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Saturday, January 24, 2009

Cricket : Canterbury A v Auckland A

Canterbury also elected to bat after winning the toss. They lost wickets regularly until Tim Muir and Logan Van Beek grafted a seventh wicket partnership of 77, and Michael Davidson and Van Beek added 65 for the eighth, taking Canterbury through to 256/8 off 50 overs. Van Beek top scored with an unbeaten 75 off 73 balls. Lance Shaw, Michael Bates and spinner Bhupinder Singh took two wickets each with Singh bowling well taking 2/18 off 10 overs.

Auckland judged their run chase well with number three Dusan Hakaraia setting the pace, scoring 112 not out off 116 balls. After a series of useful partnerships Auckland reached the target with one over to spare. For Canterbury Michael Davidson took 2/39 off eight overs.

• Canterbury 256/8 (Logan Van Beek 75*, Tim Muir 40) lost to Auckland 257/6 (Dusan Hakaraia 112*, Mark Turner 45) by 4 wickets

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