Craig Hinton bowled his most inspired and timely spell of the season as he took 8-32 against Celtic allowing Star to enforce the follow on with Celtic still 197 runs in arrears. He should have had nine wickets, but his captain decided to share the spoils around after dropping a chance in gully and then [...]

The inaugural South Canterbury Cricket Speights Twenty20 cricket competition at the Aorangi Bowl was an outstanding success with fine weather, a few hundred spectators and a final where Alexander McKenzie struck a six off the last ball to bring up his century and give the win to the King’s Servants over the Southern Playboys. The [...]

Dan Laming made up for lost chances this season as he put the Temuka bowling attack to the sword on his way to a chanceless 162, bringing up his first fifty off 35 balls, his second off 45 and the third fifty off only a further 25 deliveries. This helped Celtic post 336 off their [...]

One century and eight half centuries were scored in senior cricket on Saturday, but it was Hamish Drennan who was the toast of Geraldine at Aorangi Oval after he removed the first four Timaru batsmen and then compiled an important 39 with the bat to keep Geraldine’s final hopes alive with one round to play. [...]

A century to Hayden Butler helped Timaru’s season resurgence as they travelled to and defeated Waimate, while Star made more of their opportunities when they beat Celtic at CSG1 despite both teams missing players due to representative duty and now re-join Waimate, Timaru and Celtic in a four way tie at the top of the [...]

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. In [...]

The latest round of senior cricket again produced some interesting results with all home teams losing as the season continued in a topsy-turvy manner. Although some clubs were affected by the loss of players to representative duty, Geraldine this week contributed to Star’s demise at Ashbury, Waimate had a big win over Temuka and Celtic [...]

ANOTHER outstanding bowling performance by Kevin Teahen with 7-20 to follow up team-mate Julian Danby’s second century of the season delivered Temuka a crushing 103-run victory over defending champions Celtic in the latest round of the Daily Freightways Trophy. The other matches were even more intriguing, as results were achieved only in the final over. [...]

Waimate produced a major upset when Jason SewHoy batting at No 8 produced a powerful display of clean hitting to score an unbeaten 76 and see Waimate through to victory over Celtic. Temuka succumbed to Star in just 24 overs while Timaru were unable to field a full team in Geraldine and subsequently lost.The Celtic [...]

Timaru were the only team to gain an outright victory in the latest round of the Tweedy Cup moving them ahead of Temuka and Geraldine to the top of the table as teams return to one day matches until after Christmas.Although Timaru looked in trouble at the start of the day 7 wickets down and [...]