ROUND TWO • 2022/23
Cobham Oval, Whangarei
30 November 2022
Northern Districts beat Canterbury by 8 wickets (DLS)
Northern Districts won with a bonus point
Selected milestones
Tim Pringle: List A debut for Northern Districts (previously: four ODIs for The Netherlands)
Kristian Clarke: List A debut for Northern Districts
Ish Sodhi: Canterbury List A debut
Ish Sodhi: List A career best batting
Tim Seifert - equal ND record for wicketkeeping dismissals in an innings (5)
Northern Districts upset Canterbury on a rain-interrupted day as ex-NZ U19 star Kristian Clarke and young Kiwi-Dutch international Tim Pringle both made Ford Trophy debuts for the hosts.
Canterbury elected to bat in Northland, opening batsman Chad Bowes taking control of the innings with a top score of 81.
Bowes batted into the 36th over for his side, but he didn't get enough support from his teammates in the top and middle order as ND swing a wrecking ball at the other end - with wicketkeeper Tim Seifert taking five catches, equalling the ND record for keeping dismissals in an innings.
The visitors were in all sorts at 94 for seven, and only 20 overs into the day. But Bowes did find support from Ish Sodhi - playing his first match for his new side, against his former side.
Sodhi contributed a career best with the bat, unbeaten on 48 not out. He'd shared a 53-run stand for the eighth with Bowes and got his side to 176 on the big ground.
For ND, Scott Kuggeleijn had helped himself to two quick top order wickets off consecutive deliveries, and finished off the innings with 4-36 in the 43rd.
Ford Trophy debutant Kristian Clarke also had an excellent day with the ball, taking 4-40 off his nine overs first up.
Debutant Kristian Clarke | MBUTCHER
Rain had interrupted the innings, and it would return in the second innings when ND was batting to turn proceedings into a reduced DLS chase.
Northern got a fast start through Katene Clarke's aggressive 46 off 36 balls, and it was after his dismissal at 80/2 that more rain began to make its way to Cobham Oval.
The target was revised to 122 off 27 overs and when the teams got back on, ND got home comfortably, just 17.5 overs required, and picking up a bonus point for their trouble.
