Wellington Firebirds

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Wellington
One-day Name: Wellington Firebirds
Coach: Flag of Australia Anthony Stuart
Captain: Flag of New Zealand Michael Parlane
Founded: 1873
Home Ground: Basin Reserve
Capacity: 11,600
First-class debut: Auckland
- 1873
- Wellington
Official Website: Wellington Firebirds

The Wellington Firebirds is one of six New Zealand first-class cricket teams that make up New Zealand Cricket. It is based in Wellington. It competes in the State Championship first class (4 day) competition, the State Shield domestic one day competition and the State Twenty20 Cricket Tournament.

The Firebirds have the best State Championship record of any team since the start of the millennium. They won the title in 2000/01 and 2003/04 and were runners up in 2001/02, 2002/03 and 2005/06.

Contents

1923-24, 1925-26, 1927-28, 1929-30, 1931-32, 1935-36, 1949-50, 1954-55, 1956-57, 1960-61, 1961-62, 1965-66, 1972-73, 1973-74.

1981-82, 1982-83, 1983-84, 1989-90, 2000-01, 2003-04.

1973-74, 1974-75, 1981-82, 1988-89, 1990-91, 2001-02.

Most home games are played at the Basin Reserve ground in Wellington, one of only a few first class grounds in New Zealand that doesn't also accommodate rugby.

Players who represented Wellington in 2006/07 [1][2]

Brooklyn CC (established 1929), Eastbourne CC (1919), Eastern Suburbs (1993), Hutt District CC (1908), Johnsonville CC (1886), Karori CC (1880), Naenae Old Boys (1945), North City (1995), Onslow CC (1930), Petone Riverside CC (1894), Taita District CC (1933), Upper Valley CC (2002), Victoria University CC (1906), Wainuiomata CC (1947), Wellington Collegians CC (1970).

See List of New Zealand first-class cricket records

  1. ^ Batting Averages for Wellington - State Championship 2006/07, retrieved 5 October 2007
  2. ^ Batting Averages for Wellington - State Shield 2006/07, retrieved 5 October 2007

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