Multi-dayMen

Auckland Aces v Northern Districts

Northern Districts won by 6 wickets

Plunket Shield, Match 1328 February 2026 to 2 March 2026Eden Park Outer Oval, Auckland

Auckland Acesbatted first

283 & 18881.5 ov

Northern Districts

288 & 184/435.4 ov

Auckland Aces won the toss and chose to bat

AAAuckland Aces innings

28359 ov

Auckland Aces batting
Batter	Dismissal	R	B	4s	6s	SR
DN Phillips	c BJ Pomare b SC Kuggeleijn	5	7	1	0	71.4
SM Solia	c BJ Pomare b KDC Clarke	79	142	12	0	55.6
H Kannan	c KDC Clarke b ZN Gibson	1	11	0	0	9.1
BJ Jacobs	b ZN Gibson	0	1	0	0	0.0
CD Fletcher	c BJ Pomare b SC Kuggeleijn	27	37	6	0	73.0
LN Stackpole	c JA Raval b SC Kuggeleijn	74	61	9	3	121.3
SB Keene	c HR Cooper b JH Brown	41	43	7	0	95.3
RD Harrison	c RR O'Donnell b JH Brown	17	17	2	0	100.0
A Ashok	not out	6*	30	0	0	20.0
RK Gulati	c JF Carter b JH Brown	1	7	0	0	14.3
BG Lister	c SC Kuggeleijn b ZN Gibson	0	4	0	0	0.0
Extras	b 11, lb 2, w 13, nb 6	32
Total	all out, 59 overs, run rate 4.80	283

Fall of wicketsruns, 0 to 290

1-5 DN Phillips2-12 H Kannan3-12 BJ Jacobs4-74 CD Fletcher5-202 LN Stackpole6-232 SM Solia7-268 RD Harrison8-280 SB Keene9-282 RK Gulati10-283 BG Lister

Bowling to Auckland Aces
Bowler	O	M	R	W	Econ	Dots	4s	6s	Wd	Nb
ZN Gibson	16	5	50	3	3.13	72	7	1	2	0
SC Kuggeleijn	11	2	68	3	6.18	37	11	0	1	0
JH Brown	14	1	56	3	4.00	60	6	1	2	1
KDC Clarke	14	0	81	1	5.79	55	11	1	0	5
TJG Pringle	4	0	15	0	3.75	15	2	0	0	0

NDNorthern Districts innings

28893.2 ov

Northern Districts batting
Batter	Dismissal	R	B	4s	6s	SR
JA Raval	c SB Keene b BG Lister	67	145	7	0	46.2
HR Cooper	b SB Keene	16	28	3	0	57.1
B Popli	lbw b RD Harrison	58	94	8	0	61.7
JF Carter	b RD Harrison	2	10	0	0	20.0
RR O'Donnell	lbw b BG Lister	0	1	0	0	0.0
KDC Clarke	c BJ Jacobs b A Ashok	41	67	3	3	61.2
BJ Pomare	c CD Fletcher b A Ashok	41	85	4	1	48.2
SC Kuggeleijn	c RD Harrison b RK Gulati	8	28	0	0	28.6
TJG Pringle	c DN Phillips b BG Lister	25	77	2	0	32.5
JH Brown	c BG Lister b RK Gulati	14	14	1	1	100.0
ZN Gibson	not out	10*	13	2	0	76.9
Extras	lb 1, w 3, nb 2	6
Total	all out, 93.2 overs, run rate 3.09	288

Fall of wicketsruns, 0 to 290

1-37 HR Cooper2-145 JA Raval3-147 B Popli4-148 RR O'Donnell5-148 JF Carter6-231 KDC Clarke7-234 BJ Pomare8-244 SC Kuggeleijn9-268 JH Brown10-288 TJG Pringle

Bowling to Northern Districts
Bowler	O	M	R	W	Econ	Dots	4s	6s	Wd	Nb
BG Lister	17.2	5	32	3	1.85	90	5	0	2	0
SB Keene	17	3	69	1	4.06	75	11	0	1	2
RD Harrison	11	1	45	2	4.09	46	7	1	0	0
RK Gulati	31	4	114	2	3.68	124	7	4	0	0
A Ashok	16	3	24	2	1.50	73	0	0	0	0
LN Stackpole	1	0	3	0	3.00	3	0	0	0	0

AAAuckland Aces innings

18881.5 ov

Auckland Aces batting
Batter	Dismissal	R	B	4s	6s	SR
DN Phillips	lbw b ZN Gibson	6	5	0	1	120.0
SM Solia	c JA Raval b ZN Gibson	4	10	1	0	40.0
H Kannan	c JA Raval b SC Kuggeleijn	33	110	3	0	30.0
BJ Jacobs	b SC Kuggeleijn	5	16	1	0	31.3
CD Fletcher	c BJ Pomare b ZN Gibson	31	66	1	2	47.0
A Ashok	c KDC Clarke b TJG Pringle	19	95	2	0	20.0
LN Stackpole	c KDC Clarke b SC Kuggeleijn	0	2	0	0	0.0
SB Keene	c SC Kuggeleijn b KDC Clarke	67	120	5	1	55.8
RD Harrison	not out	9*	60	0	0	15.0
RK Gulati	b KDC Clarke	0	3	0	0	0.0
BG Lister	c RR O'Donnell b KDC Clarke	0	7	0	0	0.0
Extras	b 2, lb 3, w 6, nb 3	14
Total	all out, 81.5 overs, run rate 2.30	188

Fall of wicketsruns, 0 to 290

1-6 DN Phillips2-11 SM Solia3-22 BJ Jacobs4-85 CD Fletcher5-87 H Kannan6-87 LN Stackpole7-154 A Ashok8-184 SB Keene9-184 RK Gulati10-188 BG Lister

Bowling to Auckland Aces
Bowler	O	M	R	W	Econ	Dots	4s	6s	Wd	Nb
ZN Gibson	16	6	36	3	2.25	78	2	1	1	0
SC Kuggeleijn	21	4	53	3	2.52	95	4	1	2	0
KDC Clarke	14.5	6	16	3	1.08	76	0	0	0	3
JH Brown	12	1	37	0	3.08	57	4	0	3	0
TJG Pringle	17	5	41	1	2.41	80	3	2	0	0
JA Raval	1	1	0	0	0.00	6	0	0	0	0

NDNorthern Districts innings

184/435.4 ov

Northern Districts batting
Batter	Dismissal	R	B	4s	6s	SR
HR Cooper	c CD Fletcher b BG Lister	63	89	9	0	70.8
JA Raval	c BJ Jacobs b BG Lister	6	20	0	0	30.0
B Popli	b RD Harrison	13	18	2	0	72.2
JF Carter	c CD Fletcher b A Ashok	30	39	4	0	76.9
RR O'Donnell	not out	44*	40	4	3	110.0
KDC Clarke	not out	21*	8	0	3	262.5
Extras	b 4, lb 2, w 1	7
Total	4 wickets, 35.4 overs, run rate 5.16	184

Did not batBJ Pomare, SC Kuggeleijn, TJG Pringle, JH Brown, ZN Gibson

Fall of wicketsruns, 0 to 290

1-15 JA Raval2-38 B Popli3-103 JF Carter4-153 HR Cooper

Bowling to Northern Districts
Bowler	O	M	R	W	Econ	Dots	4s	6s	Wd
BG Lister	10	1	41	2	4.10	42	5	1	0
SB Keene	7	0	30	0	4.29	25	4	0	1
RD Harrison	7	0	42	1	6.00	21	6	0	0
RK Gulati	3	0	14	0	4.67	11	2	0	0
A Ashok	8.4	0	51	1	5.88	33	2	5	0

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Match facts

Format: Multi-day match
Competition: Plunket Shield
Toss: Auckland Aces, chose to bat
Umpires: BF Bowden and BS Wilson
Match referee: SRM Morris
Season: 2025/26

Conditions

The day's weather at the ground.

Day 1: 22 / 18°C, 5.3 mm rain
Day 2: 24 / 17°C, 1.1 mm rain
Day 3: 19 / 12°C, 0.1 mm rain

GET/v1/matches/2026-02-28-auckland-aces-v-northern-districts/scorecard200

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