Otago cricket team

Otago
Volts

Captain:	Aaron Redmond
Coach:	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

Shell Trophy/State Championship/Plunket Shield (13)

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.

State Shield (2)

1987-88, 2007-08.

State Twenty20/HRV Cup /Georgie Pie Super Smash (2)

2008-09, 2012-2013

Records

Team totals

Highest Total For - 624 v Central Districts at Napier 2006/07
Highest Total Against - 777 by Canterbury at Christchurch 1996/97
Lowest Total For - 34 v Wellington at Dunedin 1956/57
Lowest Total Against - 25 by Canterbury at Christchurch 1866/67

Batting^[5]

Highest Score - 385 B Sutcliffe v Canterbury at Christchurch 1952/53
Most Runs in Season - 1027 GM Turner in 1975/76
Most Runs in Career - 6148 CD Cumming 2000/01-present

Best Partnership for each wicket^[6]

1st - 373 B Sutcliffe & L Watt v Auckland at Auckland 1950/51
2nd - 254 KJ Burns & KR Rutherford v Wellington at Oamaru 1987/88
3rd - 306 SB Haig & NT Broom v Central Districts at Napier 2009/10
4th - 235 KJ Burns & RN Hoskin v Northern Districts at Hamilton 1987/88
5th - 266 B Sutcliffe & WS Haig v Auckland at Dunedin 1949/50
6th - 165 GM Turner & WK Lees v Wellington at Wellington 1975/76
7th - 182 B Sutcliffe & AW Gilbertson v Canterbury at Christchurch 1952/53
8th - 165* JN Crawford & AG Eckhold v Wellington at Wellington 1914/15
9th - 208 WC McSkimming & BE Scott v Auckland at Auckland 2004/05
10th - 184 RC Blunt & W Hawksworth v Canterbury at Christchurch 1931/32

Bowling^[7]

Best Bowling - 9-50 AH Fisher v Queensland at Dunedin 1896/97
Best Match Bowling - 15-94 FH Cooke v Canterbury at Christchurch 1882/83
Wickets in Season - 54 SL Boock 1978/79
Wickets in Career - 399 SL Boock 1973/74-1990/91

Squad

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

No.	Name	Birth date	Batting Style	Bowling Style	Notes
Batsmen
4	Neil Broom	(1983-11-20) 20 November 1983	Right-handed	Right arm medium pace
17	Hamish Rutherford	(1989-04-27) 27 April 1989	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
7	James Neesham	(1990-07-17) 17 July 1990	Right-handed	Right arm medium pace
20	Darren Broom	(1985-09-16) 16 September 1985	Right-handed	Right arm medium-fast
77	Jesse Ryder	(1984-08-06) 6 August 1984	Left-handed	Right arm medium pace
--	Michael Bracewell	(1991-02-14) 14 February 1991	Right-handed	Right arm medium pace
--	Shaun Haig	(1982-03-19) 19 March 1982	Right-handed
	Anaru Kitchen
All-rounders
8	Nathan McCullum	(1980-09-01) 1 September 1980	Right-handed	Right arm off break	Twent20 Captain
-	Ryan ten Doeschate	(1981-09-04) 4 September 1981	Right-handed	Right arm medium pace
17	Dimitri Mascarenhas	(1977-10-30) 30 October 1977	Right-handed	Right arm medium pace	English T20 Import
99	Sam Wells	(1984-07-13) 13 July 1984	Left-handed	Right arm medium pace
Wicket-keepers
14	Derek de Boorder	(1985-10-25) 25 October 1985	Right-handed	—
42	Brendon McCullum	(1981-09-27) 27 September 1981	Right-handed	—	Former Twenty20 Captain
Bowlers
2	Anthony Bullick	(1985-07-30) 30 July 1985	Right-handed	Right arm fast-medium
6	Ian Butler	(1981-11-24) 24 November 1981	Right-handed	Right arm fast
9	Warren McSkimming	(1979-06-21) 21 June 1979	Right-handed	Right arm medium pace
11	Neil Wagner	(1986-03-13) 13 March 1986	Left-handed	Left arm fast
15	James McMillan	(1978-06-14) 14 June 1978	Right-handed	Right arm fast-medium
90	Nick Beard	(1989-09-16) 16 September 1989	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
--	Steven Finn	(1989-04-04) 4 April 1989	Right-handed	Right arm fast	English 4-day import
32	Jacob Duffy	(1994-08-02) 2 August 1994	Right-handed	Right arm fast	Development player

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

Main article: List of Otago representative cricketers

New Zealand

England

Netherlands

Canada

Ian Billcliff

Notable foreign players

Neil Mallender 1983/1984-1992/1993
Mohammad Wasim 2002/2003-2004/2005
Jonathan Trott 2005/2006
Kyle Hogg 2006/07
Alex Gidman 2007/08
Dimitri Mascarenhas 2008/09
Yasir Arafat 2009/10
Steven Finn 2011
Ryan ten Doeschate 2012/13

Records

See List of New Zealand first-class cricket records

References

External links

Otago Volts Official Website

Otago cricket team – current squad

1 Redmond 4 N Broom 6 Butler 7 Rutherford 8 N McCullum 9 McSkimming 11 Wagner 14 de Boorder (c) (w) 42 B McCullum 77 Ryder Beard M Bracewell Craig Duffy McMillan Neesham Robertson Soper ten Doeschate Wells Coach: Vaughan Johnson

Cricket in New Zealand

Governing body	New Zealand Cricket

National Teams	New Zealand Women U-19 New Zealand A

Men's Domestic Teams	Auckland Canterbury Central Districts Northern Districts Otago Wellington

Women's Domestic Teams	Auckland Hearts Canterbury Magicians Central Districts Hinds Northern Districts Spirit Otago Sparks Wellington Blaze

Competitions	Plunket Shield ...09–10 10–11 11–12 12–13 13–14 14–15 15–16 Ford Trophy ...09–10 10–11 11–12 12–13 13–14 14–15 15–16 Georgie Pie Super Smash State League

Test & ODI Grounds	Christchurch Wellington Auckland Dunedin Napier Hamilton Dunedin University Oval Wellington Westpac Queenstown Cobham Oval, Whangarei

Player lists	Test cricketers Test wicket-keepers ODI cricketers Twenty20 Players Captains Otago Wellington

Series lists	Australia (Chappell–Hadlee Trophy Trans Tasman Trophy) England

History	to 1890 1882–83 1890–91 to 1918 1918–19 to 1945 1945–46 to 1970 1970–71 to 2000 from 2000–01

New Zealand first-class cricket teams

Current first-class teams	Auckland Canterbury Central Districts Northern Districts Otago Wellington

Former first-class teams	Central Conference Hawke's Bay Nelson Northern Conference Southern Conference Southland Taranaki West Coast (North Island)

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