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The Papanui High School cricket team had an experience it would rather forget at the recent International Schoolboys' festival at Sydney's Kings School.

In its second game against Indian school Daly College, the Indian coach took his team from the field and defaulted the match after disputing an umpire's call.

The umpire, an official Australian umpire, called a dead ball, moments before a Papanui bowler delivered a ball that was struck for four. He called the dead ball because he had a fly in his eye.

``The Indian coach took exception to the call,'' said Chris O'Connell, the coach of the Papanui team. ``He marched on to the field and took his players off. I offered to give them the four, so we could get on with the game, but he refused and we won the game by default.''

Papanui was in a strong position when the game was called off.

It had scored 180 and the Indian side was 115 for six when the Indians defaulted.

O'Connell said it was a disappointing way for the team to finish the tournament, which had already been disrupted by bad weather.

Papanui played Westfield Sports High School on the first day. The game ended in a draw after a storm halted play. The second day was also lost.

Papanui easily won its second game against St Peter's College from Queensland.

Christ's College played at the same tournament, but its opposition was considerably weaker. It played KZN Midlands from South Africa, Trent College (England), Avondale College (Auckland), and Gordon Districts (Sydney). The first game against KZN was abandoned and Christ's College won the other three games easily. Its smallest winning margin was 183 runs. It also won a warm-up game against Radford College in Canberra by eight wickets.