avg/98sr
Peter Younghusband: 112 runs @ 56avg/75sr | 7w @ 26avg/4.7rpo
Tom Blundell: 100 runs @ 33.3avg/71sr
James Hartshorn: 9w @ 17.5avg/4.2rpo

Notebook

Younghusband has a wicket in all four games and followed his 83 runs in the second game with two not-outs (1*, 27*).

Blundell's recent scores: 2, 2, 9, 25, 64*.

Hartshorn has 2+ wickets in all four games this season.

Dudding has a wicket in six consecutive innings and averages 29.1 in LA bowling.

Tashkoff has a wicket in all four games and averages 41.4 in LA batting. Also rolling along on 37avg/101sr in LA batting.

Canterbury

Win vs Northern Districts | 3-1 | 14 points

Best Performers vs Northern Districts

Raunaq Kapur: 3w @ 3rpo
Michael Rae: 3w @ 4.7rpo
Rhys Mariu: 67* @ 90sr
Chad Bowes: 42 runs @ 98sr

Best This Season

Henry Nicholls: 291 runs @ 97avg/97sr
Matthew Boyle: 152 runs @ 38avg/93sr
Chad Bowes: 133 runs @ 33.2avg/94sr
Angus McKenzie: 8w @ 21.3avg/4.4rpo
Michael Rae: 7w @ 27.5avg/5rpo

Notebook

Kapur debuted for Canterbury having represented Hong Kong last year. 21-year-old offie who has flashed powerful batting as well.

Mariu's scores this season: 0, 37, 67*. Now averaging 31 in LA batting to go with 62.7avg in First-Class batting.

McKenzie took 2+ wickets in three consecutive games before no wickets vs ND and averages 28.8 in LA bowling. Rae has a wicket all four games so far and averages 30 in LA bowling.

Otago

Loss vs Wellington | 0-4 | 0 points

Best Performers vs Wellington

Max Chu: 57 runs @ 92sr
Luke Georgeson: 40 runs @ 63sr
Matthew Bacon: 2w @ 5.2rpo
Jarrod McKay: 2w @ 4.7rpo

Best This Season

Max Chu: 139 runs @ 34.7avg/77sr
Jack Boyle: 123 runs @ 30.7avg/63sr
Jarrod McKay: 8w @ 17.5avg/4rpo
Matthew Bacon: 7w @ 24.2av/4.9rpo
Ben Lockrose: 7w @ 24.5avg/4.4rpo

Notebook

Chu's scores this season: 36, 15, 31, 57. LA batting record of 25.4avg/87sr.

Georgeson has LA career mahi of 33.6avg/76sr and 27.8avg/5.3rpo.

McKay has 2+ wickets in his last three games and now averages 29.6 in LA bowling.

Lockrose has a wicket in all four games this season and in eight consecutive innings.

Thomas O'Connor made his LA debut for Otago as a lefty seamer. He has 3w in five innings for Otago.

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