Brad Wilson guides Northern Districts to easy win over http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Auckland-c766 in Plunket Shield
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Northern-Districts-c825 to an easy nine-wicket victory over Auckland in their Plunket Shield match at the Colin Maiden Park in Auckland. The visitors were given a 177-run target, which they achieved for the loss of just one wicket.
Northern Districts had a first-innings lead off 77 runs over the hosts. The wicket was not very good for batting on the first two days, but the batsmen didn’t have too much trouble on the third day.
Auckland amassed 253 runs in their second innings and they would have fancied their chances of winning the match. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Jeet-Raval-c1685 gave the hosts a good start as the opening batsman scored 38 runs. He would have liked to carry onto the start, but failed to do
so.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Andrew-de-Boorder-c1036 and Colin de Grandhomme rescued their team from trouble, and laid a solid platform for the
lower middle-order.
Both players scored half-centuries before getting out. De Boorder was dismissed after making 54 runs while Grandhomme scored 56 before getting out. There was no batsman, who could take the team to a respectable total after the fall of two set players.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Trent-Boult-c2708 and Brent Arnel shared the load in the bowling department for Northern Districts. The trio picked up three wickets each and set the
match up for their batsmen.
Auckland took one wicket early, but their bowlers failed to trouble the batsmen after that. Bradley Watling was the only player to be dismissed in the Northern Districts innings. He was out after scoring just nine runs.
However, opening batsman Brad Wilson and first-drop http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Daniel-Flynn-c1309 played aggressive cricket after that, and guided their team to a comprehensive victory by nine wickets. Wilson remained unbeaten on exactly 100 runs whereas; Flynn scored 68 runs in a 136-run
partnership for the second wicket. Wilson struck 17 boundaries in his innings and played with a strike-rate of 80.
On the other hand, Flynn struck nine 4’s and two towering 6’s in his knock. He also scored his runs at a very quick pace with a strike-rate of almost 81. The lone wicket-taker for the hosts was de Grandhomme, who took one wicket and contributed with both
bat and ball for his team. However, his effort went in vain as the visitors cruised to victory.
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