Gillette Cup cricket

19/3/2008

Otago Boys’ will again contest the annual national Gillette Cup cricket series in Palmerston North in December.

After a comfortable victory over Dunstan High School, Otago Boys’ struggled to get past a moderate King’s High tally before easily accounting for Kavanagh College in the southern region final.

The team’s results were –

versus Dunstan High School:

Otago Boys’ 300 (Callum Wardell 124, George Spittle 59, Daniel Duke 39)

Dunstan 79 (James Ferris 5/31, Tom Rutherford 2/6)

Win to Otago Boys’ by 221 runs

versus King’s High School:

King’s 140 (Daniel Duke 4/24, Hayden Miller 4/30)

Otago Boys’ 142/9 (Hugo Inglis 24, Matt Hunter 24)

Win to Otago Boys’ by one wicket

versus Kavanagh College:

Otago Boys’ 271/9 (Ciaran McMeeken 76, Hayden Miller 30)

Kavanagh 55 (Blair Soper 4/17, Hayden Miller 2/8, James Ferris 2/14)

Win to Otago Boys’ by 216 runs