The Wellington Firebirds are one of six New Zealand men's first-class cricket teams that make up New Zealand Cricket. It is based in Wellington. It competes in the Plunket Shield first class (4-day) competition, The Ford Trophy domestic one day competition and the Men's Super Smash Twenty20 competition.
The Wellington Cricket Association was formed in 1875. It is New Zealand's oldest cricket association.
Honours Plunket Shield (22): 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, 2019–20, 2023–24.
The Ford Trophy (8): 1973–74, 1974–75, 1981–82, 1988–89, 1990–91, 2001–02, 2013–14, 2018–19.
Men's Super Smash (4): 2014–15, 2016–17, 2019–20, 2020–21.
Grounds Home games are usually played at the Basin Reserve ground in Wellington, which is also used by the Old Boys University rugby club during the winter. Wellington also occasionally use Wellington Regional Stadium for day/night matches, and play first-class games at Karori Park when the Basin Reserve is unavailable.
Current squad Based on squad for the 2023/24 season. Players in bold have international caps.
No. Name Nationality Birth date Batting style Bowling style Notes Batters2 Troy Johnson Right-handed Right-arm off break 4 Muhammad Abbas Right-handed Left-arm medium-fast 7 Tim Robinson Right-handed Right-arm medium 21 Nick Greenwood Right-handed Right-arm off break 37 Gareth Severin Right-handed Right-arm medium 55 Nick Kelly Left-handed Left-arm orthodox All-rounders6 Michael Bracewell Left-handed Right-arm off break 9 Rachin Ravindra Left-handed Left-arm off break17 Peter Younghusband Right-handed Right arm leg break 20 Nathan Smith Right-handed Right arm medium-fast 27 Logan van Beek Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast 41 Jesse Tashkoff Right-handed Left-arm orthodox Wicket-keepers36 Tom Blundell Right-handed Right-arm off break 57 Callum McLachlan Right-handed — 88 Devon Conway Left-handed Right-arm medium Bowlers11 Adam Milne Right-handed Right arm fast 13 Iain McPeake Right-handed Right arm medium-fast 14 Ben Sears Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast 83 Michael Snedden Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast James Hartshorn Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast
Notable players
New Zealand Matthew Bell Bob Blair Graeme Wheeler (Reserve Bank Governor) Don Beard Ewen Chatfield Richard Collinge Jeremy Coney Martin Crowe Simon Doull Bruce Edgar Grant Elliott Stephen Fleming James Franklin Stephen Gellatly Evan Gray Paul Hitchcock Andrew Jones Richard Jones Gavin Larsen Ervin McSweeney Andrew Fletcher
Lawrie Miller Bruce Murray Chris Nevin John Richard Reid Jesse Ryder Barry Sinclair Bruce Taylor Eric Tindill Roger Twose Robert Vance
England Paul Allott Charlie Shreck Graham Napier Scott Borthwick Jade Dernbach
Australia Clarrie Grimmett Bob Holland Travis Birt Brad Hodge
India Lakshmipathy Balaji Dhawal Kulkarni
Bangladesh Tamim Iqbal
Canada Ian Billcliff
Sri Lanka Muttiah Muralitharan
Zimbabwe Brendan Taylor
Records See List of New Zealand first-class cricket records.
References
External links Wellington Cricket Association