Cricket: Hawke’s Bay’s rolling of Wairarapa begins a seek during the data

The 29 runs scored by way of Wairarapa in a consultant cricket fit in Napier on Saturday was once the bottom ranking towards Hawke’s Bay in over 50 years, and the second-lowest since a minimum of 1940.

Former Hawke’s
Bay Cricket Affiliation chairman Harry Findlay – who is now 80-years-old and grew to become to the position of statistician 4 years in the past – is the keeper of Hawke’s Bay consultant cricket data relationship again to the primary recreation in 1874, and says he was once being requested “the query” even ahead of Wairarapa had completed the ill-fated innings initially of a two-day, second-round Central Districts Furlong Cup fit at Nelson Park.

His seek published Wairarapa scored yet another run than the 28 scored by way of Poverty Bay towards Hawke’s Bay within the 1970-1971 season, the bottom since a minimum of International Struggle II (1939-1945).

However it was once two greater than Hawke’s Bay’s lowest ranking in what is referred to now as ‘red-ball’ cricket – the 27 runs scored towards Poverty Bay within the 1878-1879 season.

Because it occurs, searches for cricket data have a tendency to make something result in every other, and Findlay additionally came upon that once Brett Johnson scored 100 now not out then claimed 5-20 on Sunday to wrap up what was once handiest his 3rd fit for Hawke’s Bay, it was once handiest the 3rd time any participant had scored a century and brought a five-wicket bag in a fit for the affiliation’s First XI.

The primary was once in Hawke’s Bay’s first Hawke Cup problem in 1924, when Invoice Bernau scored 136 of Hawke’s Bay’s 202 after which took 5-19 as holder Nelson was once all out for 99.

Bernau additionally scored 61 of Hawke’s Bay’s 119 in its moment innings, and took 3-57 as Nelson rebounded with 223-8 in the second one innings to assert what had gave the impression of an not going victory.

The second one time was once in a two-day non-cup recreation in December, 1945, when Tom Reaney took 5-52 in Manawatū’s innings of 110 after which scored 149 of the 310-5 Hawke’s Bay had scored ahead of the sport was once rained-off.

Tuppy Diack claimed the opposite Manawatū wickets, taking 5-57, however he was higher referred to as a rugby participant, with over 100 fits for Otago and one check for the All Blacks towards the British Lions in 1959.

The outright issues for Hawke’s Bay’s win by way of an innings and 134 runs on the weekend, in what was once captain Angus Schaw’s report one hundredth Senior fit for the affiliation and a bounce-back from a loss by way of an innings and 29 runs in a Hawke Cup defence towards Canterbury Nation every week previous, was once a very powerful outcome within the race to constitute its zone in a Hawke Cup problem in January-February.

Taranaki took the Furlong Cup lead with an outright win over Whanganui on the weekend, whilst Manawatū, which claimed first innings issues towards Hawke’s Bay final month, had a primary innings win over Horowhenua-Kapiti, over whom Hawke’s Bay can be all-out for optimum issues in Napier on December 3-4.

In the meantime, the Hawke’s Bay girls’s aspect was once neatly overwhelmed in its one-day Mike Shrimpton Trophy Central Districts festival opener in Palmerston North on Saturday, all out for 91 in its 40 overs, with Nelson replying at higher than 5 an over to attain 94-4 off 17.5 overs. Hawke’s Bay’s subsequent fit is towards Taranaki in Palmerston North on Sunday.

In the meantime, Canterbury Nation safely defended the Hawke Cup for the primary time since its innings-and-29-runs problem win over the Bay, with a drawn fit towards Southland in Rangiora, batting first and scoring 421 ahead of pushing aside the challenger for 161.