Otago cricket team

Otago
Volts
Captain: New Zealand Aaron Redmond
Coach: England Dimitri Mascarenhas
Colors:      Blue
     Gold
     Maroon
Founded: 1864
Home ground: University Oval
Capacity: 6,000
First-class debut: Canterbury
in 1864
at Dunedin
Plunket Shield wins: 13
Ford Trophy wins: 2
HRV Cup wins: 2
CLT20 wins: 0
Official website: Otago Cricket Website

The Otago cricket team (nicknamed the Volts since the 1997-98 season[1]) are a New Zealand first class cricket team formed in 1876 representing the Otago, Southland and North Otago regions. Their main governing board is the Otago Cricket Association which is one of six major associations that make up New Zealand Cricket.

The team plays most of its home games at the University Oval in Dunedin, but occasionally plays games at the Events Centre in Queenstown, Queen's Park Ground in Invercargill and formerly Molyneux Park in Alexandra before the pitch became unplayable.[2][3] The team mainly plays First-Class, List A and Twenty20 matches against other New Zealand provincial sides, but also in the past has played touring sides.

Aaron Redmond is the Volts current First-Class and List A captain whilst Brendon McCullum and Ryan ten Doeschate captain the Twenty20 side.[4] They replaced Craig Cumming who had captained the side since 2002. Vaughn Johnson replaced Mike Hesson as coach at the beginning of the 2011/12 season.

Honours

1924-25, 1932–33, 1947–48, 1950–51, 1952–53, 1957–58, 1969–70, 1971–72, 1974–75, 1976–77, 1978–79, 1985–86, 1987-88.

1987-88, 2007-08.

2008-09, 2012-2013

Records

Team totals

Batting[5]

Best Partnership for each wicket[6]

Bowling[7]

Squad

Players with international caps are listed in bold.[8][9]

No. Name Nat Birth date Batting Style Bowling Style Notes
Batsmen
Michael Bracewell New Zealand 14 February 1991 Right-handed Right arm medium pace
4 Neil Broom England 20 November 1983 Right-handed Right arm medium pace Overseas player
Sean Eathorne New Zealand 5 May 1986 Right-handed Right arm off break
Anaru Kitchen New Zealand 21 February 1984 Right-handed Slow left-arm orthodox
17 Hamish Rutherford New Zealand 27 April 1989 Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox
Brad Wilson New Zealand 10 April 1985 Right-handed Right arm off break
All-rounders
Josh Finnie New Zealand 18 December 1996 Right-handed Right arm off break
7 James Neesham New Zealand 17 July 1990 Right-handed Right arm fast-medium NZC contract
Christi Viljoen Namibia 28 September 1987 Right-handed Right arm medium pace
99 Sam Wells New Zealand 13 July 1984 Left-handed Right arm medium pace
Wicket-keepers
14 Derek de Boorder New Zealand 25 October 1985 Right-handed —
Ryan Duffy New Zealand 25 March 1991 Right-handed —
Bowlers
Warren Barnes New Zealand 8 May 1992 Right-handed Right arm medium-fast
Mark Craig New Zealand 23 March 1987 Left-handed Right arm off break NZC contract
32 Jacob Duffy New Zealand 2 August 1994 Right-handed Right arm fast
Jack Hunter New Zealand 28 April 1995 Right-handed Right arm medium pace
Rhys Phillips New Zealand 6 May 1988 Right-handed Right arm leg break
Michael Rae New Zealand 13 June 1995 Right-handed Right arm medium-fast
Brad Scott New Zealand 16 September 1979 Left-handed Left arm fast-medium
Craig Smith New Zealand 9 January 1985 Right-handed Left arm medium-fast
Nathan Smith New Zealand 15 July 1998 Right-handed Right arm medium-fast
11 Neil Wagner New Zealand 13 March 1986 Left-handed Left arm medium-fast NZC contract

Grounds

Carisbrook and the University Oval have been used in Dunedin, with occasional matches in Invercargill (Queen's Park), and Oamaru (Whitestone Centennial Park). Many matches have been played at Molyneux Park in Alexandra in recent decades, particularly during the Christmas-New Year holiday season. The warm, dry summer climate of Central Otago can make for better cricketing conditions than the wetter coastal areas. In recent years the Queenstown Events Centre has been developed as a venue.

Twenty20 Champions League

A rapid expansion of Twenty20 cricket led to the creation of the Twenty20 Champions League. It is a competition between various teams from the domestic Twenty20 competitions of Australia, South Africa, Pakistan, India, England, Sri Lanka, West Indies and New Zealand.

In the 2008/09 domestic season of the State Twenty20, Otago came out as the champions, and so were eligible to compete in the inaugural Twenty20 Champions League. However, they lost both their opening games in the competition and so weren't able to progress further.

The Volts again qualified for the league in the 2013 season where they were much more successful entering the competition having won a string of Twenty20 matches which eventually ended at fifteen when they lost the Rajasthan Royals in Jaipur.

Notable players

Notable foreign players

Records

See List of New Zealand first-class cricket records

References

  1. ↑ Canty happy with major sponsor
  2. ↑ Otago Volts Schedule
  3. ↑ Molyneux Park Pitch no-balled The Southland Times
  4. ↑ Aaron Redmond and Brendon McCullum to captain Volts
  5. ↑ Otago First-Class Batting Records
  6. ↑ Highest Partnership for Each Wicket for Otago
  7. ↑ Otago First-Class Bowling Records
  8. ↑ http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/81527989/three-new-otago-volts-players-contracted-for-201617-season
  9. ↑ http://www.otagocricket.co.nz/small-gallery-article/final-two-201617-contracts-announced/162022/319651/
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