Waimate Cricket Club

Waimate put their Twenty20 loss to Star on Friday night behind them by securing a win against Timaru.

Timaru failed to get any partnerships going on a slow track.

Opener Gerald Piddock tried to anchor the innings but he became one of Drake’s five wickets, on 35, and it was left to captain Hayden Butler (20) to get Timaru through to a respectable total, which ended up being 111.

Drake ended with figures of 5 for 29, while Jared Matthews picked-up two wickets.

Waimate’s chase had early wobbles thanks to Josh Smallridge, who picked up the first three wickets with only 25 runs on the board.

Drake had been struggling for runs this season and had pulled out of the South Canterbury squad midweek but he proved to be the calming influence with the bat as he made 58 not out.

He shared in an unbeaten fifth-wicket partnership of 52 with Alan Reid, who made seven.

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Star notched their first win of the 2011/2012 season with a 10-run victory over Waimate in the opening night of the the South Canterbury Twenty20 cricket competition.

Friday night cricket at Aorangi Oval produced a match which went down to the final over.

Star made 162-5 from their 20 overs, and Waimate were bowled out for 152 in the final over of their run-chase

Nathan Tubb’s 67 anchored Star’s innings last night, but it was the triple-wicket maiden from Hamish Dickson which turned the match, despite Nathan Sew Hoy’s belligerent 90 for Waimate.

Captain Phil McGregor may have won the toss and chosen to bat, but his side was quickly in trouble at 23-3, thanks to the left-arm spin of Matt Devlin who took three wickets in four balls.

Tubb’s innings, which included six fours and two sixes, kept the run-rate at more than seven an over.

He shared in a 92-run fourth wicket partnership with Danny Campbell, who made 35, before he was stumped by Nathan Sew Hoy from the bowling of Glen Drake.

A handy cameo of 17 from the usually sedate McGregor, left Waimate a chase of more than eight runs an over.

Devlin ended with figures of 3-31 from four overs.

Nathan Sew Hoy’s innings dominated the Waimate run chase. He brought-up his 50 in the seventh over, with the team on 59.

He regularly ran out of partners, but it did not stop him trying to score freely.

He used the strong breeze to muscle balls for six on to the embankments, which had Waimate cruising at more than the required run-rate for the first half of the innings.

The matched changed when Dickson removed Jason Sew Hoy for seven and Scott Willoughby and Connor Farrell without a run being scored.

Waimate went from a state of control at 94-3 to 94-6.

With Sew Hoy still at the crease, Waimate were in control, but when Jeremy Lane had him caught and bowled for his first senior wicket of the year, Star had gained a winning advantage.

Waimate needed 15 off the last over, with one wicket remaining, but a runout saw them dismissed with three balls left in their innings.

Dickson finished with 4-19 from his four overs, while Paul Arkinstall and Craig Hinton finished with two wickets.

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Waimate chased down 141 against Temuka to win by six wickets at the Temuka Oval.

Nathan Sew Hoy (49) and Hayden Matthews (48 not out) guided Waimate to a six-wicket win over Temuka.

Temuka had scrambled to 141 all out thanks to Hayden Broker’s 33 and Dylan Lees’ 24.

Waimate made it home with almost 10 overs to spare thanks to an unbeaten partnership of 62 between Matthews and Alan Reid as Reid batted 63 balls for his 3 not out, but I am reliably informed he was trying to get Hayden through to his fifty.

It was a great win for Waimate after Temuka managed to give most of the Waimate team food or water poisoning and some interesting sprints were seen by square leg umpires to the toilets as the day wore on. Waimate with the World Cup Rugby Final still on the mind are now very weary of the new South African player in the Temuka side – does he have a sister named ‘Suzie’ who does afternoon teas?

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Celtic amassed 276-4 against Waimate at Celtic Sports Ground No 1, on the back of Craig Davies’ innings of 154* which included four fours and 10 sixes and came off just 135 balls.

With the long weekend Waimate were down on usual starters (5 ring-ins), but their bowling attack had no answers for a Celtic line-up which kept the runs flowing.

The hard-working Alan Reid picked up 2-42 from his nine overs, while Connor Farrell earned his first wicket in senior cricket, but it cost him 60 runs.

Davies was in devastating form, hitting balls over the ropes at will.

All but one of the Waimate bowlers were hit over the boundary at some point.

Davies was helped by being dropped by Mark Medlicott when he was approaching his half century.

Davies carried his bat, and found some good support from Dan Laming 43, Sam Carlaw 28 not out and Jacob Naylor 24.

Waimate were never in the chase, and were on track to do worse that Star’s effort at 31-8 before being dismissed for 52. Only two Waimate batsmen made it into double figures, with Nathan Sheppard taking a bouncer to the helmet on his way to 12 and Glen Drake, struggling with an ankle injury, making 10 when coming in at No 10.

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Waimate’s first home game of the season at Knottingly Park against Roncalli was reduced to 22 overs, after rain halted play after nine overs.

Ed Kilbee top-scored for Roncalli with 45, and he shared in a 72-run second wicket partnership with captain Tom Pavletich , who made 27.

The Waimate bowlers struggled to contain the run rate, as the school team posted 130-5.

Waimate’s best performers with the ball were Glen Drake, who took 2-36 from five overs and Ben Matheson who had figures of 2-19 from three overs.

In reply, Waimate could not get a partnership going and struggled to increase the scoring rate.

Ben Watson’s medium-fast bowling had both Waimate openers, Nathan Sew Hoy and Nathan Sheppard, out with just 11 runs on the board. Watson finished with 2-1 from his five overs, which included four maidens.

None of Roncalli’s six bowlers went for more than four runs an over, as Waimate finished on 70-7, with captain Jason Sew Hoy top-scoring on 14. He said after the rain delay, his bowlers struggled to grip an already wet ball, and in fading light, none of the batsmen was willing to occupy the crease.

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Waimate started their season with a win over arch-rivals Star on the opening day of the South Canterbury cricket season.

Star looked to be in control of their match when Arkinstall and Danny Campbell put on 117 for the second wicket, but the drinks break did the trick, Campbell was run out for 58, and when Arkinstall succumbed to Nathan Sheppard on 60, Waimate began to get back on level terms.

Spinner Glen Drake chimed in with three middle-order wickets to see Star slump to 196 all out in the 44th over.

Nathan Sew Hoy and Sheppard combined for an opening stand of 66, with Sew Hoy scoring 54 and Sheppard 27.

Waimate lost six wickets for 41 runs after that to be 107 for six thanks to the medium pace of Arkinstall who bagged his five-wickets with nagging line-and length bowling. But the experienced Alan Reid and teenager Scott Willoughby combined for an unbroken 90-run partnership for the seventh wicket to guide the visitors home.

Reid’s was left not out 33, while Willoughby played a more controlled innings than in previous seasons to remain unbeaten on 47.

Star captain Phil McGregor said the win was there for the taking, but they let it slip.

Waimate captain Jason Sew Hoy said his team was short of bowlers but was happy to get a win considering the middle-order contributed very little.

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This season has begun with Waimate the defending Tweedy Cup champions looking to follow on from last year’s most successful season since joining the South Canterbury competition.

Waimate will be fielding two teams in the newly formed Second Grade A and B sections with Senior Reserve grade now removed as well as a Fourth Grade and Women’s team to show the club is in strong heart.

40 years after joining the South Canterbury competition after winding up the local sub association, Waimate have had their best season of results ever.

Waimate won trophies in every men’s grade they entered, and topping it off the seniors won the Tweedy Cup, the premier trophy in South Canterbury club cricket, after earlier winning the SCCA Trophy as top qualifier in the Round Robin and being runner-up in the Daily Freightways One Day competition.

Waimate also won the Second Grade trophy again with Greg Paul hitting an unbeaten century in the final to beat favourites Celtic, the fourth grade won their trophy for the third year in a row and the JAB won their Two Day competition.

 

The success of the Waimate Cricket Club was shown at the SCCA Prizegiving where as well as the team trophies Waimate also featured in the individual awards with Alan Reid winning the Williams Cup for Bowler of the Year with 56 wickets @ 15.45 (including 6-95 off 44 overs in Tweedy Cup Final) and the SCCUA Graeme Lowrie Spirit of Cricket Award for the senior cricketer who epitomises the way the game should be played which is chosen by umpires.

Glen Drake also showed his class by winning the L J Grant Trophy Young Player of the Year and also took out the nights supreme prize, the Graeme Blanchard Memorial Trophy for a youth cricketer who displays an excellent attitude on and off the field for fair play, a team player who inspires the spirit of cricket and has good work ethics.

Read what the Timaru Herald said about Alan and Glen here

Click here to read the story about the Tweedy Cup Final

Click here to read about the SCCA end of year prizegiving

More photos and details about the season will be added soon.

Timaru proved losing is a habit, while Celtic and Temuka appear to be hitting their straps, as the third round of South Canterbury two-day cricket came to an end.

Both Timaru and Waimate looked like the winner of their match at Ashbury Park, on Saturday, but in the end, they both tried to throw it away with some sloppy top-order batting.

Waimate’s opening bowlers, Matthew Sew Hoy and Alan Reid took nine for 80, as Timaru were bowled out two runs short of victory, as they capitulated, despite a low-order rearguard effort, to gift Waimate a one-run win.

Earlier, 69 from Srinivas KS and 45 from Logan Taylor had given the home team a 25-run first innings lead.

Reid and Sew Hoy took three wickets each, in the first innings, on a pitch which had variable bounce and little moisture.

Waimate’s top-order continued the match’s theme of faltering top-order batting, as Jordan Morrow took the first three wickets to fall, on his way to a five-wicket bag.

Glen Drake had to retire hurt but he returned to make a gritty 27, while wicketkeeper Scott Willoughby wasted no time in making 28.

A last wicket stand between Matt Devlin, 31, and Matthew Sew Hoy, 12, pushed the target beyond triple figures, with Timaru left 106 from 36 overs to win.

The run-rate was slow but the tumbling of wickets was not.

Timaru were waving the white flag at 46 for 7, until a 49-run, eighth wicket partnership between Zane Sanders, 27, and Gerald Piddock, 23, but when they were both dismissed, it was left up to Grant Brookland and Morrow to score the six runs needed.

They could manage only four, as Morrow was trapped leg-before-wicket for 0, to give Sew Hoy his fifth wicket of the innings.

Timaru captain Hayden Butler said poor batting was becoming a common theme for the season.

“Yet again no-one got runs, someone from our top five has to get a [big] score.”

Waimate captain Jason Sew Hoy said Reid, and his brother, Matthew Sew Hoy, were exceptional.

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Waimate Seniors were unable to take advantage of the rep players being away in the Celtic side, although it was somewhat boosted by Mark Tutton flying in from Florida and new recruit Willie Wright, but it was Matt Mealings (has a Waimo Mum) who made the big difference between Celtic and Waimate. His unbeaten 92 lifted Celtic to 200 all out. The next best score was Ants de Joux’s 19, such was Mealings’ domination of the innings.

Alan Reid and Matthew Sew Hoy again stood out with the ball for the home side with Alan taking three for 34, and the ‘Chuckster’  grabbed two for 28 from 8.1 overs.

Waimate’s reply was a stuttery one with Alan’s unbeaten run with the bat coming to an end. With their highest partnership being 42 runs, they didn’t have a pair who could see them to the total, but Glen Drake showed that 15 days of cricket on the trot was no problem as he again top-scored with 33.

Unfortunately for Waimate some tight bowling from Celtic meant they fell 21 runs short.

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