Central Stags 🏏

OFFICIAL 🦌 2025 @SuperSmash & 2026 Ford Trophy national champions. See also @CDCricket f: CentralStagsNZ | IG: CentralStags | podcast: LoveTheStags

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CONTRACT NEWS 🤝‍

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[Francis Payne @FPayne100]

Former @CentralStags pace bowler and test umpire Dave Kinsella died last week aged 89. I saw him play at Eden Park in 1966, his final season, when he opened the bowling with Richard Collinge. Kinsella took 72 wickets at 23 in 28 first-class games. Stood in 3 tests and 6 ODIs.

[Francis Payne @FPayne100]

Former @BLACKCAPS fast bowler Bob Blair has passed away in England on his 94th birthday. The events of Boxing Day 1953 are well enough known. Blair took 330 wickets at 15.16 for Wellington and it's often forgotten he played one season for @CentralStags, taking 42 wickets at 17.28

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✍ Congratulating our Central Stags BLAIR TICKNER and WILL YOUNG on receiving @BLACKCAPS contracts, among the country's top 20 male players contracted today 👏‍

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[Central Districts Cricket Association🏏 @CDCricket]

C A R E E R S • Applications are open for two significant roles based at our Hawke's Bay HQ:

• @CentralStags Head Coach (all formats, contract)
• CDCA Head of Operations & Logistics (full-time)

Learn more | apply at https://t.co/BDKF5fzK57

🟩 #CDTOGETHER #LOVETHESTAGS 🟩

[Central Districts Cricket Association🏏 @CDCricket]

Thrilled to name two first-time winners of the supreme CD Cricket Awards for season 2025/26 🏆🏆👏‍👏

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#PlunketShield season wrap 🥉

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@shortflyslip To be fair he was off the field for most of the second innings in the last game.

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#PLUNKETSHIELD | Sometimes a little luck is all you need. Big early chance for BRETT RANDELL in Rangiora, but RAY TOOLE removes the batter just 3 balls later

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🎙️LOVETHESTAGS podcast time as we chew the fat & recall what it was like to be there on the field with BRETT RANDELL as he took his world record 5 in 5 balls last weekend 🤯

🟩🟩🟩 #LOVETHESTAGS
🟩🟩🟩 #PLUNKETSHIELD
🟩🟩🟩 #CRICKETPODCAST

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2023 vibes 🤷‍♂️ #plunketshield

#lovethestags #nzvsa

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It's still sinking in. Hear from Brett Randell after his unique first-class cricket world first + what it meant almost a year to the day after snapping his collarbone in the same national championship.

#BRETTRANDELL #PLUNKETSHIELD #LOVETHESTAGS

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#BRETTRANDELL - more reaction from the man of the moment after his world record feat in the #plunketshield #lovethestags

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TIMELY INNINGS VICTORY
We beat ND by an innings & 27 runs, taking the maximum 20 points to leap from 5th to 2nd on the national first-class table (pending other results). 2 rounds to go. Scores https://t.co/cbQyGGYUXj

🟩🟩🟩 #WINNING
🟩🟩🟩 #PLUNKETSHIELD
🟩🟩🟩 #LOVETHESTAGS

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BRETT RANDELL, a day to remember!

• Hat-trick
• 5 wickets in 5 balls - a world first in 1st-class🏏
• Career best 7/25
• Stags' 2nd best all-time haul 🦌
• Stags best all-time haul by a pace bowler

#brettrandell #plunketshield #lovethestags

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What a special day of Stags cricket. BRETT RANDELL takes the 2nd best haul in all our 75-year first-class history. The best figures by a 🦌 paceman, bettered only by legendary 🦌 spinner BRYAN YUILE's 9/100 in 1966

#BRETTRANDELL
#PLUNKETSHIELD
#LOVETHESTAGS

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What a session. BRETT RANDELL with 7/17* before lunch, including 5 wickets in 5 balls - a world first-class first 🤯🦌

📷 @MargotButcher

#brettrandell #lovethestags #plunketshield

[Francis Payne @FPayne100]

Hat-tricks for @CentralStags: Gary Bartlett, Matt Toynbee, Peter Visser, Tim Anderson, Mitch McClenaghan, Kieran Noema-Barnett, Blair Tickner, Brett Randell #PlunketShield

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#PLUNKETSHIELD news for our last home match of our jubilee season, at Napier's McLean Park from tomorrow through Tuesday - free admission + free stream at https://t.co/UnaCoZJpBm 🦌

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TEAM NEWS 🦌Welcome to the Stags for the first time, BEN FREWIN! 👏‍

🟩🟩🟩 #BENFREWIN
🟩🟩🟩 #PLUNKETSHIELD
🟩🟩🟩 #LOVETHESTAGS

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