SPLIT ROUND:
SIXTH ROUND for Otago Volts
SEVENTH ROUND for Wellington Firebirds • 2022/23
WELLINGTON FIREBIRDS beat OTAGO VOLTS by 110 runs
University of Otago Oval, Dunedin
10 January 2023
Selected milestones
Devan Vishvaka (Wellington Firebirds): List A debut
Andrew Hazeldine: List A debut for Otago Volts (previously: Canterbury)
Rachin Ravindra: third List A century
Max Chu: Otago Volts record for most wicketkeeping dismissals in an innings
Wellington Firebirds: second highest team total in List A cricket
Luke Georgeson: career best bowling
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The Wellington Firebirds have posted the second largest one-day total in their cricket history to set up a swashbuckling 110-run victory over a fighting Otago Volts team in Dunedin's sunshine today.
The Firebirds' emphatic 392 for six in 50 overs was their highest team score since 2012/13, and ranks second only to the mammoth 427/8 they posted at the Cello Basin Reserve two seasons ago - also against the Otago Volts.
RACHIN RAVINDRA
Batting at first drop, 23-year-old Rachin Ravindra's third Ford Trophy century (113) was the highlight of the innings, but he had plenty of support from debutant Devan Vishvaka (off the mark with a quick 45) and Nick Kelly (61); belting consecuttve century stands with each of them.
Then came captain Troy Johnson who biffed 78 not out off just 47 balls; and a quick unbeaten 36* from Logan van Beek at the death.
TROY JOHNSON
The Otago Volts were not without some numbers of their own, wicketkeeper Max Chu claiming four catches and two stumpings to set a new Volts record of six dismissals in a List A one-day innings.
MAX CHU
But chasing down 428 was always going to be tough ask.
Captain Hamish Rutherford made a positive start with 68, and shared an 89-run opening stand with the busy Chu, but Luke Georgeson eventually removed them both en route to a one-day career best haul of 4-42, while van Beek chimed in with 3-66.
HAMISH RUTHERFORD
The Volts fought hard to reach 282 before the last wicket fell in the 43rd over, Wellington's 110-run victory ranking as one of top 10 biggest wins.
The much needed victory elevates the Firebirds to fourth on The Ford Trophy table with three rounds remaining, pushing the Volts down to fifth (with four rounds in hand for the Volts).
Tomorrow sees the action shift north to Christchurch where Canterbury hosts competition leaders the Central Stags at Hagley Oval in a top of the table clash from 11am.
