Cricket Wellington

Photo Credit: New Zealand Cricket New Zealand’s six Major Associations have today announced their first round of contracted male players for the 2024/25 domestic summer including some key player movements and a host of fresh faces earning their first domestic...

Photo Credit: New Zealand Cricket When 19-year-old WHITE FERN Georgia Plimmer smoked 147 off 139 balls for the Wellington Blaze in New Zealand's first ever day/night Hallyburton Johnstone Shield match on Saturday, she fell just 16 runs shy of smashing Sophie Devine's Blaze...

Photo Credit: Cricket Wellington Following the success of their award-winning ‘Young Leaders’ programme for girls, Cricket Wellington have extended the programme to include their first cohort of male leaders. The programme kicked off in October of this year, providing fourteen (14)...

Photo Credit: New Zealand Cricket Collaboration between associations and inspiration from young leaders has allowed ‘Young Leader Programmes’ to thrive in Wellington, Canterbury & Otago. Wellington Young Leaders: Since the inception of the Cricket Wellington Young Leaders programme in the 2020-21 season,...

Photo Credit: New Zealand Cricket New Zealand’s six Major Associations have today announced their women’s Domestic contract lists for the 2023/24 summer. For the first time, Major Associations can now offer an additional 13th player to their contract list opening up six...

Photo Credit: New Zealand Cricket The Female Leadership Development Contestable Fund is one of the key initiatives in the Female Leadership Development Framework, which aims to encourage locally led activity with national support. The contestable fund successfully commenced during the 2021-22...

Photo Credit: Canterbury Cricket The 2023/24 home summer of cricket inches another step closer with New Zealand’s six Major Associations finalising their men’s Domestic contracted player rosters. Each Major Association – Auckland, Northern Districts, Central Districts, Wellington, Canterbury and Otago –...

Photo Credit: LinkedIn profile photo of Shane Jurgensen Shane Jurgensen will step down as BLACKCAPS bowling coach following the ICC Cricket World Cup in October-November, to take up the role of Wellington Firebirds head coach. Jurgensen will finish as the team’s...

Photo Credit: Cricket Wellington Cricket Wellington’s 2022/23 cohort of ‘Young Leaders’ graduated earlier this month in an event held at the Cello Basin Reserve’s Longroom. The graduation ceremony ends the programme which saw nineteen (19) young females participate in; individual online...

Photo Credit: Cricket Wellington Cricket Wellington’s new “Coach Developer Network” initiative is expected to play a vital role in training and mentoring cricket coaches in the region, as well as supporting the coach on the job. Designed to create a sustainable...