WAIMATE CRICKET CLUB

With both teams needing victory to have any chance at a final Waimate batted first with Matt Devlin opening in his club swansong before departing for Australia. It wasn’t a great send off and Waimate were soon in deep trouble at 58-5 before Alan Reid with 38 and Jason Sew Hoy 34 added some substance allowing Waimate to post a competitive 183. Tom McKnight had a successful day with the ball for Geraldine taking 3 of the first 4 wickets to fall.

Geraldine’s reply was built around Stephen Pagan’s 53, but unfortunately only Regan Tate with 35 got going and tight bowling, especially by Reuben Allan with 2-6 off six overs and good fielding saw Waimate dismiss Geraldine 16 runs short in another nailbiter. Alan Reid also capped off a good day by taking 2-25 and Matty D picked up one wicket.

         Waimate

         R Fox c Pagan b McKnight             5

         M Devlin b Drennan                  11

         N Sew Hoy b McKnight                 9

         H Matthews c Pagan b McKnight        0

         C Booth run out Tate                12

         R Allan stp Pagan b Galway          15

         J Sew Hoy c Tate b Galway           34

         A Reid c McKnight b Drennan         38

         S Devlin c Drennan b Chapman        16

         M Sew Hoy b Chapman                  3

         R Ford not out                       6

         Extras (2b, 9lb, 22w)               33

         Total (for 10 wkts)                183

         Fall: 5, 29, 29, 32, 58, 108, 119, 163, 169, 183.

         Bowling: H Drennan 8.5-3-26-2, T McKnight 9-1-32-3, P Chapman 9-0-35-2, C Esh 9-2-26-0, N Galway 9-0-53-2.

         Geraldine

         S Pagan c N Sew Hoy b Ford          53

         S Franklin c N Sew Hoy b Reid        0

         M Barnes c J Sew Hoy b M Sew Hoy    11

         G Metcalf c J Sew Hoy b Reid        16

         R Tate lbw b Fox                    35

         H Drennan c Reid b M Devlin         17

         P Lill lbw b Allan                  10

         C Esh c J Sew Hoy b Fox              5

         T McKnight not out                   5

         N Galway run out N Sew Hoy           3

         P Chapman c M Devlin b Allan         0

         Extras (4lb, 7w)                    11

         Total (for 10 wkts)                167

         Fall: 1, 30, 74, 89, 124, 146, 158, 158, 162, 167.

         Bowling: A Reid 9-1-25-2, M Sew Hoy 6-1-26-1, S Devlin 3-0-25-0, R Ford 6-1-32-1, M Devlin 6-1-30-1, R Fox 6-2-19-2, R Allan 5.4-1-6-2.

         Result: Win to Waimate by 16 runs.

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

Waimate continued their one day dominance over Temuka, travelling away and winning by 103 runs as both Jason and Nathan Sew Hoy had great innings with the bat, while Al Reid found form of old with runs and wickets.

Waimate and Celtic now move to first equal in the one-day competition and will make their combined team for next weekend’s Twenty/20 tournament an early favourite, although the return of rep players to the Temuka/Geraldine and Timaru/Star composite teams will certainly have something to say about that.

Temuka won the toss and asked Waimate to bat, but after an early breakthrough had to watch as Alan Reid (40) and Nathan Sew Hoy (70) put together a solid partnership.

A typical Waimate batting collapse saw most of the middle order come and go quickly and Temuka back into the game before Jason Sew Hoy, growing in confidence as the season continues, scored another powerful 87 before being run out. With the support of Matt Devlin (32), he had helped Waimate post an impressive 274-8 from 45 overs.

The Temuka bowlers all took some stick but Dillon Lees (3-53) and Taj Bullivant (2-41) were the most successful.

In reply, Michael Geddes with a half century and Willie Stone (26) got Temuka off to a good start in their chase, and although Ritchie Preston, Hayden Broker and Lees got into double figures, Waimate were not going to let this one get away easily. Reuben Allan was miserly with the ball, taking 3-29, but it was Alan Reid who opened up Temuka by dismissing the first three batsmen and Temuka were eventually all out in the 34th over for 173.

Waimate
N Sheppard b Lees 2
A Reid lbw Lees 40
N Sew Hoy b Bullivant 70
H Matthews run out 0
R Van Royen b Lees 0
R Allan c Lees b Bullivant 6
J Sew Hoy run out 87
M Devlin c Stone b Geddes 32
M Sew Hoy not out 4
D Mehrtens not out 3
Extras (3b, 3lb, 20w 8nb) 34
Total (for 8 wkts) 274
Bowling: D Lees 9-0-53-3, M Geddes 9-1-36-1, R Histen 9-0-52-0, H Broker 5-0-45-0, T Bullivant 6-0-41-2, W Stone 4-0-27-0, R Preston 3-0-14-0.

Temuka
W Stone b Reid 26
M Geddes b Reid 53
A Cunningham c N Sew Hoy b Reid 4
R Preston b M Sew Hoy 25
H Broker c Van Royen b Allan 10
R Histen not out 19
D Lees c Ford b Allan 0
T Bullivant c Ford b Allan 4
J Scannell b M Sew Hoy 6
D Johnson c Van Royen b Sheppard 4
Extras (1b, 2lb, 15w, 1nb) 19
Total (for 9 wkts) 173
Bowling: A Reid 9-1-56-3, R Ford 5-0-30-0, R Allan 9-1-29-3, M Sew Hoy 5-0-20-2, M Devlin 3-0-12-0, D Mehrtens 2-0-14-0, N Sheppard 0.3-0-5-1.
Result: Waimate win by 101 runs

The team display their inauspicious or outstanding efforts for Movember 2008. A great team effort which would lead to a rare victory over Celtic on this day.

The guys put their razors away for the month of November to raise money for The Prostate Cancer Foundation. There were some great top-lip caterpillars and some not so.  Well done boys for raising $500 and thank you to all who donated.

Special mention has to go to one Senior Men’s player who also shaved his head to raise funds. Good on ya’ Chucky!

Waimate produced a major upset when Jason SewHoy batting at No 8 produced a powerful display of clean hitting of the ball in an unbeaten 76 to see Waimate through to 217-9 to win the match.

The Celtic versus Waimate match doubled as a trial game for the Twenty/20 competition to be played at the Aorangi Bowl on December 20th when these two teams combine to make up one of the 4 teams for the $1000 tournament.

Celtic won the toss and even though they were minus a number of players on representative duty still fielded a strong team. They lost an early wicket before Ryan DeJoux and Mark Tutton (27) added 115 for the 2nd wicket with DeJoux showing class of old as he battered the bowling to all parts of the ground before playing a lazy shot in site of his ‘ton’ and was out for 94 (10 x 4, 4 x 6), but looked to have done enough to set Celtic up for a massive total after getting to 190 for the loss of only 4 wickets.

Waimate toiled away with Allan Reid only conceding 27 runs from his 9 overs but it was the introduction of Matt Devlin’s left-arm spin and the medium pace of Reuben Allan that changed the shape of the match. Devlin took the prized wickets of the DeJoux’s (Pisshead and Blockhead) and then Reuben (smarting from last weeks comments about facial hair) ’mowed’ them over taking 5-39 in a great spell that saw Celtic’s last five wickets fall for only 18 runs as they failed to bat out their 45 overs, thus undoing much of Ryan DeJoux’s good work.

In reply Waimate were soon in trouble with their re-jigged batting order that included Chucky being promoted to opener, and after Sam Carlaw took a brilliant diving catch to dismiss Hayden Matthews for 12 were precariously placed at 55-5 and it looked like it may be early drinks all round, but Waimate again showed they can fight when the chips are down and this time it was Reuben Allan with 43 leading the way as he put partnerships of 45 with Al Reid and 30 with Jason SewHoy together before Ryan DeJoux took a screamer at square leg to dismiss him in sight of his fifty.

As Jason’s confidence grew so did the strength of the shots, and although he lost a partner quickly his scoring rate suddenly gave Waimate hope as they began regularly scoring 8 and more an over. Alongside Sam Devlin (17) “Lites” saw the score through to 165 before Sam was out trying to put another ball over the trees. Lites was joined by No 11 Richard Ford (also known as ‘Frodo’ and hopefully not ‘Mato” on this occasion) and together they continued the fight.

By now the spectators and their cars were under threat as Lites brought up his first senior fifty with one of his 6 sixes. He also hit 5 fours.

As the pressure went on, the bowlers were found wanting, helping the cause by conceding 40 extras, and were unable to stop Lites keeping the strike as he and Frodo picked up a single near the end of each over. Frodo survived a good over from Grant Watt, before Lites with a flurry of sixes including one that left the ground, crossed Rockdale Rd and landed in the far paddock and was reckoned by one umpire to be the biggest he has ever seen; saw Waimate through to 217-9 and victory with 4 overs to spare. The significance of Lite’s and Frodo’s last wicket partnership was that they added 52 runs between them and Frodo finished 0 not out.

Scoreboard:

Celtic
R DeJoux b M Devlin 94
A Scott b Ford 2
M Tutton lbw b R Allan 27
S Carlaw c S Devlin b R Allan 20
A DeJoux b M Devlin 25
A Craig run out 12
J Waud b M SewHoy 6
K Emmerson b R Allan 5
W Scott c J SewHoy b R Allan 1
P Farr c Sheppard b R Allan 2
G Watt not out 2
Extras (1b, 2lb, 17w, 1nb) 21
Total 215
Fall: 12, 127, 138, 169, 192, 200, 210, 210, 210, 215.
Bowling: R Ford 6-1-27-1, A Reid 9-2-27-0, M SewHoy 6-0-39-1, M Devlin 9-1-58-2, S Devlin 3-0-22-0, R Allan 8.3-0-39-5.
Waimate
N Sheppard run out 1
M SewHoy b Farr 0
N SewHoy b Farr 7
H Matthews c Carlaw b Farr 12
M Devlin c A Scott b A DeJoux 7
R Allan c R DeJoux b A DeJoux 43
A Reid b Emmerson 13
J SewHoy not out 76
R van Royen lbw b A DeJoux 1
S Devlin b Tutton 17
R Ford not out 0
Extras (1b, 11lb, 23w 5nb) 40
Total (for 9 wkts) 217
Fall: 2, 17, 18, 36, 55, 100, 130, 136, 165.
Bowling: P Farr 8-0-32-3, G Watt 8-1-22-0, W Scott 6-1-17-0, A DeJoux 9-0-50-3, S Carlaw 6-0-47-0, K Emmerson 2-0-16-1, M Tutton 2-0-17-1.
Result: Win to Waimate.

While watching cricket on Saturday a certain gentleman mentioned that he didn’t want his score or any record of his involvement in the match being shown. I have therefore deliberately not mentioned his name in this article.

However while watching the cricket I was able to study some of the attempts for “Movember”, and must congratulate those involved for helping a good cause.

BUT, I did notice that one member seems to be outshining the others and it wasn’t until researching my records while updating the new website that I realised he was five years ahead of the others as this photo from 2003 clearly shows. All that was needed was to finish off the start!