The 1921–22 Plunket Shield season was a tournament of the Plunket Shield, the domestic first-class

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competition of New Zealand.

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won the championship. For the first time, the Shield was not contested on the basis of challenge matches but by a single

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between four first-class sides,

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and

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. Hawke's Bay, which had had first-class status and had challenged Auckland for the Plunket Shield in 1920-21, did not compete.

Table

Statistics

Most runs

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, opening the batting for Wellington, scored the most runs, 308, had the highest batting average, 61.60, and made the only

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, 118 against Otago.

Most wickets

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, the Auckland leg-spinner, took the most wickets, 23 at an average of 10.34, and had the best figures, 8 for 51 against Canterbury.

External links

Final table at Cricket Archive

References

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