Halliday, Green to join Auckland - Vincent Jones

Brooke Halliday and Maddy Green have confirmed that they will be moving to Auckland for the 2023/2024 season.

Former Northern Districts captain, Brooke Halliday has decided to make the move to Auckland after making her debut for the Northern Districts in 2012.

When it was announced that Jess Watkin had signed with the Northern side, it was all going to be replacing someone in the side. During her time with the Northern side, Halliday played 83 List A games and 72 T20 games. She scored 1449 runs @ 23 in the List A format and 674 @14.04 in the Super Smash. After becoming a stand out performer for the side, she was eventually rewarded with an international White Ferns call up, including back to back fifties in her first two international games.

With the Northern side stacked with the many different batting options of Watkin, Bernie Bezuidenhout, Caitlin Gurrey, Sam Barriball, Eimear Richardson and Yaz Kareem just to name a few, it shows that there is real talent in the side.

Halliday also took a few wickets for the ND side with 34 in List A with a best of 4–33 and 29 wickets in T20s with a best of 2–3. Halliday also took 29 catches in List A and 19 in T20s.

The loss in leadership of Halliday will be huge for the side, as she was also the captain. The call up to the White Ferns in the 2020/21 showed how well she’d gone not only with bat but with ball over the years before. In her 20 ODIs she has scored 393 runs @21.83 and has taken 4 wickets @18.50. In T20Is, Halliday has made 113 runs @12.55 in the competition.

Former Wellington captain, Maddy Green has also decided to make the move back to Auckland after last appearing for them in the 2018/19 season.

Green played a total of 61 T20 games and 81 List A games for the Auckland side before her departure. During her time in Wellington she played 41 T20s and 7 List A games. In her seven List A games she scored 443 runs @110.5 including two hundreds. In the T20 format, she scored 839 runs @28.93 and made 3 fifties.

Green made her debut in the 2009/10 season and played 81 List A matches for the Hearts and 61 T20 matches. In the List A format she scored 1843 runs @29.25 and in the T20 format Green made 897 runs @ 20.38.

The partnership of Green and Halliday will work closely with current Auckland captain, Lauren Down in a strong batting lineup.