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2 unusual facts about Otago cricket team


Otago cricket team

The Volts again qualified for the league in the 2013 season where they were much more successful entering the competition having won a string of Twenty20 matches which eventually ended at fifteen when they lost the Rajasthan Royals in Jaipur.

The warm, dry summer climate of Central Otago can make for better cricketing conditions than the wetter coastal areas.


Anthony Cartwright

Anthony George Cartwright (born 8 August 1940 in Timaru) was a New Zealand cricketer who played six first-class matches for Otago in the Plunket Shield.

Carisbrook

It is also the former home of Otago cricket, which moved to the University Oval at Logan Park in the north of the city after the redevelopment in the early 2000s, and also of Otago United Football team in the New Zealand Football Championship, which moved to the lower-capacity Sunnyvale Park for the 2008–09 season.

History of cricket in New Zealand from 1918–19 to 1945

An Australian team toured New Zealand in 1920-21 to play first-class matches versus New Zealand national team (twice) and provincial teams including Auckland, Wellington, Canterbury and Otago.


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Warren McSkimming

Warren Charles McSkimming (born 21 June 1979, Ranfurly, Otago) is a member of the Otago cricket team, competing in the State Championship, State Shield and State Twenty20 competitions.