Championship Doubles
The tournament start was delayed until about 11am due to flooding of the lawns after heavy rain. Play commenced on 2 lawns with double banking until other lawns unsoaked themselves.
Chris Clarke and Michael Wright are unbeaten with Chris completing triples in all 3 games played.
The weather outlook for tomorrow is uncertain.

Wednesday, the 1st day was cold, windy, soggy underfoot with very soft ground allowing no hoop stability.
Thursday (the 2nd day) was an improvement with 10 minutes of sunshine, 10 minutes of hail, 10 minutes of thunder and the rest - umm - variable. Nevertheless, Mike Crashley played his best croquet after 7pm in hail and thunder - must be his Gisborne conditioning.
Friday was almost cloudless, too hot for the southerners, too humid for the Cantabrians. The KO open started with a TOBFU (do NOT ask) with good progress being made in both Plate and Knockout events.
So far the tin-bottom trophy (a croquet ball on a tin) has a couple of candidates - this will be voted on - one managed to run into the peg with a mild split to 6 and 1 back, wired from everything. The BBWH (Bring Back Wider Hoops) trophy is also up for grabs, a 4 inch hoop gauge from last century.
At Te Mata the 4+ is progressing steadily.

Paul Skinley & Toby Garrison are pegged down at 17-15 with Toby to play and a rush sort of infield. Paul's balls are in corner 4 and 4 yards west of the peg.
Aaron has tripled red off with Greg's yellow on 4 and Aaron's black on 4 back. and pegged down in failing light, black peg high on the west boundary and yellow with an angley hoop to make - Aaron to play

Paul & Toby completed the pegged down game at 26-21 to Toby. Toby eventually prevailed 26-0 over Paul in the 3rd game..
In the first two games of the final, the scores were 26-10 to Toby and 26-23 to Aaron. Being late with no chance of completing the final, it was agreed that the deciding game would be played in Christchurch on or soon after 21 December.