The Black Thread

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Haha, of course not. Are your warm up games FC matches?

 

[corza_nz]

they should be

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Sides for the OD fixture vs. NSW at North Sydney Oval.

CW Black

I Markus
AP Cloete
AP Chaulk+
JE Stedman
DP Smith*
AJ Blackman
BC Donald
KJ Goughy
NS Pickup
NL Patrick
Kexing Su

New South Wales

PA Jaques
EJM Cowan
SM Katich*
BJ Haddin+
DJ Thornley
DT Christian
MC Henriques
NM Hauritz
NW Bracken
SCG MacGill
DE Bollinger

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Black's suffer first defeat at the hands of a resurgent NSW side

The players arrived at North Sydney Oval to find a pitch with a bit of grass, and some overhead cloud that would cater to early swing. New South Wales skipper Simon Katich was delighted to win the toss, and he didn't hesitate to send in the tourists, confident his bowlers could do the job they'd failed to do earlier in the week at the SCG.

Things started well for the CW side and international duo Ian Markus and Andy Cloete got off to a flier. Despite the early swing, they ran hard and hit the odd boundary, taking the score to 34 before Cloete fell to Dougy Bollinger, with a ball that nipped away off the seam and tokk the leading edge of the bat. From here on, it was all downhill for the Dev League defending champions. Markus nudged one to gully for 32 and Smith clipped the ball off his pads to Cowan and backward square. Blackman was the only real resistance, scoring a chance less 60 and in putting together a 70 run partnership with Blake Donald, salvaged some respectability for the total. Despite his best efforts though, the side fell to be all out for 191.

NSW started poorly, with Jaques chopping on for 8 and Cowan barely able to get it off the square. Though, despite some valiant new ball bowling from Su and some controlled lines from Kev Goughy, the other bowlers lacked penetration on a pitch which had lost a lot of it's life in the 45.5 overs previous. Brad Haddin and Dom Thornley had little trouble taking the score from 3/64 to reach their total, with 6 overs to spare no less.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

The OD vs. South Australia has been simmed, but I need to go to bed. Will be posted when I get back from uni tomorrow, along with the FC games due.

 

[ash chaulk]

hmmm.... makes you wonder now how the best development league team would go in a world club challenge.

 

[superkingdave]

just a blip

 

[shortpitched713]

Good effort from Blackman though, with that fighting 60. Hopefully we can regain our form and demolish South Australia.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Sides for the OD game vs. South Australia.

CW Black

AP Chaulk*+
JE Stedman
AP Cloete
GAJ Armstrong
AJ Blackman
CR McMeekin
BC Donald
ZE Gelman
DP Richards
AK Syed
NS Pickup

South Australia

DJ Harris
MTG Elliot
MJ Cosgrove
CJ Ferguson
DS Lehmann*
NT Adcock
GA Manou+
MF Cleary
JN Gillespie
DJ Cullen
SW Tait

Because I'm a little behind, I'm not going to write reports, just give a headline and a scorecard.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Black fall agonisingly short in tense runchase.

Despite valiant efforts with the bat from Alex Blackman and (surprisingly) Neil Pickup, South Australia held on at the death to seal a second successive loss for the touring side.

 

[Travis_Teh]

Tait and Gillespie FTW!

Close results, though.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Sides for the FC Fixture vs. South Australia.

CW Black

DP Smith*
I Markus
AP Cloete
AJ Blackman
CR McMeekin
AP Chaulk+
ZE Gelman
NA Borcich
AK Syed
KJ Goughy
GM Roberts

South Australia

MTG Elliot
JD Borgas
MJ Cosgrove
DS Lehmann*
CJ Ferguson
NT Adcock
SA Deitz+
JN Gillespie
DJ Cullen
SW Tait
PC Rofe

 

[bugssy]

this will be a good game but i can see you guys dominating sa to be honest.!

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

South Australia complete double with crushing performance from Rofe

The top order failed to score and the bowlers were largely ineffective. South Australia dominated in all aspects and took home a deserved win. Black certainly face a re-think before heading across to Perth to face WA.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

It's crazy, Rofe didn't even had that good stats. Borcich's are better yet he couldn't buy a wicket. Eh.

Poor performances from us guys, may force us to play some full strength games against WA to make sure we don't lose like that again.

 

[Cloete]

Gunnest captain, even better team though.

Shame about the losses, but look, we'll bounce back, it's a certainty.

Meeks has been brilliant though, got faith in Al as well. Both of them are great additions to the Black squad.

 

[corza_nz]

Meeks has been brilliant though

cheers...it has been quite a good start to my career.

shame about the couple of losses boys. but we will bounce back no worries.
lets thrash wa.

 

[Buddhmaster]

Few good signs for the team there, few bad ones too though. I'm in pretty good OD form, but I'll need to work on my FC batting during my suspension.

 

[Jungle Jumbo]

Mmm, wickets.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Mmm, wickets.

Been a while, eh?