Auckland Aces vs. Central Stags: Auckland Aces Leading the Points Table

With the Ford Trophy List-A matches entering their pre-final and most crucial stages, teams are preparing to play with their full-strength squad and get maximum out of the league games. Northern Districts, Canterbury Kings, and Wellington Firebirds have completed their 10 matches of the league stages. In the upcoming fixture, Auckland Aces would be taking on Central Stags in the home of Auckland at Eden Park Outer Oval. Auckland Aces have so far played 8 games in the competition, managing to win 5. On the other hand, its Central Stags, placed at the top of the table, won 5 wins in 9 games. Both equally matched teams would be taking on each other in a thriller of a game on 24th Feb 2022.

Before the start of the tournament, who would have thought Auckland Aces would be coming out all guns blazing and striking a flood of runs. In their last game against Otago Volts, Aces made 380 runs in their 50 0vers, with Martin Guptill and George Worker striking centuries upfront. Glenn Philips also made an odd 60 of 41 deliveries having a strike rate of 165. In the bowling department, Sean Solia and Simon Keene made Otago Volts default picking 3 wickets each. This round performance by the Aces got them a reasonably moral-bosting victory over Otago Volts. For the upcoming game against Central Stags, Aces would be hoping to produce something more energetic and fluent to win the match. With the likes of Colin Munro, Robert O Donnell, George Worker, Kyle Jamieson, and William Somerville in the lineup, Aces would be looking to dominate the stags in their home ground.

• Martin Guptill;
• George Worker;
• Mark Chapman;
• Kyle Jamieson;
• William Somerville.

Central Stags have been phenomenal this season, leading the charts and the points table. Their heartwarming performances in the Ford Trophy 2022 have been peculiar, as every team player is contributing to the team’s success and enforcing positivity throughout the dugout. Central Stags had shown some great character with the bat and the ball when they managed to bowl out Northern Brave on an under-par score of 143 and successfully chased the target in 30.4 overs with 6 wickets to spare. Going in the game against Aces, Stags would have to come up with decent performance for winning comprehensively.

• Doug Bracewell;
• Ajaz Patel;
• Blair Tickner;
• Ben Smith;
• Josh Clarkson.

Both teams are finding their form with the best available players in their lineup. For the upcoming game, Auckland Aces are likely to win and go on dominating the Ford Trophy 2022.