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2022–23 Super Smash (men's Cricket)
The 2022–23 Dream11 Super Smash was the eighteenth season of the men's Super Smash (men's cricket), Super Smash Twenty20 cricket competition played in New Zealand. It took place between 23 December 2022 and 11 February 2023, with 6 provincial teams taking part. Northern Districts men's cricket team, Northern Brave were the defending champions. The tournament ran running alongside the 2022–23 Plunket Shield season, 2022–23 Plunket Shield and 2022–23 Ford Trophy. Northern Districts men's cricket team, Northern Brave won the tournament after beating Canterbury Kings in the final, winning their fourth title. Competition format Teams played in a round-robin tournament, double round-robin in a group of six, therefore playing 10 matches overall. Matches were played using a Twenty20 format. The top team in the group advanced straight to the final, whilst the second and third placed teams played off in an elimination final. The group worked on a points system with positions be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand Cricket
New Zealand Cricket, formerly the New Zealand Cricket Council, is the governing body for professional cricket in New Zealand. Cricket is the most popular and highest profile summer sport in New Zealand. New Zealand Cricket operates the New Zealand cricket team, organising Test tours and One-Day Internationals with other nations. It also organises domestic cricket in New Zealand, including the Plunket Shield first-class competition, The Ford Trophy men's domestic one-day competition, the Hallyburton Johnstone Shield women's domestic one-day competition, as well as the Men's Super Smash and Women's Super Smash domestic Twenty20 competitions. Scott Weenink is the Chief Executive Officer of New Zealand Cricket. Tom Latham is the current Blackcaps Test captain, succeeding Tim Southee who still represents the team. Sophie Devine is the current White Ferns captain. History On 27 December 1894, 12 delegates from around New Zealand met in Christchurch to form the New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otago Volts
The Otago cricket team, nicknamed the Volts since the 1997–98 season, are a New Zealand first-class cricket team which first played representative cricket in 1864.Otago cricket history, '' Evening Star'', issue 21864, 30 October 1934, p. 4.Available onlineat Papers Past. Retrieved 23 February 2024.) The team represents the Otago, Southland and North Otago regions of New Zealand's South Island. Their main governing board is the Otago Cricket Association which is one of six major associations that make up New Zealand Cricket.McCarron A (2010) ''New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010'', p. 4. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Available onlineat the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 5 June 2023.) Cricket was first played in Otago in 1849, the year after the province was settled by Europeans, and the Otago Cricket Association was founded in 1876.Sixty years of cricket, ''Otago Daily Times'', issue 23114, 13 February 1937, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Milne
Adam Fraser Milne (born 13 April 1992) is a New Zealand professional cricketer who plays limited overs cricket for the New Zealand national cricket team. He is a right-arm fast bowler. He was also a part of the New Zealand squad to finish as runners-up at the 2015 Cricket World Cup. Early life Milne was born in Palmerston North, New ZealandAdam Milne ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 2017-05-24. and attended Palmerston North Intermediate Normal School, and then Palmerston North Boys' High School. Cricket career Milne made his |
Rachin Ravindra
Rachin Ravindra (born 18 November 1999) is a New Zealand international cricketer. He made his international debut for the New Zealand cricket team in September 2021. Early life Rachin Ravindra was born in Wellington on 18 November 1999 to parents from Bangalore. His father Ravi Krishnamurthy, a software architect, played club-level cricket in Bangalore before settling in New Zealand in 1997. Rachin Ravindra's first name was reported to be a portmanteau of the first names of Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar, but his father, while acknowledging the portmanteau, dismissed it as coincidence. His grandfather Balakrishna Adiga is an educationist and former principal of Vijaya College, Bangalore. He began his cricket journey after being influenced by Sachin Tendulkar since childhood. Rachin Ravindra began playing cricket in Wellington at the age of five, and travelled to India every year to play club cricket for Hutt Hawks Cricket Club, run by his father. He grew up playing junior ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kris Clarke
Kristian David Charles Clarke (born 6 March 2001) is a New Zealand cricketer who has played first-class cricket for Northern Districts since the 2021–22 season. Clarke was born in Te Awamutu in Waikato. A medium-fast bowler and useful lower-order batsman, he has played Hawke Cup cricket for Waikato Valley since 2016–17. He was a member of the New Zealand team that competed in the 2020 Under-19 Cricket World Cup; he won the player of the match award in the match against West Indies Under-19 when he took 4 for 25 and made 46 not out to take New Zealand by a narrow victory into the semi-finals. Clarke made his first-class debut in the 2021–22 Plunket Shield, scoring 63 not out and 11 not out and taking three wickets. His best first-class bowling figures are 6 for 45 against Auckland in the 2023–24 Plunket Shield. His best one-day figures are 5 for 67 against Wellington in the 2023–24 Ford Trophy. He was the leading wicket-taker in the 2023–24 Ford Trophy, with 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cory Black
As a given name, Cory is used by both males and females. It is a variation of the name Cora, meaning "(the) Maiden", which is a title of the goddess Persephone. The name also can have origins from the Gaelic word ''coire'', which means "in a cauldron", or "in a hollow". As a surname, it has a number of possible derivations, including an Old Norse personal name Kori of uncertain meaning, which is found in Scandinavia and England. As an Irish surname it comes from Ó Comhraidhe (descendant of Comhraidheh). Notable people or fictional characters named Cory include * Cory Aldridge (born 1979), American baseball player * Cory Alexander (born 1973), American basketball player * Cory Arcangel (born 1978), American digital artist * Cory Asbury (born 1985), American Christian musician and worship pastor * Cory Bent (born 1997), English footballer * Cory Booker (born 1969), United States senator from New Jersey * Cory Bowles (born 1973), Canadian actor and choreographer * Cory Cadden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Maunganui
Mount Maunganui (, ) is a major residential, commercial and industrial suburb of Tauranga located on a peninsula to the north-east of Tauranga's city centre. It was an independent town from Tauranga until the completion of the Tauranga Harbour Bridge in 1988, which connects Mount Maunganui to Tauranga's central business district. Mount Maunganui is also the name of the large lava dome which was formed by the upwelling of rhyolite lava about two to three million years ago. It is officially known by its Māori language, Māori name ''Mauao'', but is colloquially known in New Zealand simply as ''The Mount''. The New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage gives a translation of "large mountain" for ''Maunganui''. Geography Mount Maunganui is located atop a sand bar that connects Mauao to the mainland, a geographical formation known as a tombolo. Because of this formation, the residents of Mount Maunganui have both a Tauranga Harbour, harbour beach (Pilot Bay) and an ocean b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bay Oval
Bay Oval is a cricket ground in Mount Maunganui, Tauranga in the Bay of Plenty area of New Zealand. The ground was built in Blake Park and opened in 2005. Bay Oval has hosted men's and women's international limited overs matches since 2014. It hosted its first Test match in November 2019. History Blake Park was established in the 1950s. It was used by Northern Districts for List A fixtures between the 1987/88 season and 2001/02, with the team playing 24 matches on the ground in the New Zealand limited-overs cricket trophy. During the 1980s and 90s, large holiday crowds flocked to the ground to watch one-day matches, and New Zealand A played two matches on the ground against Pakistan A in December 1998. Northern Districts Women played two matches at Blake Park in the 2004/05 State League. The Bay of Plenty Cricket Association constructed Bay Oval within the same site, with construction beginning in 2005.McPherson W (2014From the Bay to the Basin CricInfo, 2014-12-04. Retri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Pringle
Timothy James Gerard Pringle (born 29 August 2002) is a Dutch cricketer. He has played for the Netherlands national cricket team since 2022 as a left-arm orthodox spin bowler. Personal life Pringle was born in 2002 in The Hague. His father Chris Pringle played international cricket for New Zealand, later playing coaching in the Netherlands, and his mother Janine () is Dutch. Pringle grew up in Tauranga, New Zealand, and began attending a cricket academy at the age of seven. He attended Tauranga Boys College. Domestic career Pringle played his early cricket in New Zealand including for Bay of Plenty and Northern Districts development squads. In 2022 Pringle began playing Dutch club cricket for Haagsche Cricket Club (HCC) in the Topklasse. International career In June 2022, he was named in the Dutch One Day International (ODI) squad for their series against England. He made his ODI debut on 19 June 2022, against England. Prior to making his international debut for the Netherla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chad Bowes
Chad Jayson Bowes (born 19 October 1992) is a South African–born New Zealand cricketer who captained the South Africa Under-19 cricket team and played for the domestic side KwaZulu-Natal. In October 2015 he joined the Sydenham Cricket Club in Christchurch, New Zealand, coached by former Black Caps Chris Harris. He made his ODI debut for New Zealand on 25 March 2023. On 23 October 2024, Bowes set a new world record for the fastest double century in men's List A cricket. Personal life Bowes was born in Benoni in the South African province of Transvaal. He studied in Kearsney College, Durban. Early career 2012 Under-19 Cricket World Cup After getting the chance to lead the Under-19 cricket team of South Africa in 2012 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup, he scored 115 runs off 115 balls against Namibia while building a 212 runs partnership with Quinton de Kock in the second group match. The team won by a massive 209 runs. They also won the 3rd match against Sri Lanka by 4 w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Shipley
Henry Burton Shipley (born 10 May 1996) is a New Zealand cricketer, who is a right-arm medium-fast bowler. He plays for Canterbury cricket team in domestic cricket. Early life and family Shipley was born in Darfield on 10 May 1996, and educated at Darfield High School. His father James, appeared in one match for Canterbury as 12th man in 1985. He is a second cousin of Burton Shipley, the husband of former Prime Minister Jenny Shipley, and has the middle name Burton after him. His uncle, Mark Priest, also played cricket for Canterbury and New Zealand. Domestic career He made his List A debut on 17 January 2016 in the 2015–16 Ford Trophy. He made his first-class debut on 22 October 2016 in the 2016–17 Plunket Shield season. In June 2018, he was awarded a contract with Canterbury for the 2018–19 season. He made his Twenty20 debut for Canterbury in the 2018–19 Super Smash on 23 December 2018. In June 2020, he was offered a contract by Canterbury ahead of the 2020–21 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Carter (cricketer)
Joseph Franklyn Carter (born 17 December 1992) is a New Zealand cricketer who plays for Northern Districts. Educated at Tauranga Boys' College where he captained the 2010 First XI, Carter made his Twenty20 debut for Northern Districts on 4 December 2016 in the 2016–17 Super Smash. Prior to his Twenty20 debut, he was part of New Zealand's squad for the 2012 Under-19 Cricket World Cup. On 7 November 2018, in the fifth round fixture of the 2018–19 Ford Trophy between Northern Districts and Central Districts, he and Brett Hampton set a new record in List A cricket for the most runs scored off one over, with 43. The over was bowled by Willem Ludick and included two no-balls, six sixes, a four and a single. In March 2020, in round five of the 2019–20 Plunket Shield season, Carter and Mark Chapman scored centuries in both innings of the match. It was the first time that two batsman had scored a century in each innings in the same match in the Plunket Shield. In November 202 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
