New Zealand Cricket Annual Report 2010 - 2011

Northern Knights
Plunket Shield:
HRV Cup:
One-day:
Coach:
Captain:
4th
4th
4th
Grant Bradburn
James Marshall
A season of under achievement for the Northern Knights who the
previous summer had done a double winning both the Plunket Shield
and one-day championship. Inconsistency marred their performances
with the efforts of bat and ball rarely complementing each other.
One of their most consistent performers though was pace bowler
Graeme Aldridge who collected the region’s player of the year title.
Aldridge claimed 30 wickets in the Plunket Shield though bowed for top
place to left-arm quick Trent Boult who captured 32.
Their run scoring was spearheaded by three players, Daniel Flynn,
BJ Watling and Brad Wilson. Wilson was the most impressive in amassing
733 First-Class runs at 48.86 with a high score of 151 while Flynn had
the honour of notching the domestic season’s biggest innings posting
a career-best unbeaten 241 against Otago in Hamilton on his way to
tallying 614 runs. In that innings Northern made the season’s biggest
score of 559 for nine. Watling was another regular contributor with 577
runs in the Plunket Shield at 52.45 with him and Wilson sharing a season
memorable opening stand of 274 against Wellington.
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