by Scoop | Wednesday, March 25, 2009 | Coaching, General News, Senior Competition Reports
For two young English cricketers, their stay in South Canterbury went to script. Chris Esh and Matthew Barnes arrived in the country in October to help bolster a Geraldine side struggling for numbers and left yesterday with a championship under their belts. On Sunday,...
by Scoop | Wednesday, March 25, 2009 | Senior Competition Reports
In a fitting end to the season, the final of the Tweedy Cup Senior Two Day cricket competition came down to a nerve wracking last hour and a half before Geraldine were eventually able to begin celebrating their first win since the 1999/00 season. Guy Metcalf will be...
by Scoop | Sunday, March 22, 2009 | Senior Competition Reports
This weekend Star will take on the top qualifiers Geraldine in a two day match for the Tweedy Cup where it is hard to predict the outcome. In their previous encounters, Geraldine took outright points in the two day match after successfully chasing down 141 runs in...
by Scoop | Wednesday, March 18, 2009 | Senior Competition Reports
Star supporters had visions of last season’s last minute demise as their team stuttered and gasped in their chase for first innings points and the right to play top qualifiers Geraldine in the final of the Tweedy Cup next weekend. Zane Sanders was doing his best...
by Scoop | Wednesday, March 11, 2009 | Senior Competition Reports
10 wickets for the day including a hat-trick for Chris Esh alongside a powerful 95 by Hamish Drennan has taken Geraldine to the top of the table with one day’s play left to find the finalists in the Tweedy Cup. At the start of the day Star appeared safe in top...
by Scoop | Wednesday, March 4, 2009 | Senior Competition Reports
THE loss of play on the first day of the penultimate round of senior cricket meant matches were played under new rules on the second day, with teams chasing first innings and bonus points only. These rules were put in place to stop teams manipulating the controls, as...
by Scoop | Wednesday, February 18, 2009 | Senior Competition Reports
Dan Laming led his team to victory in the Daily Freightways Cup One Day Final with a solid 75 after earlier bowling tightly and only conceding 26 runs with the ball. He was backed up by a solid team performance after Celtic had earlier restricted Star to 223, a score...
by Scoop | Wednesday, February 18, 2009 | Senior Competition Reports
Last week it was Craig Hinton who cleaned Celtic up, but this week it was a triumphant return from injury for Todd Elliotte as he mesmerized the Celtic batsmen and made the most of a deteriorating ‘home’ pitch. Elliotte took 4-16 off his 15 overs including 12...
by Scoop | Monday, February 9, 2009 | Senior Competition Reports
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...
by Scoop | Sunday, February 8, 2009 | General News, Senior Competition Reports
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...
by Scoop | Wednesday, February 4, 2009 | Senior Competition Reports
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...
by Scoop | Wednesday, January 28, 2009 | Senior Competition Reports
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...
by Scoop | Tuesday, January 20, 2009 | Senior Competition Reports
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...
by Scoop | Tuesday, January 13, 2009 | Senior Competition Reports
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...
by Scoop | Wednesday, December 17, 2008 | Senior Competition Reports
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...
