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South Canterbury Senior Men's Rep GamesShortcuts to articles about games played by SC during the 2006/2007 season. [ Sydenham ] [ Ron Biggar/Mid Cant ] [ Cant Country ] [ Mid Canterbury ] Crushing win all in vain for Sth Canty© The Timaru Herald 29 Jan 2007 South Canterbury trounced Mid Canterbury by nine wickets in their Hawke Cup elimination cricket match at Geraldine yesterday – but still did not win the zone. The outright win was not enough to stop Canterbury Country going through to contest the South Island playoff. South Canterbury hopes of claiming the zone lay in the weather stopping Country in their tracks at Greymouth but it didn't happen. Country cruised to a first innings win on Saturday and anything that happened after that was irrelevant. The South Canterbury match was indeed a game of two halves. For the first day and much of the second it was a huge contest with the advantage swinging between the teams. Mid Canterbury, minus three key players who were not available, batted first. After being 90-3 they fought their way to 205 with tough competitor Robert Madden making 70 after opening the innings. Todd Elliotte claimed 4-58 with the ball, Hayden Leonard 3-42. In reply South Canterbury also made a good start with Craig Davies making 81, his highest score for South Canterbury. James Laming 26 and Grant Brookland 40 steadied the middle order but at 186-9 South Canterbury were staring defeat in the face. Richard Print came up with a career-best 7-52 to be the destroyer. A gallant rearguard action between Kris Howes 25 and Grant Watt, who didn't score, saw them limp over the line with a four-run lead. The game changed within a few balls of Mid Canterbury's second innings. Howes knocked the top off the batting and Elliotte scythed through the lower order to take 7-17. Mid Canterbury were dismissed for a paltry 35 leaving South Canterbury to score 32 to win which they did for the loss of one wicket. It was the 15th five-wicket bag for Elliotte and the fourth time he had taken 10 wickets or more in a match. There has been little to compare with his 7-17 in recent times. David Hunter took 5-5 against Mid Canterbury in 1994, Hamish Wood 5-16 against West Coast in 1998, Jason McCone took 5-9 against West Coast in 2002 and Ben McCord 5-12 against Suburban in 2003. South Canterbury had not beaten Mid Canterbury outright since October 1999 when they won by 29 runs at the Fairfield Oval in Ashburton. Century from Laming still not enough to save SC© The Timaru Herald 8 Jan 2007 In spite of an outstanding century from `Danamite' Dan Laming South Canterbury conceded first innings points to Canterbury Country in a tight Hawke Cup elimination match at the Aorangi cricket Bowl yesterday. Canterbury Country have had the upper hand in recent years and this time South Canterbury could look to some ordinary catching for going down this time. Former Canterbury batsman Robbie Frew scored his sixth century for Country but was dropped three times before going on to make 173. The dangerous Andrew Robertson who can destroy any attack on his day, was also dropped in the 30s before making an unbeaten 143. Canterbury Country took first use of a good batting surface but were in early strife when Kris Howes and Jeremy Lane sent back both openers with only 11 runs on the board. Frew, 173 in 224 balls and 277 minutes, and Country debutant Dale Lange, 65 in 118 balls, retrieved the situation with a 140-run partnership. They were together 144 minutes and faced 224 balls. Frew and Robertson picked up the pace and put on 187 runs in just 221 balls and the icing was put on the cake when Robertson and Simon Murphy thrashed 78 runs in 72 balls before Paul Rugg declared. Howes bowled well without a great deal of luck but Paul Arkinstall had both Frew and Lange dropped from his bowling before lunch. South Canterbury had 30 minutes to bat on Saturday evening but didn't face a ball when the umpires declared the light to be bad. Yesterday morning they lost Andy Scott to a diving catch by Rugg in the slips but Stephen Pagan was looking ominous before he was trapped leg before. Pagan and Arkinstall added 42 runs and the momentum was sustained by Arkinstall, 70 from 111 balls, and Laming who added 117 runs in 180 balls. Arkinstall was slowly away but picked off several good boundaries through midwicket before attacking the spinner Mat Goldstein. He played powerful shots all round the wicket as he posted his 50 in 71 balls. The middle order sagged before Laming found an able partner in Howes. This pair put South Canterbury right in the match with a 141-run partnership in 220 balls. Howes scored 92 from 124 balls before he was trapped in front by a shooter. On his 25th birthday Howes deserved a century and was only robbed by bad luck. Laming was in magnificent form from his first cover drive that raced to the boundary. He never looked to be in any trouble scoring his first 50 from 82 balls, the century from 174 balls. He was eventually caught at long on trying to sustain the momentum of the innings. With his dismissal went the chance of first innings points and it became a matter of survival, the two Country spinners against batsmen, nine, 10 and 11. When number 11 Jeremy Lane joined Hayden Leonard there
were 13 overs to be bowled and they all but made it to the finish. With
17 balls left Leonard went forward to pad away a ball from Bell only
to see it hit the stumps and give the valuable points to Country. Ron Biggar Memorial 2006-2007 - Bruce's brilliant bat helps bring Biggar south.Article © Timaru Herald. A brilliant cameo innings from Richard Bruce proved the foundation for South Canterbury to beat Mid Canterbury in a 45 over clash for the Biggar Memorial trophy at the Aorangi Cricket Bowl yesterday. After rain delayed the start and reduced the 50 over to 45 aside, South Canterbury reclaimed the Biggar Memorial Trophy from Mid Canterbury, the first time the trophy had been contested since 1997. The Biggar Memorial was presented in 1980 but had it not been for the diligence of Julian Blanchard tracking it down in Ashburton, it may have remained in obscurity. Batting first, South Canterbury were in early trouble against a steady Mid Canterbury attack and at 55-6 the visitors were well on top. A solid partnership between Kris Howes, 42 and Todd Elliotte 29 arrested the slide. After Grant Brookland scored 22, Howes was composed and patient in making his runs from 75 balls in 79 minutes. However at 122-7 South Canterbury were still in trouble. Enter Richard Bruce. within 25 balls the Geraldine allrounder had smashed 51 runs and gave South Canterbury a defendable total of 195. Garth Jemmet with 4-29 was the most successful of the Mid Canterbury bowlers but it was teenager Ryan Cockburn who was the most impressive. The 17 year old got through his nine overs of left arm spin for just 30 runs. In reply Mid Canterbury were given a solid but slow start but at 33 started to lose wickets. There was a modest recovery but the introduction of Craig Davies with his off spin turned the match to South Canterbury. Because of the pedestrian pace of the top order Davies must have seemed the likely candidate to be put to the fence. Davies held his nerve, put the ball in the right areas and reaped the rewards. He claimed the valuable wicket of Lyall Jemmett, caught on the boundary by Grant Brookland. This same combination accounted for Robert Madden who uncharactersitically batted for 63 balls to make 14 runs. When Davies took his sweater after nine overs and 4-25, Mid Canterbury were not in the contest. Just as Bruce swung the innings for his side Corey Hastie did the same for Mid Canterbury. with a mixture of sweet hitting and unorthodoxy he smashed 50 runs in 38 balls and along with Cockburn, brought Mid Canterbury right back into contention. They required 21 from the last two overs and got close enough that a boundary from the final ball would have tied the match. Howes held his nerve and South Canterbury netted some early season silverware. South Canterbury have this weekend off before playing Christchurch Suburban at Aorangi on Sunday November 26. ScoreboardSouth Canterbury Mid Canterbury South Canterbury won by four runs. Sth Canty cricketers pipped
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