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The South Canterbury Cricket Association (in conjunction with the CCA) again put on a successful top level cricket match at our home venue of Aorangi Oval. With temperatures in the mid twenties, blue sky, and 2000 + in attendance, the Twenty20 match between the Otago Volts and Canterbury Wizards lived up to all expectations, and [...]

A stirring spell of bowling after tea from Timaru’s Sam Porter announced his side as genuine Tweedy Cup final contenders after they defeated Star by two wickets on Saturday. Porter’s four wickets were the catalyst for the victory and earned Timaru back-to-back wins in the two-day cricket competition after their win over Temuka a fortnight [...]

This week (Dec 19th – 22nd 2011) the South Canterbury YR 9 Boys Representative team is playing their annual tournament in Christchurch. Scores and match reports will be updated as they become available. Tournament Team Game One South Canterbury vs Buller The first match of the week got under way with an emphatic win to [...]

South Canterbury finished the year with a resounding win over Dunedin Metro. Asked to bat first South Canterbury scored 142 for 5 from there 35 overs with William Sharp 48, Ted Grigg 27no and James Arscott 20no the best of the batsmen. Dunedin then lost early wickets thanks too good bowling from Charlie Martin, Hamish [...]

Match stories and scoreboards will be updated here from the U16 Boys Cricket Tournament being played at Mandeville from 12th – 16th December 2011. Game One (12/12/2011) South Canterbury vs Metro Black After a good start with an opening partnership of 83 between Adam Beck (48) and Brett Walker (23) only Jack Woodley (38) could [...]

Canterbury was eventually buried under a mass of Wellington runs in their Ford Trophy one-day cricket match at Timaru’s Aorangi Oval. The Wizards fell 33 runs short of Wellington’s meaty 307 for five, being dismissed in the 47th over yesterday. It was the Wizards’ first loss in four one-day matches – with two rained out [...]

The South Canterbury cricket team thrashed North Otago in the opening-round match of the Hawke Cup in Oamaru at the weekend. English import Ed Kilbee took only an over in South Canterbury’s second innings to knock off the 12 runs required for a deserved win. North Otago won the toss and sent South Canterbury into [...]

South Canterbury YR 6 representative team to play Dunedin Metro at Celtic Sports Ground Dec 17th William Sharp (c), Ben Stayt, Ed Heenan, Ben Davenport, Harrison Darling, Ben Thomson, William Johnson, James Arscott, Ted Grigg, Hamish Stowell, Charlie Martin. Players to assemble by 9.45am, anyone unavailable contact Ants De Joux 027 229 4336

Daniel Dorgan was the toast of Roncalli returning from last week’s U18 tournament to take 7-19 and already has 10 wickets for the match as Roncalli routed Waimate for 44 and enforced the follow on at Knottingley Park where the home team still need four more runs to make Roncalli bat again. At the Celtic [...]