Six of best for Rathnayaka
Rotorua Lions bag 103-run win over Taupo¯ Old Boys 2 despite big hit from Vanner
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tandout performances from Rotorua Lions player Ruwan Rathnayaka and Geyser’s Kane Vanner highlighted the return of Lakelands cricket for 2019. Rathnayaka’s figures of six wickets for 27 runs drove his team to third-equal on the table with a 103-run win over Taupo¯ Old Boys 2 at Kaimanawa Reserve.
Glynn Maulder took four wickets for Taupo¯ as the Lions racked up 188 thanks to 49 from R Janakantha.
Vanner stroked 74 not out off 87 balls in his team’s loss to Bay of Plenty Indians at Smallbone Park. The Indian side chased down the target of 144 with three wickets to spare with Avinda Galhena topscoring with 44.
Arguably the match of the round was played out at Owen Delany Park where Lake Taupo¯ triumphed over Central in the last over of the match.
With Central needing four runs off the last over and one wicket in
Lakeland Reserve 40-over Competition results:
Strikers 11 164/10, (S Bist 39, S Dufty 4/25) lost to Taupo¯ Old Boys 1 183/9 (D Overton 52, C Jackson 38 A Arora 3/23, R Bhatia 3/42)
Taupo¯ Old Boys 2 85/10 (S Singh 28, R Rathnayaka 6/27) lost to Rotorua Lions 188/10 (R Janakantha 49, G Jayasundara 4, G Maulder 4/21, S Singh 3/48)) South Waikato Senior Men’s 108/10 (V Manglani 51*, H Mitchell 5/19, J O’Donoghue 2/12) lost to Geyser WHHS 112/1 (S Graham 43, E O’Donoghue 29*) Geyser JPC 144/10 (K Vanner 74*, K Benipal 2/11, N Kumar 2/14) lost to BOP Indians 145/7 (A Galhena 44, S Chandra 27*, Manish Kumar 2/25, P Singh 2/28) Central CC 195/10 (B Fraser 32, R How 3/41) lost to GM Painters LTCC 196/10 (A Gupta 63, R How 37, B Fraser 3/23)
Geyser WHHS 70, BOP Indians 69, Rotorua Lions 60, Geyser JPC 60, Lake Taupo¯ 55, Central CC 51, Taupo¯ Old Boys 1st 47, South Waikato Senior Men’s 43, Strikers 11 34, Taupo¯ Old Boys 2nd 23
hand, Lake Taupo’s Ray How was the hero bowling the last Central batsman out and sealing a one-run win. Earlier Abhi ‘Rambo’ Gupta slammed 63 to set up the target of 196.
In other matches Geyser WHHS Old Boys cemented their top-of-thetable position with a nine-wicket win over South Waikato at Ray Boord Park. Hayden Mitchell took 5/19,
with the batsmen making short work of the chase.
Shaquille Graham was the standout with a brisk 43, including three sixes and five boundaries and Eamon O’Donoghue chipping in with 29 not out.
Taupo¯ Old Boys Strikers 11 by 19 runs.
The competition continues this weekend. — Supplied content 1 defeated