Cricket: BOP Indians and Geyser JPC to fight for title

Geyser WHHS Old Boys' Scott McKnight batting against Tokoroa on Saturday. Photo / Stephen Parker

Bay of Plenty Indians will battle Geyser JPC Old Boys' for Lakeland T20 supremacy in this weekend's final in Rotorua.

The two teams have dominated the short format competition with the BOP Indians looking to add a fifth consecutive T20 title to their trophy cabinet.

They easily accounted for Taupō Old Boys' 2 in Round 9 last Saturday with a six-wicket win, Harjinder Singh doing the damage with 5/11.

Geyser WHHS perfectly timed their run chase to beat Central by eight wickets with Cody Fell and Eamon O'Donoghue the best with the bat. Struggling at 13-1 after 7 overs, Geyser sprung into action and chased down the total easily in the end.

Earlier Jeff Simmonds and Allan McMurdo anchored the Central innings with classy 40s.

Central bounced back to win their second game of the day over Taupō Old Boys' 2 while the Rotorua Lions picked up a win over Lake Taupō.

Geyser JPC won both their games against Taupō Old Boys' 1 and the Strikers XI with a Manny Kumar 40 and a Liam Kelly 56no the standouts.

This weekend's final between the BOP Indians and Geyser JPC is at Smallbone Park starting at 4pm.

Lakelands Senior Reserve T20 Competition results:

Round 9:

- Lake Taupo CC 118/9, (C Robb 25*, R Bhatia 3/23, R Singh 3/21) lost to Strikers 11 119/5 (S Bist 34*, V Nair 29)

- COB1 139/7 (S Bunny 42) lost to Geyser JPC 140/7 (Manny Kumar 40, C Corbett 3/15)

- Central CC 132/4 (J Simmons 46*, A McMurdo 40*) lost to Geyser WHHS 135/2 (C Fell 58*, E O'Donoghue 44)

- COB2 51/10 (S Singh 25, H Singh 5/11) lost to BOP Indians 53/4 (S Roy 20, R Loku-Kumarage 2/5)

- Tokoroa Senior Men's won by default

Round 10:

- COB2 93/8 (Z Hall 2/17, A Evans 2/14) lost to Central CC 97/3 (J Simmons 30*, J Danby 26, A McMurdo 22*)

- Geyser WHHS 179/9 (K Vanner 59, J O'Donoghue 22, J Jowett 3/34) lost to Tokoroa Senior Men's 181/3 (G Hall 74*, H Singh 70)

- Strikers 11 117/10 (R Dahiya 21, N Greenwood 4/26, D Gill 3/22) lost to Geyser JPC 170/4 (L Kelly 56*, T Winsor 33)

- Lake Taupo CC 135/10 (A Gupta 60, D Kannangara 4/16) lost to Rotorua Lions 136/4 (R Janakantha 42, Dulitha 30)

- COB1 won by default

Table:

BOP Indians 135
Geyser JPC 133
Geyser WHHS 93
Tokoroa 89
Rotorua Lions 88
LTCC 87
COB1 85
Central 78
Strikers 11 35
COB2 33
EP 12