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rnell Cricket Club Incorporated - Established 1858 Update No. 210 – Final Day and 99 and all that: Congratulations to Suburbs New Lynn who reached 100 points whilst we, Parnell, finished one behind on 99. Suburbs NL therefore captured the Hedley Howarth Trophy and we have to be content with the Allan Thompson Memorial Cup for runner-up. Some gnashing of teeth when we finished just 1 point behind but, looking back, we weren’t helped by having a draw in Round 1. (North Shore 292/9, Parnell 87/4) and a disaster in 3. (Cornwall 103/10, Parnell 84/10). Covid’s Level 3 cost us Day 1. of Round 6. against bottom of the Table, Grafton United whilst Suburbs defeated Takapuna outright on Day 2. but, in reality, it was Round 3. that scuppered us. Ninety Nine – the Dreaded Number One short of 100 - the points Suburbs New Lynn amassed through the 2020/21 Season and Parnell left on 99. And dismissal at 99 – the score dreaded by all batsmen, a century being the acknowledged pinnacle of success! But many have been dismised for 99, Ben Stokes one of the most recent in the 2nd ODI for England vs India. And Martin Crowe’s 299 vs Sri Lanka is remembered better than most innings of over 300. Nervous nineties – Clem Hill, the great left hande Australian batsman, in the 1912 Boxing Day Test at Melbourne was dismissed for 99 and then, in the next Test at Adelaide, was out for 98 and 97. Hill scored six Test 90s – 96, 99, 98, 97, 91* and 98. In his 49 Tests Hill scored 3412 runs at 39.41 – 7 x 100s, highest 191. Bobby Simpson, another great Aussie, made his Test debut in December 1957 and in almost 7 years hit two 90s but no 100s before cracking the ton in style – 311 vs England at Old Trafford, July 1964. He finally retired in 1978, in 62 Tests having scored 4869 at 46.81 and hit 10 x 100s – 2 being over 200 and his highest, 311. Men’s Premier Grade – Hedley Howarth Trophy – 7th and Final Round: [NOTE: At start of Day 1. – Parnell in 3rd place – 2 points behind North Shore and 15 behind leader, Suburbs NL. Round 7. Parnell vs Papatoetoe, North Shore vs Grafton United, Suburbs NL vs Auckland University] 20 & 27 March Parnell vs Papatoetoe at Papatoetoe Rec. 1. PAPATOETOE 259/10 (57.1) L Clark 95 (78), L Istead 84 (54), & 249/10 (55.1) S Setia 121* (165) 1st Innings 2nd Innings Dean van Deventer 12 0 70 1 8 1 35 1 Ganesh Ratnasabapathy 9 1 40 1 Josh Fisher 12 0 73 4 Lockie Ferguson 8 1 40 3 Jack Parsons 12 4 40 3 4 0 33 0 Nikith Perera 12 5 30 1 9 1 48 2 Andy Lane 1 0 8 0 Aniket Parikh 3 0 26 1 12 2 33 1 Kartikey Trevedi 12 2 16 1 PARNELL 283/6 dec. (46) Flynn McGregor-Sumpter 36 (52), Andy Lane 36 (42),Aniket Parikh 112* (101), Brad Rodden 25 (26), D Bhatti 2/39 (9) & 227/2 (34.4) Ben Rae 124* (111), Flynn McGregor-Sumpter 17 (28), Andy Lane 68 (65), Aniket Parikh 8 (5) RESULT: Parnell won outright by 8 wickets DAY 1. We had begun by skittling the first 9 Papatoetoe batsmen for 170 but allowed their 10th wicket to add 89 – 259/10. By stumps we were 240/5 with Aniket on 83 and 1st innings points looked assured. Suburbs were struggling against AUCC. Just the faintest glimmer of hope. An outright to us, losses to North Shore and to Suburbs – the Trophy could still be retained??? DAY 2. Changes from Day 1. – Lockie, recalled to the Black Caps, and Ganesh were replaced by Josh Fisher and Kartikey Trevedi. Kartikey is a leg spinner who joined from Sydney where he played 2nd Grade. For our Reserves he has had a very good season taking 28 wickets at 16.60. 1st innings points were quickly secured as was Aniket’s100. Then Captain Flynn declared – 283/6. From here, Craig’s photos can do the talking: Aniket on his way to 112* and the declaration and receiving congratulations on his ton from Dean Papatoetoe, in their 2nd innings, looked for runs from the outset but lost wickets regularly though opener, Shane Setia, carried his bat for 121* - a masterly knock! Capt. Flynn’s Aunt Sally carried out the drinks during Papatoetoe’s innings Kartikey Trevedi on debut for the Prems – very tidy 12 1 16 1 With a minimum of 40 overs left in the day. Our target was 226 for the outright and the possibility of retaining the Hedley Howarth Trophy as AUCC had lead Suburbs NL on the 1st innings. However, AUCC had declared at 237/3 so Suburbs, though losing 3/36, were hell bent in knocking off the 256 to gain the title. Flynn and Ben got our 2nd innings underway and picked up singles with great regularity and we were going at 5 per over when Flynn was lbw to Plummer at 57. Wih Andy joining Ben we never looked back – both were very assured, not in the least rushed or bustled but the runs came at a good pace. Five an over became 6 or even better but no risks were taken –a succession of powerful straight drives in the V plus cuts and pulls when the ball was dropped short. Ben Rae (left) and Andy Lane – a superb partnership of 156 off 130 balls set us up beautifully for the outright win A truly great partnership between Ben and Andy and it was a great surprise when the latter skied one a was caught for 68. No alarums Ben continued on his way, secured his ton and, with Aniket, knocked off the remaining runs with ease. Ben Rae, 124* off 111 balls and match won outright, leaving the field to applause from Papatoetoe and to be greeted by Andy (left foreground), his partner for most of the innings Then the news – Suburbs NL had knocked off the 256 needed to beat AUCC outright and so captured the Hedley Howarth Trophy by just 1 point, 100 to our 99. Women’s Premier Grade – Prichard Cup – Round 11 – Final for 3rd /4th . 27 March vs Howick Pakuranga at Lloyd Elsmore Park 1. PARNELL 229/7 (50) Yaz Kareem 31 (55), Olivia Lobb 33 (62), Steph. Carr 23 (48), Emma Baker 42 (52), L Ross 4/21 (10) HOWICK PAKURANGA 223/10 (39.5) M Downes 68 (80), A Parr 57 (40), Shriya Naidu 2/27 (7), Maddi Curran 0/53 (10), Kat. Browne 1/27 (2), Renee Macmillan 1/33 (8), Makayla Mason-Jones 4/23 (6), Steph. Carr 1/27 (4), Yaz Kareem 0/26 (4) RESULT: Parnell won by 6 runs to finish 3rd (behind Takapuna – 1st, Cornwall – 2nd) Brilliant result for our Team! The scoreboard tells it all – recent photos from Craig follow: Yaz Kareem Olivia Lobb Emma Baker (sorrry Emma , don’t have one of you batting) Shriya Naidu Makayla Mason-Jones Men’s Premier Reserve Grade – President’s Cup – Round 7. 20 & 27 March vs Eden Roskill at Shore Road Reserve 1. PARNELL 297/10 (79.4) Will Ormiston 86 (117), Matt James 43 (93), Michael Fourie 20 (46), Giacomo Lamplough 33 (45), Pankaj Kumar 51 (55), Josh Milne 24 (54) & 51/0 (5) Will Ormiston 23* (12), Matt James 23 (18) EDEN ROSKILL 282/10 (79.2) N Parpudi 91 (191), SS Singh 101 (186), Pankaj Kumar 2/45 (16), Prashant Dhanjee 1/56 (16), Josh Milne 4/81 (22), Ashwin Haran 3/51 (10) RESULT: Match Drawn – 1st innings points to Parnell who finished 4th to Cornwall (unbeaten in 7 games), Grafton United – 2nd & Papatoetoe 3rd Parnell were One Day Champions Eden Roskill, the side we skittled for 67 in the One Day Final, showed a great deal more fight and there would have been great relief when Josh had Parpudi lbw at 215 and bowled Singh at 222. A 9th wicket stand then looked dangerous taking the score from 256/8 but Josh ended that at 281 and Prashant took the 10th wicket 1 run later. Game called off soon after – just time for Will and Matt to get a little practice for 2021/22. Congratulations to Captain Giacomo and the Team on a very successful season! Craig’s photos from the library: Pankaj Kumar Josh Milne Women’s Premier Reserve Grade – Friendly T20 Sat., 27 March, vs Kumeu at Huapai Domain 2a . KUMEU 88/8 (19) O Ross 32 (23)Wilmarie Pretorious 2/12 (4), Lune Strydom 2/3 (3), Monalisa Verma 1/34 (4), Anna Wijffels 1/22 (3) PARNELL 89/3 (14.5) Lune Strydom 39 (44), Wilmarie Pretorious 13 (14) RESULT: Win to Parnell Wonderful to actually get a game after missing several weeks – Covid and defaults. And a win to cap the season to boot – brillant! Roll on 2021/22! Men’s Third Grade Sat., 20 & 27 March. Round 7. – vs Grafton United at Orakei Domain 1. PARNELL 94/10 (46) Pete Hickman 21, Kelly Lunow-Haldane 38 & 153/10 (42) Anku Dogra 19, Ysir Patel 30 GRAFTON UNITED 153/10 (59) Wicket takers – Kelly Lunow-Haldane 1, William Wild 1, Pete Hickman 3, Anku Dogra 2 & 94/5 (30) Wicket takers – Ewen Anderson & Pete Hickman 1 each RESULT: Grafton United won outright by 5 wickets Men’s Sixth Grade – Our Fourths/“Prunes” Sat., 20 & 27 March. Round 7. – vs Waitakere at Walker Park 1.