Gillette Cup

School Cricket

Sponsorship by Gillette (NZ) Ltd enabled this competition to commence in 1990. It provides the opportunity for every boys' or co-educational secondary school in New Zealand to participate in a limited overs knockout cricket competition.

Each Major Association finds their finalists through a knockout competition to attend to national tournament in December.

2010 Auckland Gillette Cup Competition

Kings College continued their rich vein of form to down St Kentigern College in the Gillette Cup final with five wickets in hand at Shore Rd yesterday.

St Kentigern chose to bat after winning the toss, but things went wrong in a hurry after that as they continually lost wickets throughout the early stages of the innings and were teetering at 65-6.

Some consolidation was required and St Kentigern got a lifeline when two Kings players collided as they went for what would have been a simple catch. St Kentigern were able to capitalise on this good fortune as they doubled the score without losing another wicket.

Kings picked up two late wickets to restrict St Kentigern's to 160-8. It was a real communal bowling effort from Kings as the wickets were shared around, but their two spinners (Simon Hickey and Mark Chapman) both returned great figures, picking up 2 for 21 and 2 for 18 respectively off their 10 overs.

Kings reply got off to a solid start with an opening partnership of 30 runs but it was the second wicket partnership of 72 between Ash Vodnala and Simon Hickey that took the game away from St Kentigern. Both batsmen scored freely, playing some glorious shots throughout their innings.

St Kentigern grabbed a couple of quick wickets to give themselves some hope at 119 - 4 but Kings then steadied the ship and chased down the 161 required with 5 wickets in hand and 15.1 overs to spare.

Kings will head down to Palmerston North in December to compete in the 2010 Gillette Cup National Tournament.

St Kentigern College 160-8 (T Sherlock 50*, N Kelly 33) lost to Kings College 164-5 (S Hickey 51*, A Vodnala 34) by five wickets.