Butler Century & Rain Dampen Waimo’s Parade
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
