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Hawke’s Bay have won the Hawke Cup of Canterbury Country with Jayden Lennox and Brett Johnson bowling their side to victory.
Canterbury Country: Robbie Foulkes, Archie Redfern, Harry Chamberlain, Brayden Hill, Jesse Frew, Cameron Paul, Matt Laffey, Blake Coburn, Sam Chamberlain ©, George Gunn, Callum Cameron, Ryan Hughes (12th)
Hawke’s Bay: Jono Whitley, Bayley Foote, Bayley Wiggins, Will Clark, Angus Schaw ©, Dominic Thompson, Brett Johnson, Todd Watson, Toby Findlay, Jayden Lennox, Liam Dudding, Ben Stoyanoff (12th)
The home side won the toss and sent Hawke’s Bay into bat at Mainpower Oval in Rangiora.
Jono Whitley and Bayley Foote got the visitors off to a good start with the bat. Whilst they didn’t score runs quickly, they did get their side off to a good start reaching a 50 run partnership together in 161 balls. It was clear throughout Whitley and Foote’s time in the middle that their job was to let the Canterbury side get through their opening bowlers and not score too quickly.
At lunch, Hawke’s Bay were in a solid position at 68/0 after 35 overs with Whitley on 21 and Foote on 41. When Foote deparated for 44 at the start of the 41st over, the Bay were sitting comfortably on 80 runs.
From here, they did lose a few wickets with Central Stags representative, Bayley Wiggins only able to make 12 runs before he too fell. Will Clark, another Stags rep did some good work at the crease in his 42 ball 18. Before Clark’s dismissal, the Hawke’s Bay side had also lost the wicket of Whitely for 47. Sitting at 135/4 after 61.3 overs, left the side in an interesting position but also a chance for the middle order to make some solid runs.
Dominic Thompson could only add 11 runs, with Hawke’s Bay captain Angus Schaw and Brett Johnson now paired with the job of getting the team to a good first innings total. Johnson saw off 66 balls during his 23 run ball knock, falling just before the end of play.
Schaw and Todd Watson now had the job of adding to the overnight tally but Schaw only lasted 4 overs and added 4 more runs to finish on 61 from 134 balls.
Watson and Toby Findlay were now tasked with getting some valuable lower order runs. Findlay did just this combining with Watson for 20 overs, Findlay scoring the majority of the runs. He raced to fifty in 58 balls. Watson had also departed for 27 from 86, a valuable contribution from the number 8.
Captain of Canterbury, Sam Chamberlain had been bowling well, having already picked up two wickets and was looking for more victims. He got the final two Hawke’s Bay wickets with Findlay finishing on 75 from 79 and then Liam Dudding going for 10 from 20. Jayden Lennox ended not out on 8* from 39.
Sam Chamberlain was the top wicket across the innings with 4/57, whilst George Gunn got 2/56. Callum Cameron, Cameron Paul, Blake Coburn and Robbie Foulkes all got one wicket each.
To have a chance of not losing the Hawke Cup on first innings, Canterbury needed to make over 353 runs.
Like Hawke’s Bay they got off to a slow start with the first wicket falling 27 overs in, but only 43 runs on the board, Foulkes falling to Findlay for 14 from 83.
Archie Redfern and former Canterbury representative Harry Chamberlain added after 45 runs to the total with Chamberlain’s wicket causing a bunch of late wickets for Hawke’s Bay.
With Chamberlain being Lennox’s first victim of the day, it was now a chance to get a few more. Brayden Hill got a duck from 15 balls, being bowled by Lennox. Jesse Frew lasted four balls before he too was dismissed for 1, Canterbury Country now sitting at 92/4.
Johnson was too able to get in on the wicket taking action getting Cameron Payk LBW for 0 runs from two balls with around five overs left in the day. The Hawke’s Bay side didn’t pick up any more victims before the end of the day but did have Canterbury sitting at 98/5 at the end of Day 2.
Johnson and Lennox carried on the work they had left off from the day before, all Canterbury did was block out the majority of the balls.
Redfern fell for 56 and was the last significant remaining batter left at the crease.
Matt Laffey 14 (119), Coburn 6 (67), S. Chamberlain 0 (12), George Gunn 1* (14), Callum Cameron 2 (4) all couldn’t continue much to Canterbury’s total, their job being to try and somehow see out the bowling of Lennox and Johnson.
Lennox finished with figures of 6/26 from 35 overs including 22 maidens whilst Johnson got 3/26 from 12 overs. Findlay was the only other bowler to take a wicket, registering figures of 1/22 from 13 overs.
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