New Zealand Cricket has today announced the Plunket Shield, Men’s One-Day and HRV Cup schedules for the 2011-12 season with domestic cricket fans treated to 89 matches this coming summer.
Cricket tradition opens and closes the domestic season with the first of four pre-Christmas Plunket Shield rounds starting on 7 November 2011 with the final round getting underway on 26 March 2012. The winner being the side finishing top of the points table at the end of ten full rounds of play.
The Men’s One-Day trophy will be contested over eight full rounds of competition, followed by an extended finals series that includes preliminary finals, a semi-final and final. The competition is also split across the season with five rounds before Christmas starting on 25 November 2011. The preliminary finals on 5 February along with the final on 12 February will be televised.
Two of the three opening one-day matches along with the second round of Plunket Shield matches will be played in Canterbury.
SKY TV will offer subscribers coverage of 21 HRV Cup matches with the Twenty20 competition taking place over the Christmas/New Year period. The first round of action starts on 18 December with Sunday afternoon matches in Auckland, Rangiora and Dunedin. There will be two full rounds with points deciding the top two teams who will meet in the final on 22 January 2012.
“There are always plenty of factors to consider when putting together a domestic schedule and we believe the 2011-12 programme offers fans across the country plenty of variety and opportunities to get along and see quality cricket,” New Zealand Cricket Operations Manager Tim Murdoch said.
“The decision to host additional Men’s One-Day and Plunket Shield matches in Canterbury will not only help save some travel costs but is also an opportunity for teams and coaches to network with each other and NZC specialist staff.
“With no international cricket in New Zealand until the end of January the BLACKCAPS have the opportunity to take part in the full HRV Cup and I’m sure the fans are keen to see then in this world class competition.”
Live scoring for all domestic matches is available from www.blackcaps.co.nz and MA websites. An increased number of matches are televised on SKY TV and the domestic summer of cricket is also covered by our by Radio Sport.
View schedules online:
Plunket Shield – http://www.blackcaps.co.nz/domestic/plunket-shield-2011-12/111/schedule.aspx
Men’s One-Day – http://www.blackcaps.co.nz/domestic/mens-one-day-2011-12/112/schedule.aspx
HRV Cup - http://www.blackcaps.co.nz/domestic/hrv-cup-twenty20/110/schedule.aspx
