“We’re disappointed not to have won a game,” Trowell said.
“It’s been a learning experience for us.”
Trowell won the toss at Kensington Oval yesterday and opted to bowl.
The Northern Districts innings featured three big partnerships: a 42-run opening stand, 94 for the second wicket and 63 for the seventh wicket.
The combined side were all out for 230, the 10th wicket falling off the last ball of the innings.
Left-arm seamer Travis O’Rourke took the last wicket to fall for figures of three for 37 off 10 overs, while leg-spinner Dylan Foster snared 2-41 off 10.
Year 9 student Foster is a skilful flighter of the ball with a genuine loop. He turns the ball well both ways and can be difficult to “pick”; such a bowler benefits very little from flattening out his trajectory.
Until yesterday, Poverty Bay had not posted 100 as a total in any of their three T20 games or two 50-over matches at Kensington Oval.
Although the Bay lost the match — they were bowled out for 149 in 42.2 overs by the Invitation team — Cohen Loffler’s 33 off 56 balls in 59 minutes from No.7 was their highest individual score during what was a hard week.
Aside from leading runscorer Trowell’s 23 against Waikato Valley in the third T20, the skipper’s latest knock of 21 and Loffler’s 33 yesterday were the Bay’s individual batting high points.
Leggie Liam Barbier was the Bay’s leading wicket-taker, with seven scalps, and twice he took three wickets in an innings.
Loffler was the Bay’s most effective fielder, holding four catches and effecting two run-outs.
Wicketkeeper Jack Whitehead-McKay took three catches and made one stumping. Whitehead-McKay conceded only 12 byes in six games — an excellent effort behind the stumps.
