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24 October, 2024
Local cricketers win places in top Auckland teams
Three North Shore cricketers have Auckland contracts for the 2024-25 season.
Schoolgirl spin bowler Rishika Jaswal will play for the Auckland Hearts, while Jock McKenzie and Simon Keene have made the Auckland Aces squad.
Jaswall was also recently named in Cricket New Zealand’s women’s development squad.
Rishika has been in the Takapuna Grammar School first XI since Year 9 and was joint secondary schools’ player of the national Gillette Venus Cup tournament last summer.
The leg spinner was called up to play for the Hearts – the premier women’s Auckland side – seven times last season.
She recently played for a national under-19 side in a tri-series against Australia and Sri Linka in Brisbane and the Gold Coast.
She is thought to be in the box-seat for selection for the U19 Women’s T20 World Cup being played in Malaysia in January.
McKenzie, a promising rugby player who played a few matches for the Auckland Blues in 2023, seems to have chosen cricket as his prime sport.
Keene meanwhile is into his second season with the Auckland Aces.
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