Captain praises Kaipara players

Jake Phillips praised his team's performance with the ball and in the field as they tore City's chase apart to win the Lion Red premier one-day competition at Cobham Oval.
Phillips said Kaipara's first innings total of 185 gave City a good chance of winning but the Kaipara bowlers - in particular Matt Taylor who rattled through the City top order - never let them get started.
"I felt we were about 40 runs short of a par score, so we needed to go out and bowl and field out of our skins and we absolutely did that, I felt that was the best bowling and fielding performance I can remember in the last five or six years," he said.
Taylor was able to move the ball around off the pitch and bowled his 10 overs out to end with figures of 4/33.
"It might have been the best spell he's ever bowled in his life and he took some big wickets, so we were stoked with that and then Dexter (Buchanan) came in with four at the end," he said.
Tas Satti got the initial breakthrough and City never recovered from Taylor's spell, with the rest of the Kaipara bowling just as impressive.
Phillips bowled five maidens in his spell of eight overs before Buchanan finished the job, cleaning up the tail to finish with 4/30 as City were bowled out for 113.
City started the day well with the ball and had Kaipara in a spot of bother at 3/48 until Brett Hood and Satti came together to put on 70 for the fourth wicket.
Hood's patient innings of 55 was the cornerstone of the innings.
He hit just two boundaries in his 40-plus over spell at the crease and was only out trying to force the pace towards the end of the innings.
He advanced down the wicket to try and put Vishaan Harypursat away but the bowler saw him coming and beat the bat with wicketkeeper Bert Horner, who was standing up to the medium pacer, taking the stumps off before Hood could get back inside the crease.
"His innings was pretty uncharacteristic (in its slow pace) for him and that got us to a total we could defend, without his innings we might not have been able to defend our total," Phillips said.
Harypursat cleaned up the tail of the innings after Hood departed, including a sharp run out to end the innings, finishing with an excellent haul of five for 24 from his 10 overs.
The victory sees the Kaipara side unbeaten in all competition matches this season and if they continue playing like they did yesterday they will be hard to beat.
"We'd love to go through the whole season unbeaten but with the Northland guys out over the next couple of weekends it will be a challenge but guys like Shane Hood and Stevie Dill have been stepping up for us, so fingers crossed it'll be March and we'll still be unbeaten," he said.