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\nHenry Nicholls scores a century for Canterbury.
\nPhoto: www.photosport.nz\n<\/p>\n
Henry Nicholls’ red hot form with the bat continues as the Canterbury skipper recorded his highest ever first class score.<\/p>\n
The 34 year old’s knock lasted almost eight hours and included 25 boundaries.<\/p>\n
His previous best score for Canterbruy was an unbeaten 171 last season.<\/p>\n
He now has 22 first class centuries.<\/p>\n
This season Nicholls also scored a century in each innings against Otago in Dunedin, while he also has two Ford Trophy one day centuries.<\/p>\n
He now needs just one more ton in 2025\/26 to equal Michael Papps’s Canterbury record for most first-class centuries in a Plunket Shield season.<\/p>\n
Nicholls and Rhys Mariu (147) shared a 271-run stand, a Canterbury second-wicket partnership record.<\/p>\n
Auckland are 37\/3 heading into day three, still 359 runs behind overall.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile in the Hallyburton Johnstone Shield, White Fern Jess Kerr broke the longstanding Wellington Blaze bowling record with her haul of 7\/18 against the Canterbury Magicians in Rangiora.<\/p>\n
Kerr’s figures also equal the overall Hallyburton Johnstone Shield record, Auckland Heart Bella Armstrong took 7\/18 against the Otago Sparks at Melville Park (Auckland) in December 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Henry Nicholls scores a century for Canterbury. Photo: www.photosport.nz Henry Nicholls’ red hot form with the bat continues…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-183850","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz","18":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}