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Central Stags batsman Ross Taylor clattered the Canterbury bowlers all over McLean Park. Everyone awaited a response when Ross Taylor, dropped from the Black Caps Twenty20 side in December, was challenged to prove the selectors wrong in Central Stags green. It took a while, until the Stags’ final regular season Super Smash match, but Taylor made his statement with a megaphone against Canterbury Kings, raining down seven sixes on McLean Park on Friday night. Taylor’s power-packed 65 off 36 balls led the Stags to 183-6 and a 30-run victory over the Kings, to pip them for second place on n...

Eleven of the 16 balls Finn faced on his way to 50 went to or over the boundary rope, including a booming six over backward point off Black Cap Blair Tickner, who could only run his fingers through his moustache in frustration. Left-armer spinner Jayden Lennox bowled him in the ninth over, but Allen and fellow opener Devon Conway had well and truly broken the back of the chase with 107 runs on the board. MARTY MELVILLE/PHOTOSPORT Wellington Firebirds batsman Finn Allen celebrates his 50 against the Central Stags in Wellington on Sunday. They pummelled 86 runs during the power play, feastin...

Unwanted Black Cap plays leading role as Central Stags cement themselves in the top three, while all-rounder takes stunning catch.

The Stags’ bad run of form in the Plunket Shield and Ford Trophy is behind them.

Holly Huddleston took her total for the season to four points after a strong performance for the Auckland Hearts on Monday, where she scored 18 off 16 balls, then took 3-8 off 3.2 overs as they beat the Canterbury Magicians. In the men’s competition, Allen went clear at the top, but is being marked closely by Central Stags opener George Worker. The Firebirds opener smashed 75 off 39 balls as they beat the Northern Knights on Saturday – his third fifty in five outings – to claim his third three-point haul of the season. Worker claimed three points of his own on Friday, when he scored...