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Coach rues poor shots in heavy defeat

By Jared Smith
Whanganui Chronicle·
13 Jan, 2014 05:59 PM3 mins to read

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They may have been playing a Manawatu team having possibly one of their best seasons in Hawke Cup history, but that was scant compensation for Active Physio Wanganui after another innings defeat on Sunday.

Asked to bat again after posting 177 in reply to the home team's 362-9 declared at Fitzherbert Park, Wanganui slumped to 55-6 and then were nine wickets down in the 70's by early evening.

Right-armed medium pacer Tim Richards snared six wickets, picking up where Bryn Templeman had left off in the first Wanganui innings by grabbing a five-for.

Fraser Kinnerly, Dominic Lock and coach Dominic Rayner all came and went for little contribution in either innings, while returning captain Bryce Grant was facing his former Manawatu teammates who knew how to bowl at him.

Only Brendan Walker and Sam O'Leary managed to fight in a lost cause with an above 50-run partnership for the final wicket, as No9 batsman Walker ended up as the top scorer in both of Wanganui's innings.

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"We picked the fielder out on the weekend. A few bad umpiring decisions, and I guess some poor shot selections," said Rayner.

"When [Manawatu] batted, they put them in the gaps. They are the best team by a long way."

Manawatu, with 40 points, are now well on top of the Hawke Cup standings, having won every game outright this season including an extremely rare innings victory over Hawkes Bay in November.

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Hawkes Bay will play the dejected Wanganui at Victoria Park on January 25, hoping Manawatu have an absolute shocker against Taranaki so they have an outside chance of tieing the front-runners on points and getting over the line on run rate.

For Wanganui the next verse is the same as the first trying to find some batting form.

The side will hopefully have Henry Collier and Brett Cameron back from Central Districts duties to face Hawkes Bay, but coach Rayner said even with nothing to lose, they cannot afford to experiment by bringing up anyone else new from the club scene.

Nor could any more be done for team preparations, which involves Wednesday practice, as the players needed to do their own work to strengthen mentally.

"Our biggest problem in Wanganui is player depth there's not a lot of guys up to playing Hawke Cup cricket at the moment and those that are, are already there," said Rayner.

"Maybe we can change our approach, more from the spinners and bring them on earlier.

"The boys, they all know their own game and should be doing their own thing. In the season, we can't really change too much.

"It's one of those seasons we're happy to see the end of."

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