Last Saturday, families, fans and spectators gathered in numbers at the Independence Oval in Popondetta town, Northern Province, to witness a historical show down in the Popondetta Cricket Association by a team that\u2019s made record to have won all 12 matches through out the season and in the grand final.<\/p>\n
The match between the Mari Knights Cricket Club Men\u2019s team against Wanda Hoods saw Mari Knights chasing 113 runs for victory within 9 overs with 11 overs to spare. Mari Knights team, comprise of youths from the Marimari street, Bottom Town, registered both men and women\u2019s team this season with both teams going into the finals.<\/p>\n
The Mari Knights women\u2019s team fell short of 46 points to Wanda Hoods women\u2019s team chasing 111 points and scoped the runner up of they season grand final.<\/p>\n
The Mari Knights men\u2019s team scoped Player of the Match awarded to Cheetam Gaia for hitting 68 points from 30 balls and the Season\u2019s Most Leading Wicket Taker awarded to skipper Russell Wakiawa.<\/p>\n
Team captain Wakiawa expressed gratitude towards his team mates both men and women\u2019s teams for their commitment and dedication this season.<\/p>\n
\u201cI also acknowledge the backing and support of the teams hardworking and dedicated executives who\u2019s seen us through to the finals,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am proud of the boys, we\u2019ve set a legacy for the province to have shown out to be the undefeated team this season and that is something we will always be proud of.<\/p>\n
\u201cMari Knights Cricket Club is not a team, it a family and the love for the sport\u00a0 is what\u2019s bonded us.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said the team looks forward to defending their title in the next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last Saturday, families, fans and spectators gathered in numbers at the Independence Oval in Popondetta town, Northern Province,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,20976,20977,85],"class_list":["post-20125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-mari-knights-cricket-club","tag-popondetta-cricket-association","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}