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A new youth cricket competition, T20 Youth Slam, was launched in Central Otago last Friday night with six youth age teams (years 9,10 and 11) competing in the first of two T20 tournaments that will be held this season. Why the change to Friday night cricket? Junior cricket in Central Otago is very healthy with good playing number across all clubs. However, when boys and girls move to secondary school there has been a large drop off in playing numbers. Last season saw only four team competing in an organised Saturday competition so teams ended up playing the same guys each weekend which made it a bit stale. The change to Friday night is designed to free up the weekends for players but also provide opportunities for talented and committed players to play in other competitions (e.g. school teams in reserve grade on Saturdays). Potentially this will enable schools to strengthen a team in the Senior Reserve competition by adding Year 10/11s. The change is already paying dividends with renewed interest in the competition and the introduction of two new teams, Cromwell and an all girls team from Dunstan High School. Several other changes such as the use of CricHQ for scoring, marketing the competition on Instagram and the use of white/pink balls has also created more interests and excitement for players.   Kohen Bryant-Saunders (63 off 25 balls) and Mika Tait (54 off 33 balls) scored well in the first round of the Youth Slam on Friday night. Well done boys Maz Cameron from the Dunstan Devils was the other player to pass 50 (56* v Queenstown) Kohen Bryant-Saunders hits one of his 13 boundaries in a well compiled 63 v Cromwell Miners.  rOUND 1: TOP RUNSCORERS rOUND 1: Top Wicket-takers
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Congratulations to the following boys who have been selected to represent Otago Country in the at the South Island Primary School Tournament in Westport (Jan 6-10) and the Otago Country Development team.
These teams will play against Southland Country and Invercargill in Gore on Sunday 10 November:. SIPST/OCCA Gold (coaches Matt Anderson, Mark Tait. Manager Rowan Small) Mika Tait (Molyneux) Mason Clarke (Queenstown) Hugo Bogue (Queenstown) Jackson Clark (Albion) Simon Cavanagh (Blacks Hill) Will Anderson (Albion) Sage Paterson (Maniototo) James Dougherty (Albion) Alfie Omelvena-Flame (Clutha Valley) Ashton White (Queenstown) Xavier Small (Queenstown) Development Team/OCCA Blue (Coach Sandy Wilson) Billy Wilson (Cromwell) Oscar Pullar (Queenstown) Josh Viana (Queenstown) Jack Scott (Albion) Harry Lithgow (Blacks Hill) Matt Langford (Queenstown) Richard Cavanagh (Blacks Hill) Kobi Simmers (Albion) Jock Duncan (Maniototo) Oscar Crowe (Albion) Zach Johnson (Molyneux) Sunday 10 November: Hamilton Park in Gore. Game 1: 10:30am Start Otago Country Gold v Invercargill, HP1 Otago Country Blue v Southland Country, HP2 Game #2: 1:15 Start Otago Country Gold v Southland Country, HP1 Otago Country Blue v Invercargill, HP2. HP1 is closest to the carpark. Your coaches will be in touch with further information. Congratulations to the following players that have been selected for the Otago Country Hawke Cup, Development and Colts teams.
Otago Country Hawke Cup: Sam Bastin (Queenstown) Sam Blakely (Maniototo) Caleb Carson (Clutha/Green Island) Tim Cotter (Albion) Taylor Cumberland (Albion) Marcus Frost (South Otago/Taieri) Steven Hobson (Albion) Adam Hubber (Queenstown) Cameron Jackson (Queenstown/Taieri) Tim McCormick (Blacks Hill) James Pyle (Maniototo) Reuben Pyle (Maniototo) Sukhdev Sandhu (Cromwell) Coach: Rhiane Smith Fixtures: Nov 24 – Stewart McKnight Cup OCCA v Dunedin Metro Dec 1 Sunday – 11 am to 1 pm training at Molyneux Park Dec 7/8 v North Otago at Molyneux Park Jan 11/12 v Mid Canterbury at Molyneux Park Feb 1/2 v Southland at Invercargill Feb 15/16 v South Canterbury at Timaru Otago Country Development: Sam Bastin (Queenstown) Caleb Carson (Clutha/Green Island) George Catto (Blacks Hill) Marc Cormack (Maniototo/North East Valley) Tim Cotter (Albion) Angus Herron (Queenstown) Adam Hubber (Queenstown) Tim McCormick (Blacks Hill) Sam Pimm (Cromwell) Reuben Pyle (Maniototo) Gareth Radford (Queenstown) Sukhdev Sandhu (Cromwell) Swaran Sandhu (Queenstown) Fixture: OCCA Development v Southland Development at Molyneux Park Sunday 17 November 11 am Otago Country Colts: Will Casey (Kaitangata) Reece Collin (Queenstown) Marc Cormack (Maniototo/North East Valley) Finn Farquharson (Cromwell) Jordan Gibbons (Queentown) Toby Hart (Queenstown) Angus Herron (Queenstown) Ryan Jones (Cromwell) Lachie Marshall (Queenstown) Seth Mawhinney (Queenstown) Sam Pimm (Cromwell) Kelan Smith (Clutha) Gabe White (Queenstown) Coach: Gihan Fernando Fixtures: OCCA Colts v Southland Colts at Molyneux Park Sunday 24 November 11 am More fixtures TBC  Congratulations Upper Clutha who have taken out the Crosby Morris this season. Upper Clutha 250/8 defeated South Otago (116/10) Batting First, Upper Clutha lost the wicket of Tim Cotter off the first ball from Nathan White but useful contributions from the rest of the top order (Sukadev Singh 64,Sam Pimm 38, Joe Cotter 31) got Upper Clutha back on track before Scott Mitchell contributed a quick fire 51 off 38 balls and boosted the total to 250/8 off 50 overs (F Parker 3/44, N White 2/37, K Thompson 2/43). In reply, South Otago were in trouble early and and never really got going. Only Jeremy Gray 32, Kelan Smith 24 and some lusty hitting from Francis Parker 27* offered any resistance to the pace of Tom Myles (3/11) and Ryan Jones (4/40). Maniototo-Valley (156/10) defeated Queenstown 137/10 An under strength Maniototo-Valley defeated Queenstown in a low scoring match at Dunstan High School. Hardik Patel (79) and Gabe White (35) scored the majority of the runs while Angus Heron (4/17) and Sam Bastin (4/24) were the chief destroyers. Queenstown could only muster 137 (C Jackson 47) and were bowled out in only the 28th over (George Catto 3/45, O Alva 2/9, A Singh 2/33).  Barry Becker presents Upper Clutha captain, Sam Pimm, with the Crosby Morris 'Country Cup at Dunstan High School". The Crosby Morris tournament has been played for since 1924.
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