NZCT Junior Secondary Schoolboys' Tournament

Year 9 and 10 School Competitions

The NZCT Junior Secondary Schoolboys' Tournament is a national competition for Year 9&10 students. 

As with the other school competitions organised by New Zealand Cricket, it provides an opportunity for the players to participate in a limited-overs competition (40 overs per team) and have the chance to make the national finals and be crowned NZ champions.

It is organised on a regional basis, split amongst New Zealand Cricket's six major associations.  Auckland Cricket organises the competition in the Auckland region, with the winner representing the Association at the national finals in Taupo in March each year. 

It is open to all Year 9 students for the first stage of the competition (i.e. October to December) and Years 9 & 10 students for the second stage of the competition (i.e. January to March).

2011 Finals Tournament

Championship Final

St Kentigern versus Kings College

The Unbeaten St Kentigern College side batted first in the final and solid contributions at the top of the order from Aubhav Thapa and Maheer Zaveri  set a solid platform that some hard hitting from Jared Schnell 55 and an unbeaten 31 from captain Aditya Edekar finished off and got the team through to 173/6 in their 40 overs. William McCulloch’s off spin was Kings most potent weapon with 3/26.

Edekar then struck in the first over removing his opposite number from Kings, Hamish MacLean for a duck and Kings were forced to knuckle down with Maneke Ratnayake grafting for 38 before that man Edekar struck again. Kings were behind the run rate and St Kents applied the screws but some lusty blows towards the end from Williams and Henning got Kings close before Edekar completed 2 run outs off his own bowling and the innings closed on 160/8.

St Kentigern College will move onto the national finals with the view to repeat the success of the Auckland Grammar side of two years ago and return with the National title in March.

 
Highlights of the week included;

Hamish MacLean           68*       Kings College

Hamish MacLean           92*       Kings College

Aniket Parikh                 79*       Mount Albert Grammar

Aniket Parikh                 87         Mount Albert Grammar

William O’Donnell          50         Westlake Boys

Ennor                            5/13      St Kentigern College

Anubhav Thapa              4/15      St Kentigern College

Josh Down                    53         Westlake Boys

Eru Hudson                   76         Rangitoto College

Reid Hastie                   53         Rangitoto College

Aryin                             4/24      Mount Albert Grammar

Kenward                        4/20      Kings College

 
Rosmini College successfully defeated Mount Roskill Grammar in the final of the Plate competition. Results will follow later in the week for that competition.