Canterbury are Plunket Shield champions. Big ups.

Canterbury

Batting

Henry Nicholls: 870 runs @ 96.6avg/74sr, 3 x 100, 5 x 50
Matt Boyle: 554 runs @ 50.3avg/71sr, 1 x 100, 4 x 50
Rhys Mariu: 489 runs @ 37.6avg/65sr, 2 x 100, 1 x 50
Mitch Hay: 307 runs @ 38.3avg/50sr, 2 x 50
Leo Carter: 282 runs @ 70.5avg/63sr, 1 x 100, 1 x 50
Tom Latham: 259 runs @ 64.7avg/59sr, 1 x 100, 2 x 50
Sean Davey: 241 runs @ 30.1avg/58sr, 1 x 100
Chad Bowes: 236 runs @ 33.7avg/67sr, 1 x 100
Ish Sodhi: 154 runs @ 38.5avg/52sr, 1 x 100
Scott Janett: 136 runs @ 17avg/43sr
Jesse Frew: 130 runs @ 26avg/37sr, 1 x 50
Fraser Sheat: 130 runs @ 21.6avg/49sr
Angus McKenzie: 68 runs @ 22.6avg/36sr
Cole McConchie: 45 runs @ 9avg/39sr
Michael Rae: 43 runs @ 8.6avg/45sr
Travis Muller: 27 runs @ 13.5avg/46sr
Cameron Paul: 25 runs @ 25avg/40sr
Kyle Jamieson: 15 runs @ 7.5avg/38sr

Bowling

Fraser Sheat: 28w @ 25.6avg/3.1rpo
Michael Rae: 27w @ 25.9avg/3.1rpo
Sean Davey: 24w @ 24.5avg/2.7rpo
Travis Muller: 10w @ 22.9avg/3.2rpo
Ish Sodhi: 12w @ 42.6avg/3.2rpo
Cole McConchie: 8w @ 17avg/3.5rpo
Angus McKenzie: 9w @ 30.8avg/2.9rpo
Matt Boyle: 6w @ 39.1avg/3.3rpo
Kyle Jamieson: 5w @ 13.2avg/2.2rpo
Cameron Paul: 5w @ 22.8avg/3.6rpo
Callum Cameron: 5w @ 35avg/4.1rpo
Rhys Mariu: 1w @ 76avg/3rpo

Notebook

19 players were used by Canterbury.

Sodhi played four games. Latham and McConchie played three games each. Jamieson played one game.

Eight Canterbury batters scored a century.

Nicholls had eight 50+ sores in 11 innings.

Boyle hit the most sixes for Canterbury with 12.

Young batters in First-Class...

Mariu: 55.16avg/66sr, 8 x 100, 8 x 50
Boyle: 34.53avg/65sr, 2 x 100, 10 x 50
Hay: 46.71avg/54sr, 1 x 100, 19 x 50

Sheat, Rae and Davey took 20+ wickets with averages below 26. Here's their FC mahi...

Sheat: 27.22avg/2.8rpo
Rae: 32.15avg/3.6rpo
Davey: 21.96avg/2.6rp

Muller played the last three games with wickets in all six innings: 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1.

Canterbury's emerging wave who dabbled in Plunket Shield this season...

Janett: Five games, 22yrs, top order batter
Frew: Four games, 24yrs, wicket-keeper
Cameron: Two games, 26yrs, seamer
Paul: One game, 21yrs, all-rounder

Auckland

Batting

Lachlan Stackpole: 667 runs @ 51.3avg/94sr
Simon Keene: 565 runs @ 51.3avg/77sr
Bevon Jacobs: 417 runs @ 37.9avg/77sr
Sean Solia: 416 runs @ 29.7avg/46sr
Cameron Fletcher: 396 runs @ 44avg/43sr

Bowling

Rohit Gulati: 27w @ 28avg/2.9rpo
Simon Keene: 25w @ 28avg/3.4rpo
Ryan Harrison: 18w @ 34avg/4.3rpo
Adithya Ashok: 18w @ 42.7avg/3.2rpo
Ben Lister: 11w @ 27avg/2.7rpo

Notebook

Stackpole finishes with the highest batting strike-rate (94.2) and most sixes (33). He was the only batter over 88sr and 15 sixes. He is 21yrs with 41avg/80sr in FC batting.

Keene is 24yrs averaging 34 in FC batting and 31 with the ball.

Harrison's all-round mahi in the last four games...

Runs: 17, 9*, 57*, 1, 8, 59, 1
Wickets: 2, 1, 3, 0, 3, 2, 0

18-year-old Marco Alpe played the last two games as wicket-keeper with scores of 35, 4, 15*.

Northern Districts

Batting

Joe Carter: 654 runs @ 46.7avg/49sr
Henry Cooper: 643 runs @ 45.9avg/49sr
Bharat Popli: 558 runs @ 37.2avg/56sr
Jeet Raval: 473 runs @ 31.5avg/43sr
Kristian Clarke: 379 runs @ 42.1avg/59sr

Bowling

Tim Pringle: 31w @ 28avg/2.6rpo
Zak Gibson: 23w @ 23avg/3.1rpo
Josh Brown: 18w @ 38.8avg/3.4rpo
Scott Kuggeleijn: 17w @ 23.3avg/3.5rpo
Kristian Clarke: 14w @ 35.5avg/2.9rpo

Notebook

FC batting mahi for the hearty core...

Cooper: 34.36avg/48sr
Raval: 37.66avg/48sr
Popli: 39.91avg/49sr
Carter: 37.2avg/50sr
O'Donnell: 34.6avg/52sr

Clarke averages 32.7 in FC bowling and 26.2 with the bat.

Gibson's wickets in the last four games: 1, 3, 3, 3, 1, 2, 4.

Pringle now averages 33.4 in FC bowling and 18.5 with the bat.

Snehith Reddy is 19yrs and made his Plunket Shield debut in the final round. He has already played five games of Ford Trophy.

Central Districts

Batting

Brad Schmulian: 717 runs @ 55.1avg/59sr
Curtis Heaphy: 509 runs @ 42.4avg/43sr
Dane Cleaver: 499 runs @ 45.3avg/69sr
Dean Foxcroft: 407 runs @ 33.9avg/63sr
Tom Bruce: 226 runs @ 28.2avg/61sr

Bowling

Ray Toole: 35w @ 23.5avg/3.3rpo
Josh Clarkson: 18w @ 29.7avg/3.3rpo
Ajaz Patel: 17w @ 35.8avg/3rpo
Brett Randell: 12w @ 25.8avg/3.1rpo
Toby Findlay: 11w @ 32.9avg/3.7rpo

Notebook

Toole averages 27.3 in FC bowling and is below 32avg in all three formats. Toole's wickets in the last four games: 2, 3, 1, 5, 4, 5, 1, 3.

Foxcroft averages 31.9 in FC batting and 30.5 with the ball.

Heaphy is 22yrs with a FC batting average of 42.3 and LA average of 53.1.

Clarkson averages 25+ with the bat and below 36 with the ball in all three formats.

Patel has five 50+ scores in FC batting.

Wellington

Batting

Jesse Tashkoff: 476 runs @ 34avg/76sr
Nick Kelly: 468 runs @ 33.4avg/58sr
Nick Greenwood: 457 runs @ 30.4avg/61sr
Tim Robinson: 449 runs @ 37.avg/73sr
Tom Blundell: 390 runs @ 48.7avg/72sr

Bowling

James Hartshorn: 17w @ 33avg/3.7rpo
Liam Dudding: 15w @ 29.6avg/2.9rpo
Nathan Smith: 13w @ 20.5avg/3.2rpo
Michael Snedden: 12w @ 52avg/3.6rpo
Peter Younghusband: 9w @ 95.1avg/4.3rpo

Notebook

Robinson, Tashkoff, Kelly and Greenwood hit two centuries each. Here's their FC batting mahi...

Robinson: 30.63avg/64sr
Tashkoff: 33avg/73sr
Kelly: 39.04avg/55sr
Greenwood: 27.6avg/54sr

Smith has a FC batting average of 27.4 and bowling average of 26.3. Here's what he did returning from injury...

Runs: 28, 9, 14, 64*, 30, 39, 62*, 13, 42, 71, 1
Wickets: 0, 0, 0, 2, 1, 1, 4, 2, 0, 6, 1

Abbas averages 31.6 in FC batting and 34.4 with the ball.

Blundell's scores in last 10 games: 45, 51, 41, 49*, 21, 28, 6, 6, 98*, 96, 35, 25, 62.

Otago

Batting

Max Chu: 585 runs @ 53.1avg/57sr
Jacob Cumming: 511 runs @ 425avg/65sr
Luke Georgeson: 455 runs @ 56.8avg/44sr
Jack Boyle: 410 runs @ 37.2avg/5sr
Tom Jones: 359 runs @ 27.6avg/63sr

Bowling

Thomas O'Connor: 27w @ 14.4avg/3.5rpo
Danru Ferns: 24w @ 32.3avg/3.7rpo
Jarrod McKay: 22w @ 37.9avg/3.8rpo
Luke Georgeson: 20w @ 33.1avg/3.4rpo
Matt Bacon: 14w @ 21.7avg/3.4rpo

Notebook

Georgeson averages 27.1 in FC batting and 32.8 with the ball.

Chu's scores in last 10 games: 37, 20, 78, 8, 17, 19, 104, 40, 71*, 7, 54.

Chu has averaged 30+ in six consecutive years of FC batting. Last season was his first over 40avg (47.25) and he went up a level this season for his first summer over 50avg (53.18).

O'Connor in his first six games of FC cricket: 29w @ 16.6avg/3.1rpo.

McKay's wickets in the last four games: 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 2.

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