Otago reach 441 for 8 against Wellington in Plunket Shield
Otago were in a very strong position in their Plunket Shield match against Wellington, at the Queenstown event Centre in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754 on Tuesday. At the close of the second day’s play, Welington scored 57 runs for the loss of one wicket. They are still 384
runs behind the hosts, who scored 441 runs in their first innings.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Craig-Cumming-c1289 won the toss for Otago and elected to bat first. The conditions were perfect for batting, as there wasn’t much pace and swing off the pitch. The home team made most of the conditions, scoring a healthy first innings total.
Openers Aaron Redmond and captain Cumming gave a solid start to their team, scoring 78 runs for the first wicket. However, Redmond failed to carry onto the start he got, as he was dismissed for 46.
First-drop Shaun Haig provided full support to Cumming and the pair put together 94 runs for the second wicket. The Otago captain batted sensibly and scored 91 runs before getting out. He deserved a century, but just fell nine runs short of it.
The hosts looked in a very good position, but http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shaun-Haig-c2504 got out on the same total of 194. They scored 18 and 31 runs respectively in their innings. Darren Broom also failed to make an impression, as he got out for 16.
Wicketkeeper batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Butler-c48850 were dismissed
for zero and four respectively. At that stage, the hosts were 311 for eight and it seemed that their innings would be finished below 325.
However, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Warren-McSkimming-c2779 joined de Boorder in the middle, and the pair put together an unbeaten partnership of 130 runs for the ninth wicket. The keeper batsman scored 122 runs with the help of 15 fours whereas McSkimming was not-out on 53 before the innings
was declared on 441 for eight.
Andy McKay was the pick of the bowlers for Otago, as he took three wickets for his team. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ili-Tugaga-c1577 also bowled well for his two wickets, but the rest of the bowlers weren’t impressive.
In reply to the mammoth first innings total of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Wellington-c864 got off to a terrible start. They lost their opening batsman Stephen Murdoch early, who managed to score just six run in his short stay at the crease.
However, Stewart Rhodes and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Harry-Boam-c1536 survived the remainder of the day. They were unbeaten on 37 and 10 respectively, before the umpires called the day off.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Darren-Broom-c1318 was the lone wicket-taker for Otago before the close of play.
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