Match Details
Series
Series result
Otago won the 1952/53 Plunket Shield
Season
Match days
16,17,19,20 January 1953 (4-day match)
Umpires
Points
Otago 8, Central Districts 0
Otago's victory over Wellington in the final round wasn't enough to clinch top spot
Thomas rewrote family history and Otago records, bagging a match haul of 13 wickets in the Plunket Shield
Central Districts quick Brett Randell became the first to pick five wickets in five balls in first-class cricket history, and later became the first to take six wickets in eight balls in the format
Uncapped seam-bowling allrounder Kristian Clarke called up as reinforcement; Glenn Phillips and Daryl Mitchell included in squad
The fast bowler and his Canterbury team-mate Mitch Hay could make their Test debuts in the second Test against West Indies