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Personnel | |
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Captain | Tom Bruce (Super Smash and Plunket Shield) Jayden Lennox (Ford Trophy) |
Coach | Glenn Pocknall (Plunket Shield and Ford Trophy) Ben Smith (Super Smash) |
Team information | |
Colours | ![]() |
Founded | 1950 |
Home ground | McLean Park Pukekura Park Fitzherbert Park Saxton Oval |
Capacity | 19,700 (McLean Park) |
History | |
Plunket Shield wins | 12 |
The Ford Trophy wins | 7 |
Men's Super Smash wins | 4 |
CLT20 wins | 0 |
Cricket Max wins | 2 |
Official website | cdcricket |
The Central Stags, formerly known as Central Districts, are a first-class cricket team based in central New Zealand. They are the men's representative side of the Central Districts Cricket Association. They compete in the Plunket Shield first-class competition, The Ford Trophy domestic one-day competition and are the current champions of the Men's Super Smash Twenty20 competition. They are one of six teams that make up New Zealand Cricket. They were the fifth of the current teams to compete in the Plunket Shield, which they entered for the first time in the 1950/51 season.