Wellington Firebirds Team: Squad, Results, Stats & Schedule

Wellington Firebirds are Cricket Wellington's men's representative team. They play the Super Smash, the Ford Trophy and the Plunket Shield, with the Cello Basin Reserve as their principal home.

Wellington finished sixth in the 2025/26 Super Smash with three wins, six losses, one toss-made abandonment and 14 points. The men's competition had no bonus-point column: 12 points came from the wins and two from the abandonment. They missed the finals despite winning their last two matches against Canterbury.

The Firebirds reached the 2025/26 Ford Trophy Elimination Final after six regular-season wins but lost to Central Stags by 211 runs. Their Plunket Shield defence cycle ended sixth with no wins, seven losses and one draw. The current rebuild combines 16 domestic contracts with six availability-based BLACKCAPS.

No. Cricket Wellington completed a 16-player domestic contract group when Amogh Paranjpe received the final place. Six BLACKCAPS-contracted players sit outside that domestic count.

Rachin Ravindra, Nathan Smith, Ben Sears, Devon Conway, Tom Blundell and Michael Bracewell are linked to Wellington when available around international duty. Their inclusion explains why the tracker has 22 names without turning 22 into the domestic contract total.

A contract or availability label does not guarantee selection in every format. The tracker records current squad status, while the result and averages sections establish who actually played in the completed T20 season.

Three wins supplied 12 points at four points each. The Auckland match was abandoned without a ball after the toss, which the official men's table classifies as AT and awards two points.

The full calculation is 12 + 2 = 14. There was no Firebirds bonus point: unlike the 2025/26 women's table, the men's table has no bonus-point column.

That distinction matters because an abandonment after the toss and a performance bonus describe different events. Wellington's two non-win points came from the rain-affected Auckland fixture, not a batting or run-rate threshold.

Wellington had only one win after eight fixtures. That left them on six points: four for the Northern win and two for the toss-made Auckland abandonment.

The two closing victories over Canterbury added eight points and lifted the Firebirds to 14. Third-placed Canterbury finished on 20, so the late surge narrowed the gap but could not create a finals place.

The sequence is more revealing than the final win count alone. Wellington won three of ten games, but two arrived only after six losses had already left very little room to recover.

Wellington made 178/5 from 20 overs before Canterbury's chase was reduced to 16 overs. The revised Duckworth/Lewis target was 150, not 179.

Canterbury finished on 136/8. A target of 150 means the par score was 149, so 149 minus 136 produced the official 13-run margin.

The raw 42-run gap between the displayed innings totals is therefore not the result margin. The rain adjustment changed the chase resources and supplied a new target for the shortened innings.

No. Kelly's unbeaten 95 remains Wellington's highest individual score from the completed 2025/26 Super Smash, and he captained the white-ball sides that season.

He left Cricket Wellington in July 2026 to join Northern Districts after four seasons as Firebirds captain. A historical season record remains attached to the team even when its holder moves elsewhere.

Cricket Wellington had not announced a 2026/27 successor at this check. The page therefore preserves Kelly's past performance and captaincy without presenting him as a current squad member or guessing the next captain.