Players

Our players

The aim of this website is to profile and promote cricket as a career for NZ's best young talent. We believe the game and the opportunities around it, particularly those provided by our key partners and supporters, now make cricket one of the great career choices in NZ for smart, young athletes.

To help with this, this page and the player websites give the cricketer's own perspectives on their vocation, while other parts of the site show the wider benefits and opportunities available to those in the pro game.

We hope that all promising young cricketers and fans of the game can learn a little more about our players and together celebrate a great Kiwi pastime.

New Zealand Contracted Players - 2011/12

New Zealand Cricket has announced the twenty players to be offered BLACKCAPS contracts for the year until 31st July 2012.

Hamish Bennett - Canterbury Wizards
Trent Boult – Northern Knights
Neil Broom – Otago Volts
Daniel Flynn – Northern Knights
Martin Guptill – Auckland Aces
Chris Martin – Auckland Aces
Brendon McCullum – Otago Volts
Nathan McCullum – Otago Volts
Andy McKay – Wellington Firebirds
Kyle Mills – Auckland Aces
Rob Nicol – Canterbury Wizards
Jacob Oram – Central Stags
Jesse Ryder – Wellington Firebirds
Tim Southee – Northern Knights
Ross Taylor – Central Stags
Daniel Vettori – Northern Knights
BJ Watling – Northern Knights
Kane Williamson – Northern Knights
Luke Woodcock – Wellington Firebirds
Reece Young – Canterbury Wizards

Major Association Contracted Players - 2010/11

The six Major Associations have announced their lists of 12 players to be offered contracts for the 2011/12 season. The domestic contracts which commence on 1st October 2011, are subject to the terms of the new Master Agreement between the NZCPA, NZC and each Major Association.

2011/12 Domestic Contracted Players

Auckland Aces

Michael Bates
Andrew de Boorder
Brad Cachopa
Colin de Grandhomme
Gareth Hopkins
Anaru Kitchen
Bruce Martin
Tim McIntosh
Colin Munro
Jeet Raval
Bhupinder Singh
Daryl Tuffey

Central Stags

Doug Bracewell
Jamie How
Peter Ingram
Michael Mason
Adam Milne
Kieran Noema-Barnett
Tarun Nethula
Mathew Sinclair
Bevan Small
Greg Todd
Kruger van Wyk
Ben Wheeler

Canterbury Wizards

Todd Astle
Dean Brownlie
Andrew Ellis
Peter Fulton
Matt Henry
Tom Latham
Willie Lonsdale
Ryan McCone
Richard Sherlock
Shanan Stewart
Logan van Beek
George Worker

Northern Knights

Graeme Aldridge
Brent Arnel
James Baker
Anton Devcich
Brook Hatwell
James Marshall
Peter McGlashan
Daryl Mitchell
Bradley Scott
Anurag Verma
Brad Wilson
Joseph Yovich

Otago Volts

Nick Beard
Michael Bracewell
Darren Broom
Anthony Bullick
Ian Butler
Craig Cumming
Derek De Boorder
James McMillan
Warren McSkimming
Aaron Redmond
Bradley Scott
Neil Wagner
Sam Wells

Wellington Firebirds

Joe Austin-Smellie
Harry Boam
Josh Brodie
Leighton Burtt
Grant Elliott
James Franklin
Mark Gillespie
Stephen Murdoch
Iain O’Brien
Michael Papps
Jeetan Patel
Stewart Rhodes