By Joe Rigby
THE scores are reminiscent of one of those back garden games when the older boys take on the juniors, only this is a first-class match and the team being battered are Auckland, 23 times winners of New Zealand’s premier regional competition, the Plunkett Shield.
Their batsmen must have felt like kids as five of the top seven returned to the Basin Reserve pavilion in Wellington, a traditionally high-scoring ground, having failed to trouble the scorers. The score at the time? 12-7!
In fairness, something of a recovery followed with Auckland finishing with 62 al...