St Paul’s 1st XI Cricket Tour to Adelaide - December 2011
14 players plus Messrs Littlejohn and Luman travelled to Adelaide in December to participate in a Jubilee Cricket Festival which included Eton College [UK], St Peter’s [Adelaide] and Westminster [Adelaide].
The tour was very successful with the team winning the T20 competition.
The results were as follows:
St Peter’s [Adelaide] 157/4 v St Paul’s 156/10 [Lost by 6 wickets]
St Paul’s won the toss and elected to bat first. Our boys let themselves down as they got themselves out due to poor shot selections. We lost Kippa Fawcett to a superb ball first ball of the game and then put on 18 for the second wicket, before Scott Finlayson was caught on 10. Baxter Mackay 27 and Chris Swanson put on 40 for the 3rd wicket. Our next best partnership was between Malcolm Luman 17 off 6 balls and Jacob Robb 17 not out before Malcolm was given out under dubious circumstances. However we only batted 46 overs which cost us dearly in the end.
We started off our defense with Freddy Walker opening the bowling and taking a wicket to a brilliant stumping by Andrew Collie in the 1st over. St Peter’s then consolidated and their 2nd wicket put on 79 runs before Chris Swanson took a good catch to dismiss their no 3 batsman off Scott Finlayson. Their other opener gave us a few tough chances which we failed to take before he was caught by Malcolm Luman off James Chenery’s bowling, which saw them at 129/3 after 37 overs. We managed to take one more wicket before their last wicket fell at 131/4.
Player of the day: Chris Swanson
T20 Competition
St Paul’s v Eton College T20
St Paul’s won the toss and decided to put the opposition in a on a damp wicket. We opened with Freddy Walker who bowled superbly taking 3/4 in 4 overs. He was well-supported by excellent fielding and bowling by Guy Wilkins 2/5 to restrict Eton College to 65/7.
Kippa Fawcett [8 off 14 balls] and Scott Finlayson [17 not out off 36 balls] opened the batting for St Paul’s and put on 16 for the first wicket. Malcolm Luman joined Scott at the crease and they put on 38 runs for the second wicket with Malcolm scoring 29 [4 huge sixes in 14 balls] before he was well caught on the boundary, to see St Paul’s through to 54/2. Scott Finlayson and Baxter Mackay saw St Paul’s through to victory by 7 wickets in the 13th over. This made up for our poor performance the day before and we played to our potential. We now were lined up to play Westminster School, who had upset St Peter’s in the final.
Players of the day: Freddy Walker and Malcolm Luman
St Paul’s v Westminster T20 Final
St Paul’s won the toss again and put Westminster into bat. They were soon in trouble as Chris Swanson took 2 wickets in his first over. They then consolidated and look solid at 47/2 after 11 overs but then capitulated to be 73/9 thanks to some superb bowling by James Chenery, 3/7 assisted by good fielding and bowling.
Baxter Mackay and Scott Finlayson opened the batting and lost Scott in the first over. Malcolm Luman followed immediately afterwards being run out for 0 and we were in trouble at 15/3 when James Chenery was caught for 4. Baxter Mackay however took the bit between his teeth and almost single-handedly took us through to victory scoring 55 not out in 43 balls including 2 sixes’s and 5 four’s. St Paul’s won the game by 6 wickets to win the T20 trophy. This was a tremendous effort as we followed up on the fine performance earlier in the day and put the previous disappointing performances behind us.
Players of the day: Baxter Mackay and James Chenery
St Paul’s 212/5 v Westminster [Adelaide] 204/10; [Won by 8 runs] St Paul’s lost the toss and were inserted on a wicket made very tricky for batting after significant rain the previous two days. After the loss of an early wicket, Freddy Walker and Baxter MacKay came together and forged a patient and effective partnership of 72 runs. Baxter was the
aggressor and played some superb drives in scoring 49, while Freddy continued along with some deft touches and stoic defence in scoring a well made 46. Chris Swanson picked up where these players left off and played an innings of extreme maturity for one so young in batting for the remainder of the innings, with 62 not out. Chris rotated the stroke beautifully and allowed Scott Finlayson 15 and Andrew Collie with a hard hit 20 to put the icing on the cake. The running
between the wickets of was a key ingredient of St Paul’s excellent batting performance of 212 for 5.
In reply Westminster started very well against a persistent St Paul’s bowling attack to be 77 for none after 19 overs. The introduction of spinners Tom Harsant with 2 for 21 from 4 overs and James Chenery with 3 for 36 from 10 overs saw St Paul’s back into the game. At the second drinks break Westminster were 4 for 142 after 34 overs and well in control of the game. However a good run out to Ross Noble, an excellent spell of 2 for 29 from 8 overs by Josh Malpas and some determined fielding by all the team saw Westminster fall 8 runs short as they were bowled out for 204.
Players of the day: Chris Swanson and James Chenery
Chris Swanson received the player of the tournament for St Paul’s as nominated by the opposition coaching staff at the closing prize giving ceremony.
The boys then did the School proud with a rousing rendition of the School haka which was warmly received by all the opposition players and supporters.
Awards:
Batsman of the tour Chris Swanson; Bowler – James Chenery, Performance – Chris Swanson
1stXI V Kings College –annual exchange fixture
Our annual fixture v Kings College was played on Sunday 13th March. Kings are the current Gillette Cup champions as well as the Auckland One and Two Day champions. The team was aware that this was going to be our toughest assignment of the season to date and we needed to fire on all cylinders as it were. Kings won the toss and elected to bat on what was a pristine pitch. Malcolm Luman struck early to remove one of the openers but Kings settled down to be 79/2 before Lachlan Cooper struck. Unfortunately our bowling and fielding was not of the usual high standard and we dropped seven catches, missed a few possible runouts and misfielded on several occasions. This allowed Kings to score a huge total of 332/5 in their 50 overs. Lachlan was our most successful bowler who returned the excellent figures of 4/58.
The run chase of 6.64 was always going to an insurmountable task and our aim was to bat our 50 overs and not throw our wickets away. Unfortunately, we lost three wickets due to run outs [poor calling and judgement] and our shot section was once again not at its best, especially when the batsmen were well set: Scott Finlayson 23, Lachlan Cooper 36 and James Chenery 32. Lachlan and James put on 58 runs for the 5th wicket and we were looking as if we would bat through to 50 overs without losing too many more wickets, but once again, as has been the case in the big games, we capitulated and were bowled out for 139 in 49th over. St Paul’s lost the game by 193 runs. A very disappointing performance!
Player of the match: Lachlan Cooper 4/58 and 36 runs.
Scott Finlayson has also earned his 1stXI cap – well done Scott!
St Paul’s Black Yr 9 Cricket Team
On Saturday, March 12, St Paul’s played Hamilton Boy’s at Flagstaff Park. Hamilton Boy’s batted first scoring 100 runs off 30 overs. Tom Goodwin was the best bowler with four wickets for 17 runs off six overs. St Paul’s made an excellent start with Tom and Luke Goodwin scoring an opening partnership of 24 before retiring. They were replaced by Jack Davis and Dean Fullerton, Jack retired on 13 and Dean went on to bat to the end making an impressive 35 not out. St Paul’s overtook the score of 100 runs in the 22nd over thus winning by 7 wickets.
Players of the day were Dean Fullerton 35 runs; Tom Goodwin for taking four wickets and Jack Davis for taking three wickets for five runs off three overs.
St Paul’s v HBHS - Quarter final Gillette Cup fixture
On Wednesday 9th March, St Pauls hosted HBHS in the National Gillette Cup quarter final fixture. St Paul’s won the toss and elected to bat first against the highly regarded HBHS ranked 4th in the country. Our batsman played the seamers well but struggled against the spin attack especially Joe Walker, who bowled superbly to take 5/12 in 9 overs. One could easily see why he is nationally ranked. Nevertheless, Lachlan Cooper, 58 and Chris Swanson, 14, put on a commendable partnership of 57 runs for the 5th wicket to see St Paul’s through to what looked like a decent position at 127/5 with 10 overs to go. Unfortunately, a number of poor shot selections saw St Paul’s lose the last five wickets for only six runs and to be bundled out in 44 overs for a miserly total of 133.
Our bowlers toiled and bowled good lines and with accuracy, but it was always going to be a tall order to defend the total. Unfortunately we did drop one or two difficult catches, but managed to take two of the HBHS wickets with James Chenery 2/38 being our most successful bowler. It did take HBHS 34 overs to score the winning runs.
St Paul's lost the match by 8 wickets.
Player of the day: Lachlan Cooper
St Paul’s v Lindisfarne College – Annual exchange fixture
St Paul’s won the toss on what looked to be an excellent batting wicket. Baxter Mackay [31] and Scott Finlayson [67] played superbly and put on 67 runs for the first wicket. Lachlan Cooper [72],Josh Fawcett [33], Angus Harris [40], Chris Swanson [41] and Malcolm Luman [25 including two huge sixes in succession] all made significant contributions to see St Paul’s through to a formidable total of 331 in 92 overs. Angus Harris and Lachlan Cooper were involved in a 69 run partnership and Lachlan and Chris Swanson in a 78 run partnership.
Lindisfarne started their innings with plenty of drama and Malcolm Luman’s second over provided fireworks with a wicket on a no ball and two catches being dropped in succession. Malcolm was also barred from bowling any further in the innings for bowling two beamers which affected St Paul’s attack. Lindisfarne were rattled and lost three early wickets to be reeling at 26/3 but consolidated and put on a partnership of 175 for the 4th wicket to put them in a strong position. St Paul’s missed out on one or two opportunities and battled in the heat of the day for 95 overs to finally bowl Lindisfarne all out for 368 – a lead of 37 runs, which would prove to be very valuable in the end with one of their batsmen scoring a century and one 95. Lachlan Cooper 3/37 and Scott Finlayson 3/42 were our most successful bowlers.
St Paul’s started their second innings 37 runs behind and apart from Josh Fawcett [63], Scott Finlayson [40] and Angus Harris [28] were generally very tentative against the tidy bowling of Lindisfarne – their right arm off spinner in particular was very effective taking 7/50. St Paul’s eventually were bowled all out for 172 in 60 overs leaving Lindisfarne to score 136 to win in 25 overs -a run rate of 5.2
St Paul’s started brilliantly with Malcolm Luman taking two early wickets with some hostile bowling to see Lindisfarne struggling at 18/2. A key moment in the innings was when Josh Malpas could not hold onto a difficult chance off his own bowling and dropped their captain on 0, who went on to score a convincing and match winning 61 in 33 balls. Lindisfarne passed our target with 4 wickets down and three overs to spare to win the game by 6 wickets.
For a young team, St Paul’s performed very well at times against an experienced opposition and can feel proud of their overall effort. This game will place them in good stead for their Wanganui Collegiate and Kings College fixtures.
Player of the day 1st innings: Lachlan Cooper 72 and 3/37
Player of the day 2nd innings: Josh Fawcett 63
St Paul's win over St Peter's in Dave Hoskins Trophy - February 2011
St Paul’s won the toss and elected to bat on a slow and low St Peter's wicket. Only Chris Swanson 25 and Josh Fawcett 26 offered any real resistance as we proceeded to self destruct by having three senseless run outs. We were bowled out for 139 in 47 overs.
St Paul's started well by Malcolm Luman taking a wicket in his second over but St Peter's consolidated and were looking like winning it at 113 for 5 – but thanks to some brilliant fielding, catching and bowling we bowled them out for 119 – St Peter's losing their last 5 wickets for 6 runs.
James Chenery was the hero on the day taking 6/16 including three wickets in one over and two caught and bowled! He was well supported by Josh Fawcett 3/30 with Scott Finlayson taking three excellent catches out in the deep. St Paul's won by 20 runs and regained the Dave Hoskins Trophy
Player of the Day: James Chenery
St Paul’s 1st XI tour to Wellington, Masterton and Wanganui January 2011
The following students and staff embarked on a trip of the Lower North Island on Tuesday 18th January to play four fixtures against the Scotch College [Adelaide], Scots College [Wellington], Rathkeale College [Masterton ] and Wanganui Collegiate [Wanganui]:
Angus Harris[c], Lachlan Cooper [vcapt], Josh Fawcett, James Chenery, Malcolm Luman, Martin Kerr, Freddy Walker, Scott Finlayson, Josh Malpas, Kippa Fawcett, Chris Swanson, Andrew Collie and Guy Wilkins. They were accompanied by Messrs Barton, Luman & Ripper.
The tour was a success with the team winning two of the three matches played with the fourth fixture being washed out.
Match 1: St Paul’s v Scotch College
Scotch won the toss and elected to bat. St Paul’s bowled and fielded well to have Scotch College all out for 166 in 43overs. Best bowlers on the day were L.Cooper 3/12, J.Malpas 2/35 and J.Chenery 2/13. St Paul’s batted well and looked as if they should win by 8 wickets but one or two late dismissals saw the win diminished to 6 wickets at 167/4. F.Walker batted almost the whole innings finishing on 43, J.Fawcett 28 and L.Cooper 32. A fine start to the tour.
Player of the match: Freddy Walker
Match 2: St Paul’s v Scots College
Scots won the toss and elected to bat in very windy conditions. Our players were not used to the extreme wind and struggled to bowl accurately into it. Scots were well placed at 100/0 after 20 overs and St Paul’s fought back through brilliant bowling and fielding to have Scots all out for 166 in 41 overs. L.Cooper 2/24 and Chris Swanson 2/29 were the most successful bowlers. St Paul’s took up the challenge against a good bowling and fielding side and were placed at the drinks break at 91/4 and a fifty partnership between Josh Fawcett [31] and Chris Swanson [38] before they lost a few wickets through silly running and a lack of calling. All of a sudden it was going to be very close and St Paul’s were unfortunately 18 runs short in the end.
Player of the match: Chris Swanson
Match 3: St Paul’s v Rathkeale College
Conditions were very wet at the Rathkeale College and we were lucky to play any cricket at all. A 35 over game kicked off at 2.30pm with Rathkeale winning the toss and electing to bat – a toss we were probably fortunate to lose on this occasion. Our boys bowled and fielded superbly to have the talented Rathkeale team skittled for 81 runs in 32 overs after they were 25/4. J.Malpas 2/9, F.Walker 2/12 and L.Cooper 2/32 were our best bowlers. When the game was washed out after 18 overs we were 52/3 and therefore won the game by 7 wickets.
Player of the match: Josh Malpas
Match 4: St Paul’s v Wanganui Collegiate
No play possible due to the deluge. This game will now be played on Sunday 27th and Monday 28th February as part of 100 year celebrations of cricket at Wanganui Collegiate Oval. Our Colts team will also accompany the 1st XI.
Coming Events
Our 1stXI play in a 20/20 Tournament being held at St Paul’s next Saturday.