Waimate Cricket Club

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