Canterbury Cricket Team
The Canterbury Wizards are a New Zealand first class cricket team based in Canterbury, New Zealand. It is one of six teams that make up New Zealand Cricket and has been the most successful domestic team in New Zealand history. They compete in the Plunket Shield first class competition, the Ford Trophy domestic one day competition and the HRV Cup competition.
Read more about Canterbury Cricket Team: Honours, Grounds, 2008/09 Squad, Notable Players, Records
Famous quotes containing the words canterbury, cricket and/or team:
“Thus you are just not because you give what is owed, but because you do what is appropriate to you as the highest good.”
—Anselm of Canterbury (1033–1109)
“All cries are thin and terse;
The field has droned the summer’s final mass;
A cricket like a dwindled hearse
Crawls from the dry grass.”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)
“They’re two good old friends of mine. I call them Constitution and The Bill of Rights. A most dependable team for long journeys. Then I’ve got another one called Missouri Compromise. And a Supreme Court—a fine, dignified horse, though you have to push him on every now and then.”
—Dan Totheroh (1895–1976)