The Otago Boys' High School First XI took to the Willows Cricket Club fields on Sunday for an invitational game against the Willows side.
Willows was bolstered by former All Black captain and ex-Otago Boys' High School head boy Richie McCaw.
McCaw (36) had a busy weekend. He played in a promotional touch game in Queenstown on Saturday and then had cricket on Sunday.
In between, he went for a two-hour mountain run in Canterbury on Sunday morning to get ready for a 21km running event in Auckland this weekend.
Otago Boys' first XI coach Ken Rust said the club was invited to play the game and McCaw had made himself available.
Willows is a club with a ground, just north of Rangiora in north Canterbury.
The club, which has several hundred members, was set up to organise matches against school sides through the summer and help give school players experience of playing against older players.
Otago Boys' batted first and made 201 with head boy Max Chu making 55 and Ben Lockrose 48.
Chu was dismissed by McCaw.
McCaw gained two wickets for 41 off 10 overs from his left-arm medium deliveries.
He had Chu caught in the slips and bowled Tommy Wilson.
Rust said McCaw played one season for the first XI in his last year at school in 1998 and was a handy left-arm bowler and a useful batsman who had a good defence.
McCaw was a good cricket player but it was clear his future was in rugby, Rust said.
It was a thrill for the Otago Boys' side to play against McCaw who chatted with the team after the game. Other old boys of the school, Lance Taylor and Andrew Haig, also played in the Willows team.
When batting, McCaw made 10 before he was caught by deputy head boy Hunter Kindley off the bowling of Lockrose.
Willows ended up making 157 with Lockrose picking up three wickets and Jack Pryde two.
