Manawatu storm to an easy victory

Cricket

Wairarapa were crushed by an innings and 54 runs by Manawatu in the last of their Hawke Cup zone two senior men's cricket matches played at Fitzherbert Park, Palmerston North over the weekend.

Trailing by a massive 148 runs after the first innings, the Wairarapa second innings lasted just 29.2 overs and produced a paltry 94 runs. In fact, the only batsmen to make it into double figures were skipper Henry Cameron, whose 20 came off 23 balls, and Jarred Watt who came in at No10 and struck four fours and one six in his 22 off 15 balls.

There was some useful resistance to what was an accurate Manawatu attack also from Joe Hull, who had top scored with 46 in Wairarapa's first innings. His nine came off 54 balls and makeshift opener Sean Jarvis faced 28 balls for his four after scoring a gritty 15 from 96 balls in the first innings.

The loss of Harry Clinton-Baker, Hull, Sam Curtis and Alex Treseder with the score at 48 severely dented Wairarapa's hopes of a decent second innings score.

Short scoreboard: Wairarapa 195 (Jarvis 15, Lucas 1, Hull 46, Cameron 27, Clinton-Baker 5, Curtis 1, Treseder 29, Foster 31 not out, Mann 17, Watt 2, McKenna 3, extras 18; Patel 3-38, Templeman 3-56) and 94 (Jarvis 4, Lucas 6, Hull 9, Cameron 20, Clinton-Baker 2, Curtis 0, Treseder 0, Foster 2, Mann 9, Watt 22, Hook 9 not out, extras 11; Richards 5-23) lost to Manawatu 343-3 (Murray 146, Renwick 66, Small 101 not out; Watt 16-3-55-1, Hook 5-0-30-0, McKenna 12-0-59-0, Mann 17-3-61-1, Foster 2-0-23-0, Cameron 12.4-0-63-1, Treseder 4-0-20-0 and Jarvis 1-0-13-0) by an innings and 54 runs.

Meanwhile, on the interclub scene, Flight Centre Lansdowne, Red Star and Turkey Red Greytown all scored outright wins in their Bidwell Cup competition matches on Saturday.

Details:

Flight Centre Lansdowne 323 (Burr 51 not out, Adamson 49, Treseder 41, Jackson 39; Speers 4-110, Eastwood 3-51) beat Newbolds Marist Old Boys 47 (Cameron 5-14) and 62 (Ball 4-28) by an innings and 214 runs.

Wairarapa College 51 (Sigvertsen 4-13, Watt 3-6) and 100 (Hull 3-31) lost to Red Star 126 (Clinton-Baker 59; Griffiths 4-14, Burt 5-22) and 26-5 (Grifiths 3-10) by five wickets.

A1 Homes Kuranui Old Boys 82 (McKenna 6-25) and 188 (Russo 51, Patel 32; Greenwood 4-49) lost to Turkey Red Greytown 189-7 declared (Lyford 107; Freeman 4-65) and 84-9 (Greenwood 34; Spierling 6-27) by one wicket.

Bidwell Cup points are: Red Star 70, Lansdowne 53, Greytown 40, Wairarapa College 32, Marist Old Boys 13, Kuranui Old Boys 12.

No inter-club cricket will be played in Wairarapa on the weekend of February 2 and 3 but the draw for matches in The Rock Twenty20 senior competition on Thursday is: Greytown v Lansdowne, Greytown at 5.15pm; Marist Old Boys v Kuranui Old Boys, Queen Elizabeth Park oval at 5.15pm.