Cricket outcomes hard to predict

By Frank Neill

Johnsonville’s first XI cricketers ended day one of their match against Eastern Suburbs on 18 March with some work to do to achieve a first innings lead.

Playing in the Wellington first division, Johnsonville was all out for 213 in its first innings of the match, played at Alex Moore Park.

Rakitha Weerasundara came close to scoring a century, but was out for 95, while Maximus

Petrie scored 29 and Ben Hilder scored 28.

In reply Eastern Suburbs were 53 for the loss of one wicket at stumps.

Zac Ringrose took the only Eastern Suburbs wicket to fall, and finished the day conceding just 20 runs.

Karori notched up 149 runs in its Wellington first division match against Upper Hutt United at Karori Park.

Day one ended with Karori all out and Upper Hutt yet to begin batting.

Mitchell Butler was Karori’s top scorer with 36 runs while Peter Younghusband scored 25. Yashraj Kalsi was unbeaten on 15 when the Karori innings ended.

Playing in the second division, Onslow will be looking to move ahead of Petone Riverside the Coffee Box after having the Petone team reach stumps on 164 runs for the loss of nine wickets.

Onslow will need to take one more wicket before they begin their second innings in the match, played at Nairnville Park.

Micah Conway was the best of the Onslow bowlers, taking two wickets at a cost of just 18 runs.

Matthew Scobie took two wickets for 37 runs, while Henry McIntyre, Dave Hancock and Sean O’Connor took one wicket each.

Logan Malthus was involved in the two run outs Onslow recorded. With just day two of the three matches to be played on 25 March before the season ends, Onslow was top of the second division. Johnsonville were lying fourth on the division one table, one place ahead of Karori.