Congratulalations to the Scandanavian Mongoose (green) from the North Shore who won the Plate competition.

Group A

Group B

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Group C

Cup Play Offs

Plate Play Offs

Cow Tippers  - NZ National Champions 2014

The NZ Championships ran on Saturday 18th & 19th January 2014. 15 teams took part in the tournament, which was held at the the Auckland Domain in near perfect weather conditions. Thanks to the umpires who did a fantastic job and without them the event would not be possible. Another thank you to Wild Buck Beer who kept the teams well refreshed during the weekend as well providing the teams with some great bucket hats!!

POOL STAGES

The pool stages of the tournament took place on Saturday with the Cow Tippers, Altar Boys, Long Boxes,Rams and Broke Bat Mountain showing early form in finishing top of there groups.Â

Thanks to Wild Buck Beer who kept the teams well refreshed during the weekend

The Sons - NZ National Beer Champs 2014

Congratulations to the Sons who now own the Beer Champs for 2014 title. After narrowingly missing out on the main comp they re focused on the $500 bar tab up for grabs. The day started with the Warbury Wasters taking on the Bailers in first of 2 1/4 finals. The Bailers got over the line in this encounter and were one step closer to the title they only care about. In the other 1/4 final the dysfunctional team zone who had high hopes of winning a game this season were unable to get over the line against the Mervets. The Salami Army went about their business with ease against the bailers which saw them into the final

The Sons took on the old foe the merverts in there semi final which they made light work of. The highlight of this encounter was a hatrick by Dave Hutchins. Their next assignment were the Salami Army in the final. The SA chose to bat and were soon in trouble at 50 for 6 but were able to post a very moderate 116. Some tight bowling from the SA saw the Sons somewhat wobble in the run chase but were able to get there in the end with solid knocks from Simon Luke and James Hackett and claim the main prize. Well done guys!!

CricHQ - NZ National Champions 2013

Well done to CricHQ from Wellington (featured above left) - New Zealand National Champions of 2013. They go on to play the South African National Champions at Lord's at the 2013 LMS World Champs opening match! Hard luck to the runners up, Old Firm. Auckland teams watch out for these guys.

CricHQ - The Road to Lord's

2013 Nationals winners, CricHQ entered the local Wellington league this summer and currently top the LMS premier Wednesday grade. Skipper Mark Jurgeleit had been plotting this naionals win for over a year and now they are on route to Lords.

They are arrived at the nationals  full of confidence and with a very useful unit but quickly realised the level of competition was going to be tough. Their opening group game against the highly fancied Zimboks from the North Shore and was a convincing win and set the tone for the tournament with Crichq chasing down 200 in 15 overs! Neil Martin with 50 (13 balls)

In their second group game they chased down 180 in 17.2 overs against another good side from Wellington, Murphy Sewer. This meant they finished top of Group F and were in the 1/4 finals and drawn against last summers Auckland Champs the Rams who were in some good form after a slow start to there domestic season. The Rams chasing 200 fell 57 short.

The 1/2 final game for CricHQ against the Altar Boys was always going to be a tough one who have some very handy players in there ranks. The Altar Boys deciding to bowl first and realising quickly they were going to be chasing a big total were set 216 to win The Altar Boys got off to a flier and were in the battle for 20 overs but fell 30 short.

This set up the grand final against the Old Firm from the other side of the draw and who were on fire after making light work of NZ's topped ranked team, the Cow Tippers and then the Rampant Stags who seem to run out of fuel after a big 1/4 final win against one the comp favourites, the Fancy Dans.

CricHQ won the toss and decided to field first. This was the first time in the day that the Old Firm were setting a target. They reached a competitive 187 with 50's from Mason Isbey (21 balls) and Ant Bullock (26 balls).The pick of the bowlers for Crichq was Neil Martin with 4-0-28. The Crichq run chase got off to flier with boundaries coming left right and centre but then Old Firm skipper Ant Bullock taking the catch of the tournament on the long off boundary seem to slow the run rate down a bit but then both Simon Baker (25 balls) and Jono Sole (24 balls) reaching there 50's allowed Tim Royall and Jared Sewell to steer the team home in the second last over and claim the $10,000 Cheque.Well done to both teams.

A big thank you to all the teams and especially the travelling teams (Crichq & Murphy Sewer, Wellington & Mantonio's, Chch) who took part in the competition as well as the umpires you all did a fantastic job.

Match Results & Stats

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Group F

Group G

Group H

Last 16

Finals Day