Tours & Festivals Archive
South Africa tour of England - 14th – 28th June 2008.
The South African tourists' first stop was at Bourne in Lincolnshire where Norman Brown and his colleagues looked after them, then onwards to Newport in Shropshire where David Askin and team did the same. They joined the GB&I annual festival at Weston-Super-Mare before finishing at Somerton in Somerset, organised by Lynne Gillingham. The "Test Match" against GB&I resulted in a convincing victory for the home team.
Although they only had ten Rotarian cricketers from South Africa they brought along New Zealand guest Bruce Heather and another a couple of players.
They, together with eight wives/partners, had a wonderful time and we have had nothing but praise from them for the arrangements. Without exception they enjoyed the countryside, the towns, the food and drink, the hospitality and most importantly the time given by Rotarians to be with them sharing their homes and their lifestyles.
They would like to reciprocate our hospitality, possibly on a mini tour of 5-7 days after (or before) the Festival in Durban, perhaps heading down to the Cape.
Tour to New Zealand February/March 2008
Auckland
GB&I 163-7 (30 overs) . S Williamson 33 ret. C Rudge 30 ret. D Worker 31 ret
Auckland 165-2 (29 overs)
Mount Manganui
GB&I 156 (40 overs). S Williamson 40 ret.
Mount Manganui 158-7 (37 overs) R Sperring 3-9 M Gillingham 2-36
New Plymouth
New Plymouth 166 (40 overs) M Gillingham 3-13
GB&I 160 (40 overs) S Williamson 30 ret. D Askin 30 ret D Worker 30 ret.
Christchurch
IFCR Australia/NZ 169-7 (40 overs) M Quinn 2-35 M Jackson 2-33 D Worker 2-27
GB&I 159 (40 overs) S Williamson 40 ret. C Rudge 41 ret .
GB&I 183-7 (40 overs) M Jackson 43 ret.
IFCR NZ 184-7 (39.2 overs) M Jackson 3-14
Ashburton
Ashburton 119 (40 overs) D Askin 3-2 C Rudge 2-12
GB&I 120-5 (28 overs) D Worker 39 ret.
Wellington
Wellington 197-4 (40 overs)
GB&I 179-8 D Worker 41 ret
Tour Averages
Batting M I NO R A
D Williamson 5 5 4 169 169.00
D Worker 7 7 4 158 52.66
M Jackson 7 7 2 124 24.80
C Rudge 7 7 2 103 20.60
D Askin 7 6 2 76 19.00
M Quinn 6 6 1 72 14.40
D Phillips 4 4 0 44 11.00
M Gillingham 6 6 0 60 10.00
D Hutchinson 6 6 2 36 9.00
G Anderson 7 6 0 49 8.15
R Sperring 7 7 0 46 7.57
T Bailey 7 7 2 30 6.00
Bowling O R W BB Avg Econ
R Sperring 19 81 4 3-9 20.25 4.26
M Gillingham 25 102 5 3-13 20.40 4.08
M Jackson 38 186 9 3-14 20.66 5.89
D Askin 31 107 5 3-2 21.40 3.45
M Quinn 15 93 4 2-35 23.25 6.20
C Rudge 44 157 4 2-12 39.25 3.56
D Phillips 8 43 1 1-11 43.00 5.37
D Hutchinson 30 129 3 1-20 43.00 4.30
D Worker 29 135 4 2-27 43.75 4.65
T Bailey 9 54 1 1-11 54.00 6.00
In September, a team visited Chennai, India, and played three matches against regional Rotary teams from Hyderabad, Bangalore and Chennai. Once again, the younger ages of many of the Indian players gave them an edge, although a 6’6” 27 year old fast bowler from Bangalore proved fast off the bat! Despite the heat, our batsmen generally enjoyed the flat wickets, but the bowlers had problems containing some big-hitting Indian batsmen.
The team also visited some school and Tsunami-relief projects organised by Chennai Rotarians, and both IFCR GB&I and clubs of some of the team members will be providing support for these projects
