Canterbury leapfrog Otago to book T20 men's final
Big hitting from openers Chad Bowes and Ken McClure has helped Canterbury snatch the top finals qualifying berth for the men's T20 Super Smash competition.
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Big hitting from openers Chad Bowes and Ken McClure has helped Canterbury snatch the top finals qualifying berth for the men's T20 Super Smash competition.
A blistering partnership between Dean Foxcroft and Ben Lockrose has carried Otago Volts to a four-wicket men's Super Smash T20 win over Central Districts.
Two great pieces of fielding undone by big extras count for visitors in Dunedin.
Katey Martin unbeaten in both matches to get the Sparks off to a flying start in the Hallyburton Johnstone Shield.
And thanks to an outstanding captain’s knock from Martin leading them to their highest score of the campaign – 153-6 – they duly went on with the job, to win by 42 runs, which instead consigned the Central Hinds to the spoon, with the Sparks finishing level on points with the Spirit, behind on net run rate. After being sent in, the Sparks made a slow start of it, at 27-1 after five overs, before Martin, at No 3, got things going in the final over of the powerplay. The right-hander, one day shy of her 36th birthday, welcomed off-spinner Eimear Richardson to the crease with disdain, se...