by Peter Cummins

At the end of the penultimate day of the ongoing Chiang Mai International Cricket Sixes being played at the 104-year-old Chiengmai Gymkhana Sports Club, the Perth Postels beating fellow Aussies the Stockton Seagulls and then demolished the Slammers to enter the semifinals and try to win back their 2000 Cup title. In the second definitive all-Aussie knock-out, the erstwhile unbeaten Warathais went down
- albeit, fighting - to the Lords Taverners. Alistair Field moved the Taverners into contention with a 31 retired and, then, bowling fiercely, kept the Warathais out, in spite of a valiant 2 not out by Trevor Chappell. The Taverners will meet the South African Almar CC in the second Cup semifinal.

Elsewhere, the 'new kids on the block', the talented English side the Kiteboys will meet the Bahrein-based Warbler Bunny Club in the Bowl final, If nothing else, it will be a colourful - and vociferous - match, with the exotic fans of the Warblers, 'recruited' from various night-spots around Chiang Mai, in "full flight" at the Warbler ringside camp!

With fine batting from Mike Gatting and Adrian Cade, the Ashwell Crusaders enter an all-English final against the Kirby Vampires for the Plate honours.

The children's tournament, the "Third Sixes Sawasdee Cricket Cup", played out on adjacent grounds among local schools, was the scene of much excitement and happiness, with Sai Moon A and B teams winning the two divisions, Grade Six and Grade Five. Montford College, Sahagon 2 and Sahagon 2, Rong Or were second and third in the Grade Six and Grade Five competitions, respectively.

RESULTS

CUP

• Almar CC 90-2 (Ecksteen 30 ret.) beat Nomads 86-3 (Richard Dawes 34 ret.,
  Saman Jayantha 31 ret.)
• Perth Postels 52-2 beat Stockton Seagulls 51-4
• Perth Posrels 77-0 (Kenny Jackson 32 ret., Daniel Reid 3 ret.) beat Slammers 72-1
  (Meyrick Pringle 33 ret.)
• Lords Taverners 62-3 (Alistair Field 31 ret.) beat Warathais 54-3
• Gloucestershire Gipsies 52-1 (Mark Briars 32 ret.) beat Lysaght Southerners 51-3 (Graeme Pitty 30 ret.)
• Lysaght Southerners 62-1 beat Shanghai Steinlager Cavaliers 56-1 (Gary Davies 32 ret.)

BOWL

• Kiteboys 75-0 (John Seifman 31 ret., James Briant 30 ret.) beat Kelawar
  74-3
• Jack Frost 61-0 (Jun Chaudry 32 ret,) beat CMW Warriors 58-2
• Warbler Bunny Club 74-0 (Milantha Waranpura 35 ret.) beat Jack Frost 73-1 (Jim Chaudty 34 ret.).

PLATE

• Ashwell Crusaders 74-0 (Mike Gatting 33 ret. Adrian Cade 30 ret.) beat
  Darjeeling 55-1 (Jess Coulbeck 34 ret.)
• 
  Kirby Vampires 55-0 beat HALYLT 52-3.

SPOON

• Pattaya Pectels 69 74-1 (Mark Harrison 33 ret.) beat Irish Pub Gang Green
  66-1
• Wombats 71-0 (Ken Dashwood 33 ret.) beat Gymkhana Cavaliers 48-3
• IOS Malakas 65-1 (Bret Hillas 33 ret.) beat Bangkok Postels 62-2.