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Tuesday October 3 2017
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Selwyn teams aim to knock off Sefton Extended one day season gets under way By Gordon Findlater THE CRICKET season starts on Saturday with the opening round of the Canterbury Country premier one-day competition. Selwyn’s four premier clubs – Leeston-Southbridge, Weedons, Lincoln and South Malvern – will be looking to end the dominance that Sefton showed last season. The North Canterbury club won all three formats in last season’s Canterbury Country cricket competition. They defeated Leeston-Southbridge in both the one-day and twenty20 finals and Weedons in the twoday final. “Sefton will definitely be the team to beat again but there’s a number of teams that have what it takes to win this competition,” said Canterbury Country Cricket Association cricket manager Toby Doyle. There has been a change in format this summer. The end of season two-day competition has been scrapped in favour of an extra one-day round-robin. “The decision came down to the clubs, with a vote in favour of
Last season’s one-day competition top performers: •Run scorers: Shannon Stewart (Southbrook), 451 runs, 150.33 average, 70.48 strike rate; Toby Doyle (LeestonSouthbridge), 285 runs, 40.71 average, 63.47 strike rate; Jeremy Benton (Lincoln), 234 runs, 58.50 average, 79.87 strike rate; Jack Boyle (Southbrook), 222 runs, 55.50 average, 41.94 strike rate; Peter Fulton (Oxford), 217 runs, 217 average, 57.24 strike rate; Harry Chamberlain (Leeston-Southbridge), 201 runs, 28.71 average, 83.75 strike rate; Simon Edwards (South Malvern), 194 runs, 48.50 average, 115.52 strike rate. •Wicket takers: Fergus Fairburn (Southbrook), 17 wickets, 9.76 average, 3.69 economy; Ian King (Sefton), 13 wickets, 9 average, 2.25 economy; Matthew Rowe (Sefton), 12 wickets, 16.58 average, 4.10 economy; Harrison Cox (LeestonSouthbridge), 12 wickets, 17.08 average, 3.68 economy; Tim Gruijters (Leeston-Southbridge), 10 wickets, 6.50 average, 2.02 economy; Matt Parker (Weedons), 10 wickets, 12.40 average, 3.10 economy; Ollie Bragg (Sefton), 10 wickets, 17.80 average, 3.97 economy.
COMMITTED: Kane Mayerhoof (left) was Weedons’ second highest wicket taker last season.
ALL-ROUNDER: Lincoln’s Jeremy Benton (bowling) made his way into the Canterbury side last summer after a string of impressive displays. PHOTOS: KAREN CASEY
moving to an extra round of the 45 over one-day competition,” said Doyle, who also plays for Leeston-Southbridge. “It came down to a number of factors. The majority of players want to know they’re going to get a bat and a bowl every Saturday. Sometimes in the two-day competition you can end up
spending a day just out fielding,” said Doyle. The one-day competition will now see eight teams play each other twice before splitting into Round one fixtures (Saturday): a top and bottom four before the •Leeston-Southbridge v Cheviot, Leeston Park, 12.30pm. finals in March. •Southbrook v Weedons, Southbrook Domain, 12.30pm. A twenty20 competition •Oxford v Sefton, Dudley11:51:35 Park, 12.30pm. NEW LOCATION ADVERT.pdf 1 1/05/2014 a.m. will also be played over three •South Malvern v Lincoln, Darfield Domain, 12.30pm. weekends in January.
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