HBHS Yr 9 Cricket Win Latest Round of National Comp
On Tuesday 27th November HBHS Year 9 cricketers played St Paul's Year 9's in the latest round of the NZCT National Junior Cricket Competition. Having lost to St Paul's by one run at this stage of last year's competition, HBHS were keen to put matters right this year.
Batting first, St Paul's were restricted to scoring only 20 runs in their first 12 overs, thanks to some excellent bowling from Liam McNally and Max Gabolinscy, with some excellent fielding from the side generally. By the 20 over break St Paul's had scored 60 for no wickets with both peners looking dangerous. However, tight bowling by the two spinners meant that St Paul's were being restricted in their scoring. This resulted in batsmen taking increasing risks; wickets started falling at regular intervals once the first breakthrough occurred. After their allotted 40 overs St. Paul's had scored 147 runs with the last batsman run out on the last ball of their innings. Apart from the two opening batsmen (one scored 74, the other 37) no other batsman reached double figures. The pick of the HBHS bowlers were Krishnan Deo taking 4 wickets for 31 runs and Brayden Gaylord taking 2 wickets, while most other bowlers bowled very tightly and were backed up by some very good fielding.
HBHS were immediately on the back foot at the start of our innings, losing one of the opening batsmen in the second over. A 30 run stand between Szymon Poborowski and Willie Ferrar put the innings back on course before Szymon was dismissed leg before. The stand between Willie Ferrar and Jamie Moore was an extremely productive one, taking the score to almost 100 runs before Jamie was dismissed in the 22nd over. Willie Ferrar continued to accumulate runs with relative ease, until he was dismissed for 64. The team needed 14 runs to win and 10 overs remaining. Liam Calnon and Max Gaskell were succesful in scoring these runs, without being unduly troubled.
Final score: St. Paul's 147 all out
HBHS 148 for 4 wickets
HBHS win by 6 wickets