Otago have put on a team effort to beat Canterbury in men's Super Smash cricket in Alexandra while the Canterbury women defeated Otago by 12 runs in the early match.
The Otago Volts made 165-9 from their 20 overs mainly thanks to Max Chu scoring 82 from 46 balls including three sixes and seven fours. Leo Carter contributed 32 runs from 28 balls further down the order.
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Kyle Jamieson returned to Super Smash and took 2-26 from his four overs while Cole McConchie and Angus McKenzie also grabbed two each.
In reply the star-studded Kings side opened with Chad Bowes and Tom Latham with scores of 24 and four respectively.
McConchie scored 49 runs and Ish Sodhi 23 from 14 balls before being run out in a late scramble for runs.
Eventually Canterbury could muster 155-9 thanks to key bowling by Ben Lockrose, Matthew Bacon and Dean Foxcroft all taking two wickets each while Andrew Hazeldine had figures of 1-19 from four overs.
In the women's match Canterbury batted first making 147-7 thanks to Natalie Cox and Shikha Pandey scored 23 and 63 each.
White Fern Eden Carson was the best of the Otago bowlers taking 2-19 from four overs.
Otago started well with their response with Suzie Bates doing what she normally does and scoring 50, but she lacked the support as the next best was Polly Inglis with 29 before they ran out of balls and finished at 124-7.
Melissa Banks and Pandey both took two wickets while the other three dismissals were spread around the other bowlers.