The driving force behind Waimate’s watershed cricket season has been honoured at the South Canterbury Cricket Awards night. All rounder Alan Reid received the Club Bowler of the Year award last night after taking 55 wickets at an average of 15 runs per wicket for the season. He can also lay claim to being the [...]

Despite the batting of Star’s Jack Harper and the bowling of Waimate’s Alan Reid, the Tweedy Cup cricket competition had to be shared. The weather had the final say, after both teams looked likely to wrestle the trophy from one another at various points throughout the two-day club final. Harper was an unlikely hero for [...]

For people wanting to know what is happening in the cricket finals this weekend but found it too cold & wet to come out and watch, results to hand so far are; Tweedy Cup Senior: Waimate vs Star. Play began at 4.00pm and currently Star are 59-3 after 35 overs overnight. Play resumes at 10am [...]

Timaru senior reserve batsman hits 200 FORMER Canterbury age-group cricketer Tim Mackle overcame a wet, heavy ball to smash 200 — the top score across all grades this season – for his Timaru senior reserve side on Saturday. The 27-year-old was run out for a neat 200 in the 43rd over of a 45-over match [...]

Staying away from the cricket field will not come naturally to Grant Brookland, but it is his aim next summer. The Timaru club stalwart ended his playing days on Saturday, after 17 seasons of senior cricket. A member of the Hawke Cup-winning team in 2000, Brookland donned the green and black South Canterbury cap 93 times.

It will be a contrast of styles in tomorrow’s senior one-day cricket final when Waimate look to upset defending champions Celtic at Aorangi Oval.   Celtic will have six current South Canterbury representatives, while Waimate have none. Celtic have been dominant all season and have not lost a match when they have fielded their top [...]

Timaru Boys’ High School first XI cricket allrounder Josh Dick has been named as the sixth recipient of the Mark Parker Memorial Scholarship. Dick will head to Winchester College in England in April and spend 15 weeks playing for the school and attending classes. The scholarship was in memory of 27-year-old cricketer Mark Parker, who [...]

Celtic and Star were the top qualifiers in their respective sections with two wins each on the first day of this season’s senior Twenty20 competition. On Sunday 6th the semi-finals will see Celtic  play Roncalli at MVHS and Star play Timaru at Aorangi Oval to determine the finalists who will play off at 3.00pm at [...]

Twenty20 cricket comes to South Canterbury this weekend as the six senior sides look to club their way to glory, as the excitement and drama of cricket’s most condensed form is played in Timaru this weekend. Celtic are the defending champions of the competition. They have stormed into the one-day final on the back of [...]

The Mark Parker Memorial game against an Otago Club Selection will be played at TBHS Rectory ground onSunday Feb 13th. Players involved from South Canterbury will include TBHS students who have been recipients of the Winchester Scholarship (Jeremy Lane, Bill Walsh, Tom Walsh, Alexander Mckenzie and Blair Brown). At present Charlie Bowden from Winchester College is [...]