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Central Stags vs Otago Volts:
The Volts were able to get off to a solid start with the bat through Luke Georgeson and Jacob Cumming as they put on 44 runs for the first wicket.
Cumming went first for ten and then Luke Georgeson went a ball later for 26 with Blair Tickner getting both wickets, Ray Toole picked up the catches.
Dean Foxcroft and Dale Phillips both seemed to struggle to get started at the crease with the spin of Ajaz Patel and Jayden Lennox causing havoc for the Otago lads on a tough wicket at University Oval.
They both fell to spin with Lennox grabbing Phillips for 21 whilst Patel got Foxcroft for 25.
Otago youngsters, Thorn Parkes and Llew Johnson were able to repair the innings for them with a fourth-wicket stand of 57 runs, backing up the partnership before them that was worth 50.
The concurrent 50+ run stands managed to see Otago past the 150-run mark before once again the wickets fell for the Southerners.
Johnson (23) and Max Chu (4) both fell to Toole, whilst Tickner had Ben Lockrose for four and Otago in trouble at 175/7.
Travis Muller didn’t last long as Toole grabbed his third wicket of the day.
Parkes was going well at the other end as he brought up a third List A 50 from 85 balls. Lennox was able to get Andrew Hazeldine for 11.
Jacob Duffy finished on 11* and Parkes on 53* with Otago posting 213/9 from their 50 overs.
Central got a slower start than Otago did in their innings with Curtis Heaphy and Jack Boyle putting on 26 runs for the first wicket in 7.4 overs.
Andrew Hazeldine was able to strike however with Heaphy being bowled for ten.
Boyle and Brad Schmulian could see Central through and out of the powerplay without further loss until the spin of Lockrose bowled Boyle for 25.
Stags captain Dane Cleaver only managed five before edging behind to Chu off Hazeldine.
When Lockrose had Schmulian for 28, it brought about the downfall of the visitor's innings with Will Clark (1) falling to Duffy, Bevan Small (1) falling to Lockrose, and Josh Clarkson (10) being trapped LBW by Duffy to leave the Stags at 109/7.
Patel (18), and Tickner (23) did try to add some lower-order resistance alongside Lennox (0) but when Tickner fell, the Stags innings was over. Along with the big 65 run win for the Volts, Hazeldine picked up a maiden five-wicket List A bag when he grabbed Tickner to finish the game.
Wellington Firebirds vs Northern Districts: Wellington got off to an encouraging start with the bat as Gareth Severin (23), Nick Greenwood (61), and Troy Johnson (14) were able to get them past the 150-run mark for the first three wickets.
Kris Clarke was impressive with the ball as he broke the first wicket stand between Severin and Greenwood when Severin edged behind.
Brett Hampton then grabbed Johnson, also edging behind to Tim Seifert behind the stumps before Clarke struck with Greenwood's wicket, Joe Carter taking a superb diving catch!
As the platform had been set for the rest of the lineup to go bang, Nick Kelly (106) and Callum McLachlan (65) were able to do just that, taking Pete Drysdale for 76 from his nine overs, and Matt Fisher wicketless for 66 runs from ten.
McLachlan did depart having made his first List A 50 for Wellington, Tim Pringle bowling him.
The Wellington tail didn’t wag, apart from Adam Milne who made a quick-fire 19 from seven.
Clarke grabbed Nathan Smith (4), Kelly and Milne to complete his five-wicket bag.
The visitors didn’t get off to a good start with the bat as Katene Clarke fell to van Beek for three.
Tim Seifert and Henry Cooper were able to apply pressure on the Wellington bowlers with Seifert taking van Beek and Smith early on.
He was however out to Ben Sears for 54, just as he looked like he would be accelerate.
Cooper and Jeet Raval shared a 58-run stand for the third wicket, but it was mainly Cooper doing the bulk of the work, scoring 32 of the first 50 runs.
Raval went for 19, van Beek grabbing a second of the day whilst Joe Carter (15) and Hampton (7) both fell to Peter Younghusband as they quickly slipped to 205/5.
Drysalde tried to turn the momentum in Northern’s way with a 17 from 13, but Adam Milne ended his innings.
Kris Clarke (2), Pringle (10), and Fisher (16) came into the middle when Northern needed to tee off, but they weren’t able to.
Cooper at the other end was going strong and was the last one out for 121 with Smith getting the wicket to give Wellington a 45-run win.
Auckland Aces vs Canterbury Kings: The two Canterbury openers weren’t able to stay around for too long with Chad Bowes (17) and Henry Nicholls (21) falling inside the powerplay to debutant Angus Olliver and Sean Solia respectively.
Mitch Hay and Leo Carter went about putting on a solid score after the loss of two early wickets.
They both weren’t scoring quickly and the partnership was brought to an end after a serious miscommunication in the middle with Cole Briggs getting the run out for Hay for 32.
Partnerships were able to be built through the middle stages between Carter and captain Cole McConchie before the batters could let loose near the end of the innings.
Both Carter and McConchie fell to Olliver for 80 and 36 respectively.
Michael Rippon finished off the innings with 48* whilst Bevon Jacobs (10), Zak Foulkes (9), and Angus McKenzie (5*) were able to help push the score to 287/7 in 50 overs.
Auckland’s innings got off to a disaster with Zak Foulkes striking early to have George Worker for one and Solia for an eight-ball duck.
Briggs and Robbie O’Donnell tried their best to get the innings restarted and see off the opening heat by Will O’Rourke, Ed Nuttall, and Foulkes.
The wickets of O’Donnell for 37 to Nuttall, and Briggs for 19 to McKenzie left the home team reeling at 63/4.
Canterbury was able to keep picking up wickets, even though Cam Fletcher and Will O’Donnell tried their best to get the team back into the game.
O’Rourke grabbed Fletcher for 24, whilst Ryan Harrison went to Foulkes for five.
Danru Ferns could only make four as he fell to Nuttall and then Louis Delport (8), and Nikith Perera (9) went to Rippon.
O’Donnell was the last man out for 45 as Canterbury took a 119-run victory.
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