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The Central Hinds have kept their winning streak up with a narrow win. Canterbury had a dominant day getting their first win of the season.
Central Hinds vs Canterbury Magicians
With rain falling throughout the morning and then a 52-minute ground delay, play was able to get underway at 13:15. The Magicians won the toss and sent the Hinds into bat first.
Canterbury struck early with Nat Dodd being bowled by Pakistan international Fatima Sana in the first over for four. Thamsyn Newton then lasted nine balls, adding four runs to the total with Sana picking up her wicket.
With the Hinds sitting at 22/2 after 3.5 overs, they would need something to go their way and this came through Hollie Armitage who was dropped three times during her 26-run innings.
Just when it looked like she and Rowe would push on for a big stand, Armitage fell at the end of the ninth over.
Rowe and Mikaela Greig played well in the middle together as they shared 29 runs for the fourth wicket. Another interruption was had during the innings with play then reduced to 12 overs per side.
Rowe and Greig took an important 13 runs off the remaining over and this saw the Hinds to a total of 79/3. With the DLS method, this was adjusted to 86 from 12 overs.
However, rain fell again and the Magicians had eight overs to chase down 61 runs.
They sent out Kate Anderson and Sana to open the batting.
Anderson and Sana got Canterbury off to a fast start with 23 runs added in the first 3.5 overs. Lea Tahuhu was sent in as a pinch hitter but could only get three runs in seven balls.
Sana was doing all the scoring at the other end, but she was unable to find the boundary until the fifth over and this ultimately would be Canterbury’s demise in the innings.
Nat Cox could only add one run and fell in the seventh over with the Magicians needing 19 from nine balls.
Sana tried her best in the last over to get Canterbury over the line but her 34* from 25 wasn’t enough with Canterbury finishing on 54/4 and the Hinds taking a six-run win.
Central Stags vs Canterbury Kings
The Stags got off to a good start with the ball as they had Chad Bowes edging to Dane Cleaver in the third over and then Ken McClure falling LBW in the next over.
Henry Nicholls and Cole McConchie now found themselves at the crease and put on 24 24-run stand in challenging Pukekura Park conditions. Doug Bracewell was the main reason behind this as his opening three overs had fourteen dot balls in it.
Nicholls decided to go after Bevan Small but was caught by Ajaz Patel who took a good catch running back. He went for 23 from 19. Mitch Hay also fell in the same over for 1 from 3.
Cole McConchie and Michael Rippon had a bit of a rebuilding job for the Kings and went slowly through the first few overs of their partnership.
The 100 for the visitors was made in the fifteenth over and it was from there on at McConchie and Rippon decided to pick up the scoring rate.
They had three back-to-back 15-run overs and then an 18-run over which left them at 162/4 with two overs to go.
McConchie also made his seventh T20 50 and Rippon had his first T20 50. They also equalled the highest 5th T20 Wicket Partnership for the Canterbury Kings with 132 runs being made between them.
They took 23 runs from the last two overs to guide the Kings to a total of 185/4 from 20 overs. Small took three wickets while Bracewell got the other. McConchie finished on 79* and Rippon on 58*.
The Stags got off to a terrible start with the bat as they lost Tom Bruce for six runs.
Will Young then went in the third over for 5 with Will O’Rourke picking up his second wicket of the day.
Dane Cleaver and Will Clark had the job of repairing the Stags innings and they shared a 37-run stand in 5.5 overs but Clark was soon dismissed by Rippon with Bowes taking the catch.
With only 70 runs on the board at the end of the tenth over the pressure was building on the Stags batters with Cleaver and Josh Clarkson needing to start attacking the Canterbury bowlers but they were unable to do so.
Cleaver fell in the fourteenth over for 47 from 36, Zak Foulkes bowling him.
As the run rate kept climbing, Josh Clarkson and Doug Bracewell, fresh off a 93* at Fitzherbert Park, had to just keep going and finding boundaries. Clarkson then went in the sixteenth over for 26 and the Stags now needed to be going at around 18 runs per over.
Two balls into the seventeenth over bad light appeared and brought play to a halt.
Play was stopped for 13 minutes and the Stags needed a further 61 runs from the last 2.4 overs.
Bayley Wiggins and Bracewell knew they had to go for it and they tried just this. Wiggins however fell for 6 from 5 as he tried to go for a big shot.
When Doug Bracewell fell for 18 it was clear who would take the victory in New Plymouth.
Zak Foulkes picked up the wicket of Small on the final ball of the game and this left the Stags finishing on a total of 142/8, 34 runs short of victory.
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