# 2010–11 New Zealand one-day cricket competition season

The 2010–11 New Zealand one-day competition is the 40th season of official List A domestic cricket in New Zealand. This year there is no sponsor for the one day competition. The season began on 9 January 2010 with Otago Volts playing Wellington Firebirds, Auckland Aces playing Northern Districts Knights and Central Districts Stags playing Canterbury Wizards.

## Points table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | T | NR | BP | Pts |
| 1 | Canterbury Wizards | 8 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 25 |
| 2 | Auckland Aces | 8 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 23 |
| 3 | Otago Volts | 8 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 16 |
| 4 | Northern Districts | 8 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 14 |
| 5 | Central Districts Stags | 8 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 12 |
| 6 | Wellington Firebirds | 8 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 |

## Teams

| Club | Home Ground | Captain |
| Auckland Aces | Eden Park | Gareth Hopkins |
| Canterbury Wizards | Mainpower Oval | Peter Fulton |
| Central Districts Stags | McLean Park | Jamie How |
| Northern Districts Knights | Seddon Park | James Marshall |
| Otago Volts | University Oval | Craig Cumming |
| Wellington Firebirds | Basin Reserve | Grant Elliott |

## Playoffs

New Zealand Cricket uses the Page playoff system for its one-day competition.

### Round One
#### Major Semi Final

Auckland were in cruise control needing 269 to win after being 119/1 in the 17th over. However, after both Lou Vincent and Jeet Raval fell, good bowling by Canterbury and a batting collapse by Auckland propelled Canterbury directly into the final.
* 6 February 2011 (scorecard)
| Canterbury Wizards 268/8 (50 Overs) | v | Auckland Aces 227/10 (43.1 Overs) |
| Rob Nicol 89 (110) Chris Martin 3-48 (10 overs) | | Lou Vincent 62 (55) Mitchell Claydon 4-44 (9 overs) |
* Canterbury Wizards won by 41 runs Queen Elizabeth II Park, Christchurch Umpires: DJ Walker & EA Watkin

#### Minor Semi Final

Through several handy innings Northern Districts posted a good 271/8. Otago started their chase poorly falling to 80/5 in the 19th over. However, Darren Broom and Derek de Boorder put on 165 runs for the 6th wicket a partnership record for Otago . This partnership meant that when the game was finally called off for rain after 46 overs, Otago was ahead of their target by nine runs. Northern were eliminated and Otago went into the elimination semi final.
* 6 February 2011 (scorecard)
| Northern Districts 271/8 (50 overs) | v | Otago Volts 245/5 (46 Overs) |
| BJ Watling 55 (88) Craig Cumming 2-28 (8) | | Darren Broom 83* (81) Graeme Aldridge 2-46 (9) |
* Otago Volts win by 9 runs (D/L Method) Queenstown Events Centre, Queenstown Umpires: MF Jones & D Cummings
* Rain stopped played continually throughout the game which was called off 46 overs into the Otago innings.

## Statistics
### Most Runs

| Player | Team | Innings | Runs | Average | Strike rate |
| Rob Nicol | Canterbury | 4 | 265 | 66.25 | 70.47 |
| George Worker | Central Districts | 4 | 253 | 63.25 | 76.66 |
| Gareth Hopkins | Auckland | 5 | 230 | 46.00 | 103.13 |
| Lou Vincent | Auckland | 5 | 212 | 53.00 | 89.07 |
| Peter Fulton | Canterbury | 4 | 208 | 52.00 | 96.74 |
| Grant Elliott | Wellington | 4 | 187 | 46.75 | 80.60 |
| Scott Styris | Northern Districts | 4 | 181 | 60.33 | 90.04 |
| Daniel Flynn | Northern Districts | 4 | 174 | 43.50 | 94.05 |
| Mathew Sinclair | Central Districts | 4 | 173 | 57.66 | 85.22 |
| Michael Papps | Canterbury | 4 | 163 | 40.75 | 69.06 |

### Most Wickets

| Player | Team | Matches | Overs | Wickets | Average | Economy rate |
| Mark Gillespie | Wellington | 4 | 38.4 | 11 | 17.63 | 5.01 |
| Luke Woodcock | Wellington | 4 | 38 | 10 | 16.00 | 4.21 |
| Tarun Nethula | Central Districts | 4 | 40 | 10 | 19.10 | 4.77 |
| Nathan McCullum | Otago | 4 | 39 | 9 | 17.33 | 4.00 |
| Michael Bates | Auckland | 5 | 46 | 9 | 27.77 | 5.43 |
| Doug Bracewell | Central Districts | 3 | 27.50 | 8 | 17.62 | 5.06 |
| Hamish Bennett | Canterbury | 4 | 36.4 | 7 | 24.28 | 4.63 |
| Daryl Tuffey | Auckland | 4 | 37.4 | 7 | 26.71 | 4.96 |
| Jacob Oram | Central Districts | 4 | 40.0 | 7 | 30.71 | 5.37 |
| Andre Adams | Auckland | 5 | 50.0 | 7 | 31.57 | 4.42 |
Last Updated 24 January 2011

## Team of the Season

* Player
* Rob Nicol
* Lou Vincent
* BJ Watling
* Peter Fulton
* Gareth Hopkins
* Andy Ellis
* Derek de Boorder
* Tarun Nethula
* Mark Gillespie
* Andre Adams
* Mitchell Claydon