Sport
24 WEDNESDAY 11 July 2012
Nelson Knights indoor cricket players Jon Routhan, Mason Thelin, Ryan Edwards, Simon McGowan, Ollie O’Connor and Brendan Hodgson have been selected in the Canterbury squad for its Action Inter-provincial Championship campaign in September.
Canterbury goes for six The Canterbury indoor cricket team will have a distinct Nelson flavour to it this season. Six local players, Jon Routhan, Ryan Edwards, Simon McGowan, Brendan Hodgson, Ollie O’Connor and Mason Thelin, have been handpicked for the Canterbury squad’s Action Interprovincial Championship campaign in September. It is the highest percentage of players that Nelson has ever supplied to the indoor sport’s premier national tournament. The six players’ selection comes on the back of a successful Action South Island Championship with the Nelson Knights that saw the team run away with the title. Jon – who is a current New Zealand international, having represented the side in the past Indoor
Cricket World Cup – is a major factor in the participation figures. Since returning from Auckland, Jon has been able to put more focus into the sport, leading to a number of top local cricketers crossing over for the winter. “They’ve taken to the sport like a duck to water. They’re an incredible group of guys and they’ve managed to transfer basic outdoor cricket skills into the indoor version of the game,” says Jon. National selectors will have a keen eye on new players at the tournament with the next Indoor Cricket World Cup just two years away. Jon says that international indoor cricket would be the next step for the six players and was hopeful they would impress in Christchurch come September.
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Cyclists time it right in trial Around sixty riders competed against each other and the clock on Saturday, during the Tasman Wheelers, Nelson Bays Holden Motor Group Winter Series. The Individual Time Trail saw cyclists cover a distance of approximately 19 kilometres in sunny conditions with a slight tail wind on the first half but a head wind on the home strait. Riders were set off at 30 second intervals with five minutes between grades. ITTs are also referred to as ‘the race of truth’, as winning depends only on each rider’s strength and endurance, and not on help provided by team-mates and others riding ahead and creating a slipstream. Despite having to ride back home to pick up his timing transponder prior to starting, the fastest time of 25 minutes and 20 seconds was
set by Chris Nicholson averaging almost 45 kilometres per hour, 1 minute and 9 seconds clear of the next fastest rider in A Grade, Warrick Spence. Ann Rigg, competing in the Masters 5 age category, set the fastest time in C Grade of 31 minutes and 12 seconds. Ann is the national time trial champion in her age group. Ethan Batt, a promising Under 15 rider, won D Grade in a time of 31 minutes and 7 seconds, 40 seconds ahead of the next rider in the grade. Next weekend’s race, which is not part of the Nelson Bays Motor Group winter series, is a combined Tasman Wheelers/Cycling Nelson event – the Brian Harford mini tour. Full details of this event can be found on www.tasmanwheelers. co.nz.
Karen Fulton competes during the individual time trial section of the Tasman Wheelers, Nelson Bays Holden Motor Group Winter Series. Photo: Phillip Rollo.
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