Wicket Warriors (blue) and Whanganui Renegades do battle during the 2022 Premier 2 competition. Photo / Lewis Gardner
Wicket Warriors (blue) and Whanganui Renegades do battle during the 2022 Premier 2 competition. Photo / Lewis Gardner
Cricket Whanganui’s season resumes with the final round-robin of the Premier 2 Twenty20 competition.
There are still places to play for as squads jockey for pole positions to claim their first title of the summer.
The Twenty20 round-robin concludes on Saturday.
Resuming after the break for the Christmas and NewYear weekends, six teams will play their remaining matches to reach their full quota of nine games, with two of them pulling double duty.
One of them, Whanganui High School, will want to keep Wanganui Vet Services Marist 2nd XI off their tail in the race to secure fourth place on the table, although they have two chances to secure their A Grade semifinal position as they will also meet the third-placed Hunterville Hackers.
Key to that will be having a full lineup available, not easy for a school side during the holidays.
Safe on top of the table and in great form are the unbeaten Whanganui Renegades, who play both the Kaitoke Knight Riders and Property Brokers United P2s.
Sitting eighth and ninth on the table respectively, both United and Kaitoke have this last throw of the dice against Renegades to secure a victory and claim eighth spot in order to play in the B Grade semifinals.
