WAIMATE CRICKET CLUB

Playing at home against traditional rivals MacKenzie/Geraldine the Second Grade needed to win to stay at the top of the competition, but unfortunately this didn’t turn out to be the case despite Connor Farrell scoring his top score of the season with a fine ‘69′ (presumably he bought the drinks), Greg Paul being left 43 not out and El Sheppo managing to get the arm over often enough to pick up a couple of wickets after moving back into an “all rounders” role and not just a specialist batsman!

Scoresheet: Waimate 176/7
C Farrell 69, G Paul 43*

Mackenzie/Geraldine 177/5
G Muff 58, B Guthrie38*, M Walker 23

N Sheppard 3 0 11 2

Waimate lost our second round match against Celtic last weekend to make it one apiece with one round left. Next week we play Geraldine away and must win to stay in contention for a final berth, which may yet be decided on net run rate if the round robin results are even, and with 5 teams in contention there are heaps of possible outcomes, but first we need to WIN!

As for last weekend, Celtic batted first and Craig Davies (100) and Ryan de Joux (79) set the match up for Celtic in a huge opening partnership before Alan Reid was able to put some breaks on taking 4-28. The rest of the Celtic batsmen tried to score quickly without much luck, but still posted a challenging 272.

Waimate started positively and were 68-2 off 15 overs with Naffa and Rafferty both getting into the twenties but unfortunately not going on, while Bob really surprised by not being out lbw and getting into doubly figures, but in the end Waimate was all out in the 33rd over for 150, more than 100 runs short despite Jason ‘Lites’ Sew Hoy with 51 again trying to pull us out of the fire.

Timaru, Jan 24 Daily Freightways Cup Senior One Day matches:-
Celtic
R de Joux c Reid b Ford 79
C Davies c J Sew Hoy b M Sew Hoy 100
M Tutton c sub b M Devlin 25
D Laming c&b b Reid 10
L Taylor c Fox b Reid 1
A Craig c J Sew Hoy b Reid 1
J Laming c M Devlin b Fox 3
M Mealings c&b b Reid 0
S Carlaw c J Sew Hoy b Reid 7
W Scott not out 5
G Watt b Fox 2
Extras (4b, 4lb, 10w) 18
Total (for 10 wkts) 272
Bowling: A Reid 8-1-28-4, M Sew Hoy 9-0-55-2, R Fox 4-0-39-2, C Booth 5-0-39-0, M Devlin 9-0-49-1, R Ford 9-0-54-1.

Waimate
N Sew Hoy c Craig b J Laming 21
R Fox c sub b Watt 29
R van Royen b J Laming 12
C Booth c D Laming b J Laming 5
H Matthews c sub b J Laming 0
M Devlin run out 0
J Sew Hoy c Craig b M Sew Hoy 51
A Reid stp b Carlaw 7
S Devlin c Taylor b Carlaw 1
M Sew Hoy stp b Carlaw 4
R Ford not out 4
Extras (3b, 5lb, 5w, 1nb) 14
Total (for 10 wkts) 150
Bowling: D Laming 7-3-23-0, W Scott 3-0-43-0, G Watt 5-0-16-1, J Laming 9-3-16-4, C Davies 7-1-43-0, S Carlaw 2.2-1-4-4.
Result: Celtic win by 122 runs

Despite missing our chief reporter and star allrounder who prefers to holiday with the “brass monkeys” in Canada, the Waimate Second Grade team has continued on its winning way under the tutelage of captain (and wily old campaigner) Pete Wallace to be tied for first equal heading into this weekend’s match against Mackenzie/Geraldine at home, an always enjoyable and well contested match.

The selectors and the “two wisemen and a ginga” have got together and worked out the rest of the season plan, which we will tell you all about if it comes to fruition, otherwise we will be quiet but mostly we will be hoping some of these stalwarts of the ’seconds’ can step up and that they deliver on their promise.

Now that the Festive Season is over Meds can go back into retirement (he took 2 wickets in an over and even bowled 4 dot balls), Jug can forget about fishing and come back to play more flowing attacking shots as depicted in the photo, Greg can leave Buck to milk the cows and regraded senior player (El Sheppo) can prove why he was up there in the first place.

A century to Hayden Butler helped Timaru’s season resurgence as they travelled to and defeated Waimate, and now re-join Waimate, Star and Celtic in a four way tie at the top of the table with two rounds left in the Daily Freightways One Day competition.

It seemed that everything went Timaru’s way after Waimate won the toss and asked them to bat first at Knottingley Park. After losing two wickets for 26 Waimate then dropped Hayden Butler twice before he scored, crucial mistakes in the context of the game as he went on to make his first senior century by scoring 107. He had good help adding 76 in partnership with Zane Sanders and 72 with Hayden Leonard as Timaru scored 207-7 from their overs.

When rain fell between innings, Timaru’s good fortunes continued as they got to bowl on a freshened pitch and soon made the most of it to have Waimate reeling at 33-5 before Craig Booth and Jason Sew Hoy began the fightback with a 50 run partnership.

However, when Booth was run out, Sew Hoy could not complete the fairytale of previous weeks and although Matt Devlin certainly tried with a cameo innings of 47 not out, Waimate were too far behind the required run rate to threaten Timaru’s score and finished 174-9 off their 45 overs.

A frustrated Devy after no one else could hang around

Timaru
G Piddock c Matthews b Reid 7
R Rankin c J Sew Hoy b M Sew Hoy 16
H Butler c Ford b Fox 107
Z Sanders c Matthews b M Devlin 17
H Leonard b M Devlin 24
T Mackle c M Sew Hoy b Booth 9
J Morrow c Ford b Fox 6
J Dick not out 3
S Porter not out 2
Extras (10w, 2nb) 12
Total (for 7 wkts) 207
Fall: 26, 26, 102, 174, 189, 202, 204.
Bowling: A Reid 9-2-24-1, M Sew Hoy 7-1-17-1, R Fox 8-0-37-2, R Ford 3-0-16-0, R Allan 5-0-36-0, M Devlin 9-1-47-2, C Booth 5-0-29-1.

Waimate
A Reid c Mackle b Morrow 0
R Allan c Mackle b Morrow 13
S Devlin c Mackle b H Leonard 0
H Matthews c Mackle b H Leonard 0
C Booth run out 21
N Sew Hoy lbw Morrow 0
J Sew Hoy c Dick b Rankin 32
M Devlin not out 47
R Fox b Rankin 7
M Sew Hoy c&b b Porter 16
R Ford not out 0
Extras (1b, 4lb, 25w, 3nb) 33
Total (for 9 wkts) 174
Fall: 3, 8, 10, 33, 33, 83, 120, 141, 170.
Bowling: J Morrow 9-4-13-3, H Leonard 8-1-23-2, B Leonard 3-0-11-0, H Butler 4-1-23-0, Z Sanders 4-0-22-0, R Rankin 9-2-33-2, S Porter 4-0-27-1, J Smallridge 3-0-16-0, J Dick 1-0-3-0.
Result: Timaru win by 33 runs

In the feature club game at Aorangi Oval in the latest round of the Daily Freightways One Day Competition, Waimate managed to chase down the target set by Star with two balls to spare and retain their position at the top of the table despite losing two overs because of a slow over rate.

Waimate won the toss and asked Star to bat and after an early breakthrough, the Star batsmen with the backbone provided by Captain Phil McGregor with a patient 50 began to build solid partnerships. Paul Arkinstall scored 48 before holing out trying to loft the ball into the wind as they added 66 runs for the second wicket. Chris Anders helped add another 61 in the next partnership, before the innings faltered somewhat. At 180-8 the score was looking a bit light on the Aorangi pitch, but Julian Blanchard then played a cameo innings of 25 including two huge sixes to help set Waimate a target of 210 for victory.

In reply Waimate was soon in trouble at 20-3 with Chris Hyde making the most of his chances in senior ranks as he bowled through to take 2-26.

However, Craig Booth with 30 and Hayden Matthews put their heads down as they got things back on track adding 65 runs. Rafferty Fox gained a quick but largely unproductive promotion after Jason Sewhoy went missing in the toilet, and with the score on 100 Waimate still needed a further 110 runs off 90 balls.

Matthews and Sewhoy added 45 in good time before Matthews was out for 46 trying to feed Sewhoy the strike. Matt Devlin joined Sewhoy and continued in the same role as Star set the field far and wide to try and restrict Waimate to less than the 9 an over required.

In the end it wasn’t the fielders who needed to worry, rather the neighbouring houses as Sewhoy launched his assault. Blanchard took a great catch only to realize he was over the boundary and that was the closest to a chance Sewhoy gave on his way to 72 not out off only 50 balls to see Waimate to victory.

Star
P McGregor c&b b Allan 50
C Fraser c J Sewhoy b Reid 0
P Arkinstall c Allan b Ford 48
C Anders b M Sewhoy 24
D Reid c J Sewhoy b M Devlin 3
T Butler b M Devlin 2
R Phillips lbw b Allan 7
M Evans c Fox b M Devlin 7
J Blanchard not out 25
P Henshaw not out 5
Extras (3b, 5lb, 29w, 2nb) 39
Total (for 8 wkts) 209
Fall: 12, 78, 139, 152, 156, 163, 177, 180.
Bowling: A Reid 4-0-14-1, M Devlin 9-1-41-3, C Booth 3-1-18-0, S Devlin 3-0-18-0, R Fox 7-0-28-0, R Ford 7-0-16-1, R Allan 9-0-40-2, M Sewhoy 4-0-20-1.

Waimate
A Reid c D Reid b Butler 13
R Allan b Hyde 1
N Sew Hoy c Anders b Hyde 2
H Matthews c Henshaw b McGregor 46
C Booth c&b b Henshaw 30
R Fox b Henshaw 1
J Sew Hoy not out 72
M Devlin not out 15
Extras (5lb, 17w 2nb) 24
Total (for 6 wkts) 212
Fall: 7, 19, 20, 85, 100, 145.
Bowling: T Butler 8-1-29-1, C Hyde 9-0-26-2, M Evans 8.4-0-46-0, P Henshaw 9-1-43-2, P McGregor 9-0-64-1.
Result: Waimate win by 4 wickets