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Baywide Cup Finals Preview 16th December

Baywide Cup Finals Preview 16th December

Posted: Friday, 15 December 2017

Element IMFCadets And New World Te Puke Square Off in Baywide Cup Final

Element IMF Cadets and New World Te Puke will fight out the 2017 Baywide Cup title at the Tauranga Domain on Saturday (16 December 2017). While Cadets have won the Baywide trophy on two previous occasions, Te Puke are aiming to lift aloft the Baywide Cup in triumph, for the first time.

A very important extra incentive to win the Baywide Cup, is provided by the winner going on to represent Bay of Plenty, in the ND Club Championships in 2018.

Cadets led the round robin qualifying rounds throughout without tasting defeat. By contrast, Te Puke had to engage in winner take all shootout with Eves Realty Greerton last weekend, to reach the Baywide Cup Final.

Led by a century from Greerton new season recruit Umesh Ranaraja, the Pemberton Park based side posted a solid target when they were bowled out for 241. Two knocks in the sixties, from long-serving Te Puke batsmen Stephen Crossan and Tai Bridgman-Raison, greatly assisted in getting their team home to a four wicket win.

The two leading batsmen in the Baywide Cup batting stakes, could play a big part in the title decider at the Tauranga Domain. Bay of Plenty representative Joe Carter sits astride the top of the batting standings, with 263 runs and a highest score of 137 not out. Carter has the rare distinction of having blasted a Twenty 20 representative century, when he smacked an unbeaten 122 against Poverty Bay, a couple of weeks ago.

Te Puke captain Stephen Crossan, sits behind Joe Carter on the Baywide Cup batting list with 213 runs and a best of 101 not out. The Te Puke First XI skipper likes to put bat to ball and has strike rate of slightly better than a run a ball.

Cadets leader Jono Boult and Te Puke's Cam Riley, occupy the top two spots in the Baywide competition bowling ranks. Boult who captained the Bay of Plenty senior men's team at the recent ND one-day tournament, is an all-rounder of genuine class. Twelve Baywide wickets with a best of 4/21 and 73 runs batting down the order, tells the tale of a genuine match winner.

Cam Riley has a busy week - firstly representing Bay of Plenty Coastland at the annual ND Senior Secondary cricket tournament in Gisborne, before backing up on Saturday in the Baywide Cup title decider. Riley has taken 11 Baywide bowling scalps and will be expected to make life difficult for the Cadets batsmen on the weekend. 

 

Greerton will square off with Carrus Mount Maunganui at Pemberton Park, with bragging rights on the line, in the battle for third place. 

BOPCA Baywide Cup Finals – 16 December 2017
Final: Element IMF Cadets v New World Te Puke, Tauranga Domain
Third Place: Eves Realty Greerton v Carrus Mount Maunganui, Pemberton Park

Baywide Cup Champions
2007/08 (Cadets) 2008/09 (Mount Maunganui) 2009/10 ( Mount Maunganui) 2010/11 (Mount Maunganui) 2011/12 (Cadets) 2012/13 (Mount Maunganui) 2013/14 (Mount Maunganui) 2014/15 (Greerton) 2015/16 (Greerton) 2016/17 (Mount Maunganui) 

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