Waimate in line to upset Celts
The Waimate seniors had a good first day of probably their final match of the season and currently “have the wood” over Celtic with only a further seven runs required to take first innings points with 10 overs to play and four wickets in hand including not out batsmen Jason Sew Hoy on 48 and Alan Reid on 2.
After at one stage having Celtic in panic mode at 37-5 after Matt Devlin’s wily spin had bamboozled them, an ex-Waimo (still living in the district) James Laming got Celtic out of jail with an unbeaten century.
Celtic finished 224-7 when the compulsory declaration came after 50 overs.
Waimate began similarly to normal with two wickets gone and only 6 on the board, but Naffa Sew Hoy, perhaps in his final cricket match before marriage and retirement decided to go out on a high, and would have been devastated to be given out lbw for 86 when in sight of a maiden senior century!
Glen Drake 23, Adam Polson 10 and Matt Devlin 33 all helped the cause and after 40 overs Waimate finished 217-6 when play finished for the day.
Waimate can finish the season with a good result, and if things were to ge really well have an outside chance of making the final, but need to win outright as well as on the first innings and then score a minimum of 125 runs in their second innings to pip Star and Temuka. This of course assumes that they bowl Celtic all out second time round, and that Temuka don’t beat Geraldine outright. Good stuff to dream about anyway.
A good season despite being the most travelled team and some of the new younger players have made the step up to senior well, while others have had patches where they have shown with the right application they can still compete at the top level.
You can read the scoreboard so far here >> scoreboard
