{"id":530,"date":"2015-09-04T14:04:43","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T02:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eastchchshirleycricket.org.nz\/?page_id=530"},"modified":"2015-11-23T17:23:31","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T04:23:31","slug":"matchreports","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/eastchchshirleycricket.org.nz\/matchreports\/","title":{"rendered":"Match reports 2015-16"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"tabs-1\" class=\"shortcode-tabs vertical\"><h4 class=\"tab_header\"><span>Weekly Reports<\/span><\/h4><ul class=\"tab_titles has_title\">\n<li class=\"nav-tab\"><a href=\"#tab-1\">Oct 3<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"nav-tab\"><a href=\"#tab-2\">Oct 10<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"nav-tab\"><a href=\"#tab-3\">Oct 17<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"nav-tab\"><a href=\"#tab-4\">Oct 24 &amp; 26<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"nav-tab\"><a href=\"#tab-5\">Oct 31<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"nav-tab\"><a href=\"#tab-6\">Nov 7 &amp; 8<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"nav-tab\"><a href=\"#tab-7\">Nov 14<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"nav-tab\"><a href=\"#tab-8\">Nov 21<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"nav-tab\"><a href=\"#tab-9\">Nov 28<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"nav-tab\"><a href=\"#tab-10\">Tab 10<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n <div class=\"tab tab-oct-3\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>The weekly round-up<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>October 3<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Premier men<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The premiers played Riccarton in round\u00a0one of the two-day competition at Burwood Park.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Riccarton won the toss and decided to bowl with\u00a0the\u00a0first\u00a0five wickets going to the seamers\u00a0but the last\u00a0five surprisingly going to the spinners.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hamish Teale (30) and Nick Johnston, this season&#8217;s captain (42), were the only\u00a0two batsman to prosper\u00a0in the swinging conditions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cole McConchie was the best of the Riccarton bowlers with 4\/17 wrapping up the tail before lunch.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After lunch Riccarton began batting and found the conditions as difficult as Easts struggling to 100\/7 at tea\u00a0with top scorer Liam Bartholomeusz (36) being\u00a0brilliantly\u00a0caught at\u00a0first slip by Tim Johnston.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After tea Riccarton scrapped their way to a\u00a0first innings lead of 15 runs. Not before Nathan McNicol could grab a five wicket\u00a0bag for himself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At stumps Easts second innings finished at 51\/1 off 17 overs with Leo Carter unbeaten on 41.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Easts lead by 36 runs with nine wickets remaining.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>2A<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A tough day for the 2A side on Burwood 2\u00a0against Riccarton.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The seconds\u00a0lost the toss\u00a0and were\u00a0put into bat and it\u00a0wasn&#8217;t looking too good when we were\u00a0two down after\u00a0three overs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dennis\u00a0Bhakta top scored with 23 and\u00a0Hayden Clark finished not out on\u00a014 and were all-out for 61.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Riccarton made 344 all-out with \u00a0Ejaz Khalid taking\u00a03\/58 and Jason Benjamin picking up\u00a03\/81.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Easts were\u00a0all out for 71 with Benjamin\u00a0top-scoring with\u00a030.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>3A<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The East Shirley 3A side (Hooters) played Sumner in the first game of the season at Clare Park.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We won the toss and as rules are rules decided to bat first.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was tough going on an early season wicket with the ball not coming onto the bat and runs hard to come by.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The team struggled through to 66 at drinks after 20 overs and four wickets down.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mitch Petheram batted very well for a well compiled 38 and an also useful contribution of 21 from second grade recruit Brad Wright.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We made 152 losing our last wicket in the 40th over and 152 proved to be a very useful score to defend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rob Leys bowled well as always and picked up 3\/11 off his 8 overs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Richard Papps then picked up 3\/3 off five overs and Sumner were dismissed for 52 giving us a win by 100 runs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Special mention to Phil Roberts who claimed two very good catches in the field.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">3B King&#8217;s XI<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The King&#8217;s XI have\u00a0had a successful start to the season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Batting first against Heathcote at Polo\u00a0Grounds they made 178 all out in the 40<sup>th<\/sup> over, with new player, Dilpreet Singh scoring 63.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bowling they restricted Heathcote to\u00a0107 all-out\u00a0in the 26<sup>th<\/sup> over with Jodh Singh taking 3\/17.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Presidents Gold<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Presidents Gold\u00a0made the trek across town for the season opener against Hornby at Denton Park.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">New captain Craig Gibb won the toss and elected to field first.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hornby are not one of the stronger sides in the grade, but we were wary after coming unstuck against them in the season opener two years ago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Opening bowlers Tim Grocott and Marc Wells had a controlled start, restricting Hornby&#8217;s openers to\u00a0two runs per over for the first 10.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Grocott\u00a0had a double strike in his\u00a0sixth over to start the rot, eventually ending with 2\/14 from his eight.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Garry Hooper&#8217;s spin served to confuse and he was the most successful bowler with 3\/10 from six. \u00a0Howard Morel was also parsimonious with 2\/10 from eight.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wells chimed in with two late wickets in his second spell with 2\/12 to end the Hornby innings. All out for 101 in the 40<sup>th<\/sup> over.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Openers Gibb and Alan Hemingway set about the run chase with\u00a0the latter\u00a0farming the strike to Gibb, who regularly drove the ball to the boundary with\u00a0eight boundaries in his 41.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hemingway\u00a0hung in until the end for 32no with Wells on 15no. The innings ended at 102\/3 in the 24<sup>th<\/sup> over. \u00a0A satisfactory start.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Presidents Blue<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Presidents Blue 146 all out\u00a0(40 overs) lost to Sydenham Cardinals 147\/9.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A game in which both teams trailed at times and had their noses in front at others. Good effort by Easts to bat their overs after being sent in, anchored by Alan Needs (31).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Then after a good start in reply by Sydenham, terrific bowling in tandem by Arun Bhardwaj (3\/16) and Tony Gray (5\/43\u00a0to bring Easts to the brink of victory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A good effort in testing circumstances with a few twists and turns, and several good early season performances.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Premier women<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eastchchshirleycricket.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/ES-W-Prem-on-Warren-2-v-OBC-3-10-15.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-808 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/eastchchshirleycricket.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/ES-W-Prem-on-Warren-2-v-OBC-3-10-15-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"ES W Prem on Warren 2 v OBC 3 10 15\" width=\"439\" height=\"263\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The premier women played Old Boys at Warren Park.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Newly appointed team captain Jacinta Savage won the toss and elected to bat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Openers Sandy Clark (26) and Sam Case (17) put on a good first wicket partnership of 51.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But with Jacinta removed cheaply and only eight players we scored only 36 more runs to be all out for 87 in the 35th over.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Old Boys similarly put on a half-century opening partnership, but then lost four wickets including one when the scores were tied.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A hard day at the office, losing by six wickets in the 19th over.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/div><!--\/.tab--> <div class=\"tab tab-oct-10\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>The weekly round-up<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong> October\u00a010<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Premier men<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Easts&#8217; premiers played Riccarton premiers at Burwood Park in day\u00a0two of\u00a0the\u00a0two-day competition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Resuming on 51\/1 East Shirley dominated the Riccarton bowling and with a bit of help from some poor fielding and catching with\u00a0six dropped chances amassed a significant total of 296\/6dec shortly after lunch. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Leo Carter and Kenneth McClure both scored centuries in a 146 Run 3<sup>rd<\/sup> wicket partnership laying down the platform.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">This setting Riccarton an unlikely 282 for victory off a minimum 56 overs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">But they were quickly dismissed within 33 overs for just 93 runs, securing Easts two extra bonus points for winning by more than 100 runs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Tim Johnston finished with 3-3\u00a0and Jared van Eyk Menkman took 3-34.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">They picked up 20.25 competition\u00a0points in the win.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #ff6600;\">2A<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Their game wrapped up last week, they are away to St Albans next week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #ff6600;\">3A<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Second game of the season and we came up\u00a0against one of the new teams to the grade in\u00a0Burnside. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">The game was played on a belter at Burwood 2, a big thanks to Pete Dunell for a great pitch and the second grade boys for not requiring a\u00a0second day in their game.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Burnside called correctly and won the toss and decided to bat (I didn&#8217;t lose they toss, they won it). <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">We started well with Kyle Knowles picking up his\u00a0first 3A wicket and claiming 3\/17 and Rob Leys also bowling well on one good leg and he finished with 1\/20 from his\u00a0eight overs. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">We then let Burnside back into the game by dropping\u00a0seven catches. Burnside made their way through to 201\/9 from their 40 overs, with Richard Papps doing his usual janitors job and picking up 3\/26.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Burnside seemed very confident with their score, but some inspirational words and tactics of we bat 40 overs and we&#8217;ll win meant we knew this was a very gettable total on a good pitch for batting. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">The openers were fantastic, DJ Lyons was at his belligerent best and made 59 before being caught on the boundary as the openers put on 130 for the first wicket. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Murray Seaton gave a masterclass in chasing down a total\u00a0and finished\u00a077 not out and claiming 3 MVP points as we chased down the 202 required\u00a0three down in the 31st over<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #ff6600;\">3B King&#8217;s XI<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">3b King&#8217;s XI Punjab played New Brighton at Burwood 3 scoring 253\/8 off their 40.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">New captain Sahib Singh plundering the sea-siders\u2019\u00a0bowling for a meritorious century, eventually out for 106. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">The only other player to get among the runs was Jai Singh Rana on 37.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Sahib was also the most successful bowler with 4\/22 as the\u00a0King&#8217;s XI\u00a0restricted the\u00a0visitors to be all out for 170 off 33.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Pavneet\u00a0Singh took 3\/18 and Gurpreet Singh 3\/28.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #ff6600;\">Presidents Gold<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Presidents Gold travelled to Sydenham 3 to play Sydenham Cardinals.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Sydenham won toss and chose to bat first on a hard fast track.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Opening bowlers Tim Grocott and Marc Wells had a wicket each early, then Sydenham recovered to reach 54 off 14, but then lost\u00a0four wickets for\u00a0nine runs in the next\u00a0four\u00a0overs to be 63\/6 nearing the halfway mark. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">They never really recovered from this and with a bit of a flourish from the tail-enders and Brendan Winder, 45, they were eventually all out for 112 off 33 overs.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Garry Hooper again the most successful bowler with 3\/18 with namesake Rod Hooper 2\/23, Howard Morel 2\/11 containing well.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">One moment of comedy came when a high ball caught and bowled chance was grassed by diving bowler Garry Dentice, deflecting the ball to Garry Hooper, who lobbed it to keeper Steve Sharman, who proceeded to drop it with the batsman stranded midwicket.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Chasing the moderate total began well but we then lost both openers, Alan Hemingway caught at mid-off and Craig Gibb stumped, being 44\/2 off 14.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Marc Wells showed he\u2019s got all round ability steering us to the win off 25.2 overs, scoring\u00a0eight boundaries and being stranded on 49 not out\u00a0as Arfur Daly cut the final two balls past the fielders for four.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #ff6600;\">Presidents Blue<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Presidents Blue played Burnside\u00a0on Burnside 4 and batting first scored 155\/7 off 40 overs\u00a0with opener Bernard Rose scoring 75.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Burnside\u00a0chased down the score in 35 overs reaching 156\/5.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #ff6600;\">Premier women<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">The Premier Women played Lancaster Park-Woolston at Warren Park. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Jacinta Savage won the toss and elected to bat. The top order did well with good partnerships between Alyssa Millard and Olivia McGoverne and Hannah Linton, scoring 40 in her first game for the club. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">However, four run-outs punctuated a middle and lower order collapse and Easts were all out for 130.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">LPW made light work of the chase, and scored their runs with half of the 50 overs remaining. The only shining light was Hannah Malloch\u2019s 2\/33.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/div><!--\/.tab--> <div class=\"tab tab-oct-17\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>The weekly round-up<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong> October\u00a017<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Premier men<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">East Shirley were playing St Albans on Burwood 1, Easts won the toss and decided to bat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">With Leo Carter\u00a0and Ken McClure\u00a0out with Canterbury duty and Tim Muir unavailable\u00a0three enforced changes were made to the team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Ruben Spicer, DJ Lyons and Jeremy Duncan came in with the latter making his premier debut.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Regular wickets fell throughout the innings and no partnership managed over 30.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Opener Tim Hampton-Matehe carried his bat and with help from number 11 Jared Roberts managed to pass 50 runs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Finishing on 54no off 155balls in 165mins. Easts were dismissed for 122.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">St Albans&#8217; reply began slowly with Jared Roberts first\u00a0five overs all being maidens, at the other end Nathan McNicol took the first\u00a0three wickets to have Saints 32\/3.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">At tea Saints were 64\/5, after tea a piece of Ben Hanham fielding magic ran out Matt Holstein with a one handed pick-up and direct hit from side on at short mid wicket.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Saints at 84\/8, an Easts&#8217; 1st innings lead was a distinct possibility, but a stubborn Aaron Johnstone and Micheal Slack ninth wicket partnership of a match high 40 runs\u00a0put pay to that and Saints had an 11-run lead on the first innings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Easts had\u00a0three overs to negotiate before stumps and ended\u00a0three without loss trailing overall by just eight runs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #ff6600;\">2A<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">The seconds\u00a0lost the toss to St Albans on Burwood 2\u00a0and\u00a0were put into\u00a0the field\u00a0with\u00a0seven players but\u00a0had some help\u00a0from the senior players sub-fielding as well as Neil Michel and Brent Spicer stepping in to the side.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">They\u00a0bowled saints out for 194 with Ben Michel\u00a0taking 3\/63. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">In reply\u00a0the seconds put\u00a0up a respectable\u00a0153\/9 with one player\u00a0retired hurt. Ajay Chouhan\u00a0was\u00a0the top scorer with\u00a050.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Saints\u00a0are\u00a0now 36\/1 in their\u00a0second innings and 77 runs ahead.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #ff6600;\">3A<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Week three and we were drawn to play Halswell on Burwood 2, the boys were rapt and chomping at the bit as it had been a belter the week before.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">But a change in grounds meant\u00a0we had to get our passports ready and travel out to Halswell to play at Halswell Domain. We were lucky that it was such a nice afternoon and we weren&#8217;t all freezing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">We lost the toss and since they had a couple of players running late they decided to bat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">There was an early dropped catch, but that only cost us five funs as we picked up early wickets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Rob Leys seemed a lot fitter this week and again was very economical bowling his\u00a0eight overs through for\u00a0nine runs and also claimed\u00a0the one\u00a0wicket.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Halswell struggled through to 40 at drinks with\u00a0four wickets down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">We picked up another couple of wickets early after drinks and it looked like it would be all over pretty quickly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Some other bowlers were used including an angry left-armer named Michael Davidson who thought he was pretty good.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Halswell used this to their advantage and made their way to 131 before being dismissed. Australian Brad Wright picked up\u00a0four wickets meaning he would have to shout jugs at the club afterwards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">With DJ Lyons turning back the clock and becoming a normal fish in a big ocean, Matt Richens returned to open the batting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">He looked in good touch sweating on the pull shot and playing a classy drive down the ground before throwing his wicket away in making 24.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Brad Wright joined Murray Seaton and the pair took the game away from Halswell.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Wright\u00a0was dismissed for 46 attempting to win the game with a boundary and bring up his own half century.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Seaton\u00a0again batted through, this time for 54 not out to give us a victory by\u00a0eight wickets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #ff6600;\">3B King&#8217;s XI<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">They\u00a0played Sumner at Barnett Park 1.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Sumner batted first and made 170\/9 off their 40 with Gurpreet Singh taking 3\/36.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">The King&#8217;s XI Punjab boys, who were playing one short, were rolled for 100 in 27 overs with \u00a0Pavi Singh Nagra top scoring with 28.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #ff6600;\">Presidents Gold<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Presidents Gold had their first home\u00a0game, at Burwood 3 this week. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">The opposition were St Albans, a team we have had difficulty beating in the last couple of years.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Captain Craig\u00a0Gibb won the toss and elected to field given our strong bowling attack.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">However the Saints&#8217; openers Hampton and Alabaster started strongly against Marc Wells and Tim Grocott, putting on 32 off the first\u00a0five overs, things slowed a little to 52 off 10 overs after Howard Morel and Arfur Daly were introduced. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">A<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">t 73\/0 off 15 we were staring at a 200+ chase.\u00a0\u00a0Morel bowled Alabaster in the 16th and the tide began to turn<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Hampton ran himself out taking on Gibb&#8217;s arm soon after, and by the 24th over Saints had slumped to 88\/6 with left-armer Garry Dentice having snared 3\/14 from four.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Garry Hooper got his one wicket enticing the batsman forward to be neatly stumped by Steve Sharman. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Saints&#8217; tail wagged some and they fought their way back to 160\/9 off 40.\u00a0Morel ended with 3\/22 off\u00a0eight and\u00a0Daly 1\/22 from eight.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Our run chase didn\u2019t start well with Gibb caught for\u00a0two in the second over. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">First drop Niven Boyle fell at 32 off\u00a0seven and this brought Marc Wells in to partner Alan Hemingway who was batting comfortably. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">These two put on 74 when Wells skied one to be caught for 37 at 106\/3. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Our new recruit Charlie Tibbotts joined Hemingway and these two coasted to 161\/3 off 31. Hemingway 71no and Tibbots 21no.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">The Golds are\u00a0three from three, our best start in many years, but things are not looking good for Labour Weekend with only\u00a0seven players available. Many of the team going away for the long weekend. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #ff6600;\">Presidents Blue<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Presidents Blue played Hornby at Clare 1 and the visitors racked up 201\/4 off their 40.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Missing a few regulars the Blues were forced to rejig their batting line-up and were rewarded with opener Kasun Dandeniya getting to 49 before falling.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Rajeev Varma clubbed 57, Brian Cairns 28 and new boy Jared McMahon steered them to a win. 202\/7 off 38. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #ff6600;\">Premier women<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">The Premier Women had the bye this week.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/div><!--\/.tab--> <div class=\"tab tab-oct-24-26\">October 24<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>The weekly round-up<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong> October\u00a024 and 26<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #ff6600;\">Premier men<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">October 24<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Day\u00a0two of the second\u00a0round of the two day match between East Shirley Premiers and St Albans Premier at Burwood Park No.1<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Only one change to the Easts team this week with Tim Johnston playing for Canterbury Tim Muir came back into the 11.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Easts trailed by eight runs after the first day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Easts batted better once again in their\u00a0second innings as they did in their previous match scoring 214 with contributions from Tim Hampton-Matehe with\u00a044 to go with his 54 not out\u00a0in the first innings, captain Nick Johnston also scored 44 with\u00a0three massive sixes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">DJ Lyons made a quick fire 30 off 28 balls and Tim Muir finished the innings off with 36, Ben Langrope for St Albans bagged a\u00a0five wicket haul with 5-48.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Setting St Albans 204 runs to win off what turned out to be 48 overs maximum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Opening partnership made 40, but a third wicket partnership between opener Greg Dawson and James O&#8217;Gorman of 108 runs put Saints in a very good position to win the match, a few late wickets made for an exciting finish but a boundary to Matt Holstein off the last ball of the 47th over saw Saints win by four wickets with one over to spare.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #ff6600;\">Premier men<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">October 26<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">This Labour weekend Monday saw East Shirley Premiers play Riccarton premiers at Burwood Park 1 in the 1st round of the one day Competition<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Riccarton won the toss and decided to bowl on this new surface, most batsman struggled to fine there timing on the slow unpredictable wicket.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Only Tim Hampton-Matehe (38) and Hamish Teale (48) made solid contributions to the total. While for Riccarton Mike Bramhall&#8217;s medium pacers were very effective in taking 6\/50 off his 10 overs, Easts were bowled out after 48 overs for a total of just 178.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">In a changeup Jared van Eyk Menkman opened the bowling with Nathan McNicol and was quickly rewarded with a wicket in his first over dismissing former Easts batsman Jared Cookson for 3. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Regular wickets throughout the innings kept the run rate down and after a destructive spell of swing bowling by Jared Roberts taking 4\/5 off 5.3overs Riccarton were\u00a0dismissed in the 44th over for just 130runs gaining Easts a valuable bonus point.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #ff6600;\">Premier women<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">This weekend\u2019s round four Premier Women&#8217;s match was played against the\u00a0Sydenham Stars at Burwood Park. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Fielding first, Easts struck an early blow breaking Sydenham&#8217;s opening partnership with a run out in just the second over. After a brief fight back, tight fielding and two stunning catches by Liv McGoverne Sydenham were\u00a0dismissed for 151 inside 40 overs with wickets falling in regularity to Gina Aldersley (3-22), Hannah Linton (3-18) and Jess Davidson (2-27).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">\u00a0A high scoring second wicket partnership from captain Jacinta Savage (57) and Liv McGoverne (34) set the early platform in the run chase. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">With both batsmen dismissed in consecutive overs, Hannah Linton continued the chase with an unbeaten 37 and with help from the lower order ensured the Premier Women&#8217;s first victory of the season with just two wickets remaining.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><\/div><!--\/.tab--> <div class=\"tab tab-oct-31\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>The weekly round-up<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong> October\u00a031<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #ff6600;\">Premier men<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: black;\">Round 2 of the Premier Men\u2019s one day competition continued at Burwood Park 1 as Ilam Fields were out of action once again.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: black;\">After a slight delay of 30mins because of a damp pitch St Albans lost the toss and were inserted into bat, Nathan McNicol was at his swinging best taking the first\u00a0three wickets all cleaned bowled and his fourth<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: black;\">wicket, LBW having St Albans struggling at 28-4 off 10 overs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: black;\">They were in further trouble at 48-6 as Jared Van Eyk Menkman took\u00a0two wickets.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: black;\">But then things changed drastically and\u00a0three large lower innings partnerships of 42, 89 &amp; 65 unbeaten took St Albans to an impressive 244\/8.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: black;\">They Scored 96 runs in the final 10 overs.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: black;\">Matt Holstein scored his\u00a0highest one day score of 92not out off 104 balls\u00a0which\u00a0included\u00a0seven fours and\u00a0four sixes.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: black;\">Off-spinner Tom Meyrick scored 47 off 50 balls with\u00a0one four and\u00a0four massive sixes.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: black;\">With 245 runs for Easts to win it was going to be a tough order with the tight bowling of St Albans.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: black;\">This proved the case with\u00a0four people getting starts but no one making above 50 runs.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: black;\">The three Tims top scored with\u00a0Hampton-Matehe being the best once again with 48, Muir 34 and Johnston scoring 33 and brother Nick Johnston 31 off 21 balls.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: black;\">With the run rate rising wickets continued to fall Easts found themselves 36 runs short of victory, one they may say got away from them after being in such a good position early on.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #ff6600;\">2A<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The seconds played St Albans at Ilam 3 and lost the toss and were asked to field first.<\/p>\n<p>They bowled St Albans out\u00a0for 245 with\u00a0Daniel Johnston\u00a0smashing\u00a0105 and for\u00a0Easts,\u00a0James Tucker took\u00a03\/41 in his first game for the club.<\/p>\n<p>In reply\u00a0the seconds pulled off a great run chase\u00a0scoring\u00a0247\/7 with\u00a0Reuben Spicier hitting\u00a048, Jeremy Duncan 42 and\u00a0 Tucker 38*.<\/p>\n<p>A great performance and first win of the season.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #ff6600;\">Premier women<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">The Premier women played St Albans at Elmwood Park. With Jacinta Savage being 12th man for the White Ferns in a warm-up game against NZA, stand-in captain Venetia Stoffers lost the toss and Saints put Easts into bat, on a pitch still drying from the week\u2019s rain. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">A 90 run second wicket partnership between Hannah Malloch (31) and Olivia McGoverne (86, her highest score for Easts) and then a good fourth wicket partnership between\u00a0McGoverne and Rachel Davidson (27) laid a solid foundation for the team to bat out\u00a0their 50 overs and finish on 225 for 6.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">The only fight from Saints was a partnership between new Canterbury Magician Gabby Sullivan (38no) and Casey O\u2019Brien-Smith (20), but Saints were on the back foot from the first over when Gina Aldersley (2-24) had an opener caught by Hayley Moore. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Saints started to collapse from 70 runs in the 14th over courtesy of Hannah\u2019s 5-22.\u00a0Davidson chipped in with 2-12, her first 14 balls for Easts being dots.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">What stood out was a very good team fielding effort. Saints were all out for 103 in the 25th over; a win to Easts by 122 runs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/div><!--\/.tab--> <div class=\"tab tab-nov-7-8\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>The weekly round-up<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong> November\u00a07 &amp; 8<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #ff6600;\">Premier men<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><strong>Saturday:<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">The seniors headed to Burnside Park to take on Sydenham, all\u00a0eight teams were playing at the same venue\u00a0as part of the Cricket Live fundraiser day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">They batted first and started poorly with the top order collapsing to 79\/7 after 24 overs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Some fine batting from Ben Hanham, who finished with 62, managed to help their score up to 170.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Sydenham&#8217;s Tom Agnew took 4\/46.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">In reply Sydenham were largely untroubled reaching the target in less than 29 overs and only three down with Chad Bowes finishing 84 not out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Sunday:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">The premiers were back at Burwood Park on Sunday to take on Old Boys.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">The away team batted first and put up a respectable 240 with Tom Taylor top-scoring (68).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">In reply Easts put up a good fight with a depleted line-up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Ben Hanham backed up his good Saturday performance with another score of more than 60. He was backed-up by Hamish Teale who also scored 60.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">However, they fell 33 runs short of their target.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #ff6600;\">2A<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Another tough day at the office for the seconds who took on Sydenham at Sydenham Park.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Sydenham racked up a mammoth total of 386\/4 with Hayden Day scoring a century.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">In reply\u00a0the seconds were unable to get any partnerships going and were all out\u00a0for 87.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Unfortunately they had to default their Sunday match due to\u00a0low player numbers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #ff6600;\">3A<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">The third grade side was treated to a rare appearance on\u00a0Burwood Park 1 against Predators\u00a0and the game of cricket that took place lived up to the hype.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Captain, Nick Bates, failed to win yet another toss and Predators elected to bat first.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">it was an even start with their top three getting off to a good start but some tight bowling from Kyle Knowles, Brad Wright and Richie Papps restricted their run scoring.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Predators finished\u00a0with 177 from their 40 overs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">In response the top order couldn&#8217;t get going with Papps, Murray Seaton and Jason Riach out cheaply.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Matt\u00a0Richens and\u00a0Wright then\u00a0steadied the ship with a big partnership and both made 60s. For Richens, it was his third half century in as many weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Predators bowled well and the batsmen found runs hard to come by.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">The match went down to the last over with Hooters needing 10 runs to win.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Five runs were need off the last ball which Bates faced, he could only manage a two which handed the side their first loss of the season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #ff6600;\">3B King&#8217;s XI<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">The King&#8217;s XI had another\u00a0tight win against Halswell on Burwood Park 2\u00a0to leave them sitting in fourth on the table.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Halswell batted first and\u00a0were bowled out for a par score of 182 in the 39th over.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">In reply the King&#8217;s XI had too much firepower, although it was tight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">They got to the total inside 29 overs but lost eight wickets getting to the target.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #ff6600;\">Presidents Gold<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">The Gold side travelled to Garrick Park to take on Lancaster park-Woolston.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Easts batted first and made a very good 240\/6 in their 40 overs with Craig Gibb making a half century.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">LPW&#8217;s response was dour and they were never in the contest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">They meandered through to 166 all out in the 39th over giving Gold the win.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #ff6600;\">Presidents Blue<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Like the King&#8217;s XI, Presidents Blue had a win, but a close one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">They were on Burwood 3 against Sydenham and restricted the away side to 159 in their 40 overs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">The Blue side then breezed to the target but had some nervy moments at the end of the chase as they lost seven wickets along the way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">A depleted and injury-hit Premier Women\u2019s side faced up to OBC with only seven players, three of whom were also carrying injuries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #ff6600;\">Premier women<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Easts were put in to bat in an early starting game reduced to 20 overs, so that players could take the short trek out to Lincoln and watch most of the White Ferns vs Sri Lanka ODI, which was easily won by the White Ferns.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Easts started off well in the first six overs, literally batting at\u00a0five runs an over. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Hannah Malloch (14) and Rachel Davidson (11) put on 30 runs. Then the wheels fell off and Easts were all out for 41 in the 14th over.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Unbeaten competition leaders OBC smashed the runs within four overs without losing a wicket.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/div><!--\/.tab--> <div class=\"tab tab-nov-14\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>The weekly round-up<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>November 14<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Premier men<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The seniors took on Burnside on Burwood 1\u00a0and wrapped up a 70-run win.<\/p>\n<p>Batting first things were looking a little bleak at 91-4 but a 62-run partnership between Ken McClure and Hamish\u00a0Teale set-up\u00a0 a good total for the home side.<\/p>\n<p>McClure kicked on and finished with a well made 73 off 104 balls.<\/p>\n<p>In reply Burnside were demolished by two great spells of bowling from Jared Roberts and Nathan McNichol.<\/p>\n<p>Burnside were reduced to 28-7 and the match was all but over. A last wicket partnership of 83 ensured some respectability their score but it was never enough.<\/p>\n<p>McNichol finished with figures of four for 12 off nine and Roberts, three for 23 off 7.5.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>2A<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Seconds were also up against Burnside on at Burnside Park 1.<\/p>\n<p>They batted first with Hayden Clark leading from the front with 75. They got through to 181 all out after 48 overs.<\/p>\n<p>Burnside were too strong in reply reaching the target in 39 overs and six wickets in hand.<\/p>\n<p>Ejaz Khalid bowled well for the seconds taking two for 29 off nine overs.<\/p>\n<p><\/div><!--\/.tab--> <div class=\"tab tab-nov-21\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>The weekly round-up<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>November 21<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Premier men<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The premier side were away to Marist-Harewood and put in another good performance, despite missing a number of players through representative commitments,\u00a0to record back-to-back victories in the one-day competition.<\/p>\n<p>Batting first they put up a great score of 254-7 with half centuries to Tim Hampton-Matehe (59)\u00a0and Nick Johnston (57).<\/p>\n<p>Marist were never in the hunt only getting through to 114 before being bowled out.<\/p>\n<p>Casey Marsh was the pick of the bowlers taking three for 12 while spinners Tom Dixon and Ben Michel each took two scalps.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>2A<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The seconds had to unfortunately default.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>3A<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Due to the seconds default Hooters were treated to their second game in a row on Burwood Park 1 up against Richmond.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Nick Bates failed to win yet another toss (he is now one from seven) and 3A were asked to field first.<\/p>\n<p>It was slow going early on with tight bowling from Rob Leys and Kyle Knowles with Richmond only 13-0 after 10 overs.<\/p>\n<p>They eventually got going and finished on 146.<\/p>\n<p>In reply the top order was unable to get going and while the middle and lower order put up a good fight they fell six runs short of the target.<\/p>\n<p>This match was also Australian Brad Wright&#8217;s last match for the club as he returns to Melbourne, thanks to Brad for being a part of the club for the last 18 months.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>3B King&#8217;s XI<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It was a tough day for the 3B side against the\u00a0Burnside Brawlers\u00a0on Burwood 3.<\/p>\n<p>Batting first they could only amass 90 all out with Pavi Nagra top scoring on 40.<\/p>\n<p>Burnside&#8217;s David O&#8217;Brien was the chief destroyer taking an impressive six for 14.<\/p>\n<p>Burnside were largely untroubled reaching the target inside 20 overs and five wickets in hand.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Presidents Gold and Blue<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It was the big derby as both Presidents sides faced off against one another at Hospital Corner as part of President&#8217;s Day at Hagley Oval.<\/p>\n<p>President&#8217;s Blue batted first and battled through to 165\/9 in their 40 overs.<\/p>\n<p>A defendable score but the Gold side had a bit much class on the day as they cantered home in the 30th over with seven wickets remaining.<\/p>\n<p><\/div><!--\/.tab--> <div class=\"tab tab-nov-28\">Tab 9 content goes here.<\/div><!--\/.tab--> <div class=\"tab tab-tab-10\">Tab 10 content goes here.<\/div><!--\/.tab--> \n<div class=\"fix\"><\/div><!--\/.fix-->\n<\/div><!--\/.tabs-->\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastchchshirleycricket.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastchchshirleycricket.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastchchshirleycricket.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastchchshirleycricket.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastchchshirleycricket.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/eastchchshirleycricket.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":863,"href":"https:\/\/eastchchshirleycricket.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/530\/revisions\/863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastchchshirleycricket.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}