Joseph Yovich

Seven wickets and a century from left-arm spinner Bruce Martin enabled Auckland to defeat Northern Districts by ten wickets at Eden Park

A review of the first round of games in the 2009-10 Plunket Shield

Joseph Yovich and Graeme Aldridge helped table-toppers Northern Districts to their fifth State Shield title in 14 years - their first since 2004-05

Valuable contributions by the middle order helped Northern Districts claw back against Canterbury on the third day at Seddon Park

Canterbury's bowlers kept their nerve to edge a tense thriller against Northern Districts at Whangerei

Summary of Round 6 of the State Shield matches

Riding on a quickfire fifty from Brad Haddin and the bowling trio of Brett Dorey, Shane Watson and Dan Cullen, Australia A handed New Zealand A its second defeat of the day at Darwin

Kyle Mills has pulled out of New Zealand's World Cup development tour to Australia so he can have surgery to correct an ankle injury

A round-up of the fourth day's play in the State Championship matches

Central embarked on a long process of trying to overhaul Northern's first innings total of 450

An unbeaten 112 by Gary Stead helped Canterbury overcome early wobbles and finish the opening day of their match against Northern Districts on a respectable 291 for 7

Shane Bond finished with scarcely specacular figures of 1 for 85 on his return for Canterbury as Central Districts built up a huge total on the opening day of the latest round of State Championship games

An unbeaten stand of 52 between Joseph Yovich and Peter McGlashan tilted the balance of the game towards Northern Districts after Wellington took the first-innings lead

Craig McMillan shone with both bat and ball as Canterbury began their campaign with a five-wicket win over Otago

Stephen Fleming, the New Zealand captain, marked a rare appearance in New Zealand's State Shield competition by scoring 131 for Wellington against Canterbury at Hagley Oval

Northern Districts reached 137 but that wasn't enough to deny Canterbury an innings victory at Christchurch

A round-up of the second day's play of the New Zealand State Championship

No great surprises have occurred in the naming of players contracted to the six major associations for next summer

Northern Districts Cricket today announced the 11 players to be offered contracts for the 2003-04 season