Rain stumps Bay cricket

The Mount fielders battle to get the covers on in Saturday's stormy weather.

Just one Bay of Plenty Cricket Baywide Cup game produced a result on a day blighted by rain. While three of the four Baywide encounters scheduled for Saturday made a start, heavy showers during the afternoon resulted in two games being abandoned in the second turn at bat.

The game between Mount Maunganui and Rotorua Central at Blake Park started on time, due largely to Mount captain Peter Drysdale covering the wicket on Friday evening.

The visitors took first use of the artificial surface on Blake four and found runs hard to find. Central skipper Jason Trembath top scored for his side with a hard fought 29 runs, before being stumped from the bowling of Dale Swan. The Mount spin bowler took four wickets for 39 to add to his six-wicket bag the previous weekend.

With the players on and off the field as the showers swept over Blake Park, the Mount Maunganui reply became a battle of attrition. Batting at five, Michael Corbett turned the tide for Mount Maunganui, belting 26 off just 22 deliveries, to greatly assist his side's four wicket victory. Vaughan Blanchard and Andrew Gibbs kept their side in the match, grabbing two wickets a piece. In spite of the rain, City Sports Bar Te Puke batsman Mitch McCann posted a century against BOP Indians at the Te Puke Domain, in a match that was eventually abandoned. McCann and Tai Bridgman-Raison put on an opening stand of 102, before Bridgman-Raison fell with 46 runs to his name. The Te Puke captain continued on with Josh Dwight (51) before he was caught of the bowling of Prashant Dhanjee for 101. Te Puke reached 246/7 with the game called off without a ball being bowled in the second innings.

Tauranga Boys' College's severely rain interrupted innings against Eves Realty Greerton at Pemberton Park lasted four and a half hours, during which they posted 167/7.

Tauranga Boys' coach Mark Orchard reached the seventies, with Greerton 82/2 when the umpire called the match off. A saturated outfield at Fergusson Park resulted in no play in the game between Element IMF Cadets and East Bay United.

Bay of Plenty Cricket Baywide Cup Results, October 12

Central 98 (Jason Trembath 29; Dale Swan 4/39, Tony Goodin 2/16, Mike Jones 2/27) lost to Mount Maunganui 102/6 (Michael Corbett 26; Andrew Gibbs 2/30, Vaughan Blanchard 2/44)

Tauranga Boys' College 167/7 (Mark Orchard 72no; Tom MacRury 3/37) Eves Realty Greerton 82/2 when match abandoned.

City Sports Bar Te Puke 247/7 (Mitch McCann 101, Josh Dwight 51, Tai Bridgman-Raison 46; Prashant Dhanjee 2/24, Jayvant Dhanjee 2/41, Mehul Chhagan 2/47) BOP Indians dnb - match abandoned.

Element IMF Cadets v East Bay United not played.